BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ILCB - ECPv6.15.19//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ILCB X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ilcb.fr X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ILCB REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220509T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220509T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T095401Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T140624Z UID:17864-1652097600-1652103000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:TBA DESCRIPTION:Ellen Breitholtz & Christine Howes (University of Gothenburg) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-11/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220509 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220511 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220427T134400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T140821Z UID:20508-1652054400-1652227199@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Transdisciplinary Workshop Maison des Astronomes\, IMéRA\, Marseille DESCRIPTION:Maison des Astronomes\, IMéRA\, Marseille \nOutcome: a collective publication on methodological and theoretical issues \nAbstract \nThe complexity of animal communication signals (including humans) can be evaluated on the basis of the combinatorics of the units that make up these signals (property also referred to as “double articulation”). The first articulation concerns the arrangement of the semantic units (words) into sentences and the second corresponds to the arrangement of elementary sounds (e.g. human phonemes) into meaningful units (e.g.  human words). The possibility to build different combinations at each level allows to produce an exponential number of new statements. \nTo compare the complexity of the vocal communication signals of different animal species\, including humans\, we propose to investigate possible combinatorial units in non-human animals. \nFor this\, we intend to address two principal issues: \n\nThe segmentation and clustering methods / principles used in the study of human and non-human vocalizations (mainly non-human primates and cetaceans).\nThe association/combinability of units from different sensory channels (acoustic\, visual\, tactile) and the processing of these multimodal/multicomponent units\n\nThis will be done using the tools and concepts from linguistics\, psycholinguistics\, comparative psychology\, philosophy\, bioacoustics\, neurosciences\, computer sciences and ethology. \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/transdisciplinary-workshop-maison-des-astronomes-imera-marseille/ LOCATION:IMéRA CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220505 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220507 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220105T110456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T152902Z UID:16140-1651708800-1651881599@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Seminar on “speech production and perception” DESCRIPTION:Prof. F. Guenther and REaDY team\, LPL (5-6 May) \nThursday\, May 5th 2022 \nDiscussion with Prof. F. Guenther around the following presentations \n14h-14h40 : Noël Nguyen & Kristof Strijkers : Phonetic and semantic convergence in speech communication \n14h40-15h10 : Serge Pinto: Studying speech motor control from its impairment: the cases of hypo- and hyperkinetic dysarthrias \n15h10-15h30 : Coffee break \n15h30-16h10 : Elin Runnqvist\, Lydia Dorokhova & Snezana Todorović : Action monitoring from tongue movements to words \n16h10-16h40 : Anne-Sophie Dubarry : Exploring the variability of neurophysiological data during language processing \n  \nFriday\, May 6th 2022\, 10h30-12h00 \nKEYNOTE by Prof. F. Guenther \n(Director of Speech Neuroscience Lab\, Boston University) \nNeurocomputational modeling of speech production \nSpeech production is a highly complex sensorimotor task involving tightly coordinated processing in the frontal\, temporal\, and parietal lobes of the cerebral cortex. To better understand these processes\, our laboratory has designed\, experimentally tested\, and iteratively refined a neural network model\, called the DIVA model\, whose components correspond to the brain regions involved in speech. Babbling and imitation phases are used to train neural mappings between phonological\, articulatory\, auditory\, and somatosensory representations. After the imitation phase\, the model can produce learned phonemes and syllables by generating movements of an articulatory synthesizer. An extended version of the model\, called GODIVA\, addresses the neural circuitry underlying the buffering and sequencing of phonological units in multi-syllabic utterances. Because the model’s components correspond to neural populations and are given precise anatomical locations\, activity in the model’s neurons can be compared directly to neuroimaging data. Computer simulations of the model account for a wide range of experimental findings\, including data on acquisition of speaking skills\, articulatory kinematics\, and brain activity during normal and perturbed speech. Furthermore\, “damaged” versions of the model are being used to investigate several communication disorders\, including stuttering\, apraxia of speech\, and hypokinetic dysarthria URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/frank-guenther/ LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220503 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220505 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220428T081428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T081606Z UID:20528-1651536000-1651708799@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Bilingual Lexical DESCRIPTION:Bilingual Lexical Representations Workshop_Programme \nListening to speech in your native language (L1) is relatively easy. Recognizing the words used in a conversation is generally an automatic and smooth everyday process. Even in noisy or otherwise less than ideal conditions\, our performance is surprisingly robust. But anyone who has attempted to follow a conversation in a second language (L2) knows how demanding this can be\, even if you know all the words. \n  \nThe semantic representations of L2 words have been investigated extensively. Our phonetic representations of those words\, however\, are much less widely understood. Independently of how well you know the meaning of words\, identifying individual words out of the acoustic speech stream is difficult for the L2 listener. Not only the perceptual processing of L2 speech sounds\, but also their stored phonetic representations\, are influenced by the L1\, making listening much more complex in the L2 than in the L1. The relatively new and rapidly evolving research area of bilingual lexical representations investigates how L2 learners represent the phonetic forms of words in their mental lexicon\, and how these representations change over time. \n  \nThis workshop aims to provide an overview of the most recent developments in the field. Now is an exciting time to outline the essential questions that need to be explored\, and to work collectively towards a long-term research agenda. A number of methodological challenges are also best addressed together and across disciplines\, in order for the field to move forward on a solid basis. \n  \nMore information on this topic can be found here : https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/15827/fuzzy-lexical-representations-in-the-nonnative-mental-lexicon#overview \nLe workshop sera en présentiel le matin a Marseille (a l’IMéRA)\, et il y a une option par zoom\, également \nhttps://imera.univ-amu.fr/en/bilingual-lexical-representations-workshop URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/bilingual-lexical/ LOCATION:IMéRA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220429T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220429T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220321T175103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T074519Z UID:19006-1651233600-1651237200@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:The role of laughter in human social interactions DESCRIPTION:Sophie Scott (Director\, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience\, UCL) \nIn 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 will explore the neural basis of laughter processing and discuss how this may relate to some individual differences in laughter use and experience. \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/sophie-scott/ LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220425T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220425T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T095233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T095247Z UID:17862-1650888000-1650893400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Motor-vocal coordination in early language development. DESCRIPTION:Eva Murillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/motor-vocal-coordination-in-early-language-development/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220411T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220411T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T094929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T094939Z UID:17860-1649692800-1649696400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:TBA DESCRIPTION:Dan Yurovsky (Carnegie Mellon University) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-10/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220411T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220415T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220406T132007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T135552Z UID:19210-1649664000-1650042000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:16ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique - Marseille DESCRIPTION:Evenements_CFA2022 \nhttps://cfa2022.sciencesconf.org/ URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/16eme-congres-francais-dacoustique-marseille/ LOCATION:Le CAMPUS SAINT CHARLES\, place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003 CATEGORIES:Conférences END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220328T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220328T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T094740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T101222Z UID:17858-1648468800-1648474200@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Predicting individual differences in language learning across populations DESCRIPTION:Patrick Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/predicting-individual-differences-in-language-learning-across-populations/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220325T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220325T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220202T162241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T144924Z UID:17144-1648209600-1648216800@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:How do people interpret implausible sentences? DESCRIPTION:  Martin Pickering (Department of Psychology\, School of Philosophy\, Psychology and Language Sciences) \nAbstract: \nPeople 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 a syntactic analysis appropriate for this nonliteral meaning\, with a nonliteral semantic interpretation account\, according to which they arrive at this meaning via purely semantic processing. The former but not the latter account postulates that people consider not only a literal-but-implausible double-object (DO) analysis in comprehending “The mother gave the candle the daughter”\, but also a nonliteral-but-plausible prepositional-object (PO) analysis (i.e.\, including to before the daughter). In three structural priming experiments\, participants heard a plausible or implausible DO or PO prime sentence. They then answered a comprehension question first or described a picture of a dative event first. In accord with the nonliteral syntactic analysis account\, priming was reduced following implausible sentences than following plausible sentences and following nonliterally interpreted implausible sentences than literally interpreted implausible sentences. The results suggest that comprehenders constructed a nonliteral syntactic analysis\, which we argue was predicted early in the sentence. \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/martin-pickering/ LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220318 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220319 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220128T105035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T080755Z UID:17045-1647561600-1647647999@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Mind fair: a walk through language\, communication and the brain DESCRIPTION:Friday March 18th 2022 \nEspace Pouillon\, campus St Charles\, Marseille \nProgram\nmind fair 18 mars\n\n9:30-10:30 am – Opening triple keynote \n“Hemispheric specialization of the brain in humans\, babies & nonhuman primates꞉ Implication for language organization” \nBy Jessica Dubois (Inserm\, NeuroDiderot Unit\, Neuropsin\, Paris)\, \n“Exploring early hemispheric asymmetries in the developing brain through structural MRI studies in babies” \n \n  \n& Guy Vingerhoets (Gents Univ\, Belgique) \n“Variability of human brain organization: The text-book brain revisited” \n \n  \n11am-1pm \nData dive꞉ EEG and MEG data\, from pre-processing to applications \nIn this group\, we will see the basis of time-series analysis for our EEG\, MEG and even intracerebral recordings. From the preprocessing of the data and the analysis in time and frequency of event-related potentials\, to the main features of each frequency band. All this in an interactive session where you can bring your own laptop to finally process your data. \n11.30am-1pm & 2.30-4pm \nTry it yourself! Interactive experimental protocols \nILCB researchers bridge a zoo of experimental paradigms to decipher the behavioural\, neural and computational underpinnings of human language and communication. This session aims to interactively show you a few of these cutting-edge paradigms developed by PhD and post-doc fellows within ILCB labs. Come try them by yourself to discover how the human brain\, or deep neuromimetic networks\, can process various aspects of language\, speech\, and perception. \n1-2pm – Lunch buffet \n2-4pm \nIntroduction to deep learning in Python and R \nTheoretical introduction and hands-on sessions on deep learning and its applications to time-serie data (e.g.\, EMG\, EEG data). For an optimal experience\, participants should have basic knowledge of R or Python and should bring their own laptop (no installation required). \n2.30-4pm \nLetʼs be fair꞉ looking at the underpinnings of language from an ontogenetic and phylogenetic perspective \nWhich elements are needed to learn a language? Are some of these already present in infants and non-human primates? In order to answer these questions\, we need methods adapted to the investigated populations꞉ let’s be fair!! \n4-4.30pm – Open science discussions \n4.30-6pm – Closing tandem keynote \nThe sounds and meaning of the motor cortex in language \nBy Benjamin Morillon (INS\,Marseille)& Kristof Strijkers (LPL\, Aix-en-Provence) \n6pm – APERO \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/docpostdoc/ LOCATION:Espace Pouillon\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003 CATEGORIES:Evènement postdoc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220314T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220314T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T094614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T100551Z UID:17856-1647259200-1647264600@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Dyslexia in children across languages DESCRIPTION:FatimaEzzahra Benmarrakchi (UM6P – School of Collective Intelligence) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/dyslexia-in-children-across-languages/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220312 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220208T164618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T171743Z UID:17245-1646956800-1647043199@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:JOURNEE ILCB DESCRIPTION:    \n  \nJOURNEE ILCB  \n—————– \n9h30 Conférence Plénière Ghislaine DEHAENE-LAMBERTZ\, Directrice de Recherche CNRS\, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit\, CEA\, Paris \n“Are human infants able to use symbols?” \n \nSummary : \nHuman adults commonly use symbolic systems (e.g. speech\, numbers\, writing code\, algebraic formula) to represent aspects of the external world\, and they easily and flexibly go from symbols to objects and vice-versa. This “symbolic mind” might be related to a distinct human neural architecture\, in particular\, the expansion of the associative areas and the development of new long-distance fiber tracts\, such as the arcuate fasciculus. More efficient connections to and from the frontal lobe and a longer memory buffer may lead to the discovery of more abstract structures\, and ultimately enable to represent the external world with a symbolic system. \nThis neural architecture is in place at full-term birth and brain imaging studies have revealed that higher-level associative regions\, such as frontal areas\, are involved in infant’s cognition from start. We may thus expect that infants might share the same symbolic competence than adults. To support this claim\, I will present brain imaging data showing the infants’ structural and functional brain architecture but also behavioral and ERP data revealing symbolic and logical computation in young infants. \n  \n—————– \n10h30 Soutenance HDR\, Kristof STRIJKERS\, Chargé de Recherche CNRS\, Laboratoire Parole et Langage\, Aix-en-Pr. \n“Towards an Integrated Brain Language Model — The spatiotemporal dynamics of production versus perception” \n \nCommittee :\nSonja KOTZ\, Maastricht University (rapporteure)\nBenjamin MORILLON\, Aix-Marseille Université (rapporteur)\nNoël NGUYEN\, Aix-Marseille Université (tuteur)\nMartin PICKERING\, Edinburgh University (rapporteur)\nRasha ABDEL RAHMAN\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (examinatrice) \nSummary :\nThe capacity of communicating through language has been instrumental in the evolution of our species. Being able to quickly alert our peers of an upcoming danger has high biological relevance\, and the ease and speed with which we can use language has made this our primary communicative tool. Not surprisingly\, understanding the fundaments of this ability has been a central issue throughout the history of human and social sciences. By now\, our knowledge about the representations and processes underpinning language behaviour is impressive and thanks to the combined efforts of linguists\, psychologists and neuroscientists\, detailed neurolinguistic models of language production and perception have been developed. Despite the huge advances made to understand this complex capacity of the human mind\, language research has been typically modality-specific\, with a dissociation between production and comprehension in terms of research strategies\, paradigms and models. The objective of the research I present here for my HDR project is to explore the nature of linguistic representations and processes from an integrated perspective. This is important\, because in order to fully understand language processing and develop a neurolinguistic model that explains behavior\, we’ll need to understand how production and perception interact. This HDR aims at contributing to this endeavor by comparing the spatiotemporal dynamics of production and perception for the basic building blocks of language: words. In doing so\, I want to address the question of whether and how word representations and their processing overlap in time and space in the speaker and listener’s minds. \n  \n—————– \n13h BUFFET ILCB \n—————– \n  \n14h30 Soutenance HDR Adrien MEGUERDITCHIAN\, Chargé de recherche CNRS\, Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive\, Marseille \n“On the gestural origins of language : What baboons’ gestures and brain asymmetry could tell us” \n \nCommittee : \nPascal BELIN\, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone\, CNRS\, Aix-Marseille Univ (rapporteur) \nEmmanuel MELLET\, Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives\, CEA\, CNRS\, Bordeaux Univ (rapporteur) \nMartine MEUNIER\, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon\, INSERM\, CNRS (rapporteuse) \nGhislaine DEHAENE-LAMBERTZ\, Neuroimagerie Cognitive\, INSERM\, CEA\, Univ Paris-Saclay (examinatrice) \nMarieke LONGCAMP\, Laboratoire de Neuroscience Cognitive\, CNRS\, Aix-Marseille Univ (tutrice) \nAgnès TREBUCHON\, Institut des Neurosciences et des Systèmes\, AP-HM\, Aix-Marseille Univ (invitée) \nJacques VAUCLAIR\, Centre PsyCLE\, Aix-Marseille Univ (invité) \n  \nSummary : \nNonhuman primates mostly communicate not only with a rich vocal repertoire but also with manual and body gestures. In contrast to great apes\, this latter communicative gestural system has been poorly investigated in monkeys. In the last 15 years\, the gestural research we conducted in the baboons Papio anubis\, an Old World monkey species\, have shown potential direct evolutionary continuities with some key properties of language such as intentionality\, referentiality\, learning flexibility as well as its underlying lateralization and hemispheric specialization of the brain. According to these collective findings\, which are congruent with the ones reported in great apes\, it is thus not excluded that features of gestural communication shared between humans\, great apes and baboons\, may have played a critical role in the phylogenetic roots of language and dated back\, not to the Hominidae evolution\, but rather to their much older Catarrhine common ancestor 25-40 million years ago. \n  \n—————– \n17h APERO URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/journee-ilcb/ LOCATION:Grand amphi\, Campus St-Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13003\, France CATEGORIES:Journées de l’ILCB END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220228T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220228T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T094441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T100432Z UID:17854-1646049600-1646055000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Multimodality as a design feature of language: Implications for language structure\, processing and acquisition DESCRIPTION:Asli Ozyurek (Donders Institute for Brain\, Cognition and Behavior) \nAbstract: TBA \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/multimodality-as-a-design-feature-of-language-implications-for-language-structure-processing-and-acquisition/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220221T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220221T133000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20220221T094309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220221T100348Z UID:17852-1645444800-1645450200@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:A holistic measure of inter-annotation agreement with continuous data DESCRIPTION:Rachid Riad (École Normale Supérieure – Inria – Inserm) \nAbstract: Inter-rater reliability/agreement measures the degree of agreement among raters to describe\, code or assess the same phenomenon. Most coefficients (ex: α\, κ) measuring these agreements in psychology and natural sciences focus on the categorization of events. Yet\, the annotations of speech and especially conversational spontaneous speech represent a complex continuous phenomenon to annotate. There is not only categorization but also the localization of events that is asked from annotators\, referred to as unitizing. In this presentation\, we will describe the gamma agreement γ introduced by Mathet et al. 2015 and our work to extend this measure with the python package ‘pygamma-agreement’. We illustrate the use of this measure with corpora coming from (1) daylong recordings to study language acquisition\, and (2) interviews at the hospital to study speech pathologies. \nWhere: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/a-holistic-measure-of-inter-annotation-agreement-with-continuous-data/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220204T150000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211014T093538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211203T091530Z UID:13675-1643976000-1643986800@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Teaching an old word new tricks? Phonological updates in the bilingual mental lexicon DESCRIPTION:Isabelle Darcy \nIndiana University / ILCB / IMéRA \nListening 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 follow a conversation in a second language (L2) knows how demanding this can be\, even when you know all the words. Even for reasonably clear speech\, identifying individual words out of the speech stream is difficult. Charles and Trenkic (2015) reported that international university students missed about 30% of the words they heard during lectures. \nFor bilinguals\, the perceptual processing of L2 speech sounds and the stored representations of the words themselves are influenced by the L1. For example\, two words such as “lake” and “rake” may sound the same and may be stored as one word (= one homophonous pronunciation /leik/ for two concepts) for Japanese learners of English\, because the /r/-/l/ distinction is difficult to perceive and represent for them due to the lack of this distinction in their L1. One consequence of these effects is the difficulty to know which word to activate when hearing /leik/\, but also the difficulty to learn to pronounce the words differently. \nYet\, many questions remain as to how bilinguals store the phonological form of words (their pronunciation) in the corresponding lexical entry in long-term memory\, and how these representations change over time. Our lab has obtained evidence for dissociations between perception and lexical storage\, which suggest that even after perception of a difficult phonological dimension improves\, modifying lexical representations that use this phonological dimension remains hard. This means that even after a Japanese learner learns to distinguish /r/ from /l/\, their representations of the words might still be the same. \nIn this talk I will outline research conducted in my lab to understand the phonological structure of the bilingual mental lexicon\, how words are stored\, and whether (and how) bilinguals are able to update previously inaccurate lexical representations. URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/isabelle-darcy/ LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220128T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220128T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T074740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211002T074740Z UID:13473-1643371200-1643378400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:TBA DESCRIPTION:Asli Ozyurek (Donders Institute for Brain\, Cognition and Behavior) URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-9/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20220114T150000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211109T143115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220105T125848Z UID:14502-1642161600-1642172400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Language embodiment and relativity: Evidence in Chinese-English bilinguals  DESCRIPTION:Guillaume Thierry \nBangor University\, Bangor\, UK \n  \n  \nAs 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 abilities are perception\, attention\, affective regulation\, memory\, reasoning\, and decision making. Although it is intuitive that such cognitive functions continuously interact with language in many ways\, there is a paucity of data regarding the nature of such interactions. The quest for data shedding light on these interactions is difficult\, however\, and experimental paradigms used in the past are often criticised due to insufficiently controlled materials and experimental tasks. For instance\, language-based studies involving overt reports and questionnaires often fail to acknowledge that they cannot test cognitive effects beyond the realm of language\, since all proceedings are language-mediated. Behavioural studies also regularly fail to establish the level of awareness involved in tasks which could strategically\, and therefore artificially\, involve language on a metacognitive level. Here\, I will present data from a set of studies showcasing the intricate nature of language-cognition interaction in the human brain\, and particularly that of bilingual individuals who have come to master a second language in life. I will show how some language representations acquired early in life (i.e.\, from the native language) are there for life\, influencing human cognition in a wholly unconscious manner. I will also show how new representations acquired later in life (i.e.\, from a second language) compete with native language representations and influence cognition unconsciously and ubiquitously. In closing\, I will attempt to assess the repercussions of our observations for linguistic relativity and embodied cognition theory. URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/guillaume-thierry-aina-casaponsa/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211217T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211217T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T074544Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T155806Z UID:13471-1639742400-1639749600@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:TBA DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Ginzburg (Université de Paris) \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-8/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211203T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T074334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T094822Z UID:13468-1638532800-1638540000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:CoCoDev DESCRIPTION:TBA\n\n Okko Räsänen (Tampere University) \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-7/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211126T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211126T143000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20210908T160000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T155443Z UID:12472-1637928000-1637937000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Aurélie Bidet-Caulet DESCRIPTION:How does the human brain resist auditory distraction? \nOne 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 behavioral measures\, we have investigated brain activities in the time and frequency domains to characterize the brain mechanisms involved in shielding from distraction\, in the healthy\, developing (children and ageing data)\, or dysfunctional (stroke or migraine patients) brain. I will present a first set of data showing that distinct inhibitory and facilitatory mechanisms support selective attention to reduce the impact of an irrelevant sound stream. Then\, I will present data showing that the impact of an unexpected salient environmental sound results from a balance between top-down and bottom-up mechanisms of attention. URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/aurelie-bidet-caulet/ LOCATION:FRUMAM\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211119T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211119T140000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T074009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T090125Z UID:13466-1637323200-1637330400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Computational study of active and interactive word learning DESCRIPTION:Lieke Gelderloos\, a Ph.D. researcher at Tilburg University\, whose work is at the intersection of cognitive science\, linguistics\, and artificial intelligence\n\n\nThe zoom link: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853\n\n\n\nAbstract: Models of cross-situational word learning typically characterize the learner as a passive observer. However\, a language learning child can actively participate in verbal and non-verbal communication. We present a computational model that learns to map words to objects in images through word comprehension and production. The productive and receptive parts of the model can operate independently\, but can also feed into each other. This introspective quality enables the model to learn through self-supervision\, and also to estimate its own word knowledge\, select optimal input\, and thereby alter its own learning trajectory. The modular set-up is also suitable for testing effects of communicative feedback. In this talk\, I will cover our findings regarding active selection of input\, and present preliminary results on tests with communicative feedback.\n\n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-6/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211112T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T073730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T094923Z UID:13464-1636732800-1636736400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:CoCoDev DESCRIPTION:BabyBERTa: Learning More Grammar With Small-Scale Child-Directed Language\n Philip Huebner (University of Illinos\, Urbana-Champaign) \nAbstract: \nTransformer-based language models have taken the NLP world by storm. However\, their potential for addressing important questions in language acquisition research has been largely ignored. In this work\, we examined the grammatical knowledge of RoBERTa (Liu et al.\, 2019) when trained on a 5M word corpus of language acquisition data to simulate the input available to children between the ages 1 and 6. Using the behavioral probing paradigm\, we found that a smaller version of RoBERTa-base that never predicts unmasked tokens\, which we term BabyBERTa\, acquires grammatical knowledge comparable to that of pre-trained RoBERTa-base – and does so with approximately 15X fewer parameters and 6\,000X fewer words. We discuss implications for building more efficient models and the learnability of grammar from input available to children. Lastly\, to support research on this front\, we release our novel grammar test suite that is compatible with the small vocabulary of child-directed input. \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/babyberta-learning-more-grammar-with-small-scale-child-directed-language/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211105T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T073439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T094731Z UID:13462-1636128000-1636131600@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:CoCoDev DESCRIPTION:Production practice is more effective than comprehension for second language learning\n Elise Hopman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) \nAbstract: \nWhereas most classroom-based language instruction traditionally emphasizes comprehension-based learning\, memory research suggests that language production activities may provide a stronger learning experience than comprehension practice\, due to the meaningfully different task demands involved in producing versus comprehending language. Using both artificial and natural language learning experiments with adults\, I show that production exercises are more effective than comprehension exercises for learning the vocabulary and grammar of a foreign language. I will discuss these findings in the broader context of research implying that production and production-like activities might play a privileged role during learning more generally. \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/production-practice-is-more-effective-than-comprehension-for-second-language-learning/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211029T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211029T170000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20210908T104135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T133942Z UID:12465-1635508800-1635526800@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Temporal niches in auditory communication DESCRIPTION:Luc. H Arnal and Keith B. Doelling\, Institut de l’Audition\, Centre Pasteur\, Paris XII. \nCommunication 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 niches to manipulate listeners’ affective states and reactions. Exploring human perception and reactions to a wide range of time scales (from a few to hundreds of milli-seconds) we will show that fast (>30 Hz) and slow (<10 Hz) temporal regularities are processed in a very different manner by the human brain and rely on distinct neural mechanisms. On the one hand\, stimuli with high frequency dynamics – such as alarm signals – temporally overload the auditory system to induce aversive percepts\, arguably by driving the sustained propagation of information in a bottom-up manner. On the other hand\, slower stimuli – as featured in musical rhythms – permit the development of anticipatory processes\, relying on slower\, top-down oscillatory mechanisms. By analyzing the temporal dynamics in the acoustics of signals with different communicative goals (alarm\, music) and their impact on the human brain\, we identify and characterize specific neural systems and mechanisms shaping the diversity of auditory communication niches in the temporal domain. URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/luc-arnal-keith-doelling/ LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211022T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20210722T153930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211019T150355Z UID:11977-1634914800-1634925600@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Evelina Fedorenko DESCRIPTION:Le séminaire se tiendra en visioconférence via le lien :   https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/91316230672 \nCode secret : 631670 \nThe first lunch talk of the year will take place on 22 October from 3 to 4.30 pm and it will be in visio. \nWe will have the pleasure to listen to Evelina Fedorenko . You will find below the summary of her speech and the zoom link to connect. \n\n\nThe language system in the human brain.\n\nThe goal of my research program is to understand the representations and computations that enable us to share complex thoughts with one another via language\, and their neural implementation. A decade ago\, I developed a robust new approach to the study of language in the brain based on identifying language-responsive cortex functionally in individual participants. Originally developed for fMRI\, we have since extended this approach to other modalities\, like intracranial recordings. Using this functional-localization approach\, I identified and characterized a set of frontal and temporal brain areas that i) support language comprehension and production (spoken and written); ii) are robustly separable from the lower-level perceptual (e.g.\, speech processing) and motor (e.g.\, articulation) brain areas; iii) are spatially and functionally similar across diverse languages (>40 languages from 11 language families); and iv) form a functionally integrated system with substantial redundancy across different components. In this talk\, I will highlight a few discoveries from the last decade and argue that the primary goal of language is efficient information transfer rather than enabling complex thought\, as has been argued in one prominent philosophical and linguistic tradition (e.g.\, Wittgenstein\, 1921; Berwick & Chomsky\, 2016). I will use two kinds of evidence to make this argument. First\, I will examine the relationship between language and other aspects of cognition\, including social cognitive abilities and complex thought/reasoning. I will show that the language brain regions are highly selective for language over diverse non-linguistic processes while also showing a deep and intriguing link with a system that supports social cognition. And second\, I will examine different properties of language and argue that language both has a) properties that make it well-suited for communication\, and b) properties that make it not suitable for complex thought. Both of these lines of evidence support the communicative function of language\, and suggest that the idea that language evolved to allow for more complexity in thought is unlikely.\n\n\nParticiper à la réunion Zoom\nhttps://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/91316230672\n\nID de réunion : 913 1623 0672\nCode secret : 631670\nUne seule touche sur l’appareil mobile\n+13126266799\,\,91316230672# États-Unis (Chicago)\n+13462487799\,\,91316230672# États-Unis (Houston)\n\nComposez un numéro en fonction de votre emplacement\n        +1 312 626 6799 États-Unis (Chicago)\n        +1 346 248 7799 États-Unis (Houston)\n        +1 669 900 6833 États-Unis (San Jose)\n        +1 929 205 6099 États-Unis (New York)\n        +1 253 215 8782 États-Unis (Tacoma)\n        +1 301 715 8592 États-Unis (Washington DC)\nID de réunion : 913 1623 0672\nTrouvez votre numéro local : https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/u/adPdwIRo0W\n\nParticiper à l’aide d’un protocole SIP\n91316230672@139.124.199.80 ou 91316230672@139.124.199.200\n\nParticiper à l’aide d’un protocole H.323\n139.124.199.80 ou 139.124.199.200\nCode secret : 631670\nID de réunion : 913 1623 0672 URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/evelina-fedorenko-2/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211022T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211022T120000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T073139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T101853Z UID:13460-1634898600-1634904000@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:CoCoDev DESCRIPTION:Kevin El Haddad  is a researcher in affective computing and Human-Agent interaction at the University of Mons.\nAbstract:\nSmiles and laughs (S&L) are among the most frequent and informative non-verbal expressions used in our daily interactions. Their incorporation into machine’s communication skills is therefore a must in order to improve human-agent interaction (HAI) applications quality (among other aspects)\, whether it is on the detection/perception side or on the generation/production side.\nThis presentation will focus on our efforts aiming at providing a better understanding of S&L conversational dynamics as well as implementing them in HAI modules. We will present our contributions and ongoing work in synthesis\, recognition and prediction technologies as well as resources we propose to the community with the hope that this same community will help us improve them through collaboration or other contributions.\nI strongly believe that\, with the limited resources available in the scientific communities\, the more people get involved\, the more we can accelerate the integration of S&L\, and by extension nonverbal expressions in general\, in HAI applications. So I look forward to meeting you during this talk.\n—\n\n\nThe zoom link: https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853\n\n\n\n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/tba-5/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211008T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20211008T120000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20211002T072909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T100416Z UID:13458-1633694400-1633694400@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Language development as a joint process: Why the simultaneous learning of Form\, Content\, and Use is more a help than a hindrance DESCRIPTION:Abdellah Fourta (Aix-Marseille University & INRIA Paris) \nAbstract: \nTo acquire language\, children need to learn form (e.g.\, phonology)\, content (e.g.\, word meaning)\, and use (e.g.\, finding the right words to convey a communicative intent). The scientific study of language development has traditionally studied these dimensions separately. Indeed\, one could imagine that children first acquire the form\, then associate form with content\, and only then\, learn how to use form and content adequately in a communicative context. The reality of the situation is that children have to deal with aspects of form\, content and use simultaneously and experimental studies suggest that the timeline of acquisition of these dimensions largely overlap\, indicating that children learn them in parallel\, not one at a time. While this fact makes language acquisition seem even harder than we previously thought\, here I argue that the joint learning of form\, content\, and use may be more a help than a hindrance\, as these dimensions are interdependent in many ways and can therefore constrain/disambiguate each other. I will illustrate this idea based on my previous and current research combining both experimental and computational modeling. \nWhere: Zoom (send us an email to receive the link) URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/language-development-as-a-joint-process-why-the-simultaneous-learning-of-form-content-and-use-is-more-a-help-than-a-hindrance/ LOCATION:via zoom CATEGORIES:CoCoDev,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210830 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210904 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20210105T104810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210624T151035Z UID:6224-1630281600-1630713599@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Summer school DESCRIPTION: URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/neural-correlates-of-mimicry-and-emotion-perception-across-generations/ LOCATION:CIRM – Luminy\, 163 avenuede Luminy\, Case 916\, Marseille\, 13288\, France CATEGORIES:Evènement postdoc,Seminars END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210709T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210709T180000 DTSTAMP:20260409T001036 CREATED:20210610T161120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T100255Z UID:10611-1625823900-1625853600@www.ilcb.fr SUMMARY:Workshop on Bayesian models of cognition\, language and speech DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, Bayesian approaches have developed at a remarkable rate in a large variety of domains\, from cognitive science to machine learning\, as well as speech and language sciences and neuroscience. They offer us new ways of modelling human as well as animal cognition in situations of uncertainty and in a probabilistic framework. In the field of the cognitive bases of language and speech\, innovative Bayesian models have been proposed by Moulin-Frier\, Diard\, Schwartz & Bessière (2015) or Carr\, Smith\, Culbertson & Kirby (2020)\, among others. In July 2020\, the ILCB held an online seminar on Bayesian modelling with Julien Diard and Jean-Luc Schwartz. This year’s workshop will feature presentations by Julien Diard and Jon Carr\, and by PhD students Mamady Nabé\, Lena Huttner and Elliot Huggett.\nProgram \n  \n  \n  URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/workshop-on-bayesian-models-of-cognition-language-and-speech/ LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France CATEGORIES:Workshop END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR