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Benjamin K. Bergen
Associate Professor, Department
of Cognitive Science
University of
California, San Diego.
Photo: Keegan Uhl
Photography
In the Language
and
Cognition Lab, we study meaning and the cognitive
processes that underlie it; more
specifically:
- Language comprehension, especially how people use motor and perceptual simulation to understand words and sentences
- Metaphorical language and thought, taking evidence from corpus and
experimental research
- How people use grammar to encode
meaning, and how grammatical structures affect comprehension
- What the meaningful units are inside words, with special interest in
phonaesthemes
- NEW! Want to get involved in
research in the lab?
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- NEWISH! Winter 2012
course: Mental simulation
and language
comprehension
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- OLD! Winter 2011 course: Language
comprehension
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