It’s a first in Switzerland: the Campus Biotech now hosts a magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility! The MEG will indeed be of great help in understanding language and hoping to find treatments for the disorders that surround it, such as dyslexia or aphasia (a pathology that affects the ability to express oneself and that can be acquired following a stroke for example). This is why we are a partner of this purchase.
24 January is Unesco’s international day of Education. Rightly emphasized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Education is a human right, a public good and a public responsibility. The NCCR Evolving Language strongly supports those key values through various Education and Equal opportunity programs.
Dr. Vanessa Wilson and Prof. Klaus Zuberbühler explain in a podcast how they trace the origins of human language at the Zoo Basel.
Research and teaching fellow at the University of Geneva, Raphael Liégeois has been selected by the European Space Agency to become an astronaut.
Does the history of our languages match the history of our genes? A team of scientists have revealed a large number of matches – but also widespread mismatches in around 20 percent of cases, including in Malta, Hungary and Namibia.
Researchers have recorded a female chimpanzee showing a leaf to her mother. If the gesture seems quite innocent to us – and even rather banal in humans – it is a fact rarely observed in great apes.
The NCCR Evolving Language is launching its Instagram account. What to expect: knowledge transmission and exchanges between scientists and their audience thanks to videos, memes and quizzes in story format.
We are honored to welcome Nicholas Evans, a distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the Australian National University, as a guest at our department. He will give a talk on typological approaches to the question of language relatedness across the Torres Strait languages.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva has an opening for a full or Associate Professor in neuroscience of audition, speech and language.
Paola Merlo has recently been awarded an SNSF Advanced grant, Disentangling Linguistic Intelligence: automatic generalisation of structure and meaning across languages.