33.2139, Calls: Semantics, Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics/Poland

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Subject: 33.2139, Calls: Semantics, Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics/Poland

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:02:46
From: Rafal Jonczyk [rafal.jonczyk at wa.amu.edu.pl]
Subject: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity 2022

 
Full Title: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity 2022 
Short Title: CoNSoLER 2022 

Date: 07-Oct-2022 - 09-Oct-2022
Location: Grunwaldzka 6, Poznan, Poland 
Contact Person: Guillaume Thierry
Meeting Email: guillaume.thierry at amu.edu.pl
Web Site: https://consoler.web.amu.edu.pl/ 

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

Call Deadline: 28-Jun-2022 

Meeting Description:

The idea that the language one speaks may shape the way one sees the world,
captured in Benjamin Lee Whorf's linguistic relativity principle, has prompted
highly contrasted views and vigorous debate amongst academics for almost a
century.

Theoretical linguists and psychologists, like Noam Chomsky or Steven Pinker,
have dismissed the idea entirely, in part because it was incompatible with the
theoretical framework of Universal Grammar. Cognitive neuroscientists and
experimental psychologists, like Friedemann Pülvermüller or Larry Barsalou,
have embraced it as self-evident given the considerable overlap in substrates
underpinning language and other cognitive functions in the human brain.

The quest for an optimal evidentiary basis to inform the debate is difficult,
however, and many an experimental paradigm is often criticised on the basis
that it provides insufficiently controlled stimuli or procedures to support
strong conclusions. Whilst language-based studies involving overt reports and
questionnaires often fail to acknowledge that they cannot test cognitive
effects beyond the realm of language, testing bilinguals systematically
downplays the fact that the two languages of a bilingual individual are likely
active at the same time.

The debate, if there is to be one, thus calls for triangulation of approaches
that test the influence of verbal representations on cognitive processes that
are not readily and mandatorily meditated by language (e.g., memory,
categorisation), that tap into implicit processes that are mostly unconscious
rather than strategic (e.g., somatotopic activation, visual perception), and
that explore developmental trajectories as well as a linguistic diversity more
representative of the world's population.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Embodiment and Relativity (CoNSoLER)
conference brings together experimental linguists, psycholinguists, and
cognitive neuroscientists to identify and present the most convincing evidence
available to date that probe the validity and scope of the linguistic
relativity principle, in preparation for a special issue of the Cognitive
Neuroscience Series of Language Learning.

Keynote Speakers

Rasha Abdel Rahman
Panos Athanasopoulos
Friedemann Pülvermüller

Venue

The conference will be held at the Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, Grunwaldzka
6, 60-781 Poznań at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland

Sponsors

This conference and the editing of the special issue of Language Learning
which will follow from it are sponsored by WILEY and Adam Mickiewicz
University.

Special Issue of Language Learning

CoNSoLER-2022 proceedings will be published in the forms of empirical and
theoretical contributions in a special issue of Langage Learning within the
Cognitive Neuroscience Series (Mid 2024).

Organizing Committee

Guillaume Thierry (Chair)
Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman
Ewa Kudelska
Katarzyna Jankowiak
Rafał Jończyk
Marcin Naranovicz
Agnieszka Nowak
Olga Witczak


2nd Call for Papers:

Invited speakers: 
– Rasha Abdel Rahman (https://www.psychology.hu-berlin.de/en/staff/1680066)
– Panos Athanasopoulos
(https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/panos-athanasopoulos)
– Friedemann Pülvermüller
(https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/brainlang/Team/FPulvermuelle
r.html)

Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/CoNSoLER-2022

Abstract submission deadline: June 28, 2022

Types of contribution: Oral presentations, Poster presentations, Slam Science
presentations




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