The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM), the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) and the Psycho-Neurolinguistics Lab at the University of Reading are jointly organising a day workshop titled: “fMRI and language processing: State of the art and future directions”.
This event will look into contemporary approaches in the study of language processing with the use of functional MRI and related methods. It will bring together early career and established researchers and will comprise a state-of-the-art snapshot in the field, as well help discuss and unveil potential future directions for research.
Date: 13/12/2017
Venue: Palmer 1.09, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, UK, RG6 6AL
Registration now open! For more information, and to register for free, visit the workshop website (https://christoslab.wordpress.com/fmri_language/)
Keynote speakers:
Andrea Santi (UCL)
Jenni Rodd (UCL)
Mirjana Bozic (University of Cambridge)
Etienne Roesch (University of Reading)
This free event is organised by the Neuroscience theme of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM), and is co-funded by CeLM and CINN.
Workshop programme:
9.00-9.20 Registration
Session 1: Introduction and methodology
9.20-9.30 Introduction Christos Pliatsikas and Theo Marinis (CeLM, CINN)
9.30-10.30 Etienne Roesch (University of Reading): fMRI: The method and its applications
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 2: Syntax and semantics
11.00-12.00 Andrea Santi (University College London): fMRI Studies of Syntactic Processing: A Prediction-based Account
12.00-13.00 Jenni Rodd (University College London): What can (and cannot) be learned from fMRI: lessons from 15 years of research on lexical ambiguity
13.00-14.00 Lunch break (Light lunch will be provided)
Session 3: Morphology
14.00-15.00 Mirjana Bozic (University of Cambridge): Combinatorial language capacities in their neurobiological context
15.00-15.30 Natalia Slioussar (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) and Maxim Kireev (Institute of the Human Brain, Russian Academy of Sciences): Morphological regularity and processing difficulty in a lexical decision fMRI study on Russian
15.30-16.00 Swetlana Schuster (University of Oxford) et al. : The neural correlates of morphological structure detection in complex pseudowords
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30 Roundtable discussion
Note that posters will be presented throughout the day
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