Abstract des Vortrags:

Speaking is a highly flexible and adaptive means of expressing thoughts, sensations and experiences in diverse communicative contexts, but this potentially wide range of meaning processing has not been thoroughly investigated. In this talk, I will present studies on how different aspects of meaning affect lexical activation and the words we choose when we plan to speak. Beyond different types of semantic contents, I will focus on how we communicate sensorimotor experiences and social-emotional content, as well as how speaking is shaped by different communicative contexts. Together, these studies reveal a complex interplay between lexical selection and social settings that characterizes the language production system as highly flexible and adaptive.

Rasha Abdel Rahman ist Heisenberg Professorin für Neurokognitive Psychologie am Institut für Psychologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und leitet dort den gleichnamigen Arbeitsbereich sowie das Laboratory for Neurocognitive Psychology. Ihr Forschungsinteresse gilt den neurokognitiven Mechanismen, die der Sprache, dem Sehen, der semantischen und sozialen Verarbeitung sowie dem vielschichtigen Zusammenspiel dieser zentralen menschlichen Fähigkeiten zugrunde liegen.