Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences


Focus Groups


Event Representation

Last revised 12 February, 2005

Topical overview

The Event Representation Focus Group currently meets weekly. Current active members include Eric Pederson and Dare Baldwin (faculty) and Annika Andersson, Helen Bjork, and Alicia Craven (students). Other interested parties include Russ Tomlin (faculty) and Carey Benom (student).

We are currently engaged in running an experiment testing the possibility of linguistic input affecting attention to event boundaries. For this we are using video stimuli of everyday human actions with multiple possible endpoint boundaries to attend to. The linguistic input is hypothesized to increase or decrease attention to these boundaries depending on the clause structure.

Activities of the focus group

  • Weekly meetings led by Pederson and Baldwin on experiments exploring the interplay between linguistic representation and attention to event boundaries. (The "ErDare" project)
  • Other activities as per occasion

Active faculty

Eric Pederson, Linguistics, co-ordinator

Dare Baldwin, Psychology

Russ Tomlin, Linguistics

Students

Annika Andersson, Psychology

Alicia Craven, Psychology

Jeff Loucks, Psychology

Interested faculty

Tom Givón, Linguistics

Mark Johnson, Philosophy

Bertram Malle, Psychology

Lou Moses, Psychology

Please add your name or the name of any graduate students who you think would be interested, by emailing epederso@uoregon.edu


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