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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)
Add to CalendarAmerica/New_YorkThe Relationship Between Executive Functions And Language Processing05/25/2017 12:45 pm05/25/2017 10:00 pmMIT BCS (Building 46) Singleton Auditorium (3002) 43 Vassar St. Cambridge MA
May 25, 2017
12:45 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
MIT BCS (Building 46) Singleton Auditorium (3002) 43 Vassar St. Cambridge MA
Contact
Ev Fedorenko
  • 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?

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