BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2007/newsitem/2094/12- December-2007-Logic-Language-and-Reasoning-Seminar -Robin-Clark DTSTAMP:20071212T000000 SUMMARY:Logic, Language, and Reasoning Seminar, Ro bin Clark ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Robin Clark (Pennsylvania) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20071212T174500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20071212T193000 LOCATION:Room P.016, ILLC, Euclides Building, Plan tage Muidergracht 24, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:We examine the understanding of senten ces containing a single quantifier. Subjects were asked to make truth value judgments of a sentence relative to a model (the latter presented visually ), where each sentence contained a single quantifi er which could be an Aristotelean (e.g., "all", "s ome", "no"), a cardinal determiner ("at least n", where n > 0), a parity determiner (e.g., "an even/ odd number of") or a majority determiner (e.g., "m ore than half"). The judgment marshalled parts of the parietal lobe normally associated with number processing; furthermore, a neuroanatomical differe nce was noted between first order and higher order quantifiers. Based on these observations, we comp ared different populations---corticobasal degenera tion (CBD) patients, fronto-temporal dementia (FTD ) patients and Alzheimers (AZ) patients---with res pect to their behavior on various types of quantif iers. The results suggest that understanding of se ntences containing quantifiers crucially involves number sense. For more information, see http:// staff.science.uva.nl/~szymanik/LLR.html X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
\n We examine the understanding of sentences containi ng a single quantifier. Subjects were asked to mak e truth value judgments of a sentence relative to a model (the latter presented visually), where eac h sentence contained a\n single quantifier which could be an Aristotelean (e.g., "all&qu ot;, "some", "no"), a cardinal determiner ("at least n", where n > 0), a parity determiner (e.g., "an even/odd n umber of") or a majority determiner (e.g., &q uot;more than half"). The judgment marshalle d parts of the parietal lobe normally associated w ith number processing; furthermore, a neuroanatomi cal difference was noted between first order and h igher order quantifiers. Based on these observatio ns, we compared different populations---corticobas al degeneration (CBD) patients, fronto-temporal de mentia (FTD) patients and Alzheimers (AZ) patients ---with respect to their behavior on various types of quantifiers. The results suggest that\n understanding of sentences containing quantifier s crucially involves number sense.\n
\n \n\n For more information, see < a target="_blank" href="http://staff.science.uva.n l/~szymanik/LLR.html">http://staff.science.uva.nl/ ~szymanik/LLR.html\n
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