Dear members of the ILCB community,

I wish you all a very happy and successful New Year!

In 2024, we have the privilege of hosting not one but two ILCB Iméra chairs. Prof. Sonja Kotz from the University of Maastricht is arriving early February. Another chair will start in July, although you need to wait until the next newsletter to find out who it is!

The students of our Cognitive Science Master (MaSCo) have again organized an exciting workshop on individual and collective aesthetic experience. A beautiful project! The event is already around the corner, being held next Monday 22nd of January at St. Charles (Amphiteatre Charve). You will find the list of highly distinguished speakers below. Please register asap.

If you want to know more about cables, copies, errors, and plasticity in our brain, don’t miss the Neurostories, which will feature 5 lively science stand-ups on the evening of January 25th in Marseille.

 Best whishes,

Johannes

"The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2023  is…

hallucinate verb [ I or T ] When an artificial intelligence hallucinates, it produces false information."

To which one feels inclined to add "When humans hallucinate, what do they do?"

The Cambridge Dictionary webpage on "hallucinate"

Le portrait de Thierry Legou, ingénieur de recherche CNRS au Laboratoire Parole et Langage, récipiendaire de la Médaille de cristal du CNRS 2023, est visible en texte, image et video sur le site de la délégation Provence Corse (DR12). Félicitations Thierry !

Prof. Kate Watkins has finished her residency as ILCB Iméra fellow. You can click on the image to watch her discussion about developmental stuttering.

Across the Aesthetic Experience

The students from the Master in Cognitive sciences invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop:

Beauty, as a reflection of our perception, unfolds in as many different ways as there are people to contemplate it. This leads us to wonder: what is the basis of individual and collective aesthetic experience. In an effort to explore its complexity, we embark on an intellectual journey where experts will share their vision of the aesthetic experiences according to their discipline, from philosophy to neuroscience.

The NeuroStories event is organized by the NeuroMarseille Institute. NeuroStories are 15 minutes "stand-up" presentations on the cerveau. (The event is in French.) Five speakers will provide complementary views on how the brain adapts to its environment.

Elin Runnqvist (LPL) will present her research "UNE COPIE DU MONDE DANS NOTRE TÊTE !"

January 25th at 7 PM -- Amphithéatre Noailles, 63 La Canebière, 13001 Marseille