Language in Interaction

12/01/2022

Dear subscribers to this Language in Interaction account!
Our consortium has decided not to use this Facebook account any more.
The official news of our consortium will be announced on Twitter () and the official website www.languageininteraction.nl

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. It is the basis of culture and social life. It comes in many ... Read more

22/06/2021

Nick Ramsey's Lab released a new paper "Open multimodal iEEG-fMRI dataset from naturalistic stimulation with a short audiovisual film" about a large open naturalistic brain dataset. The abstract and the full article can by found here:

Intracranial human recordings are a valuable and rare resource that the whole neuroscience community can benefit from. Making such data available to the neuroscience community not only helps tackle the reproducibility issues in science, it also helps make more use of this valuable data. The latter i...

03/06/2021

On June 21st 2021 at 11.30 hrs. dr. Jixing Li will give a talk on computational modeling of pronoun resolution in the brain "Referential processing in the brain: Computational modeling converges on a memory-retrieval mechanism".
Everyone interested in the topic is welcome! For more information please visit the website www.languageininteraction.nl

26/05/2021

Onze partner NEMO Kennislink is samen met InScience filmfestival een nieuw initiatief gestart: de online Science Filmclub! Iedere eerste woensdag van de maand wordt er een wetenschapsfilm online vertoond met een inleiding en nagesprek (met wetenschappers) door redacteurs van NEMO Kennislink. Meer info:

InScience filmfestival en NEMO Kennislink starten de online Science Filmclub: iedere eerste woensdag van de maand komen we online bijeen om samen een wetenschapsfilm te bekijken en deze met onderzoekers en elkaar te bespreken.

29/03/2021

The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics celebrates its 40th anniversary with a series of scientific events. One of these events is a two-day meeting on the topic of The Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward.

Rather than looking back, we would like to see from the contributions of the speakers what the challenges and the promises are for the neurobiology of language, a field that in its current form has a much shorter history than our institute. The research of the invited speakers has opened promising avenues, which we would like to hear more about from a forward-looking perspective.

Webinars are free to attend but registration with a professional email address is required. Please find here more information and how to register:

One of these events is a two-day meeting on the topic of The Neurobiology of Language: Key Issues and Ways Forward. Rather than looking back, we would like to see from the contributions of the speakers what the challenges and the promises are for the neurobiology of language, a field that in its cur...

24/02/2021

Why do people differ in their ability to use language? As part of a larger study into this question, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and Radboud University tested 122 adult native speakers of Dutch on various language and cognitive measures, including tests of vocabulary size, grammar, understanding and producing sentences, working memory and processing speed. Other researchers are encouraged to use this database to further investigate individual differences in language skills. Read the full article here:

Although most people learn to speak their mother tongue fluently, native speakers differ in their ability to use language. Adult language users not only differ in the number of words they know, they also differ in how quickly they produce and understand words and sentences. How do individuals differ...

10/02/2021

The Journal of Language Modelling has recently published the article "Word prediction in computational historical linguistics", written by P,. Dekker (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and W. Zuidema (University of Amsterdam, Language in Interaction consortium):

Word prediction in computational historical linguistics Authors Peter Dekker AI Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4734-2668 Willem Zuidema Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2362-5447 Keywords: computational hist...

10/02/2021

On February 9th 2021, one of the Language in Interaction
PhD students, Lara Todorova successfully defend her doctoral thesis entitled “Language bias in visually driven decisions: computational and neurophysiological mechanisms”. Congratulations, Lara, on this fantastic achievement!

03/02/2021

The corona crisis has made us switch to online teaching and meeting in no time. But how do you do that properly? Scientists of the research consortium Language in Interaction collected tips & tricks to make online group discussions a success. Check them out in this handy infographic!

The corona crisis has made us switch to online teaching and meeting in no time. But how do you do that properly? Scientists of the research consortium Language in Interaction …

12/01/2021

One of the Language in Interaction PhD students Alessandro Lopopolo has just successfully defended his PhD thesis "Properties, Structures and Operations: Studies on language processing in the brain using computational linguistics and naturalistic stimuli”. Alessandro, congratulations on this fantastic achievement!

11/01/2021

Literatuur lezen goed voor taalbegrip – en meer.
Een goed boek lezen is niet alleen fijn, het is ook nog eens goed voor je. Lezers van literatuur begrijpen taal makkelijker, zo zo laat Saoradh Favier zien in haar onderzoek, waarop ze deze week aan het Max Planck Instituut promoveert. En dat is niet het enige wetenschappelijk bewezen positieve effect van lezen. Wil je meer weten, lees dan het gehele artikel hier:

Een goed boek lezen is niet alleen fijn, het is ook nog eens goed voor je. Lezers van literatuur begrijpen taal makkelijker, zo toont Nijmeegs onderzoek aan. En dat is niet het enige wetenschappelijk bewezen positieve effect van lezen.