MPI Colloquium Series - Program 2011

January 18
Anne-Lise Giraud
Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris, France
Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech and language

February 15
Östen Dahl
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
The structure of human memory and tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality (TAME)

March 15
Dianne Newbury
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University
Genetic investigations of speech and language disorders

April 19
D. Robert Ladd
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
Gradience in linguistic and psycholinguistic perspective

May 17
Sven Mattys
University of Bristol
Penetrability of the speech system by cognitive load

June 21
Barbara Kaup
Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen
The experiential-simulation view of language comprehension: How is meaning composed?

September 27
Timothy Bates
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences,
University of Edinburgh
What can genetics do to advance the science of language and cognition?

October 18
Shakti Lamba
Human Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Anthropology, University College London
The evolution of large-scale cooperation in humans

November 15
Padraic Monaghan
Lancaster University
Design features of language: Language universals emerging from general purpose learning constraints