Common ground for action-perception coupling and its consequences for speech processing

Salle de conférences 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

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) Sonja.kotz@maastrichtuniversity.nl 11h While the role of forward models in predicting sensory consequences of action is well […]

Music and Language comprehension in the brain – a surprising connection by Richard Kunert

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

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) RiKunert@googlemail.com 14h Salle des voûtes, fac St Charles, Pôle 3 C How the comprehension of instrumental music and spoken or written language is implemented […]

Discourse Prosody and Sentence Processing in Prelingually Deaf Teenagers with Cochlear Implants by Katherine Demuth

Salle de conférences 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

Discourse Prosody and Sentence Processing in Prelingually Deaf Teenagers with Cochlear Implants by Katherine Demuth 17h30 LPL, The past few years has seen major improvements in the early diagnosis of hearing loss, early intervention, and device improvements. Much of the assessment of language development has focussed on the early years, with assessment of hearing levels, […]

Three decades of structural priming research: implications for syntactic representation, domain-specificity of syntax, and multilingualism by Robert Hartsuiker

Salle de conférences 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

Three decades of structural priming research: implications for syntactic representation, domain-specificity of syntax, and multilingualism About 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 […]

Deep learning models of perception and cognition by Marco Zorzi

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

Deep learning models of perception and cognition by Marco Zorzi (University of Padova, Italy) Deep 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 […]

Dendrophilia and the Biology of Language by Tecumseh Fitch

Amphithéâtre de CERIMED 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille

An 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.

Some recent developments in models of retrieval processes by Prof. Shravan Vasishth

Some recent developments in models of retrieval processes by Prof. Shravan Vasishth (University of Potsdam) In this talk, I will discuss some recent empirical and theoretical developments in cue-based retrieval theory . I will begin by talking about what we know so far about the underlying mechanisms driving retrieval processes in sentence comprehension and the […]

ILCB Journée ILCB

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

Vendredi 23/02 Campus St Charles, Salle des voûtes 10.00- 10.30 “Natural conversation between humans and artificial agents : Advances and neuroscientific insights” (Birgit Rauchbauer & Matthieu Riou) 10.30-11.10 “Compensatory mechanisms and plasticity: evidence from language disorders” (Ambre Denis-Noël, Alexia Fasola & Anna Marczyk) 11.15-11.40 COFFEE BREAK 11.40-12.20 “The effect of voice modulation in language evolution […]

The computational neuroanatomy of speech production in the context of a dual stream framework for language by Greg Hickok

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

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) The dual stream framework for the cortical organization of language is grounded in evolutionary biology in that it proposes an organization that is homologous to […]