Lecture - New Directions in the Neurobiology of Language

The lecture is sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science at NYU Shanghai.

Abstract

The last twenty years have seen dramatic progress on the "where-is-language?” question. More recent developments, at the nexus of language research and neurophysiology, provide new views on “how?” questions. I discuss experiments on specialization for speech and structure for language that point towards mechanisms underpinning this foundational human ability. 

Biography

David Poeppel is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU and director of the newly established Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from MIT. Before going to NYU in 2009, he was a professor of linguistics and biology the University of Maryland College Park. He was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He has received the DaimlerChrysler Berlin Prize and other honors.