Fall 2007 Language Mind Brain Seminar

Lg Mind Brain Seminar, Fall 2007: Schedule and Readings
• Class will normally meet on Mondays 12:50-3:40 in Psych A-256 (but see Weeks 4,5).
• Readings are in the ‘course documents’ section on the Blackboard site for this class.
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Wk 1, Sept. 10: General Intro
• Discussion of course format, requirements, etc.
• Discussion of course goals, issues. Recommended reading:
Poeppel, D. and D. Embick (2005) Defining the relation between linguistics and neuroscience. In A. Cutler (ed.) Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones, 103-118. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Tutorial by Prof. Nancy Squires (Psychology) on ERP methodology.

Wk 2, Sept. 17: Barbara Conboy, U. Washington http://ilabs.washington.edu:16080/scientists/conboy/conboy.html
Conboy, B. and D. Mills (2006) Two languages, one developing brain: event-related potentials to words in bilingual toddlers. Developmental Science 9 (1), F1-F12.
Osterhout, L., J. McLaughlin, I. Pitkänen, C. Frenck-Mestre, and N. Molinaro (2006) Novice learners, longitudinal designs, and event-related potentials: a means for exploring the neurocognition of second language processing. Language Learning 56 (s1), 199-230.
McLaughlin, J., L. Osterhout, and A. Kim (2004) Neural correlates of second-language word learning: minimal instruction produces rapid change. Nature Neuroscience 7 (7), 703-704.
Conboy, B.T., M. Rivera-Gaxiola, J. Silva-Pereyra, & P. Kuhl (in press) Event-related potential studies of early language processing: from phonemes, to words, to sentences. In A.D. Friederici & G. Thierry (eds.) Early language development: bridging brain and behaviour, Trends in language acquisition research series. Amsterdam/The Netherlands: John Benjamins.
OPTIONAL: Alvarez, R., P. Holcomb, and J. Grainger (2003) Accessing word meaning in two languages: an event-related brain potential study of beginning bilinguals. Brain and Language 87, 290-304.

Wk 3, Sept. 24: David Gow, MGH Neurobiology Lab
http://dem0nmac.mgh.harvard.edu/neuropsych/gowvita.html
Gow, D.W. (2003) Feature parsing: Feature cue mapping in spoken word recognition. Perception and Psychophysics 65, 575-590.
Seth, A.K. (2005) Causal connectivity of evolved neural networks during behavior. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 16, 35-54

Wk 4, TWO CLASSES THIS WEEK
Monday, Oct. 1:David Poeppel, U Md. http://www.ling.umd.edu/Poeppel/
PLUS evening lecture: ‘The relation(s) between linguistics and neurobiology’
Oct. 1 at 5:30 pm in Wang Center, Lecture Hall One
Poeppel & Embick (see Introductory Readings)
Hickok, G. and D. Poeppel (2007) The cortical organization of speech processing. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 8, 393-402.
Luo, H. and D. Poeppel (2007) Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex. Neuron 54, 1001-1010.
Fiorentino, R. and D. Poeppel (2007) Compound words and structure in the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes.

Wednesday, Oct. 3, 12:50-3:40 in Psych A113 (note new room): Helen Neville, U. Oregon http://bdl.uoregon.edu/Personnel/people.html?helen
PLUS Tuesday lecture: ‘Experience shapes human brain development and function’
Yamada, Y. and H. Neville (2007) An ERP study of syntactic processing in English and nonsense sentences. Brain Research 1130, 167-180.
Sanders, L., E. Newport, and H. Neville (2002) Segmenting nonsense: an event-related potential index of perceived onsets in continuous speech. Nature Neuroscience 5, 700-703.
Stevens, C., L. Sanders, and H. Neville (2006) Neurophysiological evidence for selective auditory attention deficits in children with specific language impairment. Brain Research 1111, 143-152.
Neville, H. (2006). Different profiles of plasticity within human cognition. In Munakata, Y. and M. Johnson (eds.) Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development: Attention and Performance XXI, 288-314. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Wk 5, Oct. 8: NO CLASS THIS WEEK (because of extra class on 10/3)

Wk 6, Oct. 15: Tutorial on brain anatomy (Prof. Hoi-Chung Leung, SBU); Discussion of material to date

Wk 7, Oct. 22: Christophe Pallier, INSERM CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Group
http://www.pallier.org/
Davis, M. & I. Johnsrude (2003) Hierarchical processing in spoken language comprehension. Journal of Neuroscience Apr 23(8):3423-31.
Chee, M., C. Soon, H. Lee, and C. Pallier (2004) Left insula activation: A marker for language attainment in bilinguals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (US),101(42):15265-15270.

Wk 8, Oct. 29: Karen Emmorey, SDSU/UCSD http://emmoreylab.sdsu.edu/
Emmorey, K. (2002) Chapter 9, Sign language and the brain. In K. Emmorey (ed.) Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign Language Research, 271-314. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Wk 9, Nov. 5: Cyma van Petten, U Arizona http://www.u.arizona.edu/~vanpettc/
Van Petten, C., & Luka, B.L. (2006). Neural localization of semantic contexteffects in electromagnetic and hemodynamic studies. Brain and Language, 97, 279-293.
Van Petten, C., Coulson, S., Rubin, S., Plante, E., & Parks, M. (1999). Timecourse of word identification and semantic integration in spoken language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25, 394-417.
Coulson, S., & Van Petten, C. (2007). A special role for the right hemisphere in metaphor comprehension? ERP evidence from hemifield presentation. Brain Research, 1146, 128-145.
OPTIONAL: Kutas, M., Van Petten, C., & Kluender, R. (2006). Psycholinguistics electrified II: 1995-2005. In M. Traxler & M.A. Gernsbacher (Eds.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics, second edition (pp 659-724). New York: Elsevier.

Wk 10, Nov. 12: Barry Horwitz, NIH http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=223
Horwitz, B., Braun, A.R.: Brain network interactions in auditory, visual and linguistic processing, Brain and Language 89: 377-384, 2004.
Horwitz, B., Glabus, M.: Neural modeling and functional brain imaging: The interplay between data-fitting and simulation approaches, Int. Rev. Neurobiol. 66: 267-290, 2005.
Horwitz, B., Husain, F.T.: Simulation framework for large-scale brain systems, In Handbook of Brain Connectivity, ed. by V. Jirsa and A. R. McIntosh, Springer (in press).

Wk 11, Nov. 19: Categorical perception
Guenther, Frank, Alfonso Nieto-Castanon, Satrajit Ghosh, and Jason Tourville. February 2004. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 47, 46-57.
Westermann, Gert and Eduardo Reck Miranda. 2004. A new model of sensorimotor coupling in the development of speech. Brain and Language 89, 393-400.

Wk 12, Nov. 26: Processing of relative clauses
Ueno, Mieko and Susan M. Garnsey. 2007. An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese. Ms.

Wk 13, Dec. 3: Morton Gernsbacher, U. Wisconsin http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/FACULTY/GERNSBACHER.HTML

Wk 14, Dec. 10: Summary