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CATEGORIES:Zangwill Club
SUMMARY:How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language - 
 Dr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain S
 ciences\, Leipzig)
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231124T163000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/201910
DESCRIPTION:The many roles of periodic electrophysiological ac
 tivity—so-called neural oscillations—for auditory 
 and linguistic processing are being widely investi
 gated. Oscillatory cycles are thought to provide p
 rocessing time windows for acoustic and abstract u
 nits. Most work has studied such functions in resp
 onse to speech\, that is\, driven by acoustic or a
 bstract cues available from the stimulus. My prese
 ntation inverts this perspective\, showing how osc
 illations shape comprehension\, acquisition\, and 
 language as such from the inside out. First\, I di
 scuss evidence for an endogenous role of slow-freq
 uency oscillations in the formation of multi-word 
 chunks during auditory comprehension and reading. 
 Second\, I show that the neural rhythm of chunking
  may be reflected in the temporal architecture of 
 prosody and syntax across the world’s languages. T
 hird\, I present cross-sectional electrophysiologi
 cal results that suggest a tight relationship betw
 een the ontogenetic maturation of electrophysiolog
 y—from slow to fast—and the parallel refinement of
  the temporal resolution of acoustic–phonological 
 processing. I sum\, I argue that neural oscillatio
 ns pose an electrophysiological bottleneck for lan
 guage acquisition\, comprehension and language as 
 a cultural system.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psyc
 hology
CONTACT:John Mollon
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