The Origin of Language: Insight from neuroethology of gestural communication in nonhuman primates
Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceAdrien MEGUERDITCHIAN (Eq. DéPhy) Where: Salle des Voûtes Summary: 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 […]
the annual docs&postdocs workshop,
FRUMAM 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, FranceLanguage of sounds and sounds of language
The foundations of verbal working memory in the language system
Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, MarseilleSteve Majorus Professeur à l’Université de Liège https://www.uliege.be/cms/c_9054334/fr/repertoire?uid=u182078 Many 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 […]