Prosodic and Social Dimensions of Entrainment in Dialogue by  (Columbia University) When people speak together, they often adapt aspects of their speaking style based upon the style of their conversational partner. This phenomena goes by many names, including adaptation, alignment, and entrainment, inter alia. In this talk, I will describe experiments in English and Mandarin […]

Neuroanatomical correlates of developmental dyslexia by Irène Altarelli (Brain and Learning Lab., University of Geneva) Developmental dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that impacts reading abilities, despite normal education, intelligence and perception. The aim of the present work is to determine its neuroanatomical correlates, with the broader goal of identifying associations between genetic variants, brain […]

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, […]