Lunch Talks

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 […]

Kate WATKINS Professeure à l'Université d’Oxford I will describe a series of experiments employing non-invasive brain stimulation in combination with measures of brain function, which explore how motor-to-sensory and sensory-to-motor interactions can be modulated during speech perception and production tasks. To study the role of the motor cortex in speech perception, we use transcranial magnetic […]

Adeen Flinker, PhD, New York University, Grossman School of Medicine, Tandon School of Engineering Speech production is a complex human function requiring continuous feedforward commands together with reafferent feedback processing. The cortical organization of these processes are largely characterized by dual stream models of speech (Hickok & Poeppel 2007, Rauschecker & Scott 2009), wherein Frontal […]

Hélène LOEVENBRUCK : Directrice de Recherche à l'Université Grenoble Alpes “I am not a man, I am Cantona.” “I love football.” As you silently read these quotes, can you hear Eric Cantona’s voice? Can you imagine his next sentence? Inner speech, or endophasia, can take various formats depending on the individual or the situation. It […]

Stephanie Ries Associate Professor, San Diego State University   The dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), including the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas as well as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, has been a region of interest in studies of cognitive control and other areas of neuroscience for many years. Yet, traditional models of language production do […]

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