Lunch Talks

What we learn and when we learn it: the interaction of maturation and experience in music and language Virginia Penhune Department of Psychology, Concordia University Laboratory for Motor Control and Neural Plasticity https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/psychology/research/penhune-lab.html The impact of training or experience is not the same at all points in development. Children who learn to play a musical […]

Pascal Belin, Institut de Neurosciences de La Timone, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France --------------------------- How do we extract and process the treasure-trove of information in voices? Experiments involving techniques ranging from monkey neuroimaging to deep learning provide an increasingly detailed picture of the ‘vocal brain’ and its evolution in primates. Results suggest an organization in […]

Brain-language models, prediction and the neural basis of communication

The Dawn of Speech is Older Than We Thought The production of speech repurposes an entire set of anatomical features that are primarily used for vital functions: breathing, sucking, chewing and swallowing.  Hypotheses about the dawn of speech try to determine the period during which our ancestors began to produce, by exaptation, differentiated vocalizations associated […]

Dans la série « Les cours (dé-)confinés de l'ILCB », nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer deux prochains cours en ligne sur les approches bayésiennes dans le domaine des intégrations sensori-motrices, de la cognition, et du langage. Cours 1 : Introduction à la modélisation bayésienne en sciences cognitives Résumé : Les probabilités forment un […]

Dans la série « Les cours (dé-)confinés de l'ILCB », nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer deux prochains cours en ligne sur les approches bayésiennes dans le domaine des intégrations sensori-motrices, de la cognition, et du langage. Cours 1 : Introduction à la modélisation bayésienne en sciences cognitives Résumé : Les probabilités forment un […]

Le séminaire se tiendra en visioconférence via le lien :   https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/91316230672 Code secret : 631670 The first lunch talk of the year will take place on 22 October from 3 to 4.30 pm and it will be in visio. We will have the pleasure to listen to Evelina Fedorenko . You will find below […]

Luc. H Arnal and Keith B. Doelling, Institut de l’Audition, Centre Pasteur, Paris XII. Communication signals such as speech or music, are complex signals that exploit acoustic features in a wide array of timescales. The auditory system responds differently to each timescale creating opportunity for sound designers, composers and human talkers to exploit these temporal […]

How does the human brain resist auditory distraction? One main challenge for the attentive brain is to resist distracting information. Auditory distraction can result from predictable irrelevant information (e.g. ongoing background noise) or from unexpected, transient and salient distracting events (e.g. phone ring, fire alarm…). Using intracranial EEG, scalp EEG and MEG data combined with […]

Guillaume Thierry Bangor University, Bangor, UK     As soon as we master a language, several of our cognitive abilities that do not readily require language to operate and are seemingly independent from it interact with language representations in a highly sophisticated fashion, reflecting the highly integrated nature of human cognition. Examples of such cognitive […]