Lunch Talks

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 […]

Isabelle Darcy Indiana University / ILCB / IMéRA Listening to speech in your native language is easy. Recognizing the words spoken in conversation is generally an automatic and smooth everyday process in the first language (L1). Even in noisy or otherwise less than ideal conditions, performance is surprisingly robust. But anyone who has attempted to […]

  Martin Pickering (Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) Abstract: People sometimes interpret implausible sentences nonliterally, for example treating "The mother gave the candle the daughter" as meaning the daughter receiving the candle. But how do they do so? We contrasted a nonliteral syntactic analysis account, according to which people compute […]

Sophie Scott (Director, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) In this talk I will explore the neuroscience and evolution of laughter, a positive emotional vocalisation. I will draw parallels between human use of laughter and laugher and play vocalisations in other mammals, and I will also show some distinct differences between humans and other animals. I […]

Jean-Rémi KING : Chercheur à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris et Meta AI. It took less than five years for AI to revolutionize the field of natural language processing. Can the resulting algorithms help us understand this complex cognitive ability? Here, we develop state-of-the-art language models and compare them to the adult human brain. To […]

Olga Kepinska : Universität Wien Learning and using additional languages has been time and again shown to be related to functional and structural changes to the brain. One aspect of multilingualism that has not been examined systematically so far is the typology of multilinguals' languages: Do differences and similarities between languages multilinguals know contribute to the development of their cognition and brain? […]

Le lunch talk Jean-Julien Aucouturier, est annulé en raison des perturbations dans les transports. Nous sommes sincèrement désolé pour cette annulation de dernière minute. Bien à vous Etienne Thoret ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Julien Aucouturier Abstract: The past 10 years have seen the emergence in the cognitive neuroscience community of a novel class of 'data-driven' methods inspired by psychophysical […]

Carles Escera (1)Cognitive Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, (2)Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, (3) Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IRSJD), Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona Sites: www.ub.edu/brainlab http://www.neurociencies.ub.edu/the-auditory-motor-emotional-and-numerical-brain/ https://www.irsjd.org/ca/recerca/28/neurociencia-cognitiva   ABSTRACT Infants master their native language with remarkable ease, following a common developmental trajectory across different […]