Lunch Talks
Subdivide and Conquer. brain processing of musical melody, harmony and rhythm
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FrancePeter Vuust : Director of the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), MSc, PhD, Prof. in Neuroscience, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Prof. in Music, the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark, Bassist and composer Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable experience, moving us both physically […]
Development of the lexical-semantic organization in the infant brain: electrophysiological evidence
Dr. Pia Rämä Until recently, there has been little evidence regarding how and when infants begin to integrate words into an inter-connected lexical-semantic system. Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies show that lexical-semantic system emerges together with early vocabulary during the second year of life (Rämä et al., 2013; Rämä et al., 2018). These studies also […]
Revisiting the origins of meaning
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 […]