Research on

  • Mental simulation in language understanding
  • Embodiment of linguistic constructions
  • Processing of literal, abstract, and metaphorical language
  • Language acquisition


News:

10.13.09. Manami Sato presents an invited talk entitled "Language Processing and Mental Simulation" at the University of Nagoya, Japan.

9.27.09. Nian Liu and Manami Sato present papers at the annual meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (JCLA) at the University of Kyoto in Kyoto, Japan.

9.7.09. Bodo Winter and Ben Bergen present a paper entitled "Language-driven mental simulation of distance" at the 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, in Barcelona.

8.29.09. Ben Bergen gives invited lectures on Construction Grammar at the International Summer School on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar, in Cortona, Italy.

7.25.09. Ben Bergen teaches a class at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute on Experimental and corpus-based approaches to metaphor.

7.29.09. Manami Sato, Dan X. Hall, and Ben Bergen present a paper entitled "Pronouns affect perspective in mental simulation, but what about discourse?" at The Embodied & Situated Language Processing Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

6.10.09. Nian Liu is funded by UH Arts & Sciences Council Award to present a paper at the 2nd Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition at Stockholm University, Sweden.

5.15.09. Big news! The lab will be moving to the UCSD Cognitive Science Department in January, 2010.

1.6.09. Ben Bergen gives invited lectures on advances in embodied cognitive linguistics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

10.20.08. Wen-wei Han, Nian Liu, and Ben Bergen present two talks at the Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language.

9.26.08. Wenwei Han presents talk at the International Conference on Construction Grammar.

8.17.08. Ben Bergen presents invited talk at the American Psychological Association convention in Boston.

7.21.08. Jung-Hee Kim and Carl Polley present talks at the International Congress of Linguists in Seoul.

4.1.08. Ben Bergen presents six lectures in Japan as a fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

3.20.08. Kathryn Wheeler and Ben Bergen visit colleagues at the University of Utah for collaborative research.