Workshop
The Relationship Between Executive Functions And Language Processing
Speaker(s)
John Duncan (MRC CBU)
Swathi Kiran (BU)
John Gabrieli (MIT)
Maryellen MacDonald (U Wisc)
Julie Van Dyke (Haskins)
Ted Gibson & Roger Levy (MIT)
Sharon Thompson-Schill (U Penn)
Rick Lewis (U Michigan)
May 25, 2017
12:45 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
MIT BCS (Building 46) Singleton Auditorium (3002) 43 Vassar St. Cambridge MA
Contact
Description
- Are executive resources causally involved in comprehension and/or production?
- Under what circumstances do we draw on these resources during language processing?
- Can individual differences in executive abilities predict aspects of linguistic performance?
- How do executive abilities relate to language processing in development and aging?
- Is the emergence of human language related to species-specific executive abilities?
Sponsored by MIT BCS Seminars Committee