Date: Wednesday, 4th February 2026
Venue: D001 (QS Vienna) and Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/96367649350?pwd=XjZa3u6Y9wocIvxTrfdgVx3donIpzc.1
Meeting ID:
963 6764 9350
Passcode:
895830
Chair: Eva Wittenberg
Title:
Events in language and cognition
Abstract: Understanding the events (e.g., chopping an onion, walking to the bus stop) happening in the world around us is fundamental to our everyday
lives. The area of study in cognitive science dealing with this human trait at the interface of perception, action and memory, is called “event cognition”. We often encounter events through language, i.e., by communicating about the things that are happening
in our lives. This means that, when studying event cognition, it is crucial to take into account how events are conceptualized and described linguistically. Furthermore, given that events can be described in different ways both within one and the same language,
and across different languages, I ask, to what extent linguistic variation may guide or shape our event cognition. I will present psycholinguistic studies that investigate how people conceptualize, perceive and memorize events of different types, with the
aim of shedding light on the relation between language and (event) cognition.
*Anyone not affiliated with CEU wishing to attend in-person in Vienna must RSVP to get access to the lecture hall.
Best regards,
Fanni
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FANNI TAKÁTSY
Lab Manager/Research Coordinator,
Social Mind Center
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