29.196, Calls: Neurolinguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-196. Wed Jan 10 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.196, Calls: Neurolinguistics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:15:11
From: francesco giannelli [francescogiannelli1 at hotmail.com]
Subject: Bridging Attention and Prediction

 
Full Title: Bridging Attention and Prediction 
Short Title: BAP 

Date: 06-Feb-2018 - 20-Feb-2018
Location: Barcelona, Spain 
Contact Person: Francesco Giannelli
Meeting Email: bap.workshop at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.ub.edu/bridgingattentionprediction/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

Anticipatory processing plays a fundamental role in human cognition. While
external information from the world is constantly perceived and processed by
the senses, the human brain generates top-down predictions based on memory
associations created from previous experience to actively and efficiently
facilitate the integration of the inputs. At the same time, perception is
facilitated by attention mechanisms. Our brains have to select among many
competing inputs so that only the most relevant are fully processed and
irrelevant (distracting) information is suppressed. How does the brain solve
the problem of directing attention to relevant inputs while remaining
responsive to salient events outside its current focus of attention?

Although both attention and prediction facilitate perception, they are rarely
considered together: both concepts are related but not always clearly
distinguishable. Interactions between predictive and attentive processes
constitute a newly emerging and highly interesting field of research in
neuroscience and cognitive psychology.

Organised by the ''Brain Mechanisms of Language Learning Lab'' from the
''Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit'' of the University of Barcelona, this
two-days workshop will focus on the current research on prediction and
attention in various subfields of perception and cognition with a special
focus on language. The event will bring together outstanding researchers in
both the fields of prediction and attention in order to discuss current
concepts and define challenges for future research.


Call for Papers:

Enter your abstract into the online abstract submission system as you would
like it to appear on the BAP brochure and website.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 January, 2018
Abstract submission deadline for just the second day: 4 February, 2018

Abstracts should be formatted to include the following details:

Introduction, Methods, Results, Conclusions - 4000 Total Character Limit
(includes spaces)

Submit your abstract using the form at
http://www.ub.edu/bridgingattentionprediction/content/abstract-submission .




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