Department Colloquium: A closer look at prediction in multimodal environments: Examining variability across language users and the effects of iconic gestures
Time
Thursday, 2. November 2023
11:45 - 13:15
Location
G 307
Organizer
Department of Linguistics
Speaker:
Florian Hintz (Philipps University Marburg)
Prediction has become the dominant framework for explaining the functioning of human cognition.
Theories of visual and auditory perception argue that the brain is essentially a prediction machine,
and that viewers and listeners engage in prediction to prepare for upcoming events. Language
comprehension involves visual and auditory perception. The theoretical assumptions about these
perceptual processes have thus direct implications for our conception of language comprehension.