LANGUAGE AND COGNITION

University Seminar #681

What can the study of language contribute to our understanding of human nature? This question motivates research spanning many intellectual constituencies, for its range exceeds the scope of any one of the core disciplines. The technical study of language has developed across anthropology, electrical engineering, linguistics, neurology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology, and influential research of the recent era of cognitive science has occurred when disciplinary boundaries were transcended. The seminar is a forum for convening this research community of broadly differing expertise, within and beyond the University. As a meeting ground for regular discussion of current events and fundamental questions, the University Seminar on Language and Cognition will direct its focus to the latest breakthroughs and the developing concerns of the scientific community studying language.

Founded: 2000

SEMINAR ADMINISTRATION

CHAIR: Robert E. Remez
Department of Psychology
Barnard College, Columbia University
(212) 854-4247
remez@columbia.edu

 

RAPPORTEUR: Grace Zhou
Graduate Student, Columbia University
gracehzhou@gmail.com

 

 
 
 
 

Download the announcement of our next meeting.

Download the compiled minutes for 2004-2005.

Download the compiled minutes for 2003-2004.

Download the compiled minutes for 2002-2003.

Download the compiled minutes for 2001-2002.

Download the compiled minutes for 2000-2001.


 
 
 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

Our Meetings in 2011-2012

September 22, 2011
Babel Rousers; The 900-year quest to build a better language
Arika Okrent,
Author, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

 

October 20, 2011
Links between production and perception in speech
Douglas H. Whalen,
Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY and Haskins Laboratories

 

December 1, 2011
Assessing Developmental Change in Normal and Impaired Auditory Processing
Heather Bortfeld,
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut

 

January 26, 2012
Spatiotemporal Imaging of Language: A Window into Thought in Psychosis
Gina Kuperberg, Department of Psychiatry, MGH and Department of Psychology, Tufts University

 

February 23, 2012
The role of sensory and cognitive factors in understanding age-related changes in speech perception
Mitchell Sommers, Department of Psychology, Washington University

 

March 22, 2012
Title tba
Brenda Rapp, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

 

April 26, 2012
Semiotic Layering through Gesture and Intonation: A Case Study of Complementary and Supplementary Multimodality in Political Speech
Norma Mendoza-Denton,
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona

The January, February and March meetings will take place at 4:00 PM in:

The Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive

The April meeting will occur in:

The Kellogg Center
School of International and Public Affairs
420 West 118th Street
Columbia University

 

Last revised: January 6, 2012