CRIL

Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio

and

The CONTACT Project Learning and development of Contextual Action

Present an International Workshop

Is a neural theory of language possible?
Development of unified representations in natural and artificial systems 
 


View LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (pdf)
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Welcoming and introduction: Mirko Grimaldi (University of Salento) - Giulio Sandini (University of Genova)
 
 
Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena): Linguistic computations in the mind/brain
  
 
Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara): Action and language
  
 
Jacques Mehler (SISSA Trieste) - Andrea Calabrese (University of Connecticut)
 
 
Douglas Whalen (Haskins Laboratories – Connecticut): Gestures, features, and mirror neurons
"waiting for authorization"

 
 

Marina Nespor (University of Ferrara / SISSA Trieste): Rhythm and language acquisition

  
 
Andrew Nevins (Harvard University) - Bert Vaux (University of Cambridge)
 
 
Bruno Galantucci (Haskins Laboratories - Connecticut): The emergence of human communicative gestures
  
 
David Poeppel (University of Maryland) Dave Embick (University of Pennsylvania):
Syntactic computation and neurobiology
  
 
Alec Marantz (New York University) Andrea Moro (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano)
  
 
Art Glenberg (University of Winsconsin): Premotor cortex, action control, and language
  
 
Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge):
Towards a mechanistic theory of language grounded in perception-action circuits of the human brain
  
 
Gennaro Chierchia (Harvard University) Stefano Cappa (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano)
 
 
Joseph Perkell (Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT:
Movement goals and feedback and feedforward mechanisms in speech production
  
 
Yiannis Aloimonos (Computer Vision Laboratory University of Maryland) HAL: Human Activity Language
  
 
Jean-Luc Schwartz (Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble):
Morphogenesis of language units in a perceptuo-motor framework
 
 
Roger Moore (University of Shieffield): Predictive Sensorimotor Control and Emulation (PRESENCE):
Implications for Future Spoken Language Technology
  
 
Frank Guenther (Boston University): Auditory, somatosensory, and motor interactions in speech production