28th International Congress of Psychology August 8 ... - U-netSURF

Richmond, Virginia, USA
The neural representation of language is the focus of many neuroimaging studies. Most of the
claims in this domain have come from studies of English and other Indo-European languages. In
this presentation we focus on the contributions that neuroscience research in Chinese makes to the
understanding of the relationship between language and brain. Chinese differs from
Indo-European languages in significant ways in its phonological, grammatical, and lexical
structures. We present neuroimaging and computational evidence that illustrates how specific
linguistic experience impacts on the representation of linguistic categories and how this
experience shapes neural systems of reading and speaking in general.
4007.4 The neuroanatomy of speech perception, S. Scott 1 , S. Rosen 2 , I. Johnsrude 3 , R. Wise 4 ,
1 2 3
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, London, UK; UCL, UK; MRC Cognition and Brain
Sciences Unit, UK; 4 MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, UK
Theories of auditory processing in the primate brain postulate the presence of both parallel and
hierarchical processing of sounds, with associated streams of processing performing different
functional roles the what and where pathway. Functional imaging studies of human auditory
processing indicate that similar patterns of processing can be seen in human auditory areas. I will
use this framework to describe the neural responses seen to speech in human auditory areas, and
establish that both sound-to-meaning and sound-to-articulation pathways can be distinguished.
This analysis allows us to unpack the construct of Wernicke’s area, historically seen as important
in speech perception.
4008 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Work analysis and competence – recent problems and future developments
Convener and Chair: E. Frieling, Germany
4008.1 Participative task inventories: A new starting point of competence development, M.
Buch, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Incumbents are confronted with rapidly changing job contents. Knowledge about what the
working person does and will do in the future is a preliminary to assess the needs of competence
development and to develop appropriate curricula. Existing work and task analysis instruments are
not suitable to deliver this information because of their limitation to actual conditions. A
modification of the approach of task inventories seems to be promising to reflect the changing
tasks as different case studies show. The modifications will be considered and empirical evidence
of the usefulness of the participative task inventories in the outlined application filed will be
shown.
4008.2 Development of a task analysis for leaders, B. Schyns 1 , T. Pau 2 , 1 Tilburg University,
Tilburg, The Netherlands; 2 University of Leipzig, Germany
4008.3 Participation and team competence, S. Kauffeld, M. Buch, University of Kassel, Kassel,
Germany
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