Abstract
Title of talk: Toward the validation of an experimental paradigm to test children’s processing of idiomatic expressions
In this talk, Claire Prendergast will present a novel predictive processing task that tests how well children predict the outcome of kindergarden stories that are updated by idiomatic expressions through picture selection of the story outcomes. Gaze behaviour is explored in relation to real-time processing of contextual information as it is linked to onscreen pictures and eventual choice behaviour. Together, the data helps to plot the course of ability to infer the intended meanings of non-literal expressions from early to late childhood.
About the speaker
Claire Prendergast is a Postdoctoral fellow at IFIKK working on children’s pragmatic development with respect to non-literal language. She enjoys working with interdisciplinary approaches that embrace the conceptual mapping and testing of theories across multiple domains and fields of knowledge. She is generally inspired by embodied models of social cognition, the development of relational knowledge as influenced by the social environment and how these models may help to improve our understanding of social phenomena as they are studied today.
This talk is open to everyone, no registration needed.