Two-day international symposium on interaction of language, attention, memory and vision

Updated on: Saturday, October 06, 2012

On the occasion of 125th anniversary of Allahabad University, a two-day international symposium on interaction of language, attention, memory and vision was organised at the varsity's Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences on Friday.

The topics discussed at the symposium were of relevance to psycholinguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists across the country and other countries.

The symposium started with a welcome address by the head of the department, Prof Narayanan Srinivasan, followed by an inaugural note by Dr Ramesh Mishra who is also the convenor of the symposium. Dr Folk Huettig from Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics then delivered his talk on language vision interaction based on studies conducted on young children, older adults, students, illiterates or low literates, and argued how factors like literacy, working memory capacity, and linguistic differences affect anticipatory eye movements and language processing.

Prof Bapi Raju from Centre of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad highlighted various aspects of motion verb processing within bilingual and multilingual contexts as per studies on general and patient population.

Dr Bhoomika R Kar from CBCS presented her work on interaction of bilingualism and cognitive control.

The idea was to explore how knowing two languages will influence cognitive flexibility by using behavioral and electrophysiological data. Rajesh Kasturirangan from NIAS, Bangalore, highlighted theoretical perspective to the present discussion where he emphasized how metaphors plays an important role in embodiment of concepts.

Towards the end of the programme, Prof Snehlata Jaiswal from IIT Delhi threw light on the role of attention in binding various features of information such as colour, shape, and location in working memory.

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