Enterprise platform http://www.bcbl.eu Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:37:29 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=353&Itemid=&lang=en Elebidunek matematika-kontzeptuetara duten sarbidearen nolakoa den aztertzen du gure ikerketetako batek. Parte-hartzaileak eragiketa matematiko erraz batzuk egiten dituen bitartean, garunaren aktibitate elektrikoa neurtuko da. Esperimentuaren ezaugarriak direla eta, honako profila duten hiztunak behar ditugu: Euskara-gaztelania elebidunak, jariotasun handia dutenak bi hizkuntzetan Matematika euskaraz edota gaztelaniaz ikasi dutenak (orain, batez ere, matematika gaztelaniaz ikasi dutenak beharko genituzke, baina euskaraz ikasi dutenak ere gurekin harremanetan jar daitezke) Eskuinak 39 urtez azpikoak Zure ezaugarriak hauekin bat egiten badute eta ikerketan parte hartu edota informazioa jaso nahi izanez gero, jarri gurekin harremanetan 943 309 300 telefonora deituta edo emaila bidaliz info@bcbl.eu helbidera, mezuaren gaian Ref. Matematika adieraziz. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:58:07 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=353&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=352&Itemid=&lang=en Uno de nuestros estudios se centra en el modo en que un bilingüe accede a conceptos matemáticos. En el experimento, se medirá la respuesta eléctrica cerebral mientras se realiza unas sencillas operaciones matemáticas. Dadas las características del experimento, necesitamos participantes con el siguiente perfil: Bilingües Español - Euskera con muy buena fluencia en ambos idiomas Haber aprendido las matemáticas o bien en Español o en Euskera (actualmente estamos priorizando las personas que aprendieron en Español, pero puedes contactarnos igual si lo aprendiste en Euskera) Diestro Menor de 39 años Si tus características coinciden con las demandadas y te gustaría participar en el estudio o tener más información, contacta con nosotros llamando al 943 309 300 o envía un e-mail a info@bcbl.eu indicando Ref. Matematicas en el asunto del mensaje. Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:19:23 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=352&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=340&Itemid=&lang=en The BCBL was officially opened on June 7th, 2010. The ceremony was held within the BCBL building and was attended by more than 100 people from the local government, other Basque research centers, universities, companies, ... In representation of the BCBL, its partners and promoters, the speeches were given by: Pedro Luis Arias, President of the BCBL and Vice Minister of Universities and Research, Basque Government Manuel Carreiras, Scientific Director of the BCBL Guillermo Ulacia, Chairman of Innobasque, Basque Innovation Agency Markel Olano, Major of the Gipuzkoa Council Isabel Celáa, Chariman of Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) and Minister of Education, Universities and Research, Basque Government Patxi López, President of the Basque Country A video with the BCBL presentation was projected. After the speeches, the attendants could taste typical basque tapas (pintxos) and visit the Labs. Speech of Manuel Carreiras (images/discurso_inaugura_carreiras.pdf) Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:00:16 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=340&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=&lang=en Fine-grained phonetic detail in spoken word recognition. Michael K. Tanenhaus. University of Rochester, USA. Despite considerable evidence to the contrary, it is widely assumed that some classes of speech sounds are perceived categorically in a way that exemplars from other types of non-speech categories are not. Yet, the articulation of many sounds, including consonants, varies systematically with position in a prosodic domain. A system that discarded sub-phonetic detail would thus be ignoring potentially useful information. I'll review recent data from eye-tracking studies demonstrating that spoken word recognition does, in fact, exploit fine-grained sub-phonetic detail to make probabilistic hypothesis about lexical candidates, including within-category variation for stop consonants--the poster child for categorical perception. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:57:47 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=338&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=&lang=en CONFERENCE PROGRAM 9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and welcome by Manuel Carreiras. 9:30 - 10:00 Gerry Altmann. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_a.html) University of York, UK. Language, attention, and pursuit eye movements. 10:00 - 10:30 Thomas G. Bever. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_b.html) University of Arizona, USA. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the brain. 10:30 - 11:00 Luciano Fadiga. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_d.html) University of Ferrara and The Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. Sensorimotor Transformations and Parieto-Frontal Circuits: Bidirectional Modulation of the Information Flow in the Cerebral Cortex. 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break. 11:30 - 12:00 Yosef Grodzinsky. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_e.html) McGill University, Canada. 12:00 - 12:30 Sonja A. Kotz (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_f.html) . Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Germany. Neural substrates of rhythm, timing and language. 12:30 - 13:00 Colin Phillips. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_h.html) University of Maryland, USA. ERP Componentry and (Non-)Surface Interpretations. 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 14:30 Visit to the BCBL labs. 14:30 - 15:00 Gary Dell. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_c.html) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Aphasic speech errors. 15:00 - 15:30 Maryellen MacDonald. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_g.html) University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Long Distance Dependencies in Artificial Grammar Learning. 15:30 - 16:00 Michael K. Tanenhaus. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_i.html) University of Rochester, USA. Fine-grained phonetic detail in spoken word recognition. 16:00 - 16:30 Discussion back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:09:41 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=&lang=en ERP Componentry and (Non-)Surface Interpretations. Colin Phillips. University of Maryland, USA, (joint work with Wing Yee Chow, U. of Maryland, and Clare Stroud, National Academies of Science). Recent ERP studies have challenged the widespread view that incremental sentence interpretation relies on the syntactic structure of sentences (Kim Osterhout, 2005; van Herten et al., 2006; Kuperberg, 2007; Borkessel-Schlesewsky Schlesewsky, 2008). Many have observed a P600 in response to thematic role reversal of verb arguments in syntactically well-formed sentences, such as The meal was devouring ... or the Dutch equivalent of The fox that the poacher hunted ... . Such observations have been taken to argue for an independent semantic processing stream that can construct interpretations that are incompatible with the surface structure of the sentence, leading to a P600 when the syntax-semantic mismatch is detected. Here we highlight a critical distinction between the kinds of “thematic P600s” that have motivated these accounts. Particularly, many role-reversed sentences are confounded by an animacy violation, which has been demonstrated independently to elicit P600 responses. This talk will discuss ERP studies in English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese from our lab. The results suggest that that the P600 elicited in animacy-violated sentences cannot be attributed to the recognition of potential surface-incompatible meanings, and that role-reversal interpretations arise only in cases where argument slots share semantic features. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:08:54 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=321&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=&lang=en Long Distance Dependencies in Artificial Grammar Learning Maryellen MacDonald. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Non-adjacent probabilistic dependencies have proved very difficult to learn in many studies of artificial language learning. We will describe several studies of learning and sentence comprehension in artificial languages embedded in a cartoon world in which monsters act on inanimate objects. The language is structured such that the conjunction of the agent (monster) and action (verb) probabilistically predict the direct object, which is non-adjacent to the predicting elements in a sentence. Moreover, neither the agent nor the verb alone has any predictive value in the sentence. Sensitivity to these statistical regularities in the language input is assessed with reading tasks, much as in sentence processing studies with natural language. After exposure to the language, participants rapidly learn and apply combinatorial constraints across non-adjacent words during sentence interpretation, as evidenced by reading times on direct object noun phrases. We will explore potential roles of the semantic (cartoon) environment in speeding this learning relative to learning rates in artificial languages without semantic support. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:08:24 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=&lang=en Neural substrates of rhythm, timing and language. Sonja A. Kotz. Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Germany. Cortical neural correlates of linguistic functions are well documented in the neuroscience and neuropsychological literature. However, the influence of non-linguistic functions such as rhythm and timing are still understudied in speech and language research. This is surprising for several reasons as these functions (1) play a critical role during learning, (2) can have a compensatory function in brain diseases and developmental disorders, (3) can reveal commonalities/differences between domains (e.g. music and language), and (4) can further our understanding of subcortical contributions to auditory linguistic and non-linguistic functions. For example, basal ganglia and cerebellar circuitries are involved in beat perception, timing, attention, memory, language, and motor behaviour (see Kotz, Schwartze, Schmidt-Kassow, 2009). I will present our concept of how linguistic and non-linguistic functions intercept and will substantiate this concept with recent event-related potential (ERP), and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:07:52 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=319&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=&lang=en Parametric fMRI designs for neurolinguistics. Yosef Grodzinsky. McGill University, Canada. This brief talk will focus on complex parametric fMRI designs for neurolinguistics. I will try to convince the audience of the advantages of such designs, and to demonstrate that being more subtle, they open new vistas on the neural basis for language processing. I will present the basic logic that leads to parametric designs, offer some arguments in favor of a move from traditional methods to the parametric one, and conclude with some recent results from parametric fMRI studies of syntactic and semantic processing. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:07:13 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=318&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=&lang=en Sensorimotor Transformations and Parieto-Frontal Circuits: Bidirectional Modulation of the Information Flow in the Cerebral Cortex. Luciano Fadiga. University of Ferrara and The Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. The classic flow-diagram describing how sensory information is serially processed, and eventually transformed into movements by the brain, has becoming more and more implausible because of neuroanatomical and neurophysiological evidence. More in detail: cytoarchitectonical, histochemical and neurochemical studies indicate that the motor cortex is indeed formed by a constellation of distinct areas, each one bidirectionally connected with a specific area of the parietal lobe. The neurophysiological study of these parieto-frontal connections suggests that they might play a crucial role in effector-specific sensorimotor transformations. Several motor neurons discharge also during sensory stimulation. Accordingly, visual stimulation modulates the activity in LIP-FEF neurons, objects entering the peripersonal space activate F4-VIP neurons, graspable objects and actions of other individuals visually activate 'canonical' and 'mirror' visuomotor neurons belonging to the F5-AIP-PFG fronto-parietal circuit. This association stimulus-response, present at single neuron level, might provide the goal to the movement, thus transforming the latter into an action and, perhaps more interestingly, might provide the basis for an attentional system which modulates, by predictive mechanisms, our understanding of the environment surrounding us. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:06:33 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=317&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=316&Itemid=&lang=en Aphasic speech errors. Gary Dell. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. All aphasic patients have difficulty retrieving words while speaking. Over the last several years, my colleagues and I have related aphasic lexical retrieval errors to the errors of unimpaired speakers by simulating both the normal and abnormal error patterns with a production model - the interactive two step model of lexical access. In my talk, I’ll review the model and present recent work testing it and relating its mechanisms to the brain. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:06:03 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=316&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315&Itemid=&lang=en The hand that rocks the cradle rules the brain. Thomas G. Bever. University of Arizona, USA. Fifty years of behavioral and clinical research supports the hypothesis that right handers with familial left handedness (RHFLH) have distinct patterns of language behavior which may reflect differences in neurological organization of the lexicon. Old and current results suggest that these differences may reflect a general superiority in integrating representational dimensions in the right hemisphere of RHFLH people, be it in individual words or visual experiences. In language, RHLHF people their language processing with relative emphasis on individual words, while RHFRH people are more reliant on syntactic patterns. This difference appears in a wide range of experimental situations, as well as in patterns of learning a first or second language. Recent fMRI studies support the idea that RHFLH people may access words more easily than RHFRH people because their lexicon is more bilaterally represented: syntactic tasks elicit left hemisphere activation in relevant areas for all subjects; corresponding lexical/semantic tasks elicit left hemisphere activation in RHFRH people, but bilateral representation in RHFLH people. This suggests that, while syntactic representation is normally represented in the left hemisphere, lexical information and access can be more widespread in the brain. This is further supported by independent component analysis. The few statistically significant independent components show a single difference between RHFRH and RHLFH subjects: a subset of area 45 is more active in the right hemisphere for RHLHF subjects, for lexical tasks only; there were no subject group differences for syntactic activations. Finally, the same area of the right hemisphere of RHLHF subjects shows a faster activation pattern for lexical than syntactic tasks. A new non-linguistic task, visual category formation, shows that RHLHF people are also superior at Information Integration of dimensions, while RHRHF people are superior at Rule Based categorization. The linguistic and non-linguistic patterns together suggest that the right hemisphere is better adapted to integrating multiple dimensions, be it in lexical or non-lexical domains. These results have implications for clinical work and interpretation of many clinical and neurolinguistics studies that fail to differentiate subjects’ familial handedness – roughly 40% of the population is FHFLH. The results are also suggestive about the language-specific neurological basis for syntax, amidst a more general basis for the lexicon. Finally, they raise questions about dual constraints on language learnability and hence language universals: RHFRH language learning children focus on learning rule patterns, while RHLFH children focus on learning individual words. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:05:08 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=314&Itemid=&lang=en Language, attention, and pursuit eye movements. Gerry Altmann. University of York, UK. In order to explore interactions between perception, action, and language representation, we investigated whether verbs whose meanings implied directionality would affect smooth pursuit eye movements. Participants tracked a dot moving smoothly upward or downward. Verbs denoting upward or downward motion (e.g. ‘rise’ and ‘sink’) were presented auditorily during the movement. Eye velocity was systematically modified by an interaction between the directionality implied by the language (up or down) and the location of the eyes relative to the pursuit target (ahead or behind). We propose that eye velocity was sensitive to the conflicts created when the language directed attention in one direction but the pursuit target required attention in the other (hence the interaction with the location of the eye relative to the target); when the two attentional components were congruous, the eyes would accelerate, but when incongruous, they would decelerate. Two further studies, one with horizontal pursuit, and the other with pursuit in the absence of a physical target, corroborate this account. These results demonstrate that low-level oculomotor control can be influenced by higher cognitive functioning, such as language comprehension, even when the content of the cognitive function is irrelevant to the oculomotor task. back to program (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_.html) back to event (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) Fri, 28 May 2010 14:04:26 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=314&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=313&Itemid=&lang=en The Donostia Workshop on Language Processing will be devoted to discuss the cognitive and brain mechanism for language processing. The meeting will take place in the auditorium of the BCBL (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language). (http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q source=s_q hl=es geocode= q=BCBL+DONOSTIA+SAN+SEBASTIAN sll=40.396764,-3.713379 sspn=12.023947,28.476563 ie=UTF8 ll=43.292482,-1.984792 spn=0.022459,0.055618 t=h z=15 iwloc=addr) There is no registration fee, but registration is required to attend the meeting. Organizers: Manuel Carreiras, BCBL - Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Itziar Laka, UPV/EHU - University of the Basque Country You can register by email (l.arieta@bcbl.eu) or by phone (+34 943 309 300). HOW TO REACH THE BCBL (bcbl/bcbl/how_to_reach_the_bcbl.html) Gerry Altmann (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_a.html) . University of York, UK. Thomas G. Bever. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_b.html) University of Arizona, USA. Gary Dell. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_c.html) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Luciano Fadiga. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_d.html) University of Ferrara and The Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. Yosef Grodzinsky. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_e.html) McGill University, Canada. Sonja A. Kotz (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_f.html) . Max Planck Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Germany. Maryellen MacDonald. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_g.html) University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Colin Phillips. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_h.html) University of Maryland, USA. Michael K. Tanenhaus. (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_sentence_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010_i.html) University of Rochester, USA. Fri, 28 May 2010 14:02:11 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=313&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=&lang=en Download the SUBTLEX GR corpus (plain text UTF-8 (/images/docs/subtlex_gr/SUBTLEX_GR.txt)) Thu, 13 May 2010 11:07:00 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=309&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=&lang=en Asociación de dislexia de Canarias www.dislecan.es/ (http://www.dislecan.es/index2.html) Asociacion de dislexia DISLEBI de euskadi Web: http://dislexiaeuskadi.com (http://dislexiaeuskadi.com) Blog: http://dislebi.wordpresss.com.com (http://dislebi.wordpress.com) Tue, 19 May 2009 10:53:07 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=220&Itemid=&lang=en Thu, 14 May 2009 21:11:06 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=220&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=219&Itemid=356&lang=en The BCBL is located in the city of Donostia - San Sebastián, which is the capital city of the Basque province of Gipuzkoa. There are different ways to reach the BCBL, depending on the preferred mean of transport and the origin. How to reach San Sebastián (by plane): San Sebastián has an airport, which is located close to the city center (around 22 km). If you come to San Sebastián from Madrid or Barcelona, it might be worth taking a look at direct flights from these cities to San Sebastián. San Sebastián airport’s website: San Sebastián airport’s website (http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1047570390938 pagename=Estandar%2FPage%2FAeropuerto SMO=-1 SiteName=EAS c=Page MO=0 Language=EN_GB) From the San Sebastián airport one can easily reach the city center by taking a bus [line Donostia-San Sebastián - Hondarribia, INTERBUS (I-2)]. The bus stops at the centric Plaza de Gipuzkoa, costs 2.10 euros, and takes around 25 minutes to reach the city center. The frequency of the bus is not ideal, though. There are also taxis available at the airport. The taxi fare to reach the city center should not exceed 20 - 25 euros. INTERBUS line I-2’s website (http://www.interbus.com.es/nuevoi2directo.htm) Some travelers might be interested on reaching San Sebastián from the international airport of Bilbao. This airport is located only 12 km from Bilbao, and less than 100 from San Sebastián, and has regular flight connections with many international and national cities. Bilbao airport’s website (http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite?cid=1047658432525 pagename=subHome SiteName=BIO c=Page Language=EN_GB) There’s a regular bus connection between Bilbao airport and the city of San Sebastián, which takes around one hour to reach the city center and costs 15 euros. There are departing buses from Bilbao airport every hour. The company is PESA [line Aeropuerto Loiu – Donostia – San Sebastián]. PESA’s website (http://www.pesa.net/pesa/home/ctrl_index.php) How to reach the BCBL from San Sebastián city center The BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, is located at the San Sebastián Technology Park, very close to the city center, in the Miramón Park (Paseo de Mikeletegi, 69). San Sebastián’s Technology Park’s website (http://www.miramon.es/home.aspx?tabId=215) (http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q source=s_q hl=es geocode= q=paseo+mikeletegi+53,+donostia sll=43.243202,-2.444458 sspn=0.620233,1.757813 ie=UTF8 ll=43.307442,-1.982174 spn=0.038724,0.109863 z=13)BCBL location with respect to San Sebastián (http://maps.google.es/maps?hl=es source=hp q=BCBL%20Donostia%20San%20Sebastian um=1 ie=UTF-8 sa=N tab=wl) Once you have arrived at San Sebastián, the easiest way to reach the BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language is by bus. The price of the metropolitan bus ticket is 1.30 euros, but we strongly encourage you to take a look at the different discount options at the D-BUS company’s website. The most suitable lines to reach the Center are lines 28, 31 and 35, and take around 15 minutes from the city center to reach the San Sebastián Technology Park. The best bus stop (the closest to the BCBL) is the bus stop called Mikeletegi 12. D-BUS’s website (general) (http://www.donostia.org/CAT/Home.nsf/frmswPrincipalCA?OpenFrameset) D-BUS’s website (line map) (http://www.dbus.es/web/mapalineas.htm) D-BUS’s website (ticket information, discounts) (http://www.dbus.es/web/tarjeta-turista-en.asp) Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:37:48 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=219&Itemid=356&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=350&lang=en Steps for applying call 2009 Create a username and password. click here (index.php?option=com_comprofiler task=registers Itemid=279) Log into the system and fill out the application form. Please note, you can resume or change your work using your log in at any time before sending the application. Check that all details are correct and finally click on the Send for evaluation bottom. - You will receive notification that your application has been correctly delivered. - To get information on the stage of your application log in at any time. Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:35:02 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=215&Itemid=350&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=348&lang=en To see syllabarium database click here (syllabarium) Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:15:53 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=348&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=206&Itemid=&lang=en News Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:10:22 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=206&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=&lang=en Publications Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:03:30 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=329&lang=en May 20th, 2010 Open talk Michael Posner Cognitive Neuroscience: New Challenges and Future Developments (opening) June 7th, 2010 Institutional Opening Ceremony (bcbl/bcbl/institutional_opening_ceremony.html) The BCBL was officially opened on June 7th, 2010. The ceremony was held within the BCBL building and was attended by more than 100 people from the local government, other Basque research centers, universities, companies, ... July 2nd, 2010 Conference Donostia Workshop on Language Processing (bcbl/bcbl/donostia_workshop_on_language_processing_-_july_2nd,_2010.html) September 30th, 2010 Open talk Nuria Sebastian El bilingüe en la cuna: El aprendizaje de dos lenguas desde el nacimiento September 30th - October 2nd, 2010 Conference Donostia Workshop on Neurobiligualism (events/neurobilingualism) Successor of Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism , Ghent Workshop on Bilingualism and Bangor Workshop on Neurobilingualism, BCBL is hosting next edition. The scientific program will consist of keynote lectures, symposiums and poster sessions. April 13th - 16th, 2011 Conference 10th Symposium of Psycholinguistics (events/psycholinguistics/) June 22nd - 25th, 2011 Conference 7th International Morphological Processing Conference September 29th - October 2nd, 2011 Conference ESCOP 2011. The 17th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:45:51 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=196&Itemid=329&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182&Itemid=315&lang=en Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:23:03 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182&Itemid=315&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=181&Itemid=316&lang=en Ikerbasque. Basque Foundation for Science www.ikerbasque.net (http://www.ikerbasque.net) Innobasque. Basque Innovation Agency www.innobasque.com (http://www.innobasque.com) Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. www.gipuzkoa.net (http://www.gipuzkoa.net/index-i.html) Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. www.ehu.es (http://www.ehu.es/p200-home/es/) Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:22:30 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=181&Itemid=316&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=314&lang=en to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the acquisition, comprehension and production of language. To develop research and innovation in Cognitive Neuroscience with special emphasis on language processing and bilingualism. To promote scientific research and national and international scientific relations within the area of Cognitive Neuroscience and to transfer the results of this research to the wider socioeconomic community. To promote the transfer and dissemination of knowledge about Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Bilingualism both within and beyond the Basque Country, by means of organising courses, seminars, national and international conferences and by other appropriate means of general communication. To participate in undergraduate and postgraduate education and training programmes and encourage the incorporation of young researchers to this area. To facilitate the training and ongoing development of the BCBL personnel and to promote their collaboration across different lines of research. To forge collaborative links and common interest areas with public and private institutions, centres and industries, with the aim of providing research, training, technological and consultancy services to use the work developed in BCBL to the fullest economic and social advantage. To develop a long-term sustainable model for the centre to carry out its mission efficiently and to the highest levels of quality. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:16:46 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=314&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=312&lang=en provide a platform for researchers and professionals from related areas to carry out frontline research, development and innovation in this area. We are a multidisciplinary research centre within the Basque Country Science Network, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in research, training and knowledge transfer within the area of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. Our centre aims to provide a platform for researchers and professionals from related areas to carry out frontline research, development and innovation in this area. aim of our research The specific aim of our research activity is to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the acquisition, comprehension and production of language, with special emphasis on bilingualism and multilingualism. Some of the areas we study include the processes involved in normal child language acquisition and second language learning in adults, as well as learning disorders, language disorders, language-related effects of aging and neurodegeneration and language use in different social contexts. research agenda Our research agenda also takes advantage of our centre’s setting in the bilingual Basque country to study language processing in Basque and Spanish. As an isolate language, Basque has unique characteristics and so provides an unrivalled opportunity to unveil both the specific and the universal characteristics of language. To pursue our aims, we use a variety of methods, including cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques, behavioural methods and computational modelling, developing our own projects and also collaborating with other public and private institutions. Our commitment Our commitment to education and knowledge transfer in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience extends across different contexts, including university, healthcare, social and business environments, with the aim of contributing to the welfare of our society by applying the knowledge and technology derived from our research. To this end, we have forged links with institutions and organisations in both the local and wider communities, to provide expertise, consultancy and technology development services, all to the highest international quality standards Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:07:39 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=312&lang=en http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=&lang=en BCBL_ The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language is a world class interdisciplinary research center for the study of cognition, brain and language jointly founded by Innobasque, Ikerbasque, UPV-EHU and the Government of Gipuzcoa. The center is situated in Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Country (Spain) and was set up in December 2008, when operations began to create the necessary research environment, including administrative and technical support and to recruit personnel, with a view to beginning on-site research in September 2009. Language is the most unique human ability and involves complex cognitive processes. Reading and writing are the most impressive cultural developments of our civilization and are at the same time a major developmental milestone in each person’s life. They fundamentally change the way a person interacts with their environment. However, despite the impressive technological and scientific advances of recent decades we have not yet unravelled the complexities of the cognitive processes involved in language and in reading and we still do not know the causes of some language disorders and reading disabilities and how to remediate them. The BCBL carries out research using the most advanced techniques in these fascinating areas, with a special focus on bilingualism. Manuel Carreiras, BCBL Director. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:13:52 +0100 http://www.bcbl.eu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=152&Itemid=&lang=en