GENERAL PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

Generación y mantenimiento del Corpus abierto en Lengua de Señas Uruguaya (funding CSIC I+D 2023-2025)

Responsible: Alejandro Fojo Denis. Collaborators: Roberto Aguirre, Maria Noel Macedo, Mauricio Castillo, Marcela Tancredi, Fabrizio Etcheverry. This project will allow the continuation of the “Bimodal Communication with Sign Language” project. It seeks to develop the first open access public Corpus of the Uruguayan Sign Language (LSU). Corpus studies are an indispensable piece for the linguistic description of any language, its use and its mental processing. The project is carried out in collaboration between the CIBPsi, the LSU Spanish Interpretation and Translation Technologist (TUILSU), the Computer Institute and the Institute of Electrical Engineering, the latter two, of the Faculty of Engineering.

Evaluación de las correlaciones entre tiempo biológico, biográfico y la representación espacial del tiempo conceptual (funding CSIC I+D 2023-2025)

Responsible: Roberto Aguirre. Collaborators: Alejandro Vásquez, Ignacio Estevan, Víctor Ortuño, Julio Santiago. The current studies in Chronobiology, Temporal Perspective (PT) and in the study of the spatial representation of the different constructs of conceptual time (TC) are manifestations of the different levels and current approaches to the experience of time from Psychology and Cognitive Sciences . The above alternatives represent a wide spectrum of inquiries about cognitive functions, their biological substrate, their value for the internal states of individuals and the organization of behavior. Therefore, the aforementioned subspecialties dedicated to time have different theoretical objects and concerns and seek to answer different questions. As a result, correlations between these levels have been partially explored. Particularly, only at the TC level has the spatial representation of time as a cognitive object been explicitly studied. The objective of this study is to describe the relationships between the biological, biographical and conceptualization levels of time, through a series of psychometric and psychophysical tests, in order to understand the complementarity of the different levels of the experience of time and its spatial representation in humans. The results of this study will be a novelty in understanding transversal effects of working memory and attention in the categorization of time, based on its spatial features, and personal biases related to the experience of time.

* Tourn, L. & Aguirre, R. (2023). Efectos del cronotipo en la activación de la línea mental del tiempo. I Jornada de Investigación Estudiantil en Psicología (JIEP). Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

Frecuencia léxica subjetiva de LSU (financing: 2022-2024)

CIBPsi: Martín Dutra. Tutor: Roberto Aguirre. The objective of this project is to develop a first subjective frequency study of Uruguayan Sign Language with the participation of informants from the Uruguayan deaf community. These types of studies are central and basic for the subsequent development of empirical and descriptive studies on language processing.

* Dutra, M. & Aguirre, R. (2023). Frecuencia léxica subjetiva de 277 señas de la LSU. Jornada de Investigación de Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento (JICCC). Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

Continuation of the project "Semillero Interdisciplinario: comunicación bimodal con Lengua de Señas" in the call for Fortalecimiento a Grupos Interdisciplinarios (financing and ongoing work: 2021-2023)

Creation of the public Uruguayan Sign Language Dataset. LS-DS (Spanish). Participating institutions: Biological Engineering (CENUR LN UdelaR), Institute of Electrical Engineering (FIng, UdelaR), Interdisciplinary Center in Cognition for Teaching and Learning (EI, UdelaR), LSU-Spanish Interpretation and Translation Technologist Career (FHCE, UdelaR), Center for Basic Research in Psychology (FPsico, UdelaR), Association of the Deaf of Uruguay (ASUR) and Center for Research and Development of the Deaf Person (CINDE).

* Castillo, M., Tancredi, M. Fojo, A., & Aguirre., R. (Borrador, documento provisorio). Guía del sistema de glosa para el corpus público abierto de la LSU. Montevideo.

* Stassi, A.,Tancredi, M., Aguirre, R., Gómez, A., Carballido, B., Méndez, A., Beheregaray, S., Fojo, A., Koleszar, V., & Randall, G. (2022). LSU-DS: an Uruguayan Sign Language public dataset for automatico recognition. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM, (pp. 697-705). https://doi:10.5220/0010894200003122

Proposal for the project to modify law 17,378. This document collects the concerns of a sector of deaf members of the Uruguayan deaf community and of hearing people who accompany them to modify law 17,378 relating to Uruguayan Sign Language. The proposal, in addition to collecting the concerns expressed in the meetings of a working group of DEAF and HEARING people, and consultations or interviews with different actors in those meetings, incorporates criteria and elements from the research activity of our group. The proposal can be consulted upon request.

Integración de información contextual a través de la modalidad visual en el procesamiento de frases en Lengua de Señas Uruguaya (funding finished and work in progress)

Responsibles: Hernán Quintero, Agustina Echaider, Gabriel Morales, Mauricio Tafernaberry, Fabrizio Etcheverry, Roberto Aguirre. PAIE Financing (2019). The intention of this study is to replicate the findings on the use of non-linguistic information in semantic processing for signers of Uruguayan Sign Language. In signed languages, linguistic and non-linguistic information share the same modality, visual, which, presumably, causes competition for visual attention. In this study we propose to test with Uruguayan Sign Language (USL) signers the psychological reality of this eventual attentional competition.

* Echaider, A., Laudicio, M., Morales, G., Quintero, H. Tafernaberry, M, Etcheverry, F. & Aguirre, R. (terminado). Integración de información contextual a través de la modalidad visual en el procesamiento de frases en Lengua de Señas uruguaya. Expo PAIE. Facultad de Arquitectura. Diseño y Urbanismo. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

Modulación de la coherencia motora por los adverbios temporales (funding finished and work in progress)

Responsibles: Luca Tourn Bacci, Victoria Sosa Elias, Franco Durán, Santiago González and Roberto Aguirre. PAIE Financing (2019). The intention of this study is to identify the effects of temporal meanings on the motor activity of individuals. This study is carried out at the Experimental Psychology Laboratory, CENUR, Salto. This research tries to answer what the scope of mental simulation of motor activity and temporal experience (the latter as part of the context of cognitive activity) can be in understanding the meaning of sentences. In this way, we seek to answer whether mental simulation offers an alternative to understand the way in which we process meaning.

* Tourn, L. & Aguirre, R. (2023). Modulación de la coherencia motora por los adverbios temporales. Jornada de Investigación de Ciencias Cognitivas y del Comportamiento (JICCC). Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

* Tourn, L. & Aguirre, R. (2023). Modulación de la coherencia motora por los adverbios temporales. I Jornada de Investigación Estudiantil en Psicología (JIEP). Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

* Tourn, L., Sosa, V. Sosa E., Durán, F., González, N. & Aguirre, R. (terminado). Estandarización de las preferencias de duración e imaginibilidad de eventos en verbos españoles. Expo PAIE. Facultad de Arquitectura. Diseño y Urbanismo. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster).

Lengua de Señas Uruguaya emergencia e iconicidad de las asignaciones espacio-tiempo a través de un estudio psicofísico (funding finished and work in progress)

Responsibles: Alejandro Fojo, Leonardo Peluso, Maximiliano Melialde, Adriana de León, Maria Noel Macedo, Rocío Goñi, Mauricio Castillo, Germán Tourón and Roberto Aguirre. CSIC R&D Project 2014 (2015-2017). The main objective of this study was to evaluate whether LSU signers maintain the temporal representation of past and future events in working memory while making a manual response in different movement axes. Currently, it is still ongoing, as we are collecting additional data. The study is being continued through new tasks and collaborators.

* Macedo, M., Yerro, M. Vivas, J., Castillo, M., Meliande, M., De León, A., … Aguirre, R. (2023). Contrasting the semantic typology biases of Deaf and hearing nonsigners in their conceptualization of time and space. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(6), 1090-1123. doi:10.1017/S0142716423000413

* Körner, A., Castillo, M., Drijvers, L., Fischer, M., Günter, F. ... Glenberg, A. (2022). Embodied Processing at Six Linguistic Granularity Levels: A Consensus Paper. Journal of Cognition, 6(1), 60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.231

* Macedo, M.N., Castillo, M., Villoro, J. & Aguirre, R. (07/2021). Do left-right and back-front mental timelines activate simultaneously? 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Viena, Austria. (Póster)

* Aguirre, R. Macedo, M. N., Villoro Armengol, J., & Vivas, R. (2023). El estudio de los efectos de la modalidad lingüística en el léxico mental. Interdisciplinaria, 40(2), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.16888/interd.2023.40.2.7

* Aguirre, R., Macedo, M.N., Fojo, A., Yerro, M. & Vivas, J. (2021). Semantic networks between deaf signers and Spanish hearers. 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Viena, Austria. (Póster)

* Castillo, M., Fojo, A. & Aguirre, R. (07/2021). Distribution of unidimensional space in the LSU time lexicon. 43th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Viena, Austria. (Póster)

* Castillo, M. Fojo, A. & Aguirre, R. (07/2020). Distribución y variación del espacio unidimensional en el léxico temporal de la LSU. 1st International Virtual Conference in Sign Language Processing. Montevideo. (Póster)

* Macedo, M. N., Fojo, A., Castillo, M., & Aguirre, R. (07/2020). Redes semánticas sobre espacio y tiempo en población sorda-señante y oyente uruguaya: similitudes y diferencias. 1st International Virtual Conference in Sign Languge Processing. Montevideo. (Póster)

* Fojo, A., Castillo, M., De León, A., Macedo, M. N., & Aguirre, R. (07/2020). Similitudes y diferencias de las líneas mentales izquierda-derecha y atrás-adelante entre modalidades del lenguaje en el mismo marco cultural del tiempo. 1st International Virtual Conference in Sign Language Processing. Montevideo (Póster)

* Aguirre, R. et al. (12/2018). Metaphorical mappings and modal representations grounded on space for spoken and signed languages. 8th Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference. Lancaster: Reino Unido. (Póster)

* Chiaviarino, A. (12/ 2018). Redes semánticas sobre espacio y tiempo en población señante y oyente uruguaya: similitudes y diferencias. Jornadas de Investigación Pasantía en Psicología experimental CIBPsi. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster)

* Aguirre, R., Fojo, A., De León, A., Meliande, M., & Castillo, M. (10/2017). Ejes espaciales alternativos para las metáforas temporales en LSU. 5to Simposio de Psicología de la Universidad Católica de Uruguay. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster)

* Cáceres, V. (12/2017). Líneas mentales del tiempo alternativas para hablantes de español uruguayo. Jornadas de Investigación Pasantía en Psicología Experimental CIBPsi. Montevideo: Uruguay. (Póster)

* Aguirre, R. & Fojo, A. (2017). Informe final del proyecto. Sección académica. Udelar: Montevideo: Uruguay.

* Aguirre, R., Fojo, A., De León, A. & Meliande, M. (06/2017). Alternative Temporal Axes for the Conceptual Metaphor in USL. Language as form of action (DComm) Meeting. 21-23/06/2017. Rome: Italy. (Poster)

* Aguirre, R. & Fojo, A. (2015). Perspectivas para el estudio psicolingüístico de la metáfora temporal en el desarrollo de los procesos de gramaticalización e intelectualización de la LSU. Lengua de Señas e Interpretación, 6, 5-22.