Fallait-il brûler Verbal Behavior ? by Marc Richelle (University of Liège, Belgium) En partant de mon expérience personnelle de ma rencontre avec Verbal Behavior (et avec son auteur) , et des avatars que ce livre a connus, - notamment sa mise à l'écart plus encore dans le monde francophone qu'ailleurs - je tenterai d'en restituer […]

Fan Cao (1), Chotiga Pattamadilok (2), Johannes Ziegler (3) ((1)Michigan State University), (2) LPL UMR7309 CNRS AMU, (3) LPC UMR7290 CNRS AMU) Salle de conférences B011, bât. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence 9h30-12h30 Salle de conférences B011, bât. B 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence Cross-linguistic and neurolinguistic perspectives on reading and speech processing Neural specialization and […]

How do central processes cascade into peripheral processes in written language production? by Sonia Kandel (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LPNC (CNRS UMR 5105) – Grenoble, France And Univ. Grenoble Alpes, GIPSA-LAB (CNRS UMR 5216), Dept. Parole & Cognition –Grenoble, France) With the arrival of internet, tablets and smartphones many people spend more time writing than speaking […]

The bilingual brain: Plasticity and processing from cradle to grave by Manuel Carreira (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain IKERBASQUE. Basque Foundation for Science. Bilbao. Spain) Most people either learn more than one language from birth or invest quite a lot of time and effort learning a second language. Bilingualism and […]

Towards an Online Rhyming Dictionary for Mexican Spanish by Alfonso Medina Rhyming dictionaries are a kind of reverse dictionaries. They group words according to rhyming patterns. Rhymes can share exact sequences of vowel and consonant sounds towards the end of a word (consonant rhyme) or just similar vowel sounds (assonant rhyme). Thus, these dictionaries are […]

The influence of expertise on perception, cognition, and brain connectivity by Stefan Elmer (Universität Zürich) A better understanding of the perceptual and cognitive neural underpinnings underlying exceptional behavioural skills has important educational, societal, as well as clinical implications (i.e., for example in the context of developmental dyslexia, aphasia, and foreign language learning). Here, I will […]

Probabilistic Graphical Models of Dyslexia by Yaïr LAKRETZ ('Sagol' school of neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University) Reading is a complex cognitive faculty, errors in which assume diverse forms. To capture the complex structure of reading errors, we propose a novel way of analyzing these errors using probabilistic graphical models. Our study focuses on three inquiries. (a) We […]

Do visual and attentional factors predict reading skills? by Veronica Montani (BLRI, AMU) Visual-attentional abilities have a prominent role in reading. Reading rate is constrained by the number of letters acquired at each fixation, i.e. the visual span, that in turn seems to be mainly determined by the effect of crowding. On the other hand, […]

Do inhibit or not to inhibit during bilingual language control by Mathieu Declerck (BLRI, AMU) One of the mayor topics in the language control literature specifically, and the bilingual literature in general is inhibition, which entails the reduction of non-target language activation and thus interference resolution. In this talk I would discuss the existing evidence […]

Reverse engineering early language learning by Emmanuel Dupoux by (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) Decades of research on early language acquisition have documented how infants quickly and robustly acquire their native tongue(s) across large variations in their input and environment. The mechanisms that enable such a feat […]