Event overview
In the first of this year's Whitehead Lectures, Dr Lilla Magyari discusses the cognitive processes which allow us to coordinate our actions in spontaneous social interactions.
In this talk Dr Lilla Magyari will focus on some of the cognitive processes underlying our ability to coordinate our actions in spontaneous social interactions.
In particular, she will present EEG and behavioural studies about spontaneous verbal interactions, such as everyday natural conversations. She will also present some preliminary experimental data about non-verbal interactions such as movement improvisation (eg, dance improvisation).
The key focus of her talk will be whether or not and how participants in spontaneous social interactions anticipate others' actions and the timing of these actions.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Speaker: Dr Lilla Magyari, Department of General Psychology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Lilla Magyari studied psychology and Hungarian grammar and literature at the ELTE University in Budapest in Hungary and cognitive neuroscience in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.
She obtained her Ph.D. in the Language & Cognition Department of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her dissertation explored the cognitive mechanisms involved in the timing of turn-taking in everyday conversations. Complementing her Ph.D. studies, she also worked at the Neuroimaging Center of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, focusing on the implementation of methods for EEG/MEG data-analysis within the FieldTrip software-package.
She also studied theatre-directing at the Amsterdam School of the Arts for a year. Currently, she lives in Budapest where she works as an assistant professor at the Department of General Psychology of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Her research investigates linguistic and cultural differences in turn-taking of natural conversation, empirical aesthetics and coordination in movement improvisation.
About the Whitehead lecture series
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Jan 2016 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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