Our students of the Master in Neuroscience (IN) attend next December 18 the next symposium: «What Make Us Human; Symposium on Origin & Evolution of Human Language«. The organizer is the Institute of Neurosciences, joint center of the Miguel Hernández (UMH) University of Elche and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
The use of an open language is one of the behaviors that distinguishes humans from other animals. As has been determined and conditioned the evolution of the species. This symposium aims to bring IN the university community and society in general advances the use of new technologies for analysis of brain function are providing to understanding the neural basis of human language.
The symposium three European leading researchers involved in the study of the origin, development and brain activity associated with language ability in the species. The conference will be held in the Auditorium, Institute of Neurosciences (CSIC-UMH) in San Juan de Alicante, at the following times:
10:30 Presentation. Dr. Fernando Moya (Institute of Neuroscience CSIC / UMH).
10:45 Prof. Christopher I. Petkov (Inst. Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School, UK). «Artificial-language learning & the primate brain: Insights into the evolutionary history of the human brain».
11:45 Prof. Nuria Sebastian Gallés (Center for Brain and Cognition -UPF- Barcelona, Spain) «Language learning in a ‘blooming, buzzing confusion».
12:45 coffee Break
13:00 Prof. Peter Hagoort. (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands) «The neurobiology of language beyond the information given: On Broca, Brain and Binding».
* All lectures will be in English and no simultaneous translation available