Biography:

Dr. Huili Wang is the professor at the School of Foreign Languages at Hangzhou City University, China. She has published over 20 textbooks, three monographs and over 89 papers in journals. She is the Honorary Member of the "Institute of Neuroscience" (IUNE) in University of La Laguna She is the Vice Chairman of China Association of Cognitive Neurolinguistics; Standing Director of China Association of Educational Linguistics; China Association for the Philosophy of Language; Director of China Association of Psycholinguistics and The Pre-Qin History Society id China, Chinese Classics Bilinguals’ Association. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics and neurolinguistics.

Speech title: Embodiment Effect on the Comprehension of Mandarin Manual Action Language: An ERP Study

Abstract: Embodied theory of cognition argues that language comprehension involves activating specific sensory-motor systems in the brain. People tend to simulate actions and events in the process of language comprehension. An example is the comprehension of action-related language, which interacts with motor performance (action-sentence compatibility effect or ACE) based upon behavioral studies. According to neurological studies, motor and premotor brain areas are activated in the language comprehension process. However, most researches have focused on alphabetic languages. Few researchers pay more attention to logographic languages like Chinese.