Lunch Talks

Three decades of structural priming research: implications for syntactic representation, domain-specificity of syntax, and multilingualism About thirty years ago, Kay Bock discovered structural priming, the tendency for speakers and listeners to recycle syntactic structures they have recently encountered. A recent meta-analysis of 70 published papers (Mahowald et al., 2017) shows that structural priming (as well […]

Alignment and prediction in conversational interactions by Prof. Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)

An understanding of both the neural mechanisms involved in language, and their evolutionary history, requires incisive comparisons between humans and nonhuman animals. Ideally, such comparisons are grounded in an explicit, computational framework encompassing both formal and neural components.

The computational neuroanatomy of speech production in the context of a dual stream framework for language by Greg Hickok (Dept. Cognitive Sciences & Language Science - University of California Irvine) The dual stream framework for the cortical organization of language is grounded in evolutionary biology in that it proposes an organization that is homologous to […]

The Temporal Dynamics of Word Processing in Hearing and Deaf Readers by Phillip Holcomb, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego (United States) In my talk I will discuss a recent line of research in our lab where we are comparing electrophysiological measures of word processing in hearing and deaf adult readers. Because […]

In my talk I will discuss a recent line of research in our lab where we are comparing electrophysiological measures of word processing in hearing and deaf adult readers.

During the last two decades a growing body of evidence has shown a close relationship between temporal structure of speech and neural oscillatory activities, especially in the theta and gamma bands. More specifically, several recent models suggest that the neural capacity to track speech dynamics and rhythmic patterns is crucial for speech processing and understanding. […]

• 12h Prof. Christian Lorenzi, CNRS & Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France Processing time with our auditory system Debate on how speech information is represented in the auditory system has revolved around the role of two neural/perceptual features encoding the temporal modulations of the acoustic signal (the “temporal envelope”, ENV, and “temporal fine structure”, TFS), […]

12h Prof. David Poeppel, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt &New York University • 13h Lunch • Confirm attendance (mandatory) by sending an email to lunchtalks@ilcb.fr Aligning ears and mouths: the consequences of synchronizing heard and spoken language The brain has rhythms, and so does speech. It is a fortuitous outcome of recent research that the temporal structure of […]

La lésion cérébrale qui provoque une aphasie engendre certes ipso facto un déficit linguistique. Ce déficit ne se caractérise cependant pas, dans la très grande majorité des cas, chez ces patients, par une « perte de compétence », comme l’avait cru R. Jakobson sur la base de données cliniques rapportées par d’autres (K. Goldstein et A.R. Luria, en particulier) et très largement « sur-interprétées » par lui-même !