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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:52:46
From: Martin Hackl [hackl at mit.edu]
Subject: McGill-MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and the Brain

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McGill-MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and the Brain 

Date: 31-Jan-2014 - 01-Feb-2014 
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact: Martin Hackl 
Contact Email: hackl at mit.edu 
Meeting URL: http://brainlang.scripts.mit.edu 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The 'McGill/MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and the Brain' is bringing together a group of neuroscientists with an interest in language and a group of experimental and formal linguists interested in the brain, in an attempt to enhance the dialogue between the linguistic and the neurophysiological cultures, and help to close the gap between these two growing groups of researchers. The theme of the workshop is centered on aspects of gradability and quantity as it pertains to the cognitive domains of Number, Space, and Time.
 

Program

Friday, January 31st 2014, MIT 32-141

8:30 AM
Breakfast 

9:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction 
Yosef Grodzinsky, McGill University
Martin Hackl, MIT

9:15 AM
Tutorial on Neuroanatomy 
Katrin Amunts, University of Düsseldorf/Forschungszentrum Jülich

10:45 AM
Coffee Break 

11:00AM
Tutorial on Gradability in Natural Language 
Irene Heim, MIT

12:30 PM
Lunch 

2:00 PM
The Neural Code for Number and Basic Numerical Operations
Andreas Nieder, University of Tübingen

3:00 PM
On the Internal Composition of Counting Quantifiers 
Martin Hackl, MIT

4:00 PM
Coffee Break 

5:15 PM
Comparative and Superlative Quantifiers: Scope, Comparison Sets, Modes of Comparison  
Roumyana Pancheva, USC
	
4:15 PM
'At least' and Quantity Implicature: Choices and Consequences  
Bernhard Schwarz, McGill University 
	
6:15 PM
Towards Exact Number: Understanding Exact Equality and the Successor Function 
Veronique Izard, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes

7:30 PM
Dinner 
 
Saturday, February 1st 2014, MIT 32-141

8:30 AM
Breakfast 

9:00 AM
Quantity in the Nominal and in the Verbal Domain 
Manfred Krifka, ZAS and FUniversity of Tübingen

10:00 PM
Reciprocal Quantification and Concept Composition  
Yoad Winter, Utrecht University
	
11:00 AM
Coffee Break 

11:15 AM
The Domain of Type d  
Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers University 

12:15 PM
Lunch 
 
1:30 PM
Counting Dimensions
Galit Sassoon, Bar-Ilan University 

2:30 PM
Biases in Quantity Estimation-  Lessons from Discrimination Tasks  
Yonatan Loewenstein, The Hebrew University at Jerusalem 

3:30 PM
Coffee Break 

4:00 PM
Principles of Modern Lesion Analysis 
Hans Otto Karnath, University of Tübingen

5:00 PM
Quantities and Quantifiers: Sentence Verification, Weber's Law, and Monotonicity 
Yosef Grodzinsky,  McGill University 
	
6:00 PM
Closing Remarks 
Yosef Grodzinsky & Martin Hackl

7:00 PM
Dinner








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