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SUMMARY:NLP & Cognition: Exploring the Interfaces
DESCRIPTION:The NLP & Cognition working group (GT) of the GDR TAL – CNRS is pleased to announce its upcoming meeting: \nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1PKVes0OPHQ5kJUkYroZV85sAKtKe2eSfnM1JbwBgGxw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.h07fvminzexw
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/nlp-cognition-exploring-the-interfaces/
LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Talk
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Meeting (RMN)
DESCRIPTION:We’re looking forward to two presentations on ongoing local projects. \n  \n– Mattia Cazzolla (INT) : “Processing and Analysis of Fetal Diffusion MRI” (with O. Coulon\, G. Auzias\, F. Rousseau\, J. Sein\, N. Girard\, B. Leroux).\n– Camilla Di Pasquasio (INT) : “Using fMRI to assess the social competence of an autonomous conversational robot” (results from Convers1 and project Convers2\, with T. Chaminade\, M. Cavazza\, B. Bigi\, B. Nazarian).
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/neuroimaging-meeting-rmn/
LOCATION:Amphithéâtre de CERIMED\, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin\, Marseille\, 13005
CATEGORIES:Centre IRM-INT
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DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
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SUMMARY:Towards a Comparative Approach to Interactional Systems: Cross-disciplinary Contributions from Ethology and Linguistics
DESCRIPTION:Thesis defense of   Lise Habib-Dassetto \nSupervisors: \nMarie MONTANT\, Maîtresse de Conférences – Aix-Marseille Université \nCristel PORTES\, Professeure – Aix-Marseille Université \nAlban LEMASSON\, Professeur – Université de Rennes 1 \n  \nLes membres du Jury: \nThibaud GRUBER\, Rapporteur\, Associate Professor – Université de Genève \nElise HUCHARD\, Rapporteur(se)\, Directrice de Recherche – CNRS \nMaël LEROUX\, Examinateur\, Maître de Conférences – Université de Rennes 1 \nRoxane Bertrand\, Présidente du jury\, Directrice de Recherche – CNRS \n  \nAbstract: \nAnimal communication research often focuses on the search for meaning and structural rules within signals produced by an emitter\, drawing comparisons to human language. Most studies examine only a single communicative modality (vocal\, visual\, or tactile). This thesis takes a complementary approach by considering communication\, in both humans and non-humans\, as an interactive social act. It draws on Levinson’s Interaction Engine theory\, which posits that humans possess universal predispositions for coordinated interaction\, providing evolutionary foundations for language. Human interactions are organized\, cooperative\, and governed by conventions\, such as turn-taking and repair mechanisms. They are also mediated through multimodal communication. To investigate these mechanisms in animals\, we adopt principles of ethology\, treating communication as a biological trait shaped by evolutionary processes. The thesis is structured along three axes: theoretical\, methodological\, and empirical. Theoretically\, we propose comparing the interactional systems of different species to highlight general properties as well as species-specific patterns. We also advocate integrating all communicative modalities and examining how species’ social and ecological environments shape interactions. Methodologically\, we introduce Multi-Interaction\, a new framework and open-access tool applicable across species\, designed to process multi-agent and multimodal communicative sequences. This method makes it possible to study communicative signals as well as actions produced during exchanges. For the first time\, it systematically incorporates intra- and inter-individual overlaps\, i.e.\, the simultaneous production of gestures\, vocalizations\, facial expressions\, and actions\, rather than treating these elements sequentially. This approach aims to minimize information loss. It also provides new quantitative measures to describe these sequences. Empirically\, we implement these theoretical and methodological approaches in two studies of a captive group of Guinea baboons and in a comparative study across four primate species. Our results show that Guinea baboon interactions are flexible and adapt to social contexts. Individuals contribute in varying proportions depending on their sex and the centrality of their partner. Two interactants also produce inter-individual overlaps in varying proportions according to their sex and the frequency of their exchanges. These results suggest that interactions serve to maintain and negotiate social\, hierarchical\, and reproductive relationships. We show that\, compared to actions\, ritualized communicative signals streamline temporal coordination between interactants. Moreover\, the size of the interactional repertoire decreases with social experience\, indicating that repetition fosters efficiency and conventionalization. Finally\, our comparative study of Guinea baboons\, chimpanzees\, red-capped mangabeys and human infants\, highlights different uses of multimodal and multi-component communication\, consistent with the social and ecological environments of each species. These results support the Social Complexity Hypothesis (which links the complexity of communication to the constraints of group living) as well as ecological efficacy-based hypotheses (which explains the use of multimodality as an adaptation to ecological constraints). This thesis argues that interactional behaviors across species should be seen as flexible and adaptive biological traits\, shaped by conventions as well as by social and ecological pressures. \n  \nKeywords: animal communication\, social interaction\, multimodal communication\, evolution\, sociality\, ecology\, primates
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/soutenance-de-these/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:Soutenance de thèse
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251010
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251011
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SUMMARY:ILCB’s Annual welcome back party
DESCRIPTION:9:30 Acceuil café \n10:00 Introduction \n10:10 Olga Kepinska : Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity as a window into prenatal language acquisition \n11:10 Philippe Albouy : Brain oscillations and cross-frequency coupling as markers of auditory working memory functions \n12:00 Lunch
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/garden-party/
LOCATION:B011 LPL\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Journées de l’ILCB
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250519T134645Z
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SUMMARY:Fête de la science
DESCRIPTION:Programme \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/fete-de-la-science/
LOCATION:Parc de Bagatelle\, 125 Rue du commandant rolland\, Marseille\, 13008\, France
CATEGORIES:Fête de la science
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251002T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20251002T180000
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SUMMARY:What self-supervised speech models know about animal sounds: Deep transfer learning and the evolution of acoustic communication across species
DESCRIPTION:Thesis defense of Jules Cauzinille  \nThesis supervisors : Benoit Favre (directeur de thèse)\, Arnaud Rey\, Ricard Marxer \n  \nJury :  \nBenjamin Lecouteux (président du jury) \nNicolas Farrugia (rapporteur) \nMarie Tahon (rapporteur) \nEmmanuel Chemla (examinateur) \n  \nAbstract: \nThis thesis introduces a novel approach to the study of vocal communication and its evolution across species through the use of deep transfer learning. We ask whether\, and how\, self-supervised models trained on speech data may provide suitable representations of bioacoustic information. Our initial focus is on non-human primates and is motivated by the apparent gap between state-of-the-art speech processing methods and the way the vocalizations of our closest living relatives are handled in recent computer science literature. We present experiments centred around transferring knowledge from speech to gibbon songs and propose a set of hypotheses on the evolution of acoustic communication and its phylogenetic ties. A second set of experiments aims at challenging initial hypotheses by extending the experimental framework across a broader range of species and tasks where we explore speech models’ latent representations through innovative probing strategies. We conclude on theoretical perspectives related to the convergent evolution of vocal communication across species\, while advocating for the integration of speech in future research aimed at developing general bioacoustic foundation models. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/what-self-supervised-speech-models-know-about-animal-sounds-deep-transfer-learning-and-the-evolution-of-acoustic-communication-across-species/
LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Soutenance de thèse
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250930T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250930T120000
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CREATED:20250915T121522Z
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SUMMARY:The Role of Social Experience in the Grounding of Abstract Concepts
DESCRIPTION:Thesis defense of \nDaria Goriachun\nUnder the direction of de Johannes Ziegler (CRPN) et Núria Gala (LPL) \nJury :\nJohannes Ziegler – Directeur de thèse\nNúria Gala – Co-directrice de thèse\nAnna Borghi – Rapporteure\nPenny Pexman – Rapporteure\nGabriella Vigliocco – Présidente du jury\nKristof Strijkers – Examinateur \nAbstract :\nUnderstanding abstract concepts like justice or freedom\, which do not refer to physical objects\, poses a challenge for theories of language processing. This thesis investigates how social experience—both the degree to which words are socially relevant (their socialness) and the social context of communication—affects their processing. Across several experiments\, participants processed abstract and concrete words\, alone or in pairs. Results show that the social dimension of words affects processing\, particularly when participants cooperate. Social interaction thus modulates the way abstract concepts are understood\, suggesting that our social experiences can provide grounding for concepts not directly linked to perception or action. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-role-of-social-experience-in-the-grounding-of-abstract-concepts/
LOCATION:B011 LPL\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Soutenance de thèse
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250929T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250915T103132Z
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UID:36027-1759143600-1759147200@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Multidimensional Semantics for Concrete and Abstract Concepts
DESCRIPTION:Penny M. Pexman \nWestern University\, Canada \n  \nMultiple representation theories posit that concepts are represented via a combination of properties derived from sensorimotor\, affective\, linguistic\, and other experiences. One advantage of this approach is that it helps address the challenge of abstract meanings\, like wisdom and friendship\, which are central to our mental and social lives and yet cannot be directly experienced through the senses. I will describe a series of studies in which my colleagues and I have tested predictions of multiple representation theories for acquisition and processing of concrete and abstract word meanings\, exploring the roles of sensorimotor\, interoceptive\, and social experience. The development of large-scale word norms and behavioural megastudies has enabled consideration of multiple lexical and semantic dimensions and exploration of the possibility that these dimensions have simultaneous and interacting effects on behaviour. Using these “big data” I will consider how these multiple factors might be mapped in semantic space. \n \nBIO: Penny Pexman is Vice-President (Research) and Professor of Psychology at Western University She joined Western in 2023\, having previously spent 25 years at the University of Calgary\, where she served in a number of research leadership roles including Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts and Associate Vice-President (Research). Penny was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology and Associate Editor of the Journal of Memory and Language. She is past President of the Canadian Society for Brain\, Behaviour and Cognitive Science\, past Governing Board Chair for the Psychonomic Society\, a current member of Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society\, and co-founder of Women in Cognitive Science – Canada.   \nPenny’s research expertise is in cognitive development\, psycholinguistics\, and cognitive neuroscience. In broad terms\, she is interested in how we derive meaning from language\, and how those processes are changed by experience. She has published more than 150 journal articles on those topics. For over 2 decades her work has been continuously funded by two of Canada’s federal funding organizations (SSHRC and NSERC)\, including NSERC’s prestigious Discovery Accelerator Supplement. She is an elected fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science and has been honoured with 9 awards for mentorship and teaching excellence.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/multidimensional-semantics-for-concrete-and-abstract-concepts/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250926T153000
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SUMMARY:Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Simon Kirby \nUniversity of Edinburgh \n  \nAll known languages are made up of statistically coherent sequences – words – whose frequency distribution follows a power law known as a Zipfian distribution. Despite the ubiquity of these features across languages their origins are poorly understood. In this talk\, I will argue that they arise because they facilitate learning and therefore emerge through the process of cultural transmission of language. I will summarise results from an experiment in which non-linguistic sequences evolve as they are transmitted from generation to generation of participants. By using insights from infant speech segmentation\, I analyse those sequences and observe the emergence of Zipf’s law over generations. This work makes a prediction that we should find Zipfian distribution of statistically coherent sequences wherever systems culturally evolve\, including in other species. However\, so far these features have only been found in humans. In the second part of the talk I will turn to the culturally evolving song of humpback whales and apply the same analytic technique to 8 years of whale recordings. We show for the first time in another species that these characteristic statistical properties are indeed present in whale song. By doing so\, we demonstrate a deep commonality between two species separated by tens of millions of years of evolution but united by both having culture. Finally\, in the last part of the talk I will present ongoing work on the development of the same features in a third unrelated species. \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250927
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
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SUMMARY:Workhop " Social Cognitive Neuroscience Across Species"
DESCRIPTION:socialworkshopslide \n👉 Program Workshop Social Cognitive Neuroscience Across Species
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/workhop-social-cognitive-neuroscience-across-species/
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250927
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250320T105101Z
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UID:35747-1758585600-1758931199@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Embodied and Situated Language Processes Conference
DESCRIPTION:ESLP 2025 will be hosted by Aix Marseille Université\, organized by the members of the CRPN (UMR CNRS 7077\, Aix Marseille Université) in collaboration with SCALab (UMR CRNS 9193\, Université de Lille). \nThe Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) Conference\, provides an interdisciplinary forum discussing current developments in grounding during online language processing. It welcomes a broad spectrum of methods to examine the interaction of language and sensory and motor processing\, such as behavioural\, neurophysiological and computational approaches\, to foster research in the context of theories of semantic grounding or embodiment and pragmatic situated communication and language use. \nThis year’s conference will expand its scope to include perspectives on non-human cognition. The historic city of Aix-en-Provence\, with its rich academic heritage and strong tradition in cognitive science research\, provides the perfect backdrop for fostering interdisciplinary exchanges between researchers. \n\n\n\n  \nProgramme \nConference registration
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/embodied-and-situated-language-processes-conference/
LOCATION:Théâtre Antoine Vitez\, 29 Av. Robert Schuman\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250627T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250701T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250619T133941Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop : Curiosity and intrinsic motivation in infant-child learning
DESCRIPTION:27 June 2025 / 1 July 2025 from 10am to 1pm – Maison Neuve\, Iméra  \n  \nPROGRAMME \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/workshop-curiosity-and-intrinsic-motivation-in-infant-child-learning/
LOCATION:IMéRA
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250523T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250523T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250228T092628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T102901Z
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SUMMARY:The foundations of verbal working memory in the language system
DESCRIPTION:Steve Majerus \nProfesseur à l’Université de Liège \nhttps://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=u182078 \n  \nMany 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 knowledge can influence verbal working memory\, (2) the capacity and neural substrates of verbal working memory cannot be defined independently of the linguistic nature of the stimuli to-be-maintained\, (3) recruitment of deep semantic knowledge may not characterize all WM situations. Our results support hybrid linguistic models of verbal WM considering that verbal WM is grounded in the language system but cannot be reduced to it.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-foundations-of-verbal-working-memory-in-the-language-system-3/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250523
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250507T084614Z
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SUMMARY:Exploration interdisciplinaire des rêves et du cerveau.
DESCRIPTION:Peter SIMOR\, neuropsychologue cognitif et directeur du Laboratoire du sommeil et de la cognition à l’Université Eötvös Loránd de Budapest\, sera l’invité de la dernière séance du séminaire Inter-disciplines de l’IMERA les 21 et 22 mai prochains\, sur le thème “Exploration interdisciplinaire des rêves et du cerveau.” https://www.imera.fr/agenda/peter-simor-exploration-interdisciplinaire-reves-cerveau/ \nL’accès est libre et ouvert à tous. Rappelons par ailleurs que les doctorants peuvent faire valoir leur présence à ces sessions au titre de la formation doctorale. Pour cela\, ils doivent s’inscrire grâce au lien ci-dessous. Merci de les en avertir\, et de leur suggérer de nous contacter\, si vous pensez que cela pourrait les intéresser. https://adum.fr/script/formations.pl?mod=3678991&site=CDAMU \nLa rencontre se fera comme chaque fois en deux temps. \n  \n  \n– MERCREDI 21 MAI\, 14h-17h  \nSalle de réunion du premier étage de la Maison Neuve \nIMERA Place Le Verrier 13004 MARSEILLE \nSéminaire autour des travaux de Peter Simor\, animé par Antoni Rodriguez Fornells\, Professeur de neurosciences cognitives\, Université de Barcelone (résident Iméra)\, Gabriella Crocco (Iméra)\,  Olivier Morizot et Florence Boulc’h (IRES) \nCette séance vise à préparer collectivement la compréhension du discours qui sera développé le lendemain lors de la grande conférence. Elle se focalisera pour l’occasion sur l’analyse de l’article de Yuval Nir et Giulio Tononi : “Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology“. A travers cette lecture guidée\, notre objectif sera de préparer le questionnement de Peter Simor sur la nature des rêves. \n– JEUDI 22 MAI\, 16h30-18h30 \nSalle de conférences\, Maison des astronomes \nIMERA Place Le Verrier 13004 MARSEILLE \nGrande conférence de Peter Simor  \nBetween the shores of sleep and wakefulness: from sleep-wake regulation to subjective experiences \nDespite its apparently quiet nature and homogeneous nature\, sleep is a markedly heterogeneous state with respect to biological functions\, neurophysiological properties\, information processing and mental experiences. The sleeping brain is constantly monitoring the balance between the internal homeostatic demands and the need to monitor the external environment in order to detect potential threats or relevant information. Far from passive\, the sleeping brain continually negotiates between internal homeostatic needs and the imperative to remain attuned to the external world\, in case of threats or salient stimuli. In doing so\, it oscillates along a dynamic continuum between deeper\, disconnected states and lighter phases marked by heightened information processing. Oneiric (dream) experiences seem to take part in this process and reflect the underlying cyclic patterns of sleep and wake regulation. Are dreams simply epiphenomena or inherent aspects of the sleeping brain? Do they reflect random neural activations or convey personally meaningful information? In this talk\, I will explore these questions through the lens of contemporary dream science and cognitive neuroscience\, integrating insights from interdisciplinary fields such as neuropsychoanalysis and consciousness research. \n  \nBibliographie préparatoire  \nYuval Nir and Giulio Tononi. Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology Trends in Cognitive Science 14(2)\, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2009.12.001
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/exploration-interdisciplinaire-des-reves-et-du-cerveau/
LOCATION:IMéRA
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250426
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240905T124322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T114640Z
UID:35160-1745366400-1745625599@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Journées de l’ILCB à Porquerolles
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/journees-de-lilcb-a-porquerolles-2/
CATEGORIES:Journées de l’ILCB
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250328
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20241121T101200Z
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SUMMARY:the annual docs&postdocs workshop\,
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nLanguage of sounds and sounds of language \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-annual-docspostdocs-workshop/
LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Evènement postdoc et doctorant
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250317T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250317T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
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SUMMARY:The Origin of Language: Insight from neuroethology of gestural communication in nonhuman primates
DESCRIPTION:Adrien MEGUERDITCHIAN (Eq. DéPhy) \n  \nWhere: Salle des Voûtes \nSummary: Language is an unique communicative system involving hemispheric lateralization of the brain. To discuss the question of its origins\, I will highlight the works on the communicative gestures in our primate cousins and their brain correlates. Indeed\, nonhuman primates communicate mostly communicate not only with a rich vocal repertoire but also with manual and body gestures. In the last 20 years\, we investigated this gestural system in the baboons Papio anubis\, an Old World monkey species\, as well as its lateralization and cortical correlates across development\, using both ethological\, psychology and longitudinal noninvasive in vivo brain imaging approach (MRI). In the present talk\, I will summarize our main findings showing similar key intentional\, referential “domain general” properties of language as well as some similar underlying structural hemispheric specialization including Broca\, the Planum Temporale and the STS. I will also present our recent MRI longitudinal work documenting their brain ontogeny from birth and how they pave the way for the further emergence of gesture lateralization across development. \nMore
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-origin-of-language-insight-from-neuroethology-of-gestural-communication-in-nonhuman-primates/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250228T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250228T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
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UID:35455-1740744000-1740747600@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Functionally specific multi-sensory brain networks and their plasticity
DESCRIPTION:Professor : Olivier Collignon \nEvolution 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  focusing on the lips while listening to a speaker in a cocktail party). How do we represent in our mind and brain a perceptual unit that we can see and hear (eg\, a corresponding phoneme/viseme)?  Is there representation somewhere in the brain that goes beyond the sensory experience we have of things? The presence of these different sensory systems also paves the way for considerable flexibility by allowing brain systems to supplement another following sensory deprivation. In the talk\, I will rely on the most recent data collected in my lab to suggest that crossmodal plasticity in blind and deaf people recycles the intrinsic multisensory scaffolding of functional brain regions\, with a specific emphasis on face and voice networks.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/olivier-collignon/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250226T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250226T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250226T100009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250226T100009Z
UID:35678-1740571200-1740574800@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:The foundations of verbal working memory in the language system”
DESCRIPTION:Steve Majerus \nProfesseur à l’Université de Liège \nhttps://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=u182078 \n  \nMany 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 knowledge can influence verbal working memory\, (2) the capacity and neural substrates of verbal working memory cannot be defined independently of the linguistic nature of the stimuli to-be-maintained\, (3) recruitment of deep semantic knowledge may not characterize all WM situations. Our results support hybrid linguistic models of verbal WM considering that verbal WM is grounded in the language system but cannot be reduced to it.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-foundations-of-verbal-working-memory-in-the-language-system-2/
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250225T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250225T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250225T155920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T155920Z
UID:35675-1740470400-1740502800@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:The foundations of verbal working memory in the language system
DESCRIPTION:Steve Majerus \nProfesseur à l’Université de Liège \nhttps://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=u182078 \n  \nMany 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 knowledge can influence verbal working memory\, (2) the capacity and neural substrates of verbal working memory cannot be defined independently of the linguistic nature of the stimuli to-be-maintained\, (3) recruitment of deep semantic knowledge may not characterize all WM situations. Our results support hybrid linguistic models of verbal WM considering that verbal WM is grounded in the language system but cannot be reduced to it.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-foundations-of-verbal-working-memory-in-the-language-system/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250127T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250127T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250122T104119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T105521Z
UID:35619-1737975600-1737979200@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Different bodies\, different minds: Biology as a central driving force in the building of cognitive functions?
DESCRIPTION:Marie MONTANT \nAbstract: \nBy focusing on language\, I will try to show that cognitive architectures are built from goal-driven perceiving and acting bodies in their physical environment\, a perceptive that holds for humans as well as other animals. To illustrate this theoretical position\, firstly\, I will show in humans that words conveying time information are tightly linked to body mouvements (Camille Grasso’s PhD thesis)\, that syntax is probably built on domain-general fine motor planification (Raphaël Py’s PhD thesis)\, that our lexica are grafted onto sensorimotor networks (Melissa Yavuz’s PhD thesis\, Anna Poberezhnaia master’s thesis\, Anne Kavounoudias collab.). Secondly\, I will describe the approaches of Lise-Habib Dassetto (PhD) and Paul Best (Postdoc) that address the questions of how communicative systems appeared during evolution and what kind of method we can develop to conduct fair comparisons between humans and baboons (Lise H.D.) or pilot-whales (Paul B.).
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/different-bodies-different-minds-biology-as-a-central-driving-force-in-the-building-of-cognitive-functions/
LOCATION:Amphi MASSIANI\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13331\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250125
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20241209T085719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T102610Z
UID:35483-1737676800-1737763199@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Restitution des projets en ingénierie cognitive des M2 MASCO
DESCRIPTION:Nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre le 24 janvier 2025 pour assister à la restitution des projets en ingénierie cognitive des étudiants en M2 MASCO. \nCe sera le moment de découvrir le fruit de leur travail acharné : durant les 2 semaines qui précèdent la restitution\, les étudiants auront pour mission de développer un projet en équipe\, en mettant en œuvre les connaissances et compétences acquises durant leurs études ainsi que leur créativité\, autour de la captation et de la manipulation de signal neuro/physiologique et du prototypage. \n…un ballon dirigeable contrôlé par les ondes cérébrales\, un piano virtuel\, un dispositif portatif qui vous aide à combattre ces moments de stress… qui sait ce que vous aller découvrir… \nCette année\, la restitution débutera avec un séminaire\, Une ingénierie de la perception : vers un langage des sons de Mitsuko Aramaki & Salomé Sudre de PRISME. \nRetrouvez-nous le 24 janvier à 9h à l’Espace Pouillon sur le campus St Charles pour ce moment de découverte et pour soutenir les étudiants ! \nL’équipe d’organisation de l’ingéCo (Deirdre Bolger\, Thierry Legou et Christelle Zielinski)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/restitution-des-projets-en-ingenierie-cognitive-des-m2-masco/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:CREx
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250114T115720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T115720Z
UID:35578-1737370800-1737374400@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Computational passive bioacoustics: Will AI really solve animal communication?
DESCRIPTION:Paul Best (Eq. Multisense & Body) has been awarded an 2024 ILCB post-doc grant to work on the topic of spatialised bioacoustics for the analysis of turn-taking in non-human interactions. Paul’s original background is in computer science and machine learning. During his PhD and post-doc in Toulon university\, he worked on automating the analysis of non-human vocalisations using neural networks. Paul has applied these methods to a range of species with a variety of research questions\, always working with long-term acoustic data recordings of free-ranging animals. Some of these projects include analysing the presence patterns of sperm whales\, characterising the evolution of song structure in fin whales\, and linking communicative complexity to sociality in orcas. Currently at CRPN\, Paul is working with recordings of pilot whales and cao-vit gibbons\, with a focus on how contextualising passive acoustic data with spatial information (the location of the vocalising animal) contributes to a better understanding of their vocal behaviour. \nAbstract: \nFor this seminar\, we will look at current research in passive bioacoustics\, especially regarding opportunities and limitations of using machine learning to study non-human communication. With the increasing use of long-term monitoring systems such as autonomous acoustic recorders\, the relatively young and growing field of computational passive bioacoustic is promising in collecting naturalistic data to contribute to ethological and evolutionary questions. Drawing on my research experience and project in this domain\, I will present what is and could be possible with such approach\, including with the use self-supervised learning\, case studies of cetacean communication systems\, the benefits of sound localisation and the relevance of integrating a musical perspective in the study of non-human communication.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/computational-passive-bioacoustics-will-ai-really-solve-animal-communication/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250108T150654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T150716Z
UID:35546-1737331200-1737503999@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Exploring Truth and Biases in Cognitive Science
DESCRIPTION:Site : (https://truth-biases.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en) \nMonday January 20 (salle des voûtes) \n  \n13h00 Welcome and Introduction \n  \n13h15-14h45 Denis Caroti & Jeremy Attard (Aix Marseille Université) \ntitle: \n14h45-15h30  Mathieu Cassotti  \ntitle: TBA \nCoffee break \n  \n16h00 -16h45  Anna Montagnini Institut des neurosciences de la Timone Aix Marseille Université \ntitle: \n16h45-17h30   Natacha Cyrulnik\, Satis \, PRISM\,  Aix Marseille Université \ntitle: The bias or the assumed subjectivity in the creative documentary’ \n  \nTuesday January 21st (espace Pouillon) \n8h45 Welcome \n9h00-9h45 Jacques Py \ntitle: \n9h45-10h30 Pascal Belin  Institut des neurosciences de la Timone\, Aix Marseille Université \ntitle: Biasing emotion and personality impressions via voice \n  \nCoffee break \n  \n11h00-11h45 Stephen Lewandowsky\, FAcSS\, University of Bristol https://www.lewan.uk \ntitle : Honest Liars and The Threat to Democracy” \n11h45-12h30 Clarisse Volon\, Aix Marseille Université \ntitle: \n  \nLunch
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/exploring-truth-and-biases-in-cognitive-science/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240906T124100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240906T124100Z
UID:35164-1737072000-1737158399@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Talks + HDR Abdellah Fourtassi
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/talks-hdr-abdellah-fourtassi/
LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250113T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250113T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20250107T084239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T084612Z
UID:35534-1736766000-1736769600@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Cracking the Code: Unveiling Hidden Patterns in Words\, Speech\, and Objects Through Implicit Statistical Learning
DESCRIPTION:Professor Shelley Xiuli Tong\, Director of Speech\, Language and Reading Lab  (https://slrlab.edu.hku.hk/) Faculty of Education – The University of Hong Kong \nAbstract: \nHumans possess remarkable abilities to learn new words\, acquire language\, and recognize objects based on sparse and ambiguous inputs. These abilities are rooted in the robust and efficient learning mechanism of statistical learning\, which enables individuals to automatically detect regularities in their environment through exposure to multiple stimuli. Despite decades of research demonstrating the involvement of statistical learning in the formation of memory and internal models of prediction\, the cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning statistical learning remain unclear.  \nIn this talk\, I will share my team’s research on statistical learning over the past decade and discuss a series of behavioral and neurophysiological experiments designed to address newly emerging questions that uncover how statistical learning functions in the human brain across various encoding contexts. Specifically\, I will address three fundamental questions: 1) Is statistical learning disrupted in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders\, especially dyslexia?; 2) How do different types of statistical learning change across ages and interact with other cognitive functions?; and 3) What cognitive and neural mechanisms support statistical learning?  \nIn conclusion\, I aim to demonstrate how new paradigms and theoretical frameworks are necessary to advance our understanding of how humans comprehend the probabilistic world\, the mind\, and the increasingly complex relationships between people and machines.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/cracking-the-code-unveiling-hidden-patterns-in-words-speech-and-objects-through-implicit-statistical-learning/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240829T151449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T095417Z
UID:35151-1733097600-1733270399@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Multimodality in Social Interactions 2.0
DESCRIPTION:2-day workshop on various theoretical and methodological problems confronted in the field of multimodal communication and social interactions in humans and non-humans. \nFor more information\, visit our webpage: https://multimodalityinsocialinteractions20.wordpress.com/ \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/multimodality-in-social-interactions-2-0/
LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241129T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240226T094217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T081601Z
UID:34746-1732878000-1732881600@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Revisiting the origins of meaning
DESCRIPTION:Klaus Zuberbuhler \n  \nThe 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 in primate communication some 50 years ago. Here\, I will revisit the problem of animal meaning and reference\, first\, by taking stock of the current state of the art and\, second\, by pointing out possible new directions of research. I will discuss new conceptual and methodological tools that are likely to provide progress in our understanding of the evolutionary transition from animal signal meaning to human linguistic meaning.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/revisiting-the-origins-of-meaning-2/
LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241021T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240918T082227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T082227Z
UID:35224-1729528200-1729533600@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:The Rise and Fall of the Franconian Tone
DESCRIPTION:Limburgish is spoken in the north-western 12% of the area in which the Franconian tone is spoken\, where Cologne was the medieval centre of prestige. It was there\, after the beginning of the construction of the cathedral in 1248\, that a remarkable lexical tone contrast arose from the contact between the hundreds of highly qualified immigrant craftsmen and thousands of local workmen whose employment was related to the building enterprise. With hindsight\, that tonogenesis can be seen as an experiment in pushing the conditions for L1 language acquisition to its limits: the tonogenesis occurred in declarative intonations\, yet in principle the tone contrast needed to be available under all intonational conditions. \nUnsurprisingly\, the embedding of the tone contrast in the intonation grammar led to a wide variety of solutions\, causing the dialects to vary in the number of intonation melodies (from 1 to 4) as well as in the pitch shapes of the tones. When focusing on individual dialects\, a unique typological feature becomes apparent: \nIt is not possible to specify the pitch shapes of the tones: These vary with intonational conditions. \nImportantly\, despite the high pressure that must have been placed on infants to create grammars for what must be seen as implausibly varied set of phonetic forms\, the grammars of the dialects known to date all conform to the model of Pierrehumbert (1980) and the assumptions of OT. The Limburgish data offer three confirmations of these models: \n\nThe star in T* is an instruction to associate with a *-marked TBU.\nEdge-aligned tones align their (R/L) edge with the (R/L) edge of some other phonological constituent.\nOT constraints are ranked.\n\nWith no basis in those models\, other work added the stipulations for (a) that T* must always associate\, for (b) that alignment implies association\, and for (c) that some rankings are ungrammatical. The Limburgish data prove those stipulations wrong. \nToday\, the survival of the tone contrast may depend on the function of Acc2 as a local identity marker. In fact\, this may be one route for tonoexodus. neutralizations would appear to occur through the generalization of Acc2. Another route lies in reducing the salience of the contrast: one case will be presented in which the tone contrast does exist\, but is phonetically too subtle for outsiders to hear as anything than repetitions of the same unremarkable standard Dutch intonation contour. A third way out is through reinterpretation of the tone contrast in terms of consonants\, vowels or vowel quantity. This will be illustrated on the basis of the Weert dialect.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-franconian-tone/
LOCATION:B011 LPL\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241012
DTSTAMP:20260408T124310
CREATED:20240708T155357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T105339Z
UID:35084-1728604800-1728691199@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Journée d’étude &- Soutenance HDR de Clément François
DESCRIPTION:Programme : \n9h30 à 10h30h : Jutta Müller (Wien Univ) : Auditory rule learning across early childhood: Does speech matter? \nPause-café \n10h45 à 11h45 : Ruth De Diego Balaguer (Barcelona Univ) : In the right place at the right time: temporal expectations modulate language learning \nPause-café \n12h à 13h : Sam Wass (East London Univ) : Hyperscanning and natural conversation in infant-caregiver interactions. \nLunch ILCB \n15h : Soutenance HDR de Clément François (LPL – AMU) : Towards an integrated neurodevelopmental model of language acquisition \n  \n Résumés des interventions
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/hdr-clement-francois/
LOCATION:B011 LPL\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
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