PIIECC

The experimental and interdisciplinary research of communication and cognition, from linguistics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, has proven to be one of the main approaches we have to understand central aspects of the human condition. In this sense, one of the most promising lines of work aims to unravel the mechanisms of linguistic processing, its behavioral manifestation, and its links with other relevant cognitive systems. Thus, it is key to provide new multidimensional evidence anchored in the various disciplines capable of illuminating the issue.

 

In this context, the PIIECC Program-Center is intended to study communication and its scaffolding in multiple cognitive processes, guided by the joint work of linguists, cognitive psychologists, and neuroscientists, and aims to become a novel research nucleus at the national level. In addition, through the establishment of networks with foreign research groups, this Program-Center seeks to project itself internationally, with a scalable potential impact in these areas of knowledge. In the medium term, by promoting the development of several existing collaboration lines from USACH, this prospective center could become a benchmark in the field of study of communication, linguistics, and cognition.

 

In particular, one of the key research areas addressed by the present PIIECC Program-Center is Translation, an activity that will be studied from an interdisciplinary approach through cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Similarly, the study of Phonetics and Phonology has an important space. The PIIECC Program-Center aims to take this research beyond the field of phonetic description to relate it to neurolinguistic and applied phenomena. In more general terms, studies on various cognitive processes linked with verbal and non-verbal communication stand as a fundamental source of evidence. Taking as a reference the actions of leading groups worldwide, the PIIECC Program-Center seeks to inquire about communication processes from an integral and non-isolationist perspective, sensitive to the role of multiple non-verbal cognitive domains in various everyday semiotic processes.

 

Mg. Edinson Muñoz

 

USACH Researchers: Néstor Singer (DLL), María del Saz (DLL), Domingo Román (DLL), Adolfo García (DLL) and Edinson Muñoz (DLL)