Invited Talks

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Reflections on Writing and Illustrating for Children. Institute of Children’s Literature. National Tai-tung University. November 22.

 Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Reaction Time and Neuro-Imaging Studies on the Processing of Conventional, Novel and Anomalous Metaphors. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, June 26.

 Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. An Introduction to Taiwan’s Up and Coming Illustrators. Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Bologna, Italy. April 27.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2006. Mapping and Processing of Conceptual Metaphors. Institute Computational Linguistics, Center for National Research, Pisa, Italy. April 7.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. Metaphors! A Way to Increase Your Vocabulary Without Memorization. Series of Workshops for High School English Teachers sponsored by Lung-Teng Publishers. Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Fall 2005.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. The Importance of Linguistic Stimuli to Neurolinguistic Studies. NTU Neuroscience Week, September 26, 2005.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. What We Know about the Brain and Language: Recent Developments in Neurolinguistics. NHRI Education Series on Neuroscience. National Taiwan University Medical College. September  24-25.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. How do we process conventional, novel and anomalous metaphors? Institute of Computational Linguistics, Beijing University. July 15.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. Brain and Cognition. National Taiwan University. September 25 & 26.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2005. Writing for the U.S. Children’s Magazine Market. Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, April 14.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2004. Teaching English in the Elementary School Classroom (in Chinese). Shr-Jian Elementary School, Banciao, Taipei. December 17.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2004. Processing Conventional and Novel Metaphors. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Cheng-chi University. December 15.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2004. Storytelling and the Communicative Approach (in Chinese). Workshop for Elementary School Teachers. Tien Educational Center. July 6.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2004. Using Picture Books to Teach English (in Chinese). Dong-shan Elementary School, Hsichih, Taipei. February.

Ahrens, Kathleen.  2003.  Using Children's Books to Study English (in Chinese). Professor Lillian Chao Cultural and Educational Foundation. National Taiwan Normal University, Dec. 6.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2003. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Fu-Ren University, May 19.

Ahrens, Kathleen.  2003.  Metaphor and Cognition.  Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, November 17. [power point]

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2003. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Graduate Institute of Linguistics, Fu-Ren University, May 19.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2002. Envisioning a Career as a Writer or Illustrator. Eslite Bookstore, Taipei, November 14.

Ahrens, Kathleen.  2002.  Using the Conceptual Mapping Model to Constrain the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.  Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Taiwan University, October 28.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 2000. Time as Motion, Time as Space. Graduate Institute of Linguistics. National Taiwan Normal University. December 13.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1999. Timing Issues in On-line Sentence Processing. International East Asian Psycholinguistics Workshop. Ohio State University. August 3-4.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1999. Teaching English via Quality School. Workshop on Teaching Resources and Educational Software for High School English. Da-Tueng High School. June 3-4.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1998. Sense, Ambiguity and Polysemy: Empirical Approaches to Delimiting Senses.  Presented at the Pre-IACL 7 Conference Workshop on Functional and Empirical Work in Chinese Linguistics. Stanford University. June 25.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1998. Design and Methodology in On-line Language Processing. Symposium on Research Methods in Linguistics. National Cheng-chi University. April 18.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1998. The Process of Verbal Lexical Ambiguity Resolution in On-line Sentence Processing. Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University. March 13.

Ahrens, Kathleen and Ovid Tzeng. 1997. Using a Corpus When Teaching Psycholinguistic and Neurolinguistic Courses. Presented to the Symposium on Teaching Linguistics. National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, November 8.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1996. Verbal Valency: Representation and Cognitive Processes. Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Colloquium Series, National Taiwan University, November 13.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1996. Issues in Verbal Representation. Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Seminar.  Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, March 26.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1995. The Role of Participant Roles in Language Processing. Cognitive Science Seminar. National Chung Cheng University, Chia-yi, Taiwan,. October 24.

Hickock, Gregory, and Kathleen Ahrens, Tracy Love, David Swinney, David Blaettler, Richard Buxton, Lawrence Frank, John Jonides, Edward Smith. 1995. On the      Neurobiology of Verbal Working Memory: Evidence from Functional MR Imaging. McDonnell-Pew Seminar, San Diego, June 1995.

Ahrens, Kathleen. 1993. A Cognitive Account of Classifier Production in Normals and Aphasics. Workshop on Interfaces and the Chinese Language. LSA Summer Institute, Ohio State University, July 7.