{"id":8226,"date":"2017-02-09T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=8226"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:03","slug":"colloquia-dr-xiaoming-jason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2017\/colloquia-dr-xiaoming-jason\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquia: Dr. Xiaoming (Jason) Jiang: Bridging Language Use and Social Cognition: Feb. 16: 1-2:30pm: DT 2203"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Colloquia: Dr. Xiaoming (Jason) Jiang: Bridging Language Use and Social Cognition: Feb. 16: 1-2:30pm: DT 2203\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:&nbsp;<\/strong>Feb. 16, 2017: &nbsp;1pm \u2013 2:30pm Dunton Tower 2203<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/xiaomingjiang.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Dr. Xiaoming (Jason) Jiang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/pell_lab\/publications\">Neuropragmatics and Emotion lab<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/scsd\/\">School of Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/a> in the faculty of Medicine, McGill University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>Bridging Language Use and Social Cognition: Cognitive Neuroscience Evidence from Pragmatic Inference, Vocal Communication and Individual Differences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>Successful social communication not only relies on understanding \u201cwhat is said\u201d, but is also about developing critical cognitive abilities to effectively decode \u201cwhat is not said\u201d and \u201chow a speaker says\u201d. Inferential ability and understanding what speaker intends in social contexts are vital for learning and adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this talk, I will present my on-going studies and elaborate how EEGs\/ERPs and other non-invasive cognitive neuroscience methods are used to understand language use and social cognition. I will highlight recent evidence showing how a speaker communicates a meaning (e.g. confidence, trustworthiness) and emotion in the vocal and verbal cues, and the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying how a listener decodes the speaker meaning. I will also demonstrate how social context (e.g. social status) facilitates the decoding of communicative intentions (such as over-\/im-politeness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will show evidence on how social inference is shaped by culture and by listener\u2019s sex and personal characteristics such as interpersonal sensitivity and trait anxiety. In particular, I will focus on how trait empathy plays a role in deriving pragmatic implicature and resolving the pragmatic failure\/ambiguity. I\u2019ll close my talk by proposing future directions of the cognitive neuroscience studies on language use in social communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note:<\/strong>&nbsp;You are welcome to bring your lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:&nbsp;Feb. 16, 2017: &nbsp;1pm \u2013 2:30pm Dunton Tower 2203 Speaker:&nbsp;Dr. Xiaoming (Jason) Jiang, Neuropragmatics and Emotion lab in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the faculty of Medicine, McGill University. Title:&nbsp;Bridging Language Use and Social Cognition: Cognitive Neuroscience Evidence from Pragmatic Inference, Vocal Communication and Individual Differences Abstract: Successful social communication not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8232,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8226\/revisions\/8232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}