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The relationship between language experience and cognitive control (e.g., working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility) could be very well illustrated by the cognitively demanding language experience of interpreting training. A series of our empirical studies with interpreting students (see DONG 2023 for a review), together with studies with professional interpreters in the literature, suggest that interpreting training may first enhance students’ working memory (WM) updating ability and then WM spans, with probable some decline of WM updating ability between the shift from the two WM abilities. Similar patterns may appear in other cognitive control functions, such as cognitive flexibility (first with switching cost reduced and then with mixing cost reduced) and multi-tasking coordination. These results could be explained by the task features of interpreting (including task schemas and their cognitive loads) (see DONG & LI 2020), suggesting a close and dynamic relationship between language experience and cognitive control.
Even date: 4/12/2023
Speaker: Prof. Yanping Dong (Zhejiang University)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages and Translating and Interpreting
- Keywords:
- Translating interpreting Language languages Cognition
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I will discuss how co-speech (i.e., speech-accompanying) gestures relate to language and conceptualisation underlying language. I will focus on “representational gestures”, which can depict motion, action, and shape or can indicate locations. I will provide evidence for the following two points. Various aspects of language shape co-speech gestures. Conversely, the way we produce co-speech gestures can shape language. I will discuss these issues in relation to manner and path in motion event descriptions, clause-linkage types in complex event descriptions, and metaphor. I will conclude that gesture and language are parts of a "conceptualisation engine”, which takes advantage of unique strengths of spatio-motoric representation and linguistic representation.
Even date: 26/02/2024
Speaker: Prof. Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Nonverbal communication Language languages Gesture
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What lessons can economics learn from art? Megan Wilkens examines how, historically, trends in the art world have offered a prescient window into wide-ranging socio-economic shifts in society. If economists look closely at art, they might be privy to unexpected changes in cultural behavior.
- Subjects:
- Society and Culture
- Keywords:
- Art -- Economic aspects Art society
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In this video, a team of students meet again with the Prof. Brown after finding various kinds of primary and secondary resources for the exhibition. Prof. Brown had taken a look at the resources that they have collected and commented that some of the primary resources. He reminded them to use a list of criteria to evaluate the resources the plan to use for the exhibition. Let's check out what are the criteria he suggested to use!
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research -- Methodology Humanities -- Research
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I'm Aaron! I spent 6 years learning Spanish in school, and graduated barely able to speak at all. That was before I learned HOW to learn languages. Now I speak English, Spanish, French, Esperanto, some Thai, and I'm actively learning Greek. Stick around and we'll discuss what you should be doing to finally learn that language that's been on your mind. A new language will enhance your life!
- Course related:
- CBS503 Language in Society and CBS500 Sematics and Pragmatics
- Subjects:
- Language and Languages
- Keywords:
- Language languages -- Study teaching
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During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the relaxation of the Ming sea ban, along with the arrival of the Europeans, generated a multipolar environment in East Asia. It revolved around the intra-Asian exchange centered upon Chinese silk and Japanese silver, and a nascent global flow of New World bullion to China and spices for Western Europe. The situation changed during the mid-seventeenth century amid mounting restrictions on overseas contacts from the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan and the consolidation and militarization of Chinese merchants under the Zheng family. By 1683, when the Qing forced the Zheng to surrender and occupied their bastion of Taiwan, China had achieved naval preeminence in the East Asian sea lanes. Other than a few outposts, the Europeans had largely withdrawn from the area north of island Southeast Asia, which remained under the hegemony of the Dutch East India Company. In 1684, the Qing court legalized private trade and travel abroad, prompting another wave of overseas migration. Authorities in China and across eastern maritime Asia enacted policies that kept the Qing merchants and immigrants separate from the earlier Ming loyalists. Additionally, both groups of Chinese were accorded significant political, economic, and legal privileges. This infrastructure, backed by Qing naval power, paved the way for the “Chinese century” in maritime Asia.
Even date: 9/11/2022
Speaker: Dr. Xing Hang
Hosted by: Confucius Institute of Hong Kong
- Subjects:
- Area Studies and Chinese Studies
- Keywords:
- Qing Dynasty (China) Chinese diaspora Southeast Asia Chinese
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Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations
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John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture of creative leadership in the future. Watch for demos of Maeda's earliest work -- and even a computer made of people.
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Design technology Art technology
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Reading fiction can educate us emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, says Beth Ann Fennelly, creative writing professor and poet laureate of Mississippi. She makes the case for why we humans — and the world — continue to need literature.
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- English literature
- Keywords:
- Social psychology literature Empathy
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Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he reads -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and the help of volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Computing
- Keywords:
- Assistive computer technology Reading -- Aids devices Blind -- Books reading
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From the printing press to the digital camera, innovation has often democratized the creative arts. In this forward-looking talk, music producer Drew Silverstein demos a new software that allows anyone to create professional-grade music without putting human musicians out of work.
- Subjects:
- Technology, Performing Arts, and Mechanical Engineering
- Keywords:
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects Music technology Composition (Music)
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- Video
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Can technology make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship and persecution? In this illuminating talk, technologist Yasmin Green details programs pioneered at Jigsaw (a unit within Alphabet Inc., the collection of companies that also includes Google) to counter radicalization and online harassment -- including a project that could give commenters real-time feedback about how their words might land, which has already increased spaces for dialogue. "If we ever thought that we could build an internet insulated from the dark side of humanity, we were wrong," Green says. "We have to throw our entire selves into building solutions that are as human as the problems they aim to solve."
- Subjects:
- Technology
- Keywords:
- Internet -- Social aspects Technology -- Social aspects Cyberbullying
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When children are separated from their parents -- whether due to migration, custody changes, incarceration or any number of other factors -- how can families maintain connection? Computer scientist Lana Yarosh showcases why it's important to design technology that empowers people to share meaningful interactions beyond a video chat or phone call, granting them the chance to reconnect despite life's big disruptions.
- Subjects:
- Technology and Computing
- Keywords:
- Communication -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects Communication technology
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What drives society's understanding of right and wrong? In this thought-provoking talk, futurist Juan Enriquez offers a historical outlook on what humanity once deemed acceptable -- from human sacrifice and public executions to slavery and eating meat -- and makes a surprising case that exponential advances in technology leads to more ethical behavior.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technology civilization Technology -- Social aspects
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Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.
- Subjects:
- Technology and History
- Keywords:
- Technology civilization Technology -- Social aspects
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"Complete silence is very addictive," says Rebecca Knill, a writer who has cochlear implants that enable her to hear. In this funny, insightful talk, she explores the evolution of assistive listening technology, the outdated way people still respond to deafness and how we can shift our cultural understanding of ability to build a more inclusive world. "Technology has come so far," Knill says. "Our mindset just needs to catch up."
- Subjects:
- Health Technology and Informatics and Communication
- Keywords:
- Deafness -- Social aspects Hearing aids -- Technological innovations
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on how do professional historians look for information.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- History -- Research -- Methodology History -- Archival resources Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton shares his view on how do historians select relevant information.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- History -- Research -- Methodology Information resources -- Evaluation Humanities -- Research History -- Research
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In this video, a team of four students are now discussing how to kick-start the exhibition and what information sources in needed
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Exhibitions -- Planning Humanities -- Research
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In this video, Prof. Mark Hampton share his view on how to make a creative video.
- Subjects:
- Statistics and Research Methods
- Keywords:
- Creative ability History -- Research Humanities -- Research
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- Video
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