Topic: Discourse Information Integration and Gist Comprehension
Presenter: Yufang Yang, a researcher at the Institution of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPCAS)
Time: 2pm-4pm of Oct 30, 2019
Location: Room No.1125 of New Comprehensive Building
Organizer: Center for Cognitive Science of Language, BLCU
Brief Introduction to the Presenter:
Yufang Yang, a researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, mainly researches psycho-linguistics, focusing on both the interface problem between generalized grammatical components and the cognitive neural basis of language comprehension. She also stresses on the application of research results in language engineering. In recent years, she has carried out comparative studies of music and language. She not only published the translation version of Music, Language and Brain, but also edited Psycho-linguistics. After presiding several national natural science fund projects and social science fund key projects and being a member of the editorial board of several academic journals such as Cognitive Neurodynamics (SCI), Psychological Science Progress, Language Science and Journal of Acoustics (EI), she is now the executive director of the Chinese Psychological Association and the director of the Publishing Work Committee.
