心理语言学线上论坛 | 2022年8月10日14:00 Cynthia Siew 教授讲座

Speaker: Cynthia Siew

Title: An Introduction to Network Analysis for Psycholinguists

Time: 14:00 – 15:30, 10 Aug 2022 

           (Beijing, Hong Kong time)

Venue: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/779556638

            https://cuhk.zoom.cn/j/779556638

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An Introduction to Network Analysis for Psycholinguists

Cynthia Siew 

Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore

Network Science is a branch of complexity science that uses methods from graph theory to study the structure and dynamics of complex systems from a wide range of topics, such as the Internet, social networks, and ecological systems. The aim of this tutorial is to showcase how methods from Network Science can be useful for understanding language systems; in particular, how various forms of linguistic information are organized in the mental lexicon and how different network measures can provide information about the micro-, meso-, and macro-scale structure of language networks. The tutorial will begin with a gentle introduction to the field of Network Science and provide examples of its application in recent psycholinguistic studies. This is followed by a demonstration of how to conduct basic network analysis and network visualization in R (using the `igraph` package).

About the speaker

Cynthia Siew is currently Assistant Professor of Psychology at the National University of Singapore. She was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, from 2017 to 2019. She graduated from the University of Kansas, USA, in 2017, with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. Her research focuses on using network science methods to quantify cognitive and lexical representations in the mental lexicon and semantic memory. Through a combination of experimental and computational approaches, she examines how the structure of cognitive systems influences lexical processes that operate in those systems, and the development of mental lexicon and semantic memory across the lifespan. 

Website: http://hello.csqsiew.xyz/ 

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