Effects of mood and emotion on language
SLAT’s next colloquium is coming up! Dr. Vicky T. Lai (The University of Arizona) will be giving a talk titled “Effects of mood and emotion on language”. Dr. Lai’s talk is scheduled for Thursday, March 16th, 4:30 – 5:30 pm (Arizona time) via Zoom.
Dr. Lai is faculty in the Psychology Department and Cognitive Science Department and affiliated with SLAT at The University of Arizona. She directs the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory (https://neurolang.lab.arizona.edu/), where lab members use behavioral, electrophysiological, and imaging measure to study figurative language, emotion and language, and language and thought. Dr. Lai is an elected fellow in the Psychonomic Society. In 2022 she received two National Science Foundation grants: “Learning science concepts through metaphor comprehension, production, and conversation” and “Effects of context on emotional word processing in healthy younger and older adults”.
To read the abstract of Dr. Lai’s colloquium, please see the attached flyer.
Please register in advance of the colloquium by filling out this form: https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrfuGpqjkvG9wAoeMnuFsGv66YrqabDzyx After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link for the colloquium.
For those who are interested in associated articles to Dr. Lai’s colloquium topic, please look at these (it’s not required to read the articles to attend the colloquium):
Lai, V. T., Hagoort, P., & Van Berkum, J. (2022). Negative affect increases reanalysis on conflicts between discourse context and world knowledge. Frontiers in Communication, 7: 910482. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.910482
Donahoo, S. A., Pfeifer, V. A., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Cursed Concepts: New insights on combinatorial processing from ERP correlates of swearing in context. Brain & Language, 226, 105079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105079
Pfeifer, V.A., Armstrong, E. L., & Lai, V. T. (2022). Do all facial emojis communicate emotion? The impact of facial emojis on perceived sender emotion and text processing. Computers in Human Behavior, 126, 107016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107016
We look forward to seeing you on March 16th at 4:30 pm! Please contact GIDP-SLAT@arizona.edu with any questions.
