[Koglist] [CEU Cogsci Talks] Departmental Colloquium by Cristina Baus - April 30th - QS D-002 Tiered

Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Social Mind Center cordially invites you to the following talk: Speaker: Cristina Baus<https://webgrec.ub.edu/webpages/000014/ang/cbaus.ub.edu.html>ml>, Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona Title: TOGETHER: Mechanisms of lexical alignment in conversation In this talk, I will present research on language interaction, focusing on how interlocutors—whether human or artificial—tend to co-represent their lexical choices during communication. This phenomenon, known as lexical alignment, reflects deep-seated mechanisms that support successful dialogue. Through a series of experiments, I will explore both behavioral and neural processes that underlie lexical co-representation, examining how individuals mentally represent and adapt to each other’s word choices in real time. Using joint language paradigms, I will share findings on two areas: 1. The Nature of Co-representations Across Processing Levels. Investigating how lexical alignment operates across levels of language processing and exploring its impact on memory, particularly the emergence of joint memory effects. 2. The Automaticity of Lexical Alignment. Assessing how alignment occurs spontaneously in diverse communicative settings, such as human-robot interactions and multilingual dialogues with foreign-accented interlocutors. Together, these insights contribute to our understanding of how language users—human or artificial—collaboratively shape meaning through adaptive communication strategies. Time: 16:00, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 Location: Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51, Room : QS D-002 Tiered Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/98247261997?pwd=S2fIgFkRX1aOw6Q3YgxxmSNRfzLkKf.1 Meeting ID: 982 4726 1997 Passcode: 308782 Host: Alper Demircan Best regards, Andi ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu