Nijmegen Gesture Centre (NGC) -

Events

NGC Lecture
Title: Semantic representation
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gabriella Vigliocco (Psychology Department - Language and Cognition Labratory-, University College London
Date (and time): April 9th, 2013 (10:30 h)
Place: MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, room 163
NGC Lecture
Title: Gesture, speech, and communication: Exploring gesture style and covert gesture activation
Speaker: Thomas C. Gunter (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany)
Date (and time): March 25th, 2013 (13:30 – 14:30 h)
Place: MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, room 336
NGC Lecture
Title: Collateral communication with hand and facial gestures
Speaker: Janet Bavelas (University of Victoria, Department of Psychology)
Date (and time): March 12th, 2013 (11:00 – 12:00 h)
Place: MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, room 236

Dynamic Multi-modal Communication Workshop - Part 2
Work in progress by members of the Nijmegen Gesture Center
Date (and time): March 28th, 2013 (11:00 - 17:00 h)
Place: Amsterdam Gesture Center, based at the Vrije Universiteit/VU

Dynamic Multi-modal Communication Workshop - Part 1
Work in progress by members of the Amsterdam Gesture Center
Date (and time): November 12th, 2012 (11:30 - 17:00 h)
Place: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Visual modes of language: Gesture and Sign
Course in MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and MA in Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
Scheduled: 1st semester, 2nd period
Lecturers: prof. dr. H.A. Ozyurek, dr. O.A. Crasborn, dr. M. Gullberg
Objectives: Most research on language takes speech as the main domain of investigation. However, speakers use not only speech but also meaningful hand movements called ‘gestures' when they speak. Furthermore, deaf communities use sign languages that are produced and perceived only in the visual-spatial modality. This course aims to give an interdisciplinary and state of the art overview of the role of the body in the structuring, functioning and the development of the human language faculty. The course will present findings from these new fields relating them to discussions of embodied cognition and semantics, situated use of language, the link between language and action and their neural correlates.

Gesture and Sign Language
Course in BA in Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen
Scheduled: 2nd semester
Lecturers: dr. O.A. Crasborn, prof. dr. H.A. Ozyurek
Content: Wat maakt gebarentalen tot echte talen en in hoeverre zijn ze te vergelijken met gesproken talen? Deze vragen staan centraal in deze cursus. De meer dan 120 gebarentalen in de wereld vormen een belangrijke bron van bewijsmateriaal voor onze ideeën over wat menselijke taal precies is. In deze module zal vooral bekeken worden hoe Nederlandse Gebarentaal eruit ziet, hoe hij is ontstaan en samenleeft met het gesproken Nederlands en hoe de beeldende kracht van gebaren zich tot een complexe grammatica kan ontwikkelen.

TiGeR 2013: Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting
The combined meeting of the 10th International Gesture Workshop (GW) and the 3rd Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN) conference
Speakers: (several speakers, see the program for more information)
Date: June 19th - 21st, 2013
Place: Tilburg center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC), Tilburg University
First International Tarragona Laterality Conference: Multi-disciplinary meeting of the latest research on handedness and laterality in humans and primates.
Speaker: (several speakers, see the program for more information)
Date: February 11th - 13th, 2013
Place: Tarragona, Spain
Schultink Lecture (part of LOT Winter School 2013)
Title: Sign languages: emergence & transmission
Speaker: Victoria Nyst
Date (and time): January 16th, 2013 (19:30 – 21:00 h)
Place: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden