Exploring the Mind: Herman H.J. Kolk, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
The skeptical brain or: how to monitor language perception
| What | Exploring the Mind |
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| When |
2008-05-30 12:10 PM
2008-05-30 01:00 PM
May 30, 2008 from 12:10 pm to 01:00 pm |
| Where | 267 Cousteau, Main Conference Room |
| Contact Name | Noelle Blalock |
| Contact Email | nsblalock@ucdavis.edu |
| Contact Phone | 530-297-4452 |
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Errors of human performance are common and it is generally assumed that the cognitive system is able to monitor for such errors and to repair them. The many current studies of monitoring have been exclusively devoted to production. However, we also make perceptual errors and are able to detect them. We have proposed that a strong conflict between what you perceive and what you expect signals the possibility of a perceptual error. The conflict brings the brain to reprocess the input and gives rise to a P600. This positivity thus has a general function, not just a syntactic one.
Exploring the Mind: Herman H.J. Kolk, Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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