The Origin of Language: Insight from neuroethology of gestural communication in nonhuman primates

Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

Adrien 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 foundations of verbal working memory in the language system

Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille

Steve 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 […]

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Salle des voûtes, St Charles 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France