• Language embodiment and relativity: Evidence in Chinese-English bilinguals 

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    Guillaume Thierry Bangor University, Bangor, UK     As soon as we master a language, several of our cognitive abilities that do not readily require language to operate and are seemingly independent from it interact with language representations in a highly sophisticated fashion, reflecting the highly integrated nature of human cognition. Examples of such cognitive […]

  • TBA

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    Asli Ozyurek (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior)

  • Teaching an old word new tricks? Phonological updates in the bilingual mental lexicon

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

    Isabelle Darcy Indiana University / ILCB / IMéRA Listening to speech in your native language is easy. Recognizing the words spoken in conversation is generally an automatic and smooth everyday process in the first language (L1). Even in noisy or otherwise less than ideal conditions, performance is surprisingly robust. But anyone who has attempted to […]

  • A holistic measure of inter-annotation agreement with continuous data

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    Rachid Riad (École Normale Supérieure - Inria - Inserm) Abstract: Inter-rater reliability/agreement measures the degree of agreement among raters to describe, code or assess the same phenomenon. Most coefficients (ex: α, κ) measuring these agreements in psychology and natural sciences focus on the categorization of events. Yet, the annotations of speech and especially conversational spontaneous […]

  • 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

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    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 […]