SMCLC 2011
Accompanying Events
30 November 2011
- at 8.30 pm: Get-together at the "Philosoph" (just around the corner of the conference hotel "Bellevue"): www.philosoph-duesseldorf.de/
01 December 2011
- at 7.30 pm: Guided tour through the "Old Town" & the Christmas Market: http://www.duesseldorf.de/eng/tourism/discover/altstadt/index.shtml and http://www.christmas-market-in-dusseldorf.co.uk/our_christmas_markets_en-christmas_market_at_the_historical_town_hall Meeting point: Steinstrasse/Koenigsstrasse (Subway station)
- at 8.30 pm: Get-together: "Schloesser-Quartier Bohème": http://www.quartierboheme.com/de/quartier-boheme/restaurant-bar-lounge/
02 December 2011
- at 7.30 pm: Guided tour through the "Media Harbour": http://www.duesseldorf.de/eng/tourism/discover/medienhafen/index.shtml) Meeting point: Rhine Tower: http://www.duesseldorf.de/thema/sights/rheinturm/index.shtml
- at 9 pm: Conference dinner: "Mongo's": http://www.mongos.de/restaurants/duesseldorf/index.php
Program
01 December 2011
9.30-10.30 Registration
10.30-11.00 Welcoming address
11.00-12.00 Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.: Embodied Experience and Metaphorical Meaning
12.00-12.30 Chiara Brozzo: Grasping motor concepts
12.30-13.00 Hans Geisler: Embodiment and grammaticalisation
14.30-15.30 Srini Naranayan: Simulation Semantics: A computational framework for exploring the links between communication, cognition and computation.
15.30-16.00 Lionel Brunel, Denis Brouillet and Remy Versace: The Sensory Nature of Knowledge: Memory Integration
16.00-16.30 Johann-Mattis List, Daniel Schulzek and Anselm Terhalle: Interaction of Writing, Speaking, and Meaning - A Frame-Based Approach to Chinese Character Formation 17.00-18.00 Alex Tillas: Grounding Cognition: The Role of Language in Thinking
02 December 2011
9.30-10.00 Lena Kästner, Velia Cardin, Eleni Orfanidou, Cheryl Capek, Jerker Rönnberg, Bencie Woll and Mary Rudner: Phonological Processing Across Modalities: Evidence from Sign Language
10.00-10.30 Irene Mittelberg: On the ‘exbodiment’ of image and motor schemas in coverbal gestures
11.00-12.00 Olaf Hauk: Spatio-temporal patterns of brain activation reflect embodied action-word semantics
12.00- 12.30 Lars Wojtecki, Saskia Elben and Alfons Schnitzler: The subthalamic nucleus and executive control of speech. Results from deep brain stimulation and intracerebral recordings
12.30-13.00 Nienke Hoogenboom, Joachim Gross and Simon Garrod: Interactive alignment in conversation: investigating inter-subject synchronization of cortical oscillations using MEG
14.30-15.30 Gerard Steen: Sensory motor concepts in four registers of English - Exploring the VU Amsterdam Metaphor Corpus with Wmatrix
15.30-16.00 Verena Eikmeier, Claudia Maienborn and Rolf Ulrich: The space-time congruency effect in vocal responses
16.00-16.30 Wolfgang G. Mueller: Motion and Emotion: The application of sensory-motor concepts to the representation of emotion in literature
17.00-18.30 Poster Session
03 December 2011
9.30-10.00 Ralf Naumann: Dynamics in the Brain and Dynamic Frame Theory for Action Verbs
10.00-10.30 Andrea Bellavia: Force Change Schemas and Excessive Actions: How High-level Cognitive Operations Constrain Aspectuality in Idiomatic Constructions
11.00-12.00 Michiel van Elk: Mind the body in embodiment
12.00-12.30 Dermot Lynott, Louise Connell and Felix Dreyer: A functional role for tactile and proprioceptive knowledge in conceptual representations
12.30-13.00 Valentina Cuccio: Inferential communication in the embodied language paradigm
14.30-15.30 Giovanni Buccino: How the motor system handles verbs and nouns
15.30-16.00 Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Raymond Becker and James Cutting: Spatial language, bilingualism and their implications for spatial cognition
16.00-16.30 End