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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.

The institute is situated on the campus of the Radboud University. We participate in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and have particularly close ties to that institute's Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. We also participate in the Centre for Language Studies. A joint graduate school, the IMPRS in Language Sciences, links the Donders Institute, the CLS and the MPI.

 

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Workshop: Multimodality and Language Learning

On June 14, the Nijmegen Gesture Center (NGC) will hold its third workshop: Multimodality and Language Learning. The workshop will bring together international leading researchers who work with hearing and deaf children learning sign languages on topics including the role of body, iconicity, visual context, action perception/understanding, joint attention and multimodal input on language learning.

Workshop: Multimodality and Language Learning

June 13, 2012

There is cumulating evidence showing that language processing interacts with multimodal cues in the immediate visual context of communication, such as eye gaze, joint attention, meaningful hand gestures, objects referred to, et cetera. Thus, an important question is whether these visual, multimodal contextual cues modulate or support language learning in children. 

The workshop is supported by a European Research Council (ERC) Grant, an NWO Internationalisation Grant, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI), and the Center for Language Studies (CLS) at the Radboud University Nijmegen. It is an initiative of the Nijmegen Gesture Center.

Short discussions

There will be a short discussion, led by a discussant, after every three sessions. The set-up of this workshop is deliberately small to guarantee interactive discussions of the different topics that are presented in the sessions.

More information about the programme. 

See also the website of the workshop for registration and other information.

 

Last checked 2012-09-04 by Myrna Tinbergen

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