Beyond typology: experimental explorations of language universals

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

Jennifer Culbertson Human languages exhibit striking variation. At the same time, certain linguistic patterns crop up again and again, while others seem to be extremely rare. What these tantalising observations tell us about human language is one of the most contentious questions in linguistics. Do similarities between languages reflect a special capacity for language that […]

Linking Speech Rhythms Inside and Outside the Brain

B011 LPL 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, France

The workshop "Linking Speech Rhythms Inside and Outside the Brain" The workshop will feature several short presentations and panel discussions aimed at achieving a better understanding of the relationship between oscillatory patterns of activity observed during speech processing in neurophysiological data and signals representing characteristics of speech utterances.

11th Implicit Learning Seminar

The  “Implicit Learning Seminar” is an international conference that draws together leading researchers who share an interest in the cognitive and neural bases of implicit learning.  The meeting is small (max. 100 participants) and features oral and poster presentations. There is no registration fee, but registration is mandatory. Previous ILS : Sopot (2012), Bergen (2013), […]

Subdivide and Conquer. brain processing of musical melody, harmony and rhythm

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

Peter Vuust : Director of the Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), MSc, PhD, Prof. in Neuroscience, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Prof. in Music, the Royal Academy of Music,  Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark, Bassist and composer   Music is ubiquitous across human cultures—as a source of affective and pleasurable experience, moving us both physically […]

Conference on Multilingualism

The Conference on Multilingualism (COM) 2024 will be held from June 10th to 12th at ''Le Cube'' on the campus of Aix-Marseille Université, in the beautiful city of Aix-en-Provence. It is an annual international venue for research on bilingualism and multilingualism and follows recent COM meetings, held in Ghent, Leiden, Reading and most recently Konstanz. […]

Development of the lexical-semantic organization in the infant brain: electrophysiological evidence

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

Dr. Pia Rämä Until recently, there has been little evidence regarding how and when infants begin to integrate words into an inter-connected lexical-semantic system. Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies show that lexical-semantic system emerges together with early vocabulary during the second year of life (Rämä et al., 2013; Rämä et al., 2018). These studies also […]

International Workshop on Language Production (IWoLP 2024)

Site du Pharo 58 boulevard Charles Livon, Marseille, France

WoLP, 20th anniversary edition! The IWoLP series returns to Marseille 20 years after its launching event, back in the summer of 2004. The workshop is a venue for multi-disciplinary discussion of cognitive science research on how the brain produces language. Each event is organized around poster sessions, and a few hour-long keynote-style talks. Details about the previous editions can […]

ILCB welcome back party – ILCB fête de la rentrée

We invite you to join the ILCB welcome back party on Friday the 27th of September at 9:30 in the gardens of the LPL. This will be an opportunity to welcome our three ILCB IMERA residents who kindly accepted to give talks and to celebrate some more good news, which I will tell you about. […]

15th annual scientific day of the Centre IRM-INT (Marseille) : Register NOW

Amphithéâtre de CERIMED 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, Marseille

The MRI-INT Center in Marseille is organising its 15th annual scientific day on Friday, October 4 at Cerimed (medical school campus of La Timone, Marseille). This year’s theme is 'Developmental Neuroimaging from fetal to adolescent stages (MRI in human and nonhuman primates)’. It will feature talks by international, national, and local experts in the field. […]