Colloquium WiSe 2024/2025
INTRODUCTION
This seminar is for BA, MA and PhD students and for researchers interested in language science. The course will focus on reviewing and discussing recent progress in the cognitive neuroscience of language and in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The seminar has four main strands:
1. BA/MA Presentations: BA and MA candidates working in the field of semantics, pragmatics or brain language research will present their work plans and first results,
2. Research Updates: Researchers at the FU Berlin’s Brain Language Laboratory will present their ongoing work and explain their recent findings or summarize their recent publications,
3. Journal Club Presentation: Recently published remarkable research articles in the fields of brain language research, semantics and pragmatics will be reviewed by the participants to highlight the progress in the field,
4. Guest Lectures: National and international expert speakers will present their research in cognitive neuroscience of language and linguistics.
There will be a focus on research related to the ongoing ERC Advanced Grant Project Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition (MatCo), where we are trying to specify the mechanistic neuronal circuits underlying human language use. Ongoing research from a range of other current research endeavors will also be featured. Most presentations will be given in English, but presentations in German are welcome too. Students and researchers who are interested to participate in this colloquium are kindly requested to contact Verena.Arndt@fu-berlin.de or Friedemann Pulvermüller.
MORE INFORMATION
Colloquium/Seminar
Hosted by: Friedemann Pulvermüller
Semester: WiSe 2024/2025
Zeit/Time: Mi/Wed 16-18 h (start: 16:15h)
Ort/Location: FU Berlin, room JK 31/122 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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Current Program for the Winter Semester 2024/2025.
Please note that updates may occur, so check back regularly!
| Date | Type of contribution/Speaker | Topic |
| 30.10.24 |
Conference Update by those from the BLL who attended the event |
Academy of Aphasia Conference 2024, Nara, Japan |
| 06.11.24 | NO COLLOQUIUM! | NO COLLOQUIUM! |
| 13.11.24 |
Journal club presentation by Effy Ntemou, BLL Lab |
What we mean when we say ‘semantic’: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary (Reilly et al.) |
| 20.11.24 |
Research Update by Laura Ciaccio, BLL Lab |
Results of a novel big semantic rating study of 480 German nouns and verbs |
| 27.11.24 |
Guest Lecture by Dr Vadim Nikulin, Max-Planck-Institute, Leipzig |
Unifying evoked responses and oscillations in EEG/MEG research |
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03.12.24 |
Guest Lecture by Prof Dr Angelika Redder, Universität Hamburg |
Versprachlichen, Verbalisieren, Formulieren – zentrale kognitive Prozesse beim (mehr)sprachlichen Handeln *Important: other room - Raum L116 im Seminarzentrum; the talk is on Tuesday not Wednesday |
| 11.12.24 | NO COLLOQUIUM! | NO COLLOQUIUM! |
| 18.12.24 |
Guest Lecture by Jonas Leferink Journal club presentation by Tally M. Miller, BLL Lab |
Meaning as a kind of hallucination? (Leferink) Grounded cognition entails linguistic relativity: A neglected implication of a major semantic theory. (Kemmerer) Topics in Cognitive Science 15.4 (2023): 615-647 (Miller |
| 08.01.25 |
Research Update by Lorenzo Stroppa & Fynn Dobler, BLL Lab |
Developmental trajectories of concrete and abstract semantic learning |
| 15.01.25 |
Research Update by Luigi Grisoni & Effy Ntemou, BLL |
Phonological activity in the sensorimotor system? – ECoG data presentation |
| 22.01.25 |
Research Update by Johann Berger & Laura Ciaccio, BLL Lab |
Research Report on BraVov EEG results - as part of MA Thesis by Johann Berger (Berger & Ciaccio) |
| 29.01.25 |
MA Presentation by Lilly Schrewe |
Project plan for her MA thesis - "Kommunikationsanalyse von therapeutischen Dialogen" (Schrewe) |
| 05.02.25 |
Research Update by Laura Ciaccio, Milena Osterloh, BLL |
Results of MatCo BraVoc EEG study |
| 12.02.25 |
Research Update by Kubra Fatulajewa & Anna-Thekla Jäger, BLL [tbc] |
Structural changes in grey matter across intensive language action therapy |