Category in the Brain（11/5）

讲座题目： Category in the Brain

主讲人： Sydney M. Lamb

讲座时间：11月5日上午10点

讲座地点：虹口校区图书馆6楼报告厅

举办单位：科研处

附1 讲座内容简介：

Semantic and conceptual structure, as well as grammatical structure, is represented as categorial information. Progress in perceptual neuroscience has now made it possible to understand how categories are represented in the brain. We can thus begin to understand how semantic phenomena operate and how they affect our everyday thinking.

附2  Sydney M. Lamb简介：

Sydney M. Lamb

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

I. Teaching Positions

Rice University

Professor of Linguistics, 1964—83

Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Linguistics, 1983—98

Professor of Cognitive Science, 1996—98

Yale University

Associate Professor of Linguistics, 1964—68

Professor of Linguistics, 1968—77

University of California, Berkeley

Instructor in Linguistics, 1956—58

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, 1958—61

Associate Professor of Linguistics, 1961—64

II. Education

Yale University: B.A. 1953 (Major: Economics)

University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1958

III. Academic Program Organization and Management

Rice University:

Co-organizer of the Department of Linguistics and Semiotics, and of its graduate program, 1981—82.

Chairman, Department of Linguistics and Semiotics, 1982—88.

Chairman, Organizing Committee for an undergraduate Major in Cognitive Sciences, 1987—89.

Chair, Cognitive Sciences Program, 1996—98.

Yale University:

Revised Graduate Program in Linguistics, 1966

Organized Undergraduate Major in Linguistics, 1967

Member, Planning committee for a department of computer science, 1967—69

University of California, Berkeley:

Co-organizer, undergraduate major in Linguistics, 1960

IV. Research and Development Management

Director, Machine Translation Project, University of California, 1958—64,

(Supported by the National Science Foundation)

Director, Linguistic Automation Project, Yale University 1966—70,

(Supported by the National Science Foundation)

General Partner, Semionics Laboratories, 1976—93,

(Developed an associative memory system for microcomputers and related software.)

V. Other Affiliations

Association for Computational Linguistics

Co-founder, Co-author of constitution;

Association for the study of Language in Prehistory

Member of the Council of Fellows, 1993-

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Fellow, 1973—74 (with Fellowship from ACLS);

Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Houston Neurological Society

President, 1997;

Houston Neurological Society, 1999-

Houston Philosophical Society, 1981-

President, 1992—93;

Linguistic Society of America,

Member of Executive Committee, 1988—68;

Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States

President, 1983—84,

Chair of the Board of Directors, 1995-

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Summer Institute of Linguistics

International Linguistic Advisor, 1983-

VI. Publications (Partial)

Outline of Stratificational Grammar, (Revised) Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1966.

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Pathways of the Brain: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language, Amsterdam and Philadelphia:

Benjamins, 1999.