Mind fair: a walk through language, communication and the brain
Espace Pouillon 3 place Victor Hugo, MarseilleFriday 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, FranceMartin 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 […]
Predicting individual differences in language learning across populations
via zoomPatrick Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Abstract: TBA Where: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853
16ème Congrès Français d’Acoustique – Marseille
Le CAMPUS SAINT CHARLES place Victor Hugo, MarseilleEvenements_CFA2022 https://cfa2022.sciencesconf.org/
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via zoomDan Yurovsky (Carnegie Mellon University) Abstract: TBA Where: Zoom link https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/2515421853
Motor-vocal coordination in early language development.
via zoomEva Murillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) 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, FranceSophie 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 […]
Bilingual Lexical
IMéRABilingual Lexical Representations Workshop_Programme Listening to speech in your native language (L1) is relatively easy. Recognizing the words used in a conversation is generally an automatic and smooth everyday process. Even in noisy or otherwise less than ideal conditions, our performance is surprisingly robust. But anyone who has attempted to follow a conversation in a […]
Seminar on “speech production and perception”
Salle de conférences 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence, FranceProf. F. Guenther and REaDY team, LPL (5-6 May) Thursday, May 5th 2022 Discussion with Prof. F. Guenther around the following presentations 14h-14h40 : Noël Nguyen & Kristof Strijkers : Phonetic and semantic convergence in speech communication 14h40-15h10 : Serge Pinto: Studying speech motor control from its impairment: the cases of hypo- and hyperkinetic dysarthrias 15h10-15h30 […]
Transdisciplinary Workshop Maison des Astronomes, IMéRA, Marseille
IMéRAMaison des Astronomes, IMéRA, Marseille Outcome: a collective publication on methodological and theoretical issues Abstract The complexity of animal communication signals (including humans) can be evaluated on the basis of the combinatorics of the units that make up these signals (property also referred to as “double articulation”). The first articulation concerns the arrangement of the […]