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SoSe 19: Progress in Brain Language Research

Friedemann Pulvermüller

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This research seminar focuses on reviewing and discussing recent progress in the cognitive neuroscience of language. It has four main strands. 1) External speakers will set the stage for focused discussion of cutting edge research in the field. 2) In depth reviews of research publications will provide insights into recent progress in brain language research. 3) Researchers at the FU Berlin’s Brain Language Laboratory will present their own research plans and aspects of their ongoing research to open discussion of future research perspectives. 4) BA and MA students from the Arbeitsbereich ‘Neuroscience of Language and Pragmatics’ will introduce their project plans and results to receive comments, assistance and guidance. Hot topics that will form the seminar’s foci in the new semester include the neural manifestations of linguistic-semantic and -pragmatic prediction, mapping words semantics onto the brain, the simulation of brain language mechanisms using mathematical models and language therapy after stroke. Recommended reading: Dreyer, F. R., & Pulvermüller, F. (2018). Abstract semantics in the motor system? - An event-related fMRI study on passive reading of semantic word categories carrying abstract emotional and mental meaning. Cortex, 100, 52-70. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.021 Miller, T. M., Schmidt, T. T., Blankenburg, F., & Pulvermüller, F. (2018). Verbal labels facilitate tactile perception. Cognition, 171, 172-179. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2017.10.010 Pulvermüller, F. (2018). Neurobiological Mechanisms for Semantic Feature Extraction and Conceptual Flexibility. Top Cogn Sci, 10(3), 590-620. doi:10.1111/tops.12367 Tomasello, R., Garagnani, M., Wennekers, T., & Pulvermüller, F. (2018). A Neurobiologically Constrained Cortex Model of Semantic Grounding With Spiking Neurons and Brain-Like Connectivity. Front Comput Neurosci, 12, 88. doi:10.3389/fncom.2018.00088 Schließen