All welcome. Friday 6 Dec, 1.30-3.00pm Dept of Cognitive Science, Macquarie Uni, Australian Hearing Hub level 3, seminar room 3.610.
Prof Nicole Muller, Chair of the Dept of Communication Disorders at Uni of Louisiana Lafayette http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mxm2092/ “Thoughts on distributed thinking in dementia” It is (probably) quite uncontroversial that a lot of thinking, reasoning, remembering and learning does not happen in individual, unaided brains, but is distributed between multiple brains and artifacts, and situated in interactive contexts, often conversations. On the other hand, assessments of cognitive and language functioning in dementia (as well as other cognitive-communicative impairments), tend to focus on decontextualized tasks that strongly privilege ‘intracranial’ cognition. While conversation has long been recognized as a prime site for the analysis of how people with dementia interact, build and manage social relationship, there is to date comparatively little work that looks at conversational interaction as a cognitive activity. Based on how a woman with dementia negotiates the task of ‘getting to know’ a stranger in a conversation, I would like to share some thoughts on thinking in dementia. The long-term goal of the current research agenda is the establishment of more ecologically valid evaluation procedures of dementia severity. (NB this talk clashes with one session of the evolution of language workshop on the same day http://www.ccd.edu.au/events/conferences/2013/evolution/ - our apologies, there were no other scheduling options). *Directions* The Australian Hearing Hub is less than 10 mins direct walk from the Macquarie Uni station. It is at the intersection of University Ave and Balaclava Road at Macquarie University: building S2.6 at map reference T14 on this campus map: http://www.mq.edu.au/pubstatic/custom/files/media/campus_map_jpeg.jpg -- Professor John Sutton Deputy Head, Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/ http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ http://mq.academia.edu/JohnSutton -- Professor John Sutton Deputy Head, Department of Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132 Email: [email protected] URL: http://www.johnsutton.net/ http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ http://mq.academia.edu/JohnSutton
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