200225 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn (2024W)
The Neuroscience of Language
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Vertiefungsseminare können nur fürs Pflichtmodul B verwendet werden! Eine Verwendung fürs Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist nicht möglich.
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Mo 02.09.2024 09:00 bis Mi 25.09.2024 09:00
- Abmeldung bis Fr 11.10.2024 12:00
Details
max. 20 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
The blocked seminar will take place over six 3-hour sessions, from 10h-13h, on the above listed mornings (10h-13h) during the December 2024. Note the *different* seminar rooms on the different days!
- N Montag 02.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Mittwoch 04.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
- Montag 09.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Mittwoch 11.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 13.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 18 Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Montag 16.12. 09:45 - 13:00 Seminarraum 16, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
The grade will be based on 1) the oral presentation of a scientific article (40% of grade), 2) one written homework assignment designed to assess integration and understanding of the material presented in the course and of mandatory readings (40% of grade), and 3) class participation (20% of grade).
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
To pass, students will be required to present a scientific paper (40%), to do a written assignment (40%) and to participate actively in the seminar, asking questions and contributing to discussions (20%). Also, to receive credit for the seminar you cannot miss more than one session, AND you can only deregister by 16h on Tuesday Dec 3rd (i.e. after that, de-registrations will result in an insufficient grade). Also, you need to provide valid justification (e.g. a doctors note) for any missed session, and should you miss a session you will be asked to complete an extra assignment on the topic of the missed lecture.
Prüfungsstoff
The content of the lectures, the readings and the discussions that take place during the seminar will be relevant for the homework assignment.
Literatur
The mandatory and optional readings will be made available via moodle to students who register for the course. Readings will include research papers and book chapters.Examples of mandatory readings:
• Hickok G, Poeppel D, Opinion - The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8 (5):393-402 (2007).
• Friederici, AD, The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension. Trends Cogn Sci 16, 262-268 (2012).
• Indefrey, P., Levelt, W. J. The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components. Cognition 92, 101-144 (2004).
• Ding, N., Melloni, L., Zhang, H., Tian, X. & Poeppel, D. Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech. Nat Neurosci 19, 158-164 (2016).Recommended general textbooks:
Kemmerer (2015): Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Taylor & Francis (digital copies of the book chapters will be made available to the students).
Hickok & Small (2015): Neurobiology of Language, Academic Press.
• Hickok G, Poeppel D, Opinion - The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8 (5):393-402 (2007).
• Friederici, AD, The cortical language circuit: from auditory perception to sentence comprehension. Trends Cogn Sci 16, 262-268 (2012).
• Indefrey, P., Levelt, W. J. The spatial and temporal signatures of word production components. Cognition 92, 101-144 (2004).
• Ding, N., Melloni, L., Zhang, H., Tian, X. & Poeppel, D. Cortical tracking of hierarchical linguistic structures in connected speech. Nat Neurosci 19, 158-164 (2016).Recommended general textbooks:
Kemmerer (2015): Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Taylor & Francis (digital copies of the book chapters will be made available to the students).
Hickok & Small (2015): Neurobiology of Language, Academic Press.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Mi 18.09.2024 14:46
1. To acquire a wide perspective on the research and questions on the neural basis of language.
2. To develop critical reading skills.Course description:
The seminar, which will take place entirely in English, will cover the themes of brain functional and structural correlates of speech and language, and more specifically, of the brain networks underlying language processing at different levels of processing (phonological, semantic, syntactic and prosodic). It will also cover the theme of brain plasticity arising from language learning and from language expertise.There will be one to two mandatory readings per session. During each session, there will be a lecture on the topic(s) of the session, followed by student presentations of the mandatory reading(s). The presentations will be done by one student or by groups of 2-3 students, depending on the number of students who register for the seminar. The presentation has to cover the study background, methods, results and discussion, and students need to critically discuss the main results of the study and its limitations. If the paper is a review or opinion paper, the student will summarize and critically discuss its contents.There are no prerequisites for taking this seminar. It will include introductions to brain imaging methods, and to neuroanatomy and to the functional anatomy of language. Solid knowledge of spoken and written English is, however, required.