McGill-MIT Workshop on Gradability and Quantity in Language and the Brain

Schedule

All talks on Friday will be held in Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
All talks on Saturday will be held in Room 32-141

Friday, January 31st 2014

All talks will be held in Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)

8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction

Yosef Grodzinsky
McGill University

Martin Hackl
MIT
9:15 AM
Tutorial on Neuroanatomy

Katrin Amunts
University of Düsseldorf/Forschungszentrum Jülich
10:45 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Tutorial on Gradability in Natural Language

Irene Heim
MIT
12:30 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM
The Neural Code for Number and Basic Numerical Operations

Andreas Nieder
University of Tübingen
3:00 PM
On the Internal Composition of Counting Quantifiers

Martin Hackl
MIT
4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:15 PM
Comparative and Superlative Quantifiers: Scope, Comparison Sets, Modes of Comparison

Roumyana Pancheva
USC
5:15 PM
“At least” and Quantity Implicature: Choices and Consequences

Bernhard Schwarz
McGill University
6:15 PM
Towards Exact Number: Understanding Exact Equality and the Successor Function

Veronique Izard
CNRS & Université Paris Descartes
7:15 PM
Dinner

TBA

Saturday, February 1st 2014

All talks will be held in Room 32-141

8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
CANCELLED

10:00 AM
Reciprocal Quantification and Concept Composition

Yoad Winter
Utrecht University
11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:15 AM
The Domain of Type d

Roger Schwarzschild
Rutgers University
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Counting Dimensions

Galit Sassoon
Bar-Ilan University
2:30 PM
Biases in Quantity Estimation - Lessons from Discrimination Tasks

Yonatan Loewenstein
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3:30 PM
Coffee Break
4:00 PM
Principles of Modern Lesion Analysis

Hans Otto Karnath
University of Tübingen
5:00 PM
Quantities and Quantifiers: Sentence Verification, Weber's Law, and Monotonicity

Yosef Grodzinsky
McGill University
6:00 PM
Closing Remarks

Yosef Grodzinsky & Martin Hackl
7:00 PM
Dinner

The meeting is funded in part by Canada Research Chairs, through Yosef Grodzinsky’s Chair in Neurolinguistics at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.