JOURNEE ILCB

Grand amphi Campus St-Charles, 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

      JOURNEE ILCB  ----------------- 9h30 Conférence Plénière Ghislaine DEHAENE-LAMBERTZ, Directrice de Recherche CNRS, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA, Paris “Are human infants able to use symbols?” Summary : Human 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 […]

Dyslexia in children across languages

via zoom

FatimaEzzahra Benmarrakchi (UM6P - School of Collective Intelligence) Abstract: TBA Where: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853

Mind fair: a walk through language, communication and the brain

Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille

Friday March 18th 2022 Espace Pouillon, campus St Charles, Marseille Program mind fair 18 mars 9:30-10:30 am - Opening triple keynote "Hemispheric specialization of the brain in humans, babies & nonhuman primates꞉ Implication for language organization" By Jessica Dubois (Inserm, NeuroDiderot Unit, Neuropsin, Paris), "Exploring early hemispheric asymmetries in the developing brain through structural MRI studies in babies"   […]

How do people interpret implausible sentences?

FRUMAM 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

  Martin Pickering (Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) Abstract: People sometimes interpret implausible sentences nonliterally, for example treating "The mother gave the candle the daughter" as meaning the daughter receiving the candle. But how do they do so? We contrasted a nonliteral syntactic analysis account, according to which people compute […]

TBA

via zoom

Dan Yurovsky (Carnegie Mellon University) Abstract: TBA Where: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853

The role of laughter in human social interactions

FRUMAM 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille, France

Sophie Scott (Director, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) In this talk I will explore the neuroscience and evolution of laughter, a positive emotional vocalisation. I will draw parallels between human use of laughter and laugher and play vocalisations in other mammals, and I will also show some distinct differences between humans and other animals. I […]