Computational Modeling in Neurolinguistics

Monday, June 10 – Tuesday, June 11, Møterom Gunnerus 1, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters / Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab (DKNVS), Elvegata 17, Trondheim

Monday, June 10

9:00 — Welcome and introduction, Joe Collins

9:15 — Humans vis-à-vis language models: A behavioral, neural and developmental comparison

Yair Lakretz (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

10:15 — Random language model 

Eric de Giuli (Toronto Metropolitan University)

11:15 — Lyra’s Alethiometer: Building complex meaning with linguistic symbols 

Gillian Ramchand (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

12:30 — Lunch

14:15 — Compositional approaches to modelling language and concepts  

Martha Lewis (University of Bristol)

15:15 — Causal language modeling 

Hartmut Fitz (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Tuesday, June 11

9:30 — Syntax: Where nimble magicians get stuck

Alessandro Treves (SISSA International School for Advanced Studies)

10:30 — The importance of ‘logistics of access’ in neurocomputational models of language 

Frank van der Velde (University of Twente)

11:30 — Closing remarks, Joe Collins

Organisation and contact: Joe Collins (joe.collins@ntnu.no) and Giosuè Baggio (giosue.baggio@ntnu.no)