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300157 SE The Neuroscience of Language (2025W)
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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von Do 11.09.2025 14:00 bis Do 25.09.2025 18:00
- Abmeldung bis Mi 15.10.2025 18:00
Details
max. 19 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 13:15-16:15, during the October and November 2025. Note that the first session will be shorter, it will last approximately 1 hour and 15 mins and will be an organizational session aimed at introducing the seminar and assigning papers for the student presentations.
Friday 03.10.2025 13:15 - 14:30Friday 10.10.2025 13:15 - 16:30
Friday 17.10.2025 13:15 - 16:30
Friday 07.11.2025 13:15 - 16:30
Friday 14.11.2025 13:15 - 16:30
Friday 21.11.2025 13:15 - 16:30
Friday 28.11.2025 13:15 - 16:30
- Freitag 03.10. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 10.10. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 17.10. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 07.11. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 14.11. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 21.11. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
- Freitag 28.11. 13:15 - 16:30 PC-Seminarraum 3, Kolingasse 14-16, OG02
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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) a written exam, done during the last session, 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 exam (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 17h on Friday Oct. 3rd (i.e. on the day of the first, organizational session; after that, de-registrations will result in an insufficient grade). Also, you need to provide valid justification (e.g. a doctor’s 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.
Attendance requirements can be established, in particular, if active participation or collaboration among students is necessary to achieve the teaching and learning objectives, or if partial assessments need to be completed.
Attendance requirements can be established, in particular, if active participation or collaboration among students is necessary to achieve the teaching and learning objectives, or if partial assessments need to be completed.
Prüfungsstoff
The content of the lectures, the readings and the discussions that take place during the seminar will be relevant for the written exam.
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
CoBeNe W2
Letzte Änderung: Di 30.09.2025 14:47
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. Importantly, the presenters need to find ways to stimulate discussion and animate their fellow students.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.