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5 December 2019, CoSaQ seminar, Heming Strømholt Bremnes

Speaker: Heming Strømholt Bremnes
Title: The impact of complexity on the procedural semantics of quantifiers: An EEG study
Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 11:00-12:00
Location: Room 5.08, PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam

Previous studies of the neurocomputation of quantifiers have shown that complexity impacts which brain areas are activated in processing. However, there are critical issues with the previous experiments. Firstly, the formal properties of the quantifiers that are grouped together have not been properly controlled. Secondly, the poor temporal resolution of fMRI prevents studying the different stages of quantifier computation, specifically which cognitive resources are recruited at different stages. Taking the quantifier classes in Szymanik (2016) into account, this study was interested in whether the memory component required to compute proportional quantifiers ('most', 'fewest of') was reflected in online neuronal activity, as recorded by EEG. In particular, we expect that event related potentials associated with memory should be modulated differently by proportional quantifiers, compared to cardinal and Aristotelian ones. In this talk, I will present behavioral and neural data, and hope to discuss the theoretical significance of these.

For more information, see http://www.jakubszymanik.com/CoSaQ/seminar/.

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