Workshop on Language-Valence Interactions

This workshop brings together leading scholars on language and emotion from the US and Europe.

Invited speakers include:

Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University and Santa Fe Institute
Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Gun Semin, Utrecht University
Jesse Prinz, City University of New York and U.N.C. Chapel Hill
Didier Grandjean, University of Geneva
Disa Sauter, MPI for Psycholinguistics

Friday, 5 February (Talks are open to the community)

Program

9:00 Arrival and coffee (MPI Cafeteria)

9:20 Peter Hagoort
Welcome

9:30 Gun Semin
Facial muscles as affect and cognition shaping resources

10:30 Gina Kuperberg, 
ERP and fMRI studies of emotional language

11:30 Coffee break (MPI Cafeteria)

11:50 Jesse Prinz
When emotions are meanings: An affective approach to moral predicates

12:50 Lunch for speakers (MPI Cafeteria)

14:00 Ray Jackendoff
What language tells us about the conceptualization of affect

15:00 Didier Grandjean
Brain processes of emotional prosody perception

16:00 Coffee break (MPI Cafeteria)

16:20 Disa Sauter
Valence and emotions across cultures

Where and when:

09:00-17:00 Feb 5, 2010

MPI Conference room 163