Dr Jenni Rodd gives a UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on "Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean?"
17 October 2016
Dr Jenni Rodd, Experimental Psychology, gives the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on 18 October on
"Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean?"
If you look up just about any word in a
dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet
it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a
word when it is used in everyday life.
Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.
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18 October 2016, 1.15pm to 1:55pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building access via Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT