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Dear members of the ILCB community,
It’s always a pleasure to start the Newsletter by announcing good news. So here is a really good one. After being financed as an ILCB project team for over four years, Bruno Giordano has just been awarded an ERC Synergy grant together with his colleague Elia Formisano from the University of Maastricht. This proves that you can start small (with an ILCB seed funding) and end up really big. Congratulations.
As good news never come alone, it is my pleasure to also tell you that after his brilliant habilitation defence last month, Clément François won the second scientific price of the 5 senses for kids foundation together with Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (ILCB IMERA chair). Well done!
I am also pleased to announce the new composition of our International Advisory Board (IAB). We thank those who quit the board after following us for many years, and we are delighted to welcome our new IAB members: Prof. Evelina Fedorenko (MIT), Prof. Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge), Katherine Demuth (Macquarie University), and Prof. Dr. Arthur Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin). We look forward to meeting them all at our annual scientific retreat, which will take place again on Porquerolles Islands from April 23 to 25.
In the meantime, I look forward to meeting you at one of the events described below. |
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Impact of late to moderate preterm birth on minimal pair word‐learning |
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Preterm birth can have a dramatic impact on early development. Cognitive and linguistic delays are frequent, but we still know too little about how language develops after moderate-to-late prematurity. François et al. asked babies to associate words or pseudo-words with familiar or unfamiliar objects in various conditions. Association abilities were inferred from the standard Preferred Looking Time (PLT) measure. While Full Term babies (FT) successfully mapped together similar sounding pairs of novel words, late-to-moderate preterm babies (L-PMT) could not. These results suggest that late to moderate preterm birth can hinder basic associative learning mechanisms, especially when fine temporal speech features are involved.
For this study, Clément François (LPL) together with Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (ILCB IMERA chair) and their co-authors have been awarded the second scientific price of the 5 senses for kids foundation.
Clément François, Antoni Rodriguez‐Fornells, Xim Cerda‐Company, Thaïs Agut, and Laura Bosch.
Impact of late to moderate preterm birth on minimal pair word‐learning.
2024. Child Development, cdev.14160. -- @HAL.
Synthèse de l'étude en français
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"Epicure (341-270 av. J.-C.) avance le premier l'idée que si l'homme parle, il ne le doit ni aux dieux, ni même à sa raison mais seulement à une fonction biologique semblable à celle qui détermine la vision ou l'audition. Zénon (335-264 av. J.-C.) propose à son tour un point de vue plus nuancé selon lequel le langage émerge d'une raison née elle-même de la complexité de la relation sociale."
Charles P. Bouton
Discours physique du langage. Genèse et histoire de la neurolinguistque.
1984. Paris: Klincksieck
English translation:
Bouton, C. P.
Neurolinguistics: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives.
1991. New York: Plenum Press
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An all-out interdisciplinary foresight in Cognitive Sciences, in 24 hours.
The national initiative CogGames - Prospectives en Cognition - is organising an open and friendly event in Bordeaux on November 18 and 19, 2024 around questions and workshops whose themes have been identified by a collective survey earlier this year.
Come and share your ideas, convictions and vision of the cognitives sciences to come, with colleagues from all disciplines and backgrounds! |
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The registration for the BrainHack Marseille 2024 is now open:
- Where? Campus Timone, Aix-Marseille University
- When? 27-29 Nov 2024
- What? 3 days for open source coding and open (neuro)science
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Please always check the events page on the ILCB website for the latest update. |
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ILCB Lunch Talk by Klaus ZUBERBÜHLER, Université de Neuchâtel |
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Nov 29th 2024 @ 12 --
"Revisiting the origins of meaning" |
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Multimodality in Social Interactions 2.0 |
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Dec 2nd & 3rd 2024 @ --
"2-day workshop on various theoretical and methodological problems confronted in the field of multimodal communication and social interactions in humans and non-humans." |
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Abdellah FOURTASSI'S Habilitation Defense |
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Jan 17h, 2024 @ -- |
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