语言学沙龙第558期：Professor Jeffrey M. Zacks
时间2017-12-29
北京大学外国语学院语言学沙龙 第 558 期
（第十七届中国认知语言学国际论坛（CIFCL）第十讲）
主讲人：Professor Jeffrey M. Zacks (Washington University in St. Louis)
Jeffrey M. Zacks is Professor and Associate Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Professor of Radiology, at Washington University in Saint Louis. He received his bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from Yale University and his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University in 1999. His research has been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation. He has served as Associate Editor of the journals Cognition, Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, and Collabra, and as Chair of the governing board of the Psychonomic Society, the leading association of experimental psychologists. He is the recipient of scientific awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Foundation, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the Midwest Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Zacks is the author of two books, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies and Event Cognition (with G.A. Radvansky), and co-editor of Understanding Events (with Thomas F. Shipley). He has published more than 80 journal articles and also has written for Salon, Aeon, and The New York Times.
题目：Event Representations from Cinema and Narrative Fiction
摘要：Modern humans experience many events through stories, television, movies and games. One powerful thing media does is schematize the content of activities,
manipulating our ability to use previous knowledge to understand a new situation. Another powerful thing media does is to control how our attention is deployed. This can be seen clearly in written language, but even more clearly in film editing. Behavioral and neural responses to narrative structure show strong parallels between stories and movies. Importantly, people have grave difficulty discriminating from memory between events they experienced in real life, read about, or watched on a screen. These findings support the idea that people have a common capacity for constructing event models and using those models to guide predictive cognition. On this view, our capacity to represent events in language or film represents a direct re-use of our evolved capacity to represent events we experienced in reality.
时间：2017 年 12 月 29 日（周五）14:00-16:00
地点：北京大学外文楼 103