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<b class=""><font size="3" class="">ESLP 2024: Berlin, 03 - 05 October 2024</font></b><br class="">
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The <a href="https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/brainlang/ESLP2024/" class="">2024 edition of the </a><a href="https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/brainlang/ESLP2024/" class="">Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP)</a> conference will
be hosted by Freie Universität Berlin. ESLP provides an interdisciplinary forum discussing current developments in grounding during online language processing. It welcomes a broad spectrum of methods to examine the interaction of language and sensory and motor
processing, such as behavioural, neurophysiological and computational approaches, to foster research in the context of theories of semantic grounding or embodiment and pragmatic situated communication and language use.<br class="">
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This year’s conference will continue this tradition by offering a forum for discussing hot topics in the research field, including, but not limited to the following questions:<br class="">
- Which neural mechanisms can explain semantic grounding?<br class="">
- Which mechanisms underpin abstract concepts and semantics?<br class="">
- How does grounding theory relate to linguistic relativity? <br class="">
- Can grounding expand or restrict the range of perceptions and cognitive processes?<br class="">
- May sensorimotor processes be relevant to abstract combinatorial processes, including those of syntax and grammar?<br class="">
- How do cognitive explanations differ between the grounding or embodiment perspective and ‘symbolic’ cognitivist positions?<br class="">
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Keynotes that highlight important new trends in the field will be presented by Friedemann Pulvermüller, Luciano Fadiga, Véronique Boulenger, and Guillaume Thierry. <br class="">
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We invite abstracts on embodied and situated language processing, as well as grounded cognition in a language context. We encourage empirical studies with a relation to brain function (e.g. fMRI, EEG, MEG, NIRS, TMS) as well as behavioural methods and modelling
approaches. Contributions reporting work in progress (e.g., registered reports) are welcome. Abstracts should be up to 300 words long (exclusive of references) - full submission details can be found on the <a href="https://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/v/brainlang/ESLP2024/" class="">ESLP
2024 website</a>. Accepted abstracts will result in either a 15-20 minute talk or a poster presentation.<br class="">
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<div class="">Key dates:</div>
<div class=""><b class="">08 June 2024</b> - abstract submission deadline</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">30 June 30 2024</b> - abstract acceptance notifications</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">05-05 October 2024</b> - dates of conference</div>
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