Brain Imaging of Language

by

Christophe Pallier

There will be a series of four lectures all taking place in the Conference room (Campbell 2122)

Friday, January 27th, 2-4pm

Monday, January 30th, 1-3pm

Wednesday, February 1st, 1-3pm

Friday, February 3rd, 2-4pm

Christophe Pallier will also give a general colloquium on Friday January 27th, 11am-1pm (usual time, usual place on one of the topics below - most likely langauge and music).

All welcome.

General Description ( more details will follow):

What can brain imaging tell us about the cerebral bases of language?

This series of lectures will begin with an overview of modern brain imaging methods, focusing on how images of the functioning brain are obtained. Applications of these techniques to issues in speech perception and sentence processing (especially syntactic parsing) will be presented, as well as some work in the neighboring domain of perception of musical structure. Lastly, one lecture will be devoted to research on the cerebral correlates of language acquisition and bilingualism.