Programme
International Workshop
Language, Music, and Cognition: Psychological and neurocognitive Modelling
of Action, Perception, Processing and Learning
To download the workshop programme/ overview of posters (poster session) click here.
The abstracts of the talks are now available here.
Thursday, 27th September: Syntax and Semantics
| 10.45– 11.00 | opening |
| 11.00– 11.45 | Petra Schumacher (University of Mainz / University of Cologne) Adjusting meaning in real-time
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| 11.50– 12.35 | Steven Frisson (University of Birmingham) Online semantic interpretation during reading |
| 12.35– 02.00 | lunch break |
| 02.00– 02.45 | Andrea E. Martin (University of Edinburgh) Cue-based retrieval interference during sentence comprehension: ERP evidence from ellipsis |
| 02.50– 03.35 | Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky / Matthias Schlesewsky Dorsal and ventral streams in language: Puzzles and possible solutions |
| 03.40– 04.25 | Mante S. Nieuwland (University of Edinburgh) ERP evidence for animacy processing asymmetries during Spanish sentence comprehension |
| 04.25– 04.45 | coffee break |
| 04.45– 05.30 | Jutta Mueller (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig) First steps towards language: Auditory artificial grammar learning across development |
| 05.35– 06.20 | Gert Westermann, (Lancaster University) Experience-dependent brain development as a key to understanding the systematicity of linguistic representations |
| 8.00 | informal get-together, restaurant / bar will be announced |
Friday, 28th September: Language and Music
| 10.00– 10.45 | Barbara Tillmann (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center CRNL) Music and language structure processing: What is shared? |
10.50– | Evelina Fedorenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Syntactic processing in language and music: Existence of overlapping circuits does not imply lack of specialized ones |
| 11.40– 12.25 | Yun Nan (Beijing Normal University) Cross-domain pitch processing in music and Mandarin: perceptual and post-perceptual basis |
| 12.25– 02.00 | lunch break |
| 02.00– 02.45 | Kazuo Okanoya (Riken Lab / University of Tokyo) Segmentation in Language and Music: Statistical and Emotional Cues |
| 02.50– 03.35 | Julie Chobert (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Marseille) Influence of musical training on the preattentive processing of syllables in normal-reading children and children with dyslexia. |
| 03.40– 04.25 | Daniela Sammler (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig) Neuroanatomical overlap of syntax in music and language |
04.30– | poster session (coffee break included) |
06.00– | Thomas Bever (University of Arizona, Tuscon) There are at least two “normal” neurological organizations for language and music. |
| 08.00 | informal get-together, restaurant / bar will be announced |
Saturday, 29th September: Prosody, Sign language, and Gesture
| 10.00– 10.45 | Richard Wiese (University of Marburg) Formal representations of rhythm in speech and music |
| 10.50– 11.35 | Mara E. Breen (Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts) Empirical investigations of the role of implicit prosody in sentence processing |
| 11.40– 12.25 | Martha Tyrone (Haskins Lab, Long Island University – Brooklyn) Prosody and Limb Movement in American Sign Language |
| 12.25– 02.00 | lunch break |
| 02.00– 02.45 | Markus Steinbach (University of Göttingen) When gestures become signs - The integration of gestures into sign languages |
| 02.50– 03.35 | Ulrike Domahs (University of Marburg) Language specific processing of word prosody |
| coffee break / departure of attendees |
To download the workshop programme/ overview of posters (poster session) click here.