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The Beckman Institute is host to many public and private events throughout the year, including the Director's Seminar, a series of public lectures by Beckman researchers; the Thursdays at Twelve-Twenty Concerts, a program of free lunchtime musical performances; and a number of national and international conferences, symposiums and workshops.

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Language Processing Brown Bag Seminar - "Language-and-Memory-In-Use: Common ground representations in hippocampal amnesia"


	Speaker		Rachael Rubin

	Date		Nov 5, 2009

	Time		12:30 pm

	Location		Room 4269 Beckman Institute

	Sponsor		Beckman Institute

	Event type		Seminar

	Views		68

Abstract: During conversation, interlocutors build and maintain representations of information that is jointly known, i.e., common ground. We examined whether patients with memory impairments could build sufficient representations to establish both visual and linguistic common ground with a partner. To do this, we monitored participants eye movements as they interpreted potentially ambiguous instructions to gaze at objects in a 3-d display. Results from the amnesic patients replicated standard findings in healthy participants in establishing visual common ground (Hanna et al., 2003). Amnesic patients maintained representations of linguistic common ground at short delays, however, this effect was attenuated at longer delays. These results build on previous common ground findings in amnesia (Duff et al., 2006) and suggest that hippocampal damage impairs common ground representations that place a sufficient demand on declarative memory.

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