UCL Lunch Hour Lecture - Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean?
Speaker: Dr Jenni Rodd, Experimental Psychology, UCL
If you look up just about any word in a
dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet
it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a
word when it is used in everyday life.
Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.
Time: 13:15 - 13:55 on 18 October 2016
Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre | Darwin Building ( Map) access via Malet Place | London | WC1E 6BT
Open to: Alumni | Public | Academic | Student
Admission: Free
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