LINGUIST List 24.2974

Mon Jul 22 2013

Summer Schools: Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

Editor for this issue: Caylen Cole-Hazel <caylenlinguistlist.org>



Date: 02-Jul-2013
From: Francesco Vespignani <francesco.vespignaniunitn.it>
Subject: Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy
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Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

Host Institution: Università degli Studi di TrentoWebsite: http://www.unitn.it/ateneo/evento/30237/autumn-school-methods-in-language-comprehension

Dates: 14-Nov-2013 - 17-Nov-2013Location: Rovereto, Italy

Focus: Methods in language comprehension. New methods for studying sentence comprehension in cognitive science, behavioral science and neuroscience.

Minimum Education Level: PhD

Special Qualifications:Participants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program or be in a post doctoralposition having earned the doctoral degree no more than 5 years beforethe application deadline. A very good knowledge of English is required.Prior knowledge or experience with qualitative research in behavioral orbiological sciences is necessary. Participants will receive a certificate fortheir attendance. Participants will be selected on the basis of the strengthof their CV, motivation statement and supervisor’s support letter.

Description:Applications are now open for a four day Autumn school that will covernew methods of data analysis in sentence comprehension and exposeparticipants to cutting-edge methods for analyzing language data collectedwith behavioral and neuroscientific methods. The school’s instructors areexperts in corpus based analysis, EEG, ERP and fMRI methods as appliedto complex language inputs. Each will present a theoretical module andeither supervise data analysis sessions or discuss data analysis issues.The target audience is graduate students and post-docs involved in studyinglanguage comprehension using corpus-based tools, electrophysiology, fMRIor combinations of these techniques.

Extended information on the program, costs, application procedures anddeadlines is available on the school’s website.

Course(s) Offered:

Marcel Bastiaansen The role of theta, beta, and gamma-band synchronization in sentence processing

Stefan Frank Computational models of sentence processing: bridging between linguistic and experimental data

Gina Kuperberg Understanding neurocognitive mechanisms of online language comprehension with ERPs

Jeremy Skipper Understanding the natural organization of language and the brain

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science Neurolinguistics

Tuition: 200.00 EUR

Registration: 15-Sept-2013 to 01-Oct-2013

Contact Person: Francesco Vespignani Email: francesco.vespignaniunitn.it

Registration Instructions:The registration fee is to be paid only after notification of acceptance.Application form and documentation can be found at the school website. Applications will be accepted now until September 15.

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