Artificial Grammar Learning:
Implications of domain, modality, species differences
Workshop organizers: Elisabetta Versace (Queen Mary University of London), Michelle Spierings (University of Vienna)
16th April 2018 - EVOLANG 2018
Workshop room: KUJAWSKA
Programme
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:35 Judit Gervain (Université Paris Descartes, France)
“The frequency-based bootstrapping of basic word order in infants and rats”
9:35-10:00 Ben Wilson (Newcastle University Medical School, UK)
“Behavioural and neuroimaging insights into structured sequence learning in humans and nonhuman primates”
10:00-10:25 Michelle Spierings (University of Vienna, Austria)
“Artificial grammar learning in birds”
10:25-10:50 Mauricio Martins (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
“Recursive Hierarchical Embedding in the Visual, Musical and Motor Domains”
10:50-11:05: Alexandre Celma Miralles and Juan M. Toro (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
“Rats and Humans on regularity detection: generalization from a go no-go paradigm”
11:05-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:45 Ansgar Endress (City, University London, UK)
“The idiosyncrasy of learning constraints”
11:45-12:10 Gesche Westphal-Fitch (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
“Performance on a visual Artificial Grammar Learning task in hearing and deaf participants”
12:10-12:35 Elisabetta Versace (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
“Artificial grammars in visual modality: A comparative perspective”
12:35-13:00 Andrea Ravignani (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
“Evolving building blocks of rhythm: How human cognition creates music via cultural transmission”
13:00-13:30 Discussion
Contact: e.versace@qmul.ac.uk