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SUMMARY:How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language - Dr Lars Meyer (M
 PI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences\, Leipzig)
DTSTART:20231124T163000Z
DTEND:20231124T180000Z
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CONTACT:John Mollon
DESCRIPTION:The many roles of periodic electrophysiological activity—so-
 called neural oscillations—for auditory and linguistic processing are be
 ing widely investigated. Oscillatory cycles are thought to provide process
 ing time windows for acoustic and abstract units. Most work has studied su
 ch functions in response to speech\, that is\, driven by acoustic or abstr
 act cues available from the stimulus. My presentation inverts this perspec
 tive\, showing how oscillations shape comprehension\, acquisition\, and la
 nguage as such from the inside out. First\, I discuss evidence for an endo
 genous role of slow-frequency 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 o
 f prosody and syntax across the world’s languages. Third\, I present cro
 ss-sectional electrophysiological results that suggest a tight relationshi
 p between the ontogenetic maturation of electrophysiology—from slow to f
 ast—and the parallel refinement of the temporal resolution of acoustic
 –phonological processing. I sum\, I argue that neural oscillations pose 
 an electrophysiological bottleneck for language acquisition\, comprehensio
 n and language as a cultural system.
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of  Psychology
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