2014年10月17日　　Friday Lunch Seminar
12:15 〜 13:00

CiNet　1F　Conference Room

“Imaging unconscious language processing （無意識の言語処理過程を可視化する）”

中村仁洋

京都大学大学院医学研究科
脳機能総合研究センター
准教授

Abstract:

Language is generally thought to be an innate and universal human faculty, but is also known to rely on various distinct components, including phonological, articulatory, lexico-semantic and syntactic memory systems. Interestingly, previous research suggests that many of these components could be driven automatically even without conscious awareness and cognitive control. Recent brain imaging data have identified some neural correlates of such non-conscious recognition in occipitotemporal regions, at least for earlier, elemental stages of language processing (e.g., spoken or written words), but little is known about whether and how the human brain can cope with other, more complex types of linguistic information (e.g., sentences, text). Here I will briefly review the current status of the field and present a few research projects currently ongoing in our own department.

About CiNet’s Friday Lunch Seminars:
The Friday Lunch Seminar is CiNet’s main regular meeting series, held every week at 12:15 in the beautiful main lecture theatre on the ground floor at CiNet. The talks are typically 40mins long and orientated towards an inter-disciplinary audience. They are informal, social, and most people bring their own lunch to eat during the talk. They are open to anyone who is feeling curious and wants to come, regardless of where you work.