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NEOLEX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LEXICON ACQUISITION @ CFIN

Including Matthias Müller's talk on attention-emotion-interaction!

Info about event

Time

Wednesday 25 November 2015,  at 09:00 - 18:00

Location

CFIN meeting room 5th floor, AUH, Building 10G, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus C

Organizer

CFIN

CFIN organizes a workshop on lexicon acquisition with a bunch of superb speakers, for program see below!

Please note, that Matthias Müller's talk on attention-emotion interacting is now integrated in this event, thus taking place at 11:30 at Cfin!

The workshop is free of charge, but please register with henry@pet.auh.dk! 

PROGRAM: 

09:00 - 09:15       Welcome and introductory notes. Neolex project and word acquisition research at CFIN 
Yury Shtyrov, Aarhus University 

09:15 - 10:15

Aarhus CFIN slot:

Rapid learning and consolidation of novel lexicon and morphosyntax in human neocortex
Alina Leminen, Aarhus University

Neural processes underlying fast mapping of novel word forms in children
Eino Partanen, Aarhus University

Acquisition of morphologically complex words is simpler for children than adults
Miika Leminen, University of Helsinki

Motor cortical oscillations index differences in action-semantic language processing in L1 and L2 speakers
Nikola Vukovic, Aarhus University

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30

Helsinki slot:

Plasticity in low-level language processing in early childhood
Teija Kujala, University of Helsinki

11:30 - 12:30

Special lecture:

Distracted by emotion: Biasing competition for processing resources by emotional stimuli in early visual cortex of the human brain
Matthias Müller, University of Leipzig

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Lund psychology slot:

Hippocampal plasticity and associative memory in language learning
Johan Mårtensson, University of Lund

14:30 - 14:45 Break

14:45 - 15:45

Oslo slot:

The vocabulary learning challenge - How can we improve learning efficiency?
Janne von Koss Torkildsen, University of Oslo

15:45 - 16:45

Lund SOL slot:

Introduction to neurolinguistics research at the University of Lund
Merle Horne, University of Lund

Implicit learning of Swedish word accents – mechanisms and applications
Andrea Schremm & Mikael Roll, University of Lund

Neural bases of the earliest stages of second language acquisition in a morphological tone language – Preliminary data
Sabine Gosselke-Berthelsen, University of Lund

16:45 - 18:00 Further presentations (TBA) + lab tour