Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward
Rather than looking back, we would like to see from the contributions of the speakers what the challenges and the promises are for the neurobiology of language, a field that in its current form has a much shorter history than our institute. The research of the invited speakers has opened promising avenues, which we would like to hear more about from a forward-looking perspective.
Registration
Webinars are free to attend but registration with a professional email address is required (e.g. business, university, school, research institute email address; please email Carolin.Lorenz@mpi.nl if you wish to register but do not have a business address).
Please register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vD8wUo4lQXSpQzPR332BPg
Registration closes 18.00 CET Wednesday April 7, 2021.
Chair: Peter Hagoort
Thursday April 8, 2021
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Time (Nijmegen/CET) |
Time (New York/EST) |
Speaker |
Title talk |
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09.30-10.00 |
03.30-04.00 |
Peter Hagoort |
Welcome |
|
10.00-11.00 |
04.00-05.00 |
University of Cambridge |
Predicting and understanding speech |
|
11.00-12.00 |
05.00-06.00 |
University of Barcelona |
Mechanisms of Auditory-motor Integration in Language Learning |
|
12.00-13.00 |
06.00-07.00 |
Lunch Break |
|
|
13.00-14.00 |
07.00-08.00 |
Radboud University |
Prediction in language comprehension |
|
14.00-15.00 |
08.00-09.00 |
MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences |
Flexible redistribution in the language network |
|
15.00-15.30 |
09.00-09.30 |
Coffee/Tea |
|
|
15.30-16.30 |
09.30-10.30 |
MIT |
Efficient communication - not enabling complex thought – is the computational goal of the language system |
|
16.30-17.30 |
10.30-11.30 |
John Hopkins University |
Nature and nurture in neurocognitive development: Insights from studies with blind individuals |
|
17.30-17.45 |
11.30-11.45 |
Wine |
|
|
17.45-18.45 |
11.45-12.45 |
University of Californa, Davis |
What will the future bring? Flexibility of prediction during language processing |
Friday April 9, 2021
|
Time (Nijmegen/CET) |
Time (New York/EST) |
Speaker |
Title talk |
|
09.30-10.30 |
03.30-04.30 |
University of South Australia |
Neurobiology vs. electrophysiology of language: a contradiction |
|
10.30-11.30 |
04.30-05.30 |
MPI for Psycholinguistics/ Radboud University |
Language in the brain must stay faithful to formal and physiological principles |
|
11.30-11.45 |
05.30-05.45 |
Coffee/Tea |
|
|
11.45-12.45 |
05.45-06.45 |
Radboud University |
Drawing inferences about word production in context |
|
12.45-13.45 |
06.45-07.45 |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
A parallel processing architecture for language in the brain |
|
13.45-14.45 |
07.45-08.45 |
Lunch |
|
|
14.45-15.45 |
08.45-09.45 |
University of Michigan |
Building bridges between computation and implementation for natural language understanding |
|
15.45-16.45 |
09.45-10.45 |
University of Maryland |
More thought, less ‘words’: reframing the questions in neurobiology of syntax and semantics |
|
16.45-17.00 |
10.45-11.00 |
Coffee/Tea |
|
|
17.00-18.00 |
11.00-12.00 |
Radboud University |
The future will be relevant |
|
18.00-18.30 |
12.00-12.30 |
Peter Hagoort |
Final remarks |