24.2974, Summer Schools: Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

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Subject: 24.2974, Summer Schools: Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:32:04
From: Francesco Vespignani [francesco.vespignani at unitn.it]
Subject: Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

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 Methods in Language Comprehension/ Rovereto, Italy

Host Institution: Università degli Studi di Trento
Website: http://www.unitn.it/ateneo/evento/30237/autumn-school-methods-in-language-comprehension

Dates: 14-Nov-2013 - 17-Nov-2013
Location: Rovereto, Italy

Focus: Methods in language comprehension. New methods for studying sentence comprehension in cognitive science, behavioral science and neuroscience.

Minimum Education Level: PhD


Special Qualifications:
Participants must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program or be in a post doctoral 
position having earned the doctoral degree no more than 5 years before 
the application deadline. A very good knowledge of English is required. 
Prior knowledge or experience with qualitative research in behavioral or 
biological sciences is necessary. Participants will receive a certificate for 
their attendance. Participants will be selected on the basis of the strength 
of their CV, motivation statement and supervisor’s support letter.


Description:
Applications are now open for a four day Autumn school that will cover 
new methods of data analysis in sentence comprehension and expose 
participants to cutting-edge methods for analyzing language data collected 
with behavioral and neuroscientific methods. The school’s instructors are 
experts in corpus based analysis, EEG, ERP and fMRI methods as applied 
to complex language inputs.  Each will present a theoretical module and 
either supervise data analysis sessions or discuss data analysis issues. 
The target audience is graduate students and post-docs involved in studying 
language comprehension using corpus-based tools, electrophysiology, fMRI 
or combinations of these techniques.  

Extended information on the program, costs, application procedures and 
deadlines is available on the school’s website.

Course(s) Offered:

Marcel Bastiaansen
    The role of theta, beta, and gamma-band synchronization in sentence
    processing

Stefan Frank
    Computational models of sentence processing: bridging between
    linguistic and experimental data

Gina Kuperberg
    Understanding neurocognitive mechanisms of online language
    comprehension with ERPs

Jeremy Skipper
    Understanding the natural organization of language and the brain

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                      Neurolinguistics

Tuition: 200.00 EUR

Registration: 02-Jul-2013 to 01-Aug-2013

Contact Person: Francesco Vespignani
                Email: francesco.vespignani at unitn.it


Registration Instructions:
The registration fee is to be paid only after notification of acceptance.
Application form and documentation can be found at the school website.



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