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Why do some people remain mentally sharp well into later life, while others experience steeper cognitive decline? Despite rapid advances in brain science, genetics and…
Professor Simon Cox: Fool’s Gold, Marginal…
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I have spent my life surrounded by traditional dialects of English and Scots, growing up in rural Tyrone hearing and speaking the local Mid-Ulster dialect, documenting…
Prof Warren Maguire: A Life in Dialect
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"A bewildered journalist listens to an aspiring politician. In Cambridge, researchers patronise a caveman. A young student in a quantum mechanics lecture dreams of…
Prof Chris Cummins - People in the way of words
From Chris Cummins
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Grief typically feels bad, but is nevertheless an important part of the human experience of loss. How can these two facts be reconciled? Ultimately, should we view grief…
Prof Michael Cholbi - Finding the Good in Grief
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Injuries and diseases affecting the brain and nervous system, as well as healthy aging, can affect the way individuals think, feel and behave. One of the roles of a…
Prof Sarah MacPherson - Brain Matters
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For a conversation to be coherent, we expect more than just a sequence of arbitrary sentences—we expect the sentences to connect in predictable and sensible ways. …
Prof Hannah Rohde - Why am I saying this?
From Hannah Rohde
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The will (volition) is intuitively one of the most fundamental faculties of human psychology, but it is surprisingly difficult to say exactly what it is. In previous…
Prof Till Vierkant - The Four Faces of Volition
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There is a tension at the heart of syntactic analysis: there are good reasons to think that human syntactic competence cannot reflect hugely complex, syntax-specific…
Prof Rob Truswell - The search for a simple…
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Myths of rationality and savagery established the basis of Enlightenment Era thinking about white Europeans and Black Africans. Ethnology, which was birthed in the…
Prof Tommy Curry - Black Male Studies as the…
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Today’s generative AI tools are flooding the media ecosystem with mirrored reflections of humanity’s digitized past, reconstituted as the future. Companies…
Prof Shannon Vallor - In a Mirror, Dimly: Why AI…
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We take for granted the ability to infer social information about someone based on how they use language. In this talk, I will explain this research area and demonstrate…
Prof Lauren Hall-Lew - Sociophonetic indexicality…
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It doesn't take a linguist to see that languages differ from one another. At the same time, certain linguistic patterns crop up again and again, while others seem…
Prof Jennifer Culbertson - Language is shaped by…
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