Who: Yosef Grodzinsky (The Hebrew University)
Where: 32-D461
When:
4/29 (Mon), 1-2pm
4/30 (Tues), 10-11am
5/1 (Wed), 1-2pm
5/2 (Thurs), 10-11am
5/3 (Wed), 3-4pm
Title: The Neuroscience of Linguistic Knowledge
Abstract: Experiments are expensive and time consuming. Theory construction is cheap (though time consuming, too). Why do linguists need psycho- and neuro-linguistic experiments? This short mini-course will try to provide good reasons for experimental investigations of the neural bases of linguistic knowledge. It would demonstrate how linguistics and neuroscience can, in fact must, work together. The talks:
- Four current approaches to neurolinguistics
- Anatomic micro-modules: microscopic anatomy and its linguistic relevance
- Functional micro-modules: the psycho- and neuro-semantics of monotonicity
- Notorious variability: The neuroanatomical bases of movement
- Linguistic theory and its enemies
- Time permitting: Real-life linguistics – clinical applications in awake neurosurgery