Universidade Federal do Ceará
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução

O Laboratório da Linguagem e Processos Cognitivos (LabLing/UFSC) e o Grupo de Pesquisa em Processamento da Linguagem de Bilíngues e Multilíngues (Plibimult/UFC), com o apoio do Programa de Pós-graduação em Inglês (PPGI/UFSC) e Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Tradução (POET/UFC), convidam a todos para os Seminários Online em Psicolinguística, uma série de videconferências sobre temas voltados para a aprendizagem e o processamento da linguagem. Nesta quinta-feira, 23/07/2020, às 13h (horário de Brasília), o seminário será apresentado pelo Prof. Dr. Bernhard Angele (Bournemoth University, UK).

A palestra será transmitida pelo canal do PPGI-UFSC no Youtube. Os participantes poderão fazer perguntas e comentários pelo chat. Haverá certificado de participação e as informações sobre certificação serão fornecidas durante a videoconferência.

Predicting the unpredicted: No relationship between ‘the’ skipping and response inhibition

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Angele (Bournemoth University, UK)

23/07/2020 – 13h (Horário de Brasília)

Live on  PPGI-UFSC Youtube channel

Bio

I obtained an MA degree (in 2009) and a PhD degree on parafoveal processing in reading (in 2013) from the University of California San Diego.

My research interests primarily focus on eye movements during skilled adult reading and language processing. Specifically, I have been studying the effect of parafoveal preview on processing and reading perfomance.

I am currently looking for PhD students. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD related to my research, please don’t hesitate to contact me so that we can explore the options available.

Research

My research interests primarily focus on eye movements during skilled adult reading and language processing. Specifically, I have been studying the effect of parafoveal preview on processing and reading performance. My current research focuses on how visual attention and language processing combine in order to make efficient reading possible. Specifically, how do readers allocate their attention to follow lines of text and shift their gaze at the proper rate for language processing? Has the attentional system adapted to hold back information until the language processing system is ready to receive it? Or has the language processing system developed the ability to process multiple words at the same time? Eye-tracking methods offer a way to investigate this question. Indeed, the time spent looking at a word is influenced by the parafoveal information that was available about that word while readers were fixating the preceding word. The same is true for making the decision to skip an upcoming word. In this case, I found that readers so strongly rely on the parafoveal information that they ignore contextual cues that contradict it. Another project I have worked on shows that information about the upcoming word can influence processing of the currently fixated word if there is a significant degree of overlap between the two. Much of my research is motivated by predictions from computational models of eye-movement control in reading.

In my research, I am using eye-tracking to study how readers process words and sentences, and how attention is allocated in this process. My current research focuses on a few topics: computational modeling, saccade targeting during reading, auditory distraction, and parafoveal processing. I am also interested in statistical inference in psychology, evidence synthesis, and the philosophy of probability.