200225 SE Advanced Seminar: Mind and Brain (2023S)
Neuroscience of Language
Continuous assessment of course work
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Dieses Vertiefungsseminar kann für folgende Schwerpunkte absolviert werden:
Geist und Gehirn
Klinische Psychologie und GesundheitspsychologieVertiefungsseminare können nur für das Pflichtmodul B verwendet werden! Eine Verwendung für das Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist nicht möglich.
Geist und Gehirn
Klinische Psychologie und GesundheitspsychologieVertiefungsseminare können nur für das Pflichtmodul B verwendet werden! Eine Verwendung für das Modul A4 Freie Fächer ist nicht möglich.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 02.02.2023 09:00 to Th 23.02.2023 09:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 03.03.2023 09:00
Details
max. 20 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
24.05.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Friday
26.05.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Wednesday
31.05.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Friday
02.06.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Wednesday
07.06.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Friday
09.06.
09:45 - 12:45
Seminarraum 15, Kolingasse 14-16, OG01
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
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).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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 within the first day after the first session – by Thursday May 25th (i.e. after that, de-registrations will result in an insufficient grade). Also, should you miss a session you will be asked to complete an extra assignment on the topic of the missed lecture.
Examination topics
The content of the lectures, the readings and the discussions that take place during the seminar will be relevant for the homework assignment.
Reading list
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.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: We 01.02.2023 00:07
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.