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SUMMARY:In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry ............................................................................................................................................ Towards processing theories of conversation
DESCRIPTION:11h Dr. Véronique Izard (Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center\, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes) : In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry \n12h Prof. Antje S. Meyer (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics\, Nijmegen The Netherlands)  : Towards processing theories of conversation \n\n13h Lunch\nConfirm attendance (mandatory) by sending an email to lunchtalks@ilcb.fr\n\n  \nIn search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry \nEuclidean geometry has been historically regarded as the most “natural” geometry. Taking inspiration from the flourishing field of numerical cognition\, in the past years I have been looking for the cognitive foundations of geometry: Do children\, infants\, and people without formal education in geometry have access to intuitive concepts that bear some of the content of Euclidean concepts? Results have been mixed. In particular\, we found that angle\, a central tenant of Euclidean geometry\, is not intuitive for children. These results call into question the status of Euclidean geometry as a natural geometry. \n  \nTowards processing theories of conversation \nMost experimental research into spoken language has focused either on speaking or on listening.  However\, these processes should also be studied together\, not only because they naturally co-occur in conversation and likely affect each other\, but also because an integrated research approach can lead to novel insights into the architecture of the cognitive system supporting language use. I will provide an overview of a research program on speaking and listening in dyadic contexts. The starting point is the model of turn-taking in conversation proposed by Levinson and Torreira (2015). Though based exclusively on observational data the model makes strong processing predictions. A key claim is that speakers begin to plan their utterances as early as possible during their interlocutor’s turn\, in order to be prepared to respond quickly. Experimental evidence showed that speakers indeed begin to plan their utterances before the end of the preceding turn but\, contrary to the prediction\, not necessarily as early as possible. Rather than following a fixed rule (“plan as early as possible”) they appear to be quite flexible in their utterance planning. Current work aims at uncovering the factors that limit this flexibility. It appears that\, in addition to social and pragmatic factors that define the speaker’s processing goals\, capacity limitations arising in different components of the cognitive system play an important role. I will end by discussing how speakers might achieve smooth turn-taking without intensive linguistic dual-tasking.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-antje-meyer/
LOCATION:Malmousque\, Chemin de la Batterie des Lions\, Marseille\, 13007\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190328
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190329
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SUMMARY:Understanding publication practices\, (models and time-courses) across disciplines to improve the impact of your inter-disciplinary research
DESCRIPTION:An inter-disciplinary discussion at ILCB\nIn our modern science practices\, it would not be surprising to hear that the three most important assets for a scientist are… publication\, publication\, publication! \nBut what exactly is a publication? The answer to this question could be very different across disciplines\, and many of its significant aspects are evolving. \nAcross disciplines\, the increment of knowledge is conceived and packaged in diverse formats (working papers\, proceedings\, monographies\, articles\, etc.) which are attributed vastly diverse value. \nAcross disciplines\, the relationship between the author\, the reviewers and the publishers can be vastly different. The business models of scientific publication have experienced major innovations in recent times\, and presumably more changes lie ahead. \nAcross disciplines\, the course of conception\, dissemination\, and archiving of a scientific contribution are practiced quite differently. The public discussion of findings can precede or follow publication. In some disciplines\, the predictions preceding an empirical study can now be archived in advance as pre-registrations\, which can be referred to later to clarify whether the authors observed exactly what they predicted or predicted exactly what they observed\, thus strengthening the impact of the contributions. \nThe inter-disciplinary “Institut Convergences ILCB” (Institute for Language\, Communication\, and the Brain) organizes a scientific discussion about current publication practices across disciplines. The issues above and related topics will be discussed by 4 specialist speakers. \nThis scientific discussion will have two goals. First\, to create common knowledge\, across practitioners of different disciplines\, of what their collaborators in other domains consider a scientific contribution. Second\, to reflect upon and hopefully improve the publication strategies of researchers. \nSchedule\n11h00 – 11h10: Motivations for this seminar by F.-Xavier Alario\, P. Blache\, E. Runnqvist (ILCB) \n11h10 – 11h50: Peer review across disciplines: from mutual ignorance to standards setting? by Didier Torny (Mines ParisTech – Paris) \n11h50 – 12h30: Registered Reports: A vaccine against bias in science and publishing by Chris Chambers (Cardiff University\, Editor of the journal Cortex) \n12h30 – 13h30: Lunch on site \n13h30 – 13h40: An insight into the publishing models in the Humanities and Social Sciences by  Sandra Guigonis (OpenEdition\, Centre pour l’édition electronique ouverte) \n13h40 – 14h20: Researchers regain control of their means of publication by Marie Farge (Ecole Normale Supérieure\, Paris) \n14h20 – 14h50: Round table (30 debate) \n14h50 – end:     Coffee\, discussions\, etc. \nAbstracts in the next page\nDidier Torny\, Peer review across disciplines: from mutual ignorance to standards setting? \nPeer review is often claimed as  the only way to provide certified knowledge to scientific communities and various audiences. However\, this very recent label includes a multitude of different\, even contradictory\, practices\, devices\, values. Interdisciplinary research\, and the existence large publishing groups around the world have first created unexpected meetings between once unique forms of evaluation and publication\, then some actors have tried to unify practices through different channels (guidelines\, technical infrastructure\, shared rules). The presentation will illustrate some contemporary examples of this rich history\, including questions of the anonymity of authors and reviewers and the introduction of post-publication peer review in journals. \n  \nChris Chambers\, Registered Reports: A vaccine against bias in science and publishing \nIn 2013\, Cortex became the first journal to offer Registered Reports\, a format of preregistered empirical publication in which peer review happens prior to data collection and analysis (see https://cos.io/rr/). The aim of Registered Reports is to overcome publication bias and various forms of researcher bias (e.g. selective reporting of statistically significant results and hindsight bias)\, by performing peer review in part before studies commence. Publishability is then decided by the importance of the research question and quality of the methodology\, and never based on the results of hypothesis testing. In this talk I will introduce the concept of Registered Reports and provide an update on its progress at at Cortex and beyond\, including its uptake by more than 150 journals\, including outlets in the Nature group\, generalist journals including Royal Society Open Science\, and emerging clinical trial formats. I will also discuss early evidence of impacts on the field and emerging Registered Report funding models in which journals and funders simultaneously assess proposed protocols. Together with a wide range of allied initiatives\, Registered Reports are helping to reshape the life and social sciences to place theory\, transparency and reproducibility at the forefront. \n  \nSandra Guigonis\, An insight into the publishing models in the Humanities and Social Sciences \nOpenEdition is a comprehensive digital publishing infrastructure at the service of scientific information in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It provides the academic communities with four publishing and information platforms: OpenEdition Journals (504 journals)\, OpenEdition Books (6\,775 books)\, Hypotheses (2\,870 Research blogs) and Calenda (41\,094 announcements of international academic events). The portal is thus a space dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of research\, publishing tens of thousands of scientific documents that promote open access\, while respecting the economic equilibrium of publications. It benefits therefore from a comprehensive overview on the publishing models in the HSS\, be it traditional practices or emerging trends. \n  \nMarie Farge\, Researchers regain control of their means of publication \nThe scientific edition is currently owned by an oligopoly of a few publishers\, who consider it an exceptionally juicy market. Thus\, scientists have lost control of their publishing tools and have become “cash cows”\, forced to produce ever more and faster…. I will explain how the “Gold Open Access” model\, designed by these publishers to preserve their market\, undermines scientific creativity and the public finances that support research. I will show how the “Green Open Access” model and the “Diamond Open Access” model\, designed by researchers to disseminate their publications\, avoid these perverse effects. I will present as examples the platforms https:// dissem.in and https://www.centre-mersenne.org/. \n 
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/understanding-publication-practices-models-and-time-courses-across-disciplines-to-improve-the-impact-of-your-inter-disciplinary-research/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190301T120000
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SUMMARY:Competitive neurocognitive networks underlying learning and memory: from stress to brain stimulation by Dezso Nemeth
DESCRIPTION:by Prof Dr Dezso Nemeth \nAffiliation: \n\nCentre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon\, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1\nIMÉRA\, Aix-Marseille Université\nHungarian Academy of Sciences\, Budapest\n\nHuman learning depends on multiple cognitive systems related to dissociable brain structures. These systems interact not only in cooperative but sometimes competitive ways in optimizing performance. Previous studies showed that manipulations reducing the engagement of frontal lobe-mediated explicit\, attentional processes can lead to improved performance in striatum-related procedural learning. Here I present four studies in which we investigated the competitive relationship between implicit statistical learning and frontal lobe-mediated executive functions.  Our result shed light not only on the competitive nature of brain systems in cognitive processes\, such as language\, learning\, and memory but also could have important implications for developing new methods to improve human learning.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/dezso-nemeth/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190209
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
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SUMMARY:Workshop Doctorants et Post-Doctorants
DESCRIPTION:Program  ILCB-day February 8th (Salle de voûtes\, St Charles\, Marseille) \nMorning dedicated to three group presentations by the PhD-students and post-docs of the ILCB followed by interactive discussions around transversal topics with all the members of the ILCB. \n9.30 – 10.30:  “Interactions” \n10.30 – 11.30: “Learning and networks” \n11.30 – 12.30: “Comparative approaches” \n12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH \nAfternoon devoted to the reflection and discussion around the topic of interdisciplinary research in cognitive science \n14.00: Keynote presentation on “Interdisciplinary research in cognitive science” by Daniel Andler (ENS\, Paris) \n15.00: Poster session: all ILCB members are invited to present a poster to fuel informal discussions amongst the members of the ILCB
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/workshop-doctorants-et-post-doctorants/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190125T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
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SUMMARY:ILCB Lunch-talk by Nuria Sebastian\, Ghislaine Dehaene
DESCRIPTION:10h00  Are human infants able to use symbols?\, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz\n11h00  Coffee\n11h20  The onset of bilingualism: Specificities in the first year of life\, Nuria Sebastián Galles\n12h20  Discussion\n13h00  Lunch \n\nAre human infants able to use symbols?\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 and that they can easily learn labels to represent classes of objects. To support this claim\, I will present brain imaging data showing the infants’ structural and functional brain architecture and ERP data obtained through a new paradigm as a first step to test symbolic representations in the infant brain. \nGhislaine Dehaene-Lambertz\, INSERM U992\, Neurospin\, Saclay (France) \nThe onset of bilingualism: Specificities in the first year of life\nHow different is the process of language learning in infants exposed to two languages from birth? It was not so long ago when the available evidence pointed to a delay in language learning in bilinguals. At present\, a bulk of studies indicates the existence of specific adaptations to the process of language learning. In the present talk I will focus on the emergence of such adaptations during the first months of life. \nNuria Sebastian\, University Pompeu Fabra-Center for Brain and Cognition Department (Barcelone)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/nuria-sebastian-ghislaine-dehaene/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190118T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20190118T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20181205T102711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190108T150619Z
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SUMMARY:PhD&post-doc welcoming day
DESCRIPTION:10-10.30: Welcome: \nbreakfast and introduction to ILCB PhD &post-doc group \n  \n10.00-11.30: group work session 1 \nGroups of the ILCB day February 8th  focusing on the cross cutting topics of the ILCB and “interdisciplinarity” \, 3 groups -interactions ; learning and networks; comparative approaches- with 3-4 members/group). The session will contain presentations of the same slides used for the meeting in October (1 per person introducing their research project)\, a discussion and elaboration of a preliminary common slide that connects all projects of the group. The idea is to end up with a presentation to be presented to the whole institute in February in which each person present their project in 5 minutes\, and someone introduces or concludes with the presentation of the group slide that highlights the commonalities of the projects (I.e.\, a common topic that is part of the ILCB research program) and the interdisciplinary way in which this topic is being addressed. \n  \n11.30-13.00: group work session 2: Work in different groups (45 minutes): preparation of questions to be discussed during each of the interventions of the publication day March 28th organized by Xavier Alario (e.g.\, preregistration\, open access\, replication crisis\, peer review system\, statistics thresholds etc.). Presentation of proposed questions and discussion across groups( 45 min)\, modifications in function of this and unification of format at the end of the session. \n13-14:  lunch buffet \n14-15.30: Work in groups session 3 (with coffee/dessert buffet): \nSame groups as in the morning: modification\, unification and streamlining of format of individual slides in function of previous session\, finalization of common slide \n15.30-16.00\nGroup presentations 1 \nInteractions \n16-16.30\nGroup presentations 2 \nLearning and networks \n16.30-17.00\nGroup presentations 3 \nComparative approaches \n17-20.00: Apéro \ntogether with the members of the conseil de direction
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/phdpost-doc-welcoming-day/
LOCATION:Malmousque\, Chemin de la Batterie des Lions\, Marseille\, 13007\, France
CATEGORIES:Program ILCB welcoming day
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181208T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
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SUMMARY:Information-oriented and cross-language aspects on speech and cortical rhythms by François Pellegrino
DESCRIPTION:Information-oriented and cross-language aspects on speech and cortical rhythms by François Pellegrino (CNRS & Université de Lyon\, Dynamics of Language Lab UMR5596) \nDuring the last two decades a growing body of evidence has shown a close relationship between temporal structure of speech and neural oscillatory activities\, especially in the theta and gamma bands. More specifically\, several recent models suggest that the neural capacity to track speech dynamics and rhythmic patterns is crucial for speech processing and understanding. However\, it is well known that speech periodicity is limited and thus that the story is probably more complex than acknowledged previously.\nIn this talk I present results of a cross-language comparison of 17 languages in terms of syllabic speech rate\, Shannonian information rate and of their shared tendency to very unevenly distribute information among their segments and syllables. These results are discussed in the light of cortical rhythms in the theta band and I introduce a (very) speculative hypothesis stating that there may be a functional distinction between syllables whose role is to convey information and syllables whose role is to provide a rhythmic carrier entraining neural oscillations.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-tecumseh-fitch-2/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181116T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181116T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20180808T074858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T152840Z
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SUMMARY:Les dysfonctionnements phonétiques et/ou phonémiques dans l’aphasie\, chez l’enfant et chez l’apprenant d’une langue seconde : Une tentative de simplification ? Erreurs\, Contraintes structurales et/ou Stratégies Palliatives by Jean-Luc Nespoulous
DESCRIPTION:Les dysfonctionnements phonétiques et/ou phonémiques dans l’aphasie\, chez l’enfant et chez l’apprenant d’une langue seconde : Une tentative de simplification ? Erreurs\, Contraintes structurales et/ou Stratégies Palliatives\nLa lésion cérébrale qui provoque une aphasie engendre certes ipso facto un déficit linguistique. Ce déficit ne se caractérise cependant pas\, dans la très grande majorité des cas\, chez ces patients\, par une « perte de compétence »\, comme l’avait cru R. Jakobson sur la base de données cliniques rapportées par d’autres (K. Goldstein et A.R. Luria\, en particulier) et très largement « sur-interprétées » par lui-même ! \nIl n’est qu’à voir\, pour s’en convaincre\, la variabilité des « erreurs » réalisées par un même patient (en situation de production de mots\, par exemple) pour constater que ses productions sont la résultante de problèmes de « performance » ou de « traitement »\, souvent comparables à ceux que peut connaître\, au quotidien quoique à un moindre degré\, tout locuteur non-aphasique (Cf. les travaux de V. Fromkin (1973)\, M. Garrett (1980).\nNous tenterons\, dans notre exposé\, de montrer en quoi les « erreurs » produites par les aphasiques – aux plans phonétique et phonémique –\, en dépit de leur variabilité intra-individuelle\, inter-tâches… – se trouvent néanmoins contraintes par les propriétés structurales de leur langue maternelle. \nJean-Luc Nespoulous \n(Professeur Emérite en Sciences du Langage Université de Toulouse Institut Universitaire de France)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/les-dysfonctionnements-phonetiques-et-ou-phonemiques-dans-laphasie-chez-lenfant-et-chez-lapprenant-dune-langue-seconde-une-tentative-de-simplification-erreurs/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181012T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20181012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T153831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T152843Z
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SUMMARY:Aligning ears and mouths: the consequences of synchronizing heard and spoken language by David Poeppel
DESCRIPTION:12h Prof. David Poeppel\, Max-Planck-Institute Frankfurt &New York University\n•	13h Lunch\n•	Confirm attendance (mandatory) by sending an email to lunchtalks@ilcb.fr\n\n\nAligning ears and mouths: the consequences of synchronizing heard and spoken language\n\n\nThe brain has rhythms\, and so does speech. It is a fortuitous outcome of recent research that the temporal structure of speech and the temporal organization of various brain structures align in systematic ways. \n(One might ask\, of course: how could it have been otherwise?) \nThe role that oscillatory activity might play in perception and cognition continues to be elucidated through experiments of various types. \nAn empirical observation that is now well established is that the auditory system reliably ‘entrains’ to the temporal modulations of speech - although the underlying mechanisms and the functional relevance remain vigorously debated. \nHere I address the question of whether these widely discussed phenomena extend to the relation between perception and action. \nHow motor systems and perceptual systems interact has been a foundational question in psychology and neuroscience\, and on the basis of new behavioral and neural experiments on sensorimotor synchronization\, \nI will argue against my own previous positions and demonstrate an unanticipated and compelling role for synchronization of speech through the ears and speech through the mouth.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-jean-luc-nespoulous-professeur-emerite-en-sciences-du-langage-universite-de-toulouse-institut-universitaire-de-france/
LOCATION:Amphithéâtre de CERIMED\, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin\, Marseille\, 13005
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180921T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180921T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T160600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T153027Z
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SUMMARY:Processing time with our auditory system by Christian Lorenzi
DESCRIPTION:•	12h Prof. Christian Lorenzi\, CNRS & Ecole normale supérieure\, Paris\, France\n\n\nProcessing time with our auditory system\n\nDebate on how speech information is represented in the auditory system has revolved around the role of two neural/perceptual features encoding the temporal modulations of the acoustic signal (the “temporal envelope”\, ENV\, and “temporal fine structure”\, TFS)\, their relative contribution to intelligibility and how that might be degraded by lesions to the peripheral and central auditory system.\n\nWe will review psychophysical studies that investigated the development of ENV/TFS perception\, the effects of cochlear and central lesions\, and the relationship between ENV/TFS perception and speech intelligibility.\n\nOur results suggest that: i) the processing of ENV and TFS is “functional” by 6 months\, and fine-tuned by language exposure between 6 and 10 months\, ii) ENV is more important for speech identification\, whereas TFS is more important for the segregation of competing sound sources\, iii) reduced ability to process ENV and/or TFS explains deficits typically associated with cochlear and central damage and ageing.\n\n*References: *\n\nShamma\, S.\, & Lorenzi\, C. (2013). On the balance of envelope and temporal fine structure in the encoding of speech in the early auditory system. /Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, 133\, /2818-2833/./\n\nLorenzi\, C.\, Debruille\, L.\, Garnier\, S.\, Fleuriot\, P.\, & Moore\, B.C.J. (2009). Abnormal auditory temporal processing for frequencies where absolute thresholds are normal. /Journal of the Acoustical Society of America\, 125\, 27-30./\n\nLorenzi\, C.\, Gilbert\, G.\, Carn\, H.\, Garnier\, S.\, & Moore\, B.C.J.  (2006). Speech perception problems of the hearing impaired reflect inability to use temporal fine structure. /Proceedings of the National Academy of Science/ /USA/\, /103(49)/\, 18866-18869.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-christian-lorenzi/
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180812T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180812T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
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SUMMARY:Information-oriented and cross-language aspects on speech and cortical rhythms
DESCRIPTION:During the last two decades a growing body of evidence has shown a close relationship between temporal structure of speech and neural oscillatory activities\, especially in the theta and gamma bands. More specifically\, several recent models suggest that the neural capacity to track speech dynamics and rhythmic patterns is crucial for speech processing and understanding. However\, it is well known that speech periodicity is limited and thus that the story is probably more complex than acknowledged previously. \nFrançois Pellegrino presented results of a cross-language comparison of 17 languages in terms of syllabic speech rate\, Shannonian information rate and of their shared tendency to very unevenly distribute information among their segments and syllables. These results were discussed in the light of cortical rhythms in the theta band and I introduce a (very) speculative hypothesis stating that there may be a functional distinction between syllables whose role is to convey information and syllables whose role is to provide a rhythmic carrier entraining neural oscillations. \nFrançois Pellegrino works at CNRS & Université de Lyon\, Dynamics of Language Lab UMR5596 \n\nThe lunch talk was held at Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, the 12/08/2018.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/information-oriented-and-cross-language-aspects-on-speech-and-cortical-rhythms/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180518T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180518T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20180308T085310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T152914Z
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SUMMARY:The Temporal Dynamics of Word Processing in Hearing and Deaf Readers by Phillip Holcomb
DESCRIPTION:The Temporal Dynamics of Word Processing in Hearing and Deaf Readers\nIn my talk I will discuss a recent line of research in our lab where we are comparing electrophysiological measures of word processing in hearing and deaf adult readers. Because congenitally deaf adults acquire reading skills without the benefit of having first learned a spoken language they offer a unique contrast with hearing readers which allows certain hypotheses about the role of prior language experience on the mechanisms underlying visual word recognition to be tested. \nPhillip Holcomb\, \nDepartment of Psychology\, San Diego State University\, San Diego (United States)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-temporal-dynamics-of-word-processing-in-hearing-and-deaf-readers/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180518T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180518T170000
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SUMMARY:The Temporal Dynamics of Word Processing in Hearing and Deaf Readers by Phillip Holcomb
DESCRIPTION:The Temporal Dynamics of Word Processing in Hearing and Deaf Readers by Phillip Holcomb\, Department of Psychology\, San Diego State University\, San Diego (United States)\nIn my talk I will discuss a recent line of research in our lab where we are comparing electrophysiological measures of word processing in hearing and deaf adult readers. Because congenitally deaf adults acquire reading skills without the benefit of having first learned a spoken language they offer a unique contrast with hearing readers which allows certain hypotheses about the role of prior language experience on the mechanisms underlying visual word recognition to be tested.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-temporal-dynamics-of-word-processing-in-hearing-and-deaf-readers-by-phillip-holcomb/
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180406T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180406T150000
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CREATED:20190212T161256Z
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SUMMARY:The computational neuroanatomy of speech production in the context of a dual stream framework for language by Greg Hickok
DESCRIPTION:The computational neuroanatomy of speech production in the context of a dual stream framework for language by Greg Hickok (Dept. Cognitive Sciences & Language Science – University of California Irvine) \nThe dual stream framework for the cortical organization of language is grounded in evolutionary biology in that it proposes an organization that is homologous to that found in non-linguistic sensorimotor systems from which it is hypothesized to have evolved. While it was controversial when first proposed in the early 2000s\, a substantial body of evidence now supports the basic claims. Significant progress has been made in working out the functional anatomy of the model\, particularly the dorsal auditory-motor pathway\, which will be the primary focus of this talk. I will provide a brief overview of the dual stream framework\, show how well-established psycholinguistic models of speech production are neatly relatable to it\, and then detail a decade of progress in understanding the neuroanatomy and some computational details of dorsal stream function. A major conclusion is that the integration of psycholinguistic and motor control models of speech production represents a promising new direction for research on the neurobiology of speech and language progressing\, including its evolutionary origins.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-greg-hickok/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180223T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180223T160000
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SUMMARY:ILCB Journée ILCB
DESCRIPTION:Vendredi 23/02 \nCampus St Charles\, Salle des voûtes \n\n10.00- 10.30\n“Natural conversation between humans and artificial agents : Advances and neuroscientific insights” \n(Birgit Rauchbauer & Matthieu Riou)\n \n10.30-11.10\n“Compensatory mechanisms and plasticity: evidence from language disorders” \n(Ambre Denis-Noël\, Alexia Fasola & Anna Marczyk)\n \n11.15-11.40 \nCOFFEE BREAK\n \n11.40-12.20\n“The effect of voice modulation in language evolution and acquisition” \n(Axel Barrault\, Clémentine Bodin & Piera Filippi)\n \n12.20-13.10\n“Higher-order representations in comprehension and production” \n(Royce Anders\, Tom Dagens\, Raphaël Fargier & Joshua Snell)\n \n13.10-16.00\nLUNCH BUFFET AND POSTER SESSION WITH CONTRIBUTIONS OF ALL ILCB MEMBERS
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-journee-ilcb/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Journées de l’ILCB
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180212T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180212T170000
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SUMMARY:Some recent developments in models of retrieval processes by Prof. Shravan Vasishth
DESCRIPTION:Some recent developments in models of retrieval processes by Prof. Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam)\nIn this talk\, I will discuss some recent empirical and theoretical developments in cue-based retrieval theory [1-13]. I will begin by talking about what we know so far about the underlying mechanisms driving retrieval processes in sentence comprehension and the evidence for and against the cue-based retrieval account [14]. Then I will present some recent work showing that two alternative models of retrieval are viable candidate theories [15]. \n\n1. Richard L. Lewis and Shravan Vasishth. An activation-based model of sentence processing as skilled memory retrieval. Cognitive Science\, 29:1-45\, 2005.\n\n2. Richard L. Lewis\, Shravan Vasishth\, and Julie Van Dyke. Computational principles of working memory in sentence comprehension. Trends in Cognitive Sciences\, 10(10):447-454\, 2006.\n\n3. Shravan Vasishth\, Sven Bruessow\, Richard L. Lewis\, and Heiner Drenhaus. Processing Polarity: How the ungrammatical intrudes on the grammatical. Cognitive Science\, 32(4):685-712\, 2008.\n\n4. Shravan Vasishth\, Katja Suckow\, Richard L. Lewis\, and Sabine Kern. Short-term forgetting in sentence comprehension: Crosslinguistic evidence from head-final structures. Language and Cognitive Processes\, 25(4):533-567\, 2011. \n\n5. Felix Engelmann\, Shravan Vasishth\, Ralf Engbert\, and Reinhold Kliegl. A framework for modeling the interaction of syntactic processing and eye movement control. Topics in Cognitive Science\, 5(3):452-474\, 2013. \n\n6. Lena A. Jäger\, Zhong Chen\, Qiang Li\, Chien-Jer Charles Lin\, and Shravan Vasishth. The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing. Journal of Memory and Language\, 79-80:97-120\, 2015. \n\n7. Stefan L. Frank\, Thijs Trompenaars\, and Shravan Vasishth. Cross-linguistic differences in processing double-embedded relative clauses: Working-memory constraints or language statistics? Cognitive Science\, page n/a\, 2015.\n\n8. Umesh Patil\, Sandra Hanne\, Frank Burchert\, Ria De Bleser\, and Shravan Vasishth. A computational evaluation of sentence comprehension deficits in aphasia. Cognitive Science\, 40:5–50\, 2016.\n\n9. Molood Sadat Safavi\, Samar Husain\, and Shravan Vasishth. Dependency resolution difficulty increases with distance in Persian separable complex predicates: Implications for expectation and memory-based accounts. Frontiers in Psychology\, 7\, 2016.\n\n10. Umesh Patil\, Shravan Vasishth\, and Richard L. Lewis. Retrieval interference in syntactic processing: The case of reflexive binding in English. Frontiers in Psychology\, 2016. Special Issue on Encoding and Navigating Linguistic Representations in Memory.\n\n11. Felix Engelmann\, Lena A. Jäger\, and Shravan Vasishth. The effect of prominence and cue association in retrieval processes: A computational account. Manuscript (under revision)\, 2017.\n\n12. Fuyun Wu\, Elsi Kaiser\, and Shravan Vasishth. Effects of early cues on the processing of Chinese relative clauses: Evidence for experience-based theories. 2017. In Press\, Cognitive Science.\n\n13. Paul Mätzig\, Shravan Vasishth\, Felix Engelmann\, and David Caplan. A computational investigation of sources of variability in sentence comprehension difficulty in aphasia. In Proceedings of MathPsych/ICCM\, Warwick\, UK\, 2017. \n\n14. Lena A. Jäger\, Felix Engelmann\, and Shravan Vasishth. Similarity-based interference in sentence comprehension: Literature review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of Memory and Language\, 94:316-339\, 2017.\nhttps://github.com/vasishth/MetaAnalysisJaegerEngelmannVasishth2017\n\n15. Bruno Nicenboim and Shravan Vasishth. Models of retrieval in sentence comprehension: A computational evaluation using Bayesian hierarchical modeling. 2017. Accepted\, Journal of Memory and Language.\nhttp://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2017-notebooks/stancon2017-nicenboim-vasishth-retrieval-models.html\n\n*substitute for the Lunch Talk of October
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/some-recent-developments-in-models-of-retrieval-processes-by-prof-shravan-vasishth/
CATEGORIES:Breakfast-talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180130T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20180130T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20180808T095301Z
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SUMMARY:Dendrophilia and the Biology of Language by Tecumseh Fitch
DESCRIPTION:Dendrophilia and the Biology of Language : Phonological Continuity and Syntactic Discontinuity by Tecumseh Fitch (Dept. of Cognitive Biology\, Faculty of Life Science – University of Vienna)\nAn understanding of both the neural mechanisms involved in language\, and their evolutionary history\, requires incisive comparisons between humans and nonhuman animals. Ideally\, such comparisons are grounded in an explicit\, computational framework encompassing both formal and neural components. I review work comparing humans with nonhuman primates\, other mammals\, and birds carried out in the last decades\, much of it using artificial grammar learning to explore the perception of phonology and syntax. This research suggests the following two hypotheses: First\, the phonological continuity hypothesis holds that sequential processing of syllables is supported by equivalent\, homologous mechanisms in humans and other animals. This set of mechanisms allows combination via concatenation\, and supports sequential processing at the finite-state (regular) computational level. Second\, the dendrophilia hypothesis suggests that humans are unusual in our ability to process complex hierarchical structures in multiple domains (language\, music\, etc). These hierarchical abilities require computational power at the supra-regular level (above finite state)\, and supports the abstract structures needed for phrasal syntax and semantics. I propose that these general hierarchical abilities are supported neurally by the great enlargement of Broca’s area in our species\, and the broadening of its connections to most of the parietal and temporal lobes. Broca’s region in humans acts as a domain-general “stack”\, an auxiliary memory supporting supra-regular computation in both language and music. \nTecumseh Fitch
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-tecumseh-fitch/
LOCATION:Amphithéâtre de CERIMED\, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin\, Marseille\, 13005
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20171110T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20171110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
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SUMMARY:Alignment and prediction in conversational interactions by Prof. Martin Pickering
DESCRIPTION:Alignment and prediction in conversational interactions by Prof. Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/ilcb-lunch-talk-by-phillip-holcomb/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170706T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170706T160000
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CREATED:20190212T170008Z
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SUMMARY:Deep learning models of perception and cognition by Marco Zorzi
DESCRIPTION:Deep learning models of perception and cognition by Marco Zorzi (University of Padova\, Italy)\nDeep learning in stochastic recurrent neural networks with many layers of neurons (“deep networks”) is a recent breakthrough in neural computation research. These networks build a hierarchy of progressively more complex representations of the sensory data through unsupervised learning. Using examples from research in my laboratory\, I will show that deep learning models represent a major step forward for connectionist modeling in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. I will also focus on a new model of letter perception\, which shows that learning written symbols can recycle the visual primitives of natural images\, thereby requiring only limited domain-specific tuning.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/deep-learning-models-of-perception-and-cognition-by-marco-zorzi/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170630T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170630T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T152933Z
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SUMMARY:Three decades of structural priming research: implications for syntactic representation\, domain-specificity of syntax\, and multilingualism by Robert Hartsuiker
DESCRIPTION:Three decades of structural priming research: implications for syntactic representation\, domain-specificity of syntax\, and multilingualism\nAbout thirty years ago\, Kay Bock discovered structural priming\, the tendency for speakers and listeners to recycle syntactic structures they have recently encountered. A recent meta-analysis of 70 published papers (Mahowald et al.\, 2017) shows that structural priming (as well as its enhancement by lexical overlap between prime and target sentence) is highly robust. Here\, I look back at three decades of structural priming research\, with a particular emphasis on the theoretical implications for syntactic representation\, on the organization of the syntactic representations of multiples languages in multilinguals\, and on the question of whether structural processing is domain-specific or is shared with other cognitive domains\, such as music or math. I then look forward to an ongoing research line on the late acquisition of syntax in a second language. I will describe our account of this acquisition process\, according to which syntactic representations start out as separate for each language but merge as the learner’s proficiency increases\, and show the results of an artificial language learning study designed to test this account.\n\nPLEASE REMEMBER:\n\n-To plan for the lunch buffet\, attendance must be confirmed by sending an email to lunchtalks@ilcb.fr\n\nPlease let us know if you have any dietary restrictions (vegetarian\, allergies\, etc.).\n\n-Speaker suggestions (warmly encouraged) for September-June should be sent to lunchtalks@ilcb.fr\n\n12.00-13.00 Talk (Salle de conférences\, LPL) by Robert Hartsuiker (University of Ghent\, Belgium)
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/three-decades-of-structural-priming-research-implications-for-syntactic-representation-domain-specificity-of-syntax-and-multilingualism-by-robert-hartsuiker/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Lunch Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T190000
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CREATED:20190212T170302Z
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SUMMARY:Discourse Prosody and Sentence Processing in Prelingually Deaf Teenagers with Cochlear Implants by Katherine Demuth
DESCRIPTION:Discourse Prosody and Sentence Processing in Prelingually Deaf Teenagers with Cochlear Implants by Katherine Demuth\n17h30 LPL\,\n\nThe past few years has seen major improvements in the early diagnosis of hearing loss\, early intervention\, and device improvements.  \nMuch of the assessment of language development has focussed on the early years\, \nwith assessment of hearing levels\, intelligibility\, vocabulary size\, \nand other standardized measure showing good to excellent attainment levels by many children fitted with both hearing aids and cochlear implants (CIs). \nHowever\, much less is known about the language abilities of school-aged children with hearing loss\, \nwhere many still experience challenges making themselves understood\, understanding others\, and fully engaging in social interaction. \nThis talk discusses results from two recent studies of discourse interactions and sentence processing by prelingually deaf teenage CI users\, \nshowing that they are less interactive\, exhibit a different use prosodic cues for certain discourse functions\, \nand are much slower at sentence processing than their normal hearing peers. \nThis raises many questions regarding the nature of their language model\, and how it might be enhanced to achieve more efficient language processing and production.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/discourse-prosody-and-sentence-processing-in-prelingually-deaf-teenagers-with-cochlear-implants-by-katherine-demuth/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170428T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T170541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T170543Z
UID:2251-1493388000-1493398800@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Music and Language comprehension in the brain – a surprising connection by Richard Kunert
DESCRIPTION:Music and Language comprehension in the brain – a surprising connection by Richard Kunert (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University Nijmegen\, Donders Institute for Brain\, Cognition and Behavior\, Nijmegen)\nRiKunert@googlemail.com\n\n14h Salle des voûtes\,\nfac St Charles\, Pôle 3 C\nHow the comprehension of instrumental music and spoken or written language is implemented in the brain remains mysterious. \nIn this talk I present a new way to approach this issue. \nIn a series of studies we investigated music and language comprehension at the same time in order to gain insights into both. \nSpecifically\, we asked whether these two kinds of stimuli are subserved by common neural circuitry despite their obvious differences. \nIt turns out that structural properties of language and instrumental music are both processed in a common brain area. \nDoes this truly imply shared structural processing or is this just a general effect related to attention? \nIt turns out that the effects of music on attention are actually limited. \nOverall\, the findings I will present suggest that music and language processing share very limited\, and surprisingly specialized neural circuitry.\nOverall\, an interdisciplinary approach\, as applied here\, can open the way for asking ever more focused questions about brain organization.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/music-and-language-comprehension-in-the-brain-a-surprising-connection-by-richard-kunert/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170209T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170209T123000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T171157Z
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SUMMARY:Common ground for action-perception coupling and its consequences for speech processing
DESCRIPTION:Common ground for action-perception coupling and its consequences for speech processing by Sonja A. Kotz (Dept. of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology\, Maastricht University\, The Netherlands & Dept. of Neuropsychology\, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences\, Leipzig\, Germany)\nSonja.kotz@maastrichtuniversity.nl\n11h \nWhile the role of forward models in predicting sensory consequences of action is well anchored in a cortico-cerebellar interface\, it is an open question whether this interface is action specific or extends to perceptual consequences of sensory input (e.g. Knolle et al.\, 2012; 2013 a&b). Considering the functional relevance of a temporo-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical circuitry that aligns with well known cerebellar-thalamo-cortical connectivity patterns\, one may consider that cerebellar computations apply similarly to incoming information coding action\, sensation\, or even higher level cognition such as speech and language (e.g. Ramnani\, 2006; Kotz & Schwartze\, 2010\, 2016): (i) they simulate cortical information processing and (ii) cerebellar-thalamic output may provide a possible source for internally generated cortical activity that predicts the outcome of information processing in cortical target areas (Knolle et al.\, 2012; Schwartze & Kotz\, 2013). I will discuss new empirical and patient evidence (motor-auditory coupling and auditory only) in support of these considerations and present an extended cortico-subcortical framework encompassing action-perception coupling\, perception\, and multimodal speech.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/common-ground-for-action-perception-coupling-and-its-consequences-for-speech-processing/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170201T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T170857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T170900Z
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SUMMARY:The referential value of prosody: A comparative approach to the study of animal vocal communication by Piera Filippi
DESCRIPTION:The referential value of prosody: A comparative approach to the study of animal vocal communication by Piera Filippi (blri)\nRecent studies addressing animal vocal communication have challenged the traditional view of meaning in animal communication as the context-specific denotation of a call. These studies have identified a central aspect of animal vocal communication in the ability to recognize the emotional state of signalers\, or to trigger appropriate behaviors in response to vocalizations. This theoretical perspective is conceptually sound from an evolutionary point of view\, as it assumes that\, rather than merely referring to an object or an event\, animals’ vocalizations are designed to trigger (intentionally\, or not) reactions that may be adaptive for both listeners and signalers. Crucially\, changes in emotional states may be reflected in prosodic modulation of the voice. Research focusing on the expression of emotional states through vocal signals suggests that prosodic correlates of emotional vocalizations are shared across mammalian vocal communication systems. In a recent empirical study\, we showed that human participants use specific acoustic correlates (differences in fundamental frequency and spectral center of gravity) to judge the emotional content of vocalizations across amphibia\, reptilia\, and mammalia. These results suggest that fundamental mechanisms of vocal emotional expression are widely shared among vocalizing vertebrates and could represent an ancient signaling system. But what’s the evolutionary link between the ability to interpret emotional information in animal vocalizations and the ability for human linguistic communication? I suggest to identify this link in the ability to modulate emotional sounds to the aim to trigger behaviors within social interactions. Hence\, I will emphasize the key role of the interactional value of prosody in relation to the evolution and ontogenetic development of language. Within this framework\, I will report on recent empirical data on humans\, showing that the prosodic modulation of the voice is dominant over verbal content and faces in emotion communication. This finding aligns with the hypothesis that prosody is evolutionarily older than the emergence of segmental articulation\, and might have paved the way to its origins. Finally\, implications for the study of the cognitive relationship between linguistic prosody and the ability for music\, which has often been identified as the evolutionary precursor of language\, will be discussed.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/the-referential-value-of-prosody-a-comparative-approach-to-the-study-of-animal-vocal-communication-by-piera-filippi/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170123T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170123T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T171429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T171432Z
UID:2257-1485181800-1485187200@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Learning new words: Implications for speech processing and for lexical memory by James M. McQueen
DESCRIPTION:Learning new words: Implications for speech processing and for lexical memory by James M. McQueen (Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, The Netherlands)\nlle et al.\, 2012; Schwartze & Kotz\, 2013). I will discuss new empirical and patient evidence (motor-auditory coupling and auditory only) in support of these considerations and present an extended cortico-subcortical framework encompassing action-perception coupling\, perception\, and multimodal speech.\nur\, Aix-en-Provence LPL\nListeners are able to recognise words in spite of considerable variation in how words are realized physically. For example\, Mary may need to recognise an English word spoken by Jacques\, a non-native speaker that Mary has never heard before. Evidence from behavioural (eye-tracking) and neuroscientific (EEG and fMRI) studies on novel word learning will be presented which suggests that listeners cope with the variation in spoken words through abstracting away from the episodic details of particular experienced word forms. This process can be seen in on-line speech recognition: the way a novel realization of a new word is processed is based on phonological knowledge previously abstracted from other words. The need for abstraction also shapes lexical memory: sleep-enhanced memory consolidation processes support the transfer of newly-learned words from episodic memory to long-term lexical memory\, making generalization across modalities possible. Listeners can recognise\, for example\, newly-learned words that they have previously read but that they have never heard before.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/learning-new-words-implications-for-speech-processing-and-for-lexical-memory-by-james-m-mcqueen/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161209T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161209T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T171652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T171654Z
UID:2259-1481281200-1481288400@www.ilcb.fr
SUMMARY:Figures of speech in the brain: The role of metaphoricity\, familiarity\, concreteness\, and lateralization in language comprehension by Bálint Forgács
DESCRIPTION:Figures of speech in the brain: The role of metaphoricity\, familiarity\, concreteness\, and lateralization in language comprehension by Bálint Forgács (Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (LPP) Université Paris Descartes)\nDebates are hot regarding how metaphors are related to literal language\, in what steps we understand them\, and how our brains deal with them. In my talk I am going to show fMRI and divided visual half field data arguing against a unique role for the right cerebral hemisphere and literal language in metaphor comprehension. If the relevant psycholinguistic factors are controlled for (such as context\, emotional valence or imageability) classical left lateralized regions seem to compute not just dead\, but even novel metaphors. Moreover\, the latter do not seem to evoke the so called electrophysiological concreteness effect either\, contrary to the claims of the strong version of embodiment. Based on the new evidence I am going to present a novel model of how the neural systems dedicated to language could compute figures of speech so swiftly and quickly\, and why the lateralization debate could be viewed from a different perspective.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/figures-of-speech-in-the-brain-the-role-of-metaphoricity-familiarity-concreteness-and-lateralization-in-language-comprehension-by-balint-forgacs/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161202T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161202T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T153823
CREATED:20190212T171914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T171917Z
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SUMMARY:Man and Machine during Natural Language Processing: A Neurocognitive Approach by Chris Biemann and Markus J. Hofmann
DESCRIPTION:Man and Machine during Natural Language Processing: A Neurocognitive Approach by Chris Biemann and Markus J. Hofmann Language Technology\, Universität Hamburg General and Biological Psychology\, University of Wuppertal\nWhile state-of-the-art NLP models lack a theory that systematically accounts for human performance at all levels of linguistic analysis\, Neurocognitive Simulation Models of orthographic and phonological memory so far lacked a level of implemented semantic representations. To overcome these limitations\, the authors of this talk decided to initiate a long-standing cooperation.\n\nIn part 1 of this talk\, we introduce unsupervised methods from language technology that capture semantic information. We present a range of methods that extract semantic representation from corpora\, as opposed to using manually created norms. We show how we applied language models based on n-grams\, topic modelling\, and the word2vec neural model across three different corpora to account for behavioral\, brain-electric and eye movement data. We used a benchmark that has become standard for Neurocognitive Simulation Models in psychology: Thus we reproducibly accounted for half of the item-level variance in the cloze-completion-based word predictability from sentence context\, and the resulting N400-\, and single fixation duration data of the Potsdam sentence corpus.\n\nIn part 2 we discuss how relatively straightforward NLP methods can be used to define semantic processes in a neurocognitive simulation model. To extend an interactive activation model with a semantic layer\, we used the log likelihood that two words occur more often together in the sentences of a large corpus than predictable by single-word frequency. The resulting Associative Read-Out Model (AROM) is an extension of the Multiple Read-Out Model. Here\, we use it to account for association ratings and semantically induced false memories in human performance and P200/N400 brain-electric data. Then\, we present a sequential version of the AROM accounting for primed lexical decision\, and the resulting semantic competition in the left (and right!) inferior frontal gyrus of the human brain. Finally\, we envision two routes of reading\, complementing the form-based aspects of linguistic representations with one of the most defining feature of words: they carry meaning.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/man-and-machine-during-natural-language-processing-a-neurocognitive-approach-by-chris-biemann-and-markus-j-hofmann/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Semantic processing beyond categories: Influences of semantic richness\, associations and social-communicative contexts on language production by Rasha Abdel Rahman
DESCRIPTION:Semantic processing beyond categories: Influences of semantic richness\, associations and social-communicative contexts on language production by  Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)\nThe ultimate goal of speaking is to convey meaning. However\, while semantic-categorical relations are well-investigated\, little is known about other aspects of meaning processing during speech planning. In this talk I will present evidence on how message-inherent attributes\, for instance\, the semantic richness or emotional content of the message\, shape language production. Furthermore\, I will discuss the flexible nature of the language production system that can adapt to different contexts from ad-hoc relations to associations and social-communicative situations. Together\, these findings demonstrate a high level of flexibility of the language production system as a basis for intimate - and thus far underinvestigated - relations between language production\, emotion and social cognition.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/semantic-processing-beyond-categories-influences-of-semantic-richness-associations-and-social-communicative-contexts-on-language-production-by-rasha-abdel-rahman/
LOCATION:Salle des voûtes\, St Charles\, 3 place Victor Hugo\, Marseille\, 13001\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Annotating Information Structure in Authentic Data: From Expert Annotation to Crowd Sourcing Experiments by Detmar Meurers\, Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen)
DESCRIPTION:Annotating Information Structure in Authentic Data: From Expert Annotation to Crowd Sourcing Experiments by Detmar Meurers\, Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen)\nWhile the formal pragmatic concepts in information structure\, such as the focus of an utterance\, are precisely defined in theoretical linguistics and potentially very useful in conceptual and practical terms\, it has turned out to be difficult to reliably annotate such notions in corpus data (Ritz et al.\, 2008; Calhoun et al.\, 2010). We present a large-scale focus annotation effort designed to overcome this problem. Our annotation study is based on the tasked-based corpus CREG (Ott et al.\, 2012)\, which consists of answers to explicitly given reading comprehension questions. We compare focus annotation by trained annotators with a crowd-sourcing setup making use of untrained native speakers. Given the task context and an annotation process incrementally making the question form and answer type explicit\, the trained annotators reach substantial agreement for focus annotation. Interestingly\, the crowd-sourcing setup also supports high-quality annotation\, for specific subtypes of data. To refine the crowd-sourcing setup\, we introduce the Consensus Cost as a measure of agreement within the crowd. We investigate the usefulness of Consensus Cost as a measure of crowd annotation quality both intrinsically\, in relation to the expert gold standard\, and extrinsically\, by integrating focus annotation information into a system performing Short Answer Assessment taking into account the Consensus Cost. Finally\, we turn to the question whether the relevance of focus annotation can be extrinsically evaluated. We show that automatic short-answer assessment indeed significantly improves for focus annotated data.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/annotating-information-structure-in-authentic-data-from-expert-annotation-to-crowd-sourcing-experiments-by-detmar-meurers-kordula-de-kuthy-university-of-tubingen/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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SUMMARY:Perceptual adaptation and speech motor control: A new perspective on some well known mechanisms by Douglas Shiller
DESCRIPTION:Perceptual adaptation and speech motor control: A new perspective on some well known mechanisms by Douglas Shiller (Université de Montréal\, Faculté de médecine)\nAcoustic speech signals are notoriously variable within and between talkers. To aid in the linguistic decoding of such noisy signals\, it is well known that listeners employ a number of perceptual mechanisms to help reduce the impact of linguistically irrelevant acoustic variation. Rapid perceptual accommodation to differences in age and gender is achieved\, in part\, through vowel-extrinsic normalization\, whereby the immediately preceding speech signal provides a frame-of-reference within which talker-specific vowel category boundaries are determined (Ladefoged & Broadbent\, 1957). Listeners also draw upon higher-order linguistic information to facilitate phonetic processing of noisy or ambiguous speech acoustic signals\, as illustrated by the well-known lexical effect on perceptual category boundaries (Ganong\, 1980). \nSince their discovery many decades ago\, these adaptive perceptual mechanisms have been considered primarily as processes supporting the decoding of ambiguous speech signals originating from other talkers. Here\, I will describe two recent studies demonstrating that such adaptive processes can also alter the processing of self-generated speech acoustic signals (i.e.\, auditory feedback)\, and by extension\, the sensorimotor control of speech production. The results provide strong support for the idea that short-term auditory-perceptual plasticity rapidly transfers to the sensory processes guiding speech motor function. The findings will be discussed within the context of current models of speech production\, in particular those that highlight a role for auditory-feedback in the fine-tuning of predictive\, feed-forward control processes.
URL:https://www.ilcb.fr/event/perceptual-adaptation-and-speech-motor-control-a-new-perspective-on-some-well-known-mechanisms-by-douglas-shiller/
LOCATION:Salle de conférences\, 5 avenue Pasteur\, Aix-en-Provence\, 13100\, France
CATEGORIES:Seminars
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