LINGUIST List 33.1108
Mon Mar 28 2022
Summer Schools: Trends in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language / Netherlands
Editor for this issue: Sarah Goldfinch <sgoldfinchlinguistlist.org>
Date: 25-Mar-2022
From: Francesca Carota <francesca.carota
mpi.nl>
Subject: Trends in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language / Netherlands
E-mail this message to a friend Host Institution: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Coordinating Institution: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Website: https://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2022/trends-cognitive-neuroscience-language/
Dates: 04-Jul-2022 - 08-Jul-2022
Location: Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
Focus: Neurosemantics and neuropragmatics
Minimum Education Level: MA
Description:
Learn about the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the next International Radboud Summer School from 4 to 8 July 2022. The deadline for the early bird fee will be 1 April.
Course Description:
Human language is a unique symbolic system that allow us to communicate with others. Current theories make different predictions on how these symbols are manipulated to construct meaningful structures, like sentences and discourse, by employing different modalities of spoken, written language, and gestures. How do we manage these operations - and so quickly - when we read, or during a conversation? How do we learn them when we acquire language? And how did these functions evolve? Complex cognitive and neural systems support linguistic, conceptual, and communicative functions. In the last few decades, rapid advances in the experimental methods and analysis techniques made it possible to explore the human mind and brain at work during different language tasks, thus uncovering the underlying spatial and temporal dynamics in both healthy and impaired populations, during language learning and acquisition and once language and literacy are acquired and mastered.
The aim of this course is to open a window in the neuroscientific study of language, testing different theories and views on the brain mechanisms supporting language production and comprehension across development, species and cultures for the purpose of communication. You will join an expedition in the neurocognition of language through first-hand data and results from the experimental investigation.
In Nijmegen, at the Max Planck of Psycholinguistics and Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, researchers use a variety of approaches, including controlled experimental and cutting-edge techniques, such as brain imaging, electro- and neuro-physiology, computational modelling to unravel the neurobiological foundations of language and communication. Research in the psycholinguistics and neurocognition of language in Nijmegen is at the scientific forefront and the Max Planck of Psycholinguistics and DI are world-leading research institutes in this scientific area. Lecturers in the summer school are senior scientific investigators at the MPI and DI.
You will receive introductions to specific topics that correspond to the major research lines of the MPI/DI, with a focus on neurosemantics and neuropragmatics, genetics and special conditions. In addition, you will be provided with demonstrations at the research labs of the DI, thus gaining insight into the practical aspects of cognitive scientific empirical research.
Course Leaders
Francesca Carota (
https://www.mpi.nl/people/carota-francesca)
Postdoctoral ReseacherNeural Dynamics of Language Production - Neurobiology of Language Department
Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Jana Bašnáková (
https://www.mutualunderstanding.nl/team)
Neurobiology of Language Department
Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Semantics
Tuition Explanation: see course website
Registration: 25-Mar-2022 to 01-Jun-2022
Contact Person: Francesca Carota
Email: francesca.carota
mpi.nl
Registration Instructions:
https://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2022/trends-cognitive-neuroscience-language/?fbclid=IwAR1SraBNTXiU4N29owHMU0Uuw6XshPp8TzPz5z2IaXT1FVHVDeEXiOTYqzI Early bird: 1st of April 2022
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