主讲人：周晓林

时间： 2013年11月14日（星期四）下午15:00-17:00

地点：虹口校区图书馆604室

主办方：语言研究院

主讲人简介

周晓林，1963年12月出生于江苏省扬州市。现任北京大学脑科学与认知科学中心主任、心理学系主任，国务院学位委员会心理学评议组成员，教育部心理学教学指导委员会主任委员，中国心理学会副理事长、普通心理与实验心理分会会长，中国残疾人事业发展研究会常务理事。

周晓林1988年10月赴英国剑桥大学学习，1992年获得博士学位；1998年底正式回国，任北京大学心理学系教授。2001年获中共中央组织部、人事部和中国科协 “中国青年科技奖”, 北京市“师德标兵”称号，2004年获得教育部“高等学校自然科学奖”一等奖，2008年所指导博士生获得“全国百篇优秀博士论文奖”，2013年获教育部“长江学者特聘教授”称号。

周晓林教授是罗丹科学院 (Rodin Remediation Academy) 的Corresponding Fellow，任BMC Neuroscience和Scientific Reports学刊副主编（执行编委）, Language and Cognitive Processes，Frontiers in Child Health and Human Development，International Journal of Cognitive Informatics 学刊编委，国内“心理科学”副主编，“心理学报”、“心理科学进展”、“心理与行为”编委。曾为3种国际刊物编辑了4期有关汉语认知的论文专刊。主要研究领域为语言认知、注意选择与执行控制、决策与神经经济学、社会认知与实验社会心理学。已在国际SCI、SSCI刊物发表论文100多篇。

讲座内容摘要：

Language comprehension is typically viewed as a process of integrating information from linguistic and extra-linguistic sources and building up a mental representation for the state or event being described. One goal of neurocognitive study of language processing is to unravel how the brain operates to make pragmatic inference (i.e., to derive the broader meaning of a sentence according to world knowledge and discourse/social context) and to deal with pragmatic incongruence or failure (i.e., to resolve the conflict between linguistic input and pragmatic information derived from world knowledge and pragmatic inference). In this study, we used both the event-related potential (ERP) and functional magneticresonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate how the brain responds to construction-based pragmatic constraints during sentence comprehension. A linguistic construction is typically viewed as encoding the pairing of syntactic form and semantic information that is independent of the meaning of constituent words. The lian…dou…construction in Chinese (similar to even in English) normally describes an event of low expectedness (a semantic constraint); it also introduces a pragmatic scale implying that any event with a higher likelihood than the event described must occur (pragmatic inference). By embedding a highly likely event or an underspecified event in the construction, we created an incongruent condition and an underspecified condition and compared both with a control condition in which an event of low expectedness was described. Our results revealed differential brain mechanisms for making pragmatic inference and for dealing with pragmatic failure during sentence comprehension.