Lunch Talks

Prediction in Language Processing: Some Ideas About How It's Done 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 […]

Programme 10h Brechtje Post (University of Cambridge, England) 10h Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (Université de Nantes & LLING) 11h Coffee break 11h30 Stefan Baumann (University of Cologne, Germany) 12h15 Lunch ILCB 14h Soutenance HDR, Cristel Portes (Aix-Marseille University & CNRS/LPL)   Présentation de Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie (Université de Nantes & LLING) Title: Faisceau d'indices phonétiques fins  et interprétation : […]

David Schlangen  : Professor, "Foundations of Computational Linguistics", University of Potsdam Abstract: In the first part of the talk I will present an overview of the activities of my group (Foundations of CompLing at Uni Potsdam), organised around the quest to understand how linguistic communication can yield shared understanding. I will present an analytical framework […]

Anne-Lise Giraud Abstract: The neural computations that make oral communication possible must operate on multiple time scales, both in parallel and recursively. Neuronal oscillations at different scales and their precise coordination are a key instrument of this necessary multiplexing, a phenomenon we are exploring in humans through surface and intracortical EEG. In this presentation, I […]

Jennifer Culbertson Human languages exhibit striking variation. At the same time, certain linguistic patterns crop up again and again, while others seem to be extremely rare. What these tantalising observations tell us about human language is one of the most contentious questions in linguistics. Do similarities between languages reflect a special capacity for language that […]

Peter 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Steve Majerus Professeur à l’Université de Liège https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=u182078   Many models of verbal working memory acknowledge interactions with verbal long-term memory. The nature of these interactions remains, however, a matter of debate. I will present a series of behavioral and neuroimaging studies showing that (1) even subtle aspects of language knowledge such as syntactic positional […]

Professor : Olivier Collignon Evolution has endowed humans with several senses allowing them to capture distinct forms of energies from their physical environment, opening different windows through which we can experience the world around us. Being able to capture redundant sensory information allows us to build stronger representations and react faster to an event (eg  […]