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Dr Jenni Rodd, Experimental Psychology,  gives the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture on 18 October on "Barking up the right tree: how do we understand what words mean?"

If you look up just about any word in a dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a word when it is used in everyday life.

Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.

UCL's Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place °ÄÃÅÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼, in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research and recent academic publications. Lunch Hour Lectures are free, require no pre-booking, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.

18 October 2016, 1.15pm to 1:55pm, Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building access via Malet Place, London, WC1E 6BT

• Dr Jenni Rodd