Selected talks

  1. Joint with Briony Banks. Sensorimotor and linguistic distributional knowledge in semantic category production: An empirical study and model. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society. University College London (virtualised due to Covid-19 pandemic), January 2021.
  2. What kind of linguistic distributional information best predicts conceptual processing? A systematic cross-task comparison. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference. Lancaster University, August 2018.
  3. Invited speaker. Human and machine solutions for speech recognition: challenges with temporally changing models. RSA & Advanced Computational Methods Workshop (RSA 2018). MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, May 2018.
  4. Invited speaker. Multivariate mapping of speech representations in auditory cortex using machine models. Technische Universität Dresden, July 2016.
  5. Invited speaker. Multivariate mapping of speech representations in auditory cortex using machine models. Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig, July 2016.
  6. Invited speaker. Understanding human speech recognition: Reverse-engineering the engineering solution using EMEG and RSA. Interdisciplinary Workshop on Neurocomputation: From Brains to Machines. University of Cambridge, November 2015.
  7. Invited speaker. Using machine speech recogniser state to map phonetic speech responses in the human brain. Computing and Information Systems Seminar. Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, November 2015.
  8. Invited speaker. Using multivariate analysis of fMRI data to investigate lexical representation. Age, Hearing, and Speech Comprehension. Brandeis University, Boston, MA, July 2014.
  9. Graphical foundations for dialogue games. Games for logic and programming languages VIII (GaLoP). Queen Mary University London, July 2013.
  10. Invited speaker. Graphical foundations for dialogue games. Paris Nord Logic, Reasoning, Computation seminar. Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord, June 2013.
  11. Invited speaker. Graphical foundations for dialogue games. Birmingham Theoretical Computer Science Seminar. Birmingham University, May 2013.
  12. Main organiser and Guest Editor of ENTCS proceedings. Workshop on Algebra, Coalgebra and Topology. University of Bath, March 2013.
  13. A graphical foundation for schedules. Conference on the mathematical foundations for programming semantics (MFPS). University of Bath, June 2012.
  14. Graphical notation schemes. Young Researchers in Mathematics. University of Bristol, April 2012.
  15. Universals and constructions on categories; Tortile tensor categories and other graphical notation schemes. Bristol Category Theory Seminars. University of Bristol, 2011–2012.
  16. Video-linked seminar. A graphical foundation for schedules. Mathematical Foundations Seminar. University of Bath and University of Swansea, March 2012.
  17. Graphical notation schemes: A picture is worth a thousand binary tensor words. Postgraduate Research Seminar. University of Bath, November 2011.
  18. Graphical notation schemes: A picture is worth a thousand binary tensor words. Mathematical Foundations Seminar. University of Bath, November 2011.
  19. Lecture series. Graphical notation for monoidal categories and braided monoidal categories. Logic and Semantics Seminars. University of Bath, 2011.

Selected abstracts

  1. Chao Zhang, Andrew Thwaites, Cai Wingfield. Studying Language Processing in the Human Brain with Speech and Language Models. Proceedings of the 22nd Chinese National Conference on Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Tutorial Abstracts), Harbin, China, August 2023.
  2. Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Sensorimotor similarity: A fully grounded and efficient measure of semantic similarity. 2021 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vienna, Austria (virtualised due to Covid-19 pandemic), July 2021.
  3. Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition: A systematic comparison of tasks, models and parameters. The 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia (virtualised due to Covid-19 pandemic), May 2021.
  4. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Sensorimotor and Linguistic Distributional Knowledge in Semantic Category Production: An Empirical Study and Model. The 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia (virtualised due to Covid-19 pandemic), May 2021. Joint with Briony Banks.
  5. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Sensorimotor and linguistic distributional knowledge in semantic category production: An empirical study and model. The 26th architectures and mechanisms for language processing conference, special session on computational models of language processing, Potsdam, Germany (virtualised due to Covid-19 pandemic), September 2020.
  6. Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Understanding the role of linguistic distributional knowledge in cognition: A systematic comparison of tasks, models and parameters. European Conference for Cognitive Science, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, September 2019. Winner of a prize for best poster.
  7. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Linguistic distributional information and sensorimotor similarity both contribute to semantic category production. 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montréal, Canada, July 2019.
  8. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Linguistic distributional information and sensorimotor similarity both contribute to semantic category production. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, University of Manchester, UK, April 2019.
  9. Andrew Thwaites, Cai Wingfield, Eric Wieser, Andrew Soltan, William D Marslen-Wilson, Ian Nimmo-Smith. Searching for evidence of cortical entrainment to colour appearance models in the adult human brain. The Annual Colour Group Colour Vision Meeting, City University London, UK, January 2019.
  10. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Linguistic distributional associations predict category member production. Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference, Lancaster, UK, August 2018.
  11. Briony Banks, Cai Wingfield, Louise Connell. Linguistic statistical associations predict category member production. Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Ghent, Belgium, July 2018.
  12. Cai Wingfield, Li Su, Barry Devereux, Xunying Liu, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Andrew Thwaites, William Marslen-Wilson. Multi-level representations in speech processing in brain and machine: Evidence from EMEG and RSA. Cambridge language sciences symposium, Cambridge, UK, November 2016.
  13. Cai Wingfield, Li Su, Barry Devereux, Xunying Liu, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Andrew Thwaites, William Marslen-Wilson. Multi-level representations in speech processing in brain and machine: Evidence from EMEG and RSA. Society for the neurobiology of language, London, UK, August 2016.
  14. Cai Wingfield, Li Su, Xunying Liu, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland, Andrew Thwaites, Elisabeth Fonteneau, William Marslen-Wilson. Investigating human speech recognition: Reverse-engineering the machine solution with EMEG and RSA. Organisation for human brain mapping, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2016.
  15. Cai Wingfield, Li Su, Xunying Liu, Chao Zhang, Phil Woodland, Andrew Thwaites, Elisabeth Fonteneau, William Marslen-Wilson. Investigating human speech recognition: Reverse-engineering the machine solution with EMEG and RSA. Cambridge neuroscience seminar, Cambridge, UK, March 2016.
  16. Mirjana Bozic, Alexandra Woolgar, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Caroline Whiting, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. Modulation of speech processing following item repetition. Organisation for human brain mapping, Beijing, China, June 2012.
  17. Alexandra Woolgar, Mirjana Bozic, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Caroline Whiting, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. More repetitions or more items? The effects of repeating stimuli on MVPA for fMRI and E/MEG. Organisation for human brain mapping, Beijing, China, June 2012.
  18. Li Su, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Cai Wingfield, Mirjana Bozic, William Marslen-Wilson. Dynamic morpho-lexical processing revealed by time-resolved MVPA. British association for cognitive neuroscience conference and annual meeting, Newcastle, UK, April 2012.
  19. Li Su, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Cai Wingfield, Mirjana Bozic, William Marslen-Wilson. Searchlight representational similarity analysis for complex morpho-lexical processes. Experimental psychology society meeting, London, UK, January 2012.
  20. Li Su, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. The dynamics of complex morpholexical processes revealed by searchlight representational similarity analysis of MEG/EEG data. Neurobiology of language conference, Annapolis, MD, USA, November 2011.
  21. Li Su, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. Searchlight Representational Similarity Analysis of Complex Morpholexical Processes. Experimental Psychology Society: A workshop for William Marslen-Wilson, June 2011.
  22. Mirjana Bozic, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. Characterizing lexical complexity computations in the fronto-temporal language network. Neurobiology of language conference, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2010.
  23. Elisabeth Fonteneau, Mirjana Bozic, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. Inflectional and phrasal interactions with lexical processes: an MEG/EEG study. Neurobiology of language conference, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2010.
  24. Elisabeth Fonteneau, Mirjana Bozic, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, Billi Randall, William Marslen-Wilson. Spatiotemporal dynamics of morphological processing: an MEG/EEG investigation. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA, November 2010.
  25. Li Su, Cai Wingfield, Mirjana Bozic, Elisabeth Fonteneau, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, William Marslen-Wilson. A Multimodal Approach to Representational Similarity Analysis. Organisation for human brain mapping, Barcelona, Spain, June 2010.
  26. Mirjana Bozic, Li Su, Cai Wingfield, William Marslen-Wilson. Characterizing lexical complexity computations in the fronto-temporal language network. Cognitive neuroscience society, Montréal, Canada, April 2010.