Passerelles entre gestes et voix chez différentes espèces de primates (dont humain) : Approche comparative de la communication sensible à l’attention

Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

  Marie Bourjade Laboratoire CLLE, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès & Institut Universitaire de France   Bien avant l’entrée dans la parole, le jeune enfant mobilise déjà des compétences pragmatiques lui permettant de se faire comprendre, d’agir sur les adultes environnants et d’utiliser intentionnellement ses comportements à des fins communicationnelles. Parmi ces compétences pragmatiques, la Communication […]

14th annual scientific day of the MRI-INT Center

The MRI-INT Center in Marseille is organising its 14th annual scientific day on Friday, October 20 at Cerimed, on the medical school campus of La Timone, Marseille. This year’s theme is 'Neuroimaging beyond the cortex’ and will be an awesome opportunity to discover various aspects of imaging the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the spinal […]

Prediction in Language Processing: Some Ideas About How It’s Done

Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

Tamara Swaab, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief: Cognition Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain University of California, Davis Title of Talk: Prediction in Language Processing:  Some Ideas About How It's Done. Rooted in century old ideas of Kant, recent theories of perception, cognition, language, and neuroscience propose that active generation of top-down predictions of imminent sensory […]

Séminaire & Soutenance HDR Christelle Portes

B011 LPL 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

10h Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany) or Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge, England) 11h Coffee break 11h30 Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany) ou Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge, England) 12h30 Lunch ILCB 14h Soutenance HDR, Cristel Portes (Aix-Marseille University & CNRS/LPL) 17h Apéro --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Head movements and pitch accents as cues to […]

Anne-Lise Giraud

Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

Revisiting the origins of meaning

Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

Klaus Zuberbuhler   The three core properties of language – meaning, syntax and social interaction - have received considerable comparative research attention in recent years, driven by a desire to advance theories of language evolution. Somewhat surprisingly, progress on the origins of meaning has been least remarkable, after the initial pioneering discoveries of referential signals […]