Prédiction et coordination dans le dialogue : étude EEG des demandes de confirmation
Béatrice Priego Valverde (LPL) & Daniele Schön (INS)
Friedemann Pulvermüller
Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller of the Freie Universität Berlin unexpectedly passed away a few weeks ago. Friedemann was a towering figure in the neurobiology of language and a much respected and appreciated collaborator of our Institute.
Friedemann’s research embodied the true spirit of our Institute, by seamlessly merging the fields of linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience to advance a model of words and meaning in the brain. His successive proposals expanded the notion of Hebbian cell assemblies to language, thereby offering biologically inspired, mechanistic accounts for complex linguistic and psycholinguistic phenomena. His work inspired a wide range of research, including spatiotemporal models of language processing, embodied and grounded theories of meaning and cognition, computational and deep learning language models, and even language therapies and rehabilitation after brain injury.
As many of us experienced, Friedemann was a kind person with a keen sense for irony and, above all, a truly brilliant mind. While we will miss Friedemann, his work, vision, and interdisciplinary approach will continue to inspire the field, not in the least at ILCB. Our thoughts are with his wife Bettina and his son Johannes.
(Photo K.S)
Shared phonological networks in frontal and temporal cortex for language production and comprehension
Neurobiological models of language disagree about the degree of neural overlap between the speaking and understanding. ‘To investigate this open issue, participants (N = 37) were asked to name out-loud object names and passively listen to the same words — minimal pairs only differing in their first phoneme, alveolar as in ‘Talon’ vs. bilabial as in ‘Ballon’. For both language modalities, the motor cortex was activated topographically, i.e. with stronger tongue activity for alveolar words and stronger lip activity for bilabial words. The temporal cortex was activated in a distributed manner. These results strongly support Integration Models (e.g., Pulvermüller, 1999; 2018; Strikers & Costa, 2016), which posit shared word representations for language production and comprehension.
Dmitrieva, X., Anton, J.-L., Fairs, A., Ivanova, B., Sein, J., Nazarian, B.,
Dufour, S., Pulvermüller, F., Runnqvist, E., & Strijkers, K.
(2025). Cerebral Cortex, 35(10), bhaf275. — @HAL
Modelling a Complex Cognitive System with Limited Data: Optimization and Generalization in a Computational Model of Reading Aloud
Conrad Perry, Marco Zorzi, and Johannes C. Ziegler.
2025. PLOS Complex Systems 2 (11): e0000074. — @HAL
Humour from 12 to 36 Months: Insights into Childrens Socio-Cognitive and Language Development
Chiara Mazzocconi, and Béatrice Priego-Valverde.
2025. Infant Behavior and Development 81 (December): 102129 — @HAL
Pre-Attentive Pitch Processing of Harmonic Complex Sounds at Sensor and Source Levels: Comparing Simultaneously Recorded EEG and MEG Data
Talya C. Inbar, Jean-Michel Badier, Christian Bénar, Khoubeib Kanzari, Mireille Besson, and Valérie Chanoine.
2025. Brain Topography 38 (6): 71 — @HAL
An Underexplored Use of Connector “Mais” in French Conversation: Discursive and Prosodic Correlates of the Overbid Use
Marie Kolenberg, Cristel Portes, Stéphane Rauzy, and Roxane Bertrand.
2025. Discourse Processes, October 14, 1–22. — @HAL
Bioacoustic Fundamental Frequency Estimation: A Cross-Species Dataset and Deep Learning Baseline
Paul Best, Marcelo Araya-Salas, Axel G. Ekström, et al.
2025. Bioacoustics 34 (4): 419–46. — @HAL
Neural and Behavioral Dynamics of Predictive Speech Planning
Emma Berthault, Sophie Chen, Sonja A. Kotz, and Daniele Schön.
2025. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 22, 1–14 — @HAL
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