Program
Thursday April 8, 2021
09.30 - 10.00
Welcome
Peter Hagoort
10.00 - 11.00
Predicting and understanding speech
Matt Davis - University of Cambridge
11.00 - 12.00
Mechanisms of Auditory-motor Integration in Language Learning
Ruth de Diego Balaguer - University of Barcelona
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch Break
13.00 - 14.00
Prediction in language comprehension
Floris de Lange - Radboud University
14.00 - 15.00
Flexible redistribution in the language network
Gesa Hartwigsen - MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
15.00 - 15.30
Coffee/Tea
15.30 - 16.30
Efficient communication - not enabling complex thought – is the computational goal of the language system
Ev Fedorenko - MIT
16.30 - 17.30
Nature and nurture in neurocognitive development: Insights from studies with blind individuals
Marina Bedny - Johns Hopkins University
17.30 - 17.45
Wine
17.45 - 18.45
What will the future bring? Flexibility of prediction during language processing
Tamara Swaab - University of Californa, Davis
Friday April 9, 2021
09.30 - 10.30
Neurobiology vs. electrophysiology of language: a contradiction
Ina Bornkessel - University of South Australia
10.30 - 11.30
Language in the brain must stay faithful to formal and physiological principles
Andrea E. Martin - MPI for Psycholinguistics/ Radboud University
11.30 - 11.45
Coffee/Tea
11.45 - 12.45
Drawing inferences about word production in context
Vitoria Piai - Radboud University
12.45 - 13.45
A parallel processing architecture for language in the brain
Giosué Baggio - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
13.45 - 14.45
Afternoon Break
14.45 - 15.45
Building bridges between computation and implementation for natural language understanding
Jonathan Brennan - University of Michigan
15.45 - 16.45
More thought, less ‘words’: reframing the questions in neurobiology of syntax and semantics
Ellen Lau - University of Maryland
16.45 - 17.00
Coffee/Tea
17.00 - 18.00
The future will be relevant
Roel Willems - Radboud University
18.00 - 18.30
Final remarks
Peter Hagoort
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