Upcoming Events
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ISLE Colloquium – TBA – Sabine Stoll and Carel van Schaik
Sabine Stoll and Carel van SchaikUniversity of Zurich, AFL Building, Room AFL-F-121NCCR/Neuro-Connect Seminar – Reward and motivation mechanisms for language learning: insights from development, neuroscience, and neurodiversity -Saloni Krishnan
Neuro-ConnectSaloni KrishnanUniversity of Geneva, Campus BiotechBeyond the Straight Path: Career Conversation with Paola Cerrito
NCCR Evolving LanguagePaola CerritoUniversity of ZurichMixedReproducibility Day – Talks, Lunch, & Hands-On Workshop
Abigail Licata, Johanna Hein, Agathe Cambon, Noémie Kuenzi, Evie Vergauwe & Valentina BorghesaniUni Dufour, Room 408 or via Zoom","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https:\/\/forms.gle\/FcfAPE9sE62CeUjX6","price":"","priceCurrency":"","validFrom":"","validThrough":"","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Licata, Johanna Hein, Agathe Cambon, No\u00e9mie Kuenzi, Evie Vergauwe & Valentina Borghesani","url":""},"eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/MixedEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled"}]NCCR/CogSci Seminar – On the co-evolution of cooperation and competition within and between groups – Carsten de Dreu
Cognitive Science Seminar at UNINECarsten de DreuUniversity of Neuchâtel, Faculty of Science Building, Institute of Biology, Room F-200Beyond the Straight Path: Career Conversation with Zegni Triki
NCCR Evolving LanguageZegni TrikiUniversity of NeuchâtelOfflineExperimental Pragmatics in Switzerland (XPRAG CH) Conference
Diana Mazzarella, Didier Maillat, Sandrine ZuffereyAvenue du Premier Mars, Université of Neuchâtel - Room D67Beyond the Straight Path: Career Conversation with Valentina Borghesani
NCCR Evolving LanguageValentina BorghesaniUniversity of GenevaISLE Colloqiuim – Introduction of new PhDs / Postdocs
Adriana Huber Azevedo, Julian Kreidl, Miri Mertner, Håvard Weiberg Johansen, Jannik Kochert, Turgut Ağabeyoğlu, Barbora Sojkova, Inbal MayoUniversity of Zurich, AFL Building, Room AFL-F-121Workshop on Experimental Psycholinguistic Methods for Underdescribed Languages
PUCP (Lima, Peru) and Chana Scientific Research Station (Pucallpa, Peru)ISLE Colloquium -The Enchronic Envelope – Nick Enfield
Nick Enfield, University of SydneyUniversity of Zurich, AFL Building, Room AFL-F-121OfflineCrosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025
University of Zurich, AFL Building, Room AFL-F-121Mixed7th Annual meeting of society for the cognitive science of culture
Pascal Gygax (UNIFR), Amber Gayle Thalmayer (UZH), Aniruddh D. Patel (Tufts University) & Sarah Ebling (UZH).Universität ZürichMixedLucie Attout’s Talk on Serial Order in Working Memory: Function and nature of this coding
.\r\nSerial order in working memory: Function and nature of this coding\r\nLucie Attout, Department of Psychology and Educational sciences, University of Geneva.\r\nVerbal WM defines our ability to temporarily maintain verbal information in an activated and conscious state. This ability allows us not only to maintain the stimuli presented, but importantly, also the order in which the stimuli occur. First, using longitudinal, cross-sectional and neuroimaging designs in typical and neurodevelopmental atypical populations, we have demonstrated a specific association between serial order WM abilities and different learning abilities such as sentence processing, new vocabulary learning, mental arithmetic, reading and writing abilities. Second, I will address a fundamental question about the nature of serial order coding in WM. Many current models of WM agree on the existence of positional markers for binding items and their serial position in a WM task. However, the models diverge when it comes to defining the nature of serial order coding. These models suggest the possibility of the existence of domain-general ordinal positional codes, shared with other domains such as numerical or alphabetical, and based on space and\/or time representations. Recent behavioral and fMRI studies exploring this question specify the nature of the serial order code used. Finally, recent work questions the specificity of verbal WM with respect to the language processing. The aim of this talk is to try to give an idea of what order WM processing is, what it is used for and how it works.","offers":{"@type":"Offer","url":"https:\/\/unige.zoom.us\/j\/61516493612?pwd=l72K5e1k6t8TEKg9vFT6cztgb8bWx1.1","price":"","priceCurrency":"","validFrom":"","validThrough":"","availability":"https:\/\/schema.org\/InStock"},"performer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Lucie Attout"},"eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/MixedEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled"}]MixedData Protection Week – UZH
Many speakers, including Dagmar Jung, Guanghao You and Andrew Clark (LiRI)UZH Campuses, partially onlineOfflineNCCR Interdisciplinary Workshop 2024: Finding Interdisciplinary Ground for Empirical Work on Meaning
TTF ConceptsNeuchatelZusammenfassung: Ursprung und Zukunft der Sprache – UZH-i Ringvorlesung “Das Erste Wort”
Kommission UZH Interdisziplinär (UZH-i)Balthasar Bickel (UZH)Karl-Schmid Strasse 4, UZH Hauptgebäude, 8006 Zürich, KO2-F-180OfflineThe complex landscape of animal communication: from sharing information to coordinating groups – ISLE Colloquium
ISLEMarta Manser, Vlad Demonsev and Ari StrandbergRoom Y03-G-95, Irchel University of Zürich«Investigating semantics above and beyond language: a clinical and cognitive neuroscience approach», Valentina Borghesani
Brain&Cognition SeminarCampus Biotech«How much metaphor is actually there in English?», Mila Feuerstein, Kim Kfeller
ISLEUniversity of Zurich
Grant List
We created a list of grants available for researchers to explore when seeking funding opportunities. Please note that this list is non-exhaustive – there may be other grants out there that could be relevant or beneficial. If you know of any additional grants that might be of interest to our researchers, feel free to email the Education Officer so we can keep this resource as helpful and up-to-date as possible.
ECR Support
The Education Office of the NCCR Evolving language strives to further and support our Early Career Researchers in their educational journey, through different measures. The main ones are listed here below.
NCCR Colloquium
The NCCR co-hosts a series of talks between the Universities of Geneva (“Brain & Cognition Seminars”), Zurich (“ISLE Colloquium”) and Neuchâtel (“CogSci”). These talks take place during the Fall and Spring semesters, once per semester in every institution . You can find the next scheduled talks here.
Upcoming talks
NCCR/ISLE – TBA
NCCR/COGSCI – Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris) – February 19, 16:15–18:00 PM
NCCR/NEURO-CONNECT – Peter Hagoort (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) – June 9, 12:15–13:30 PM
Workshops
Having the opportunity to attend workshops tailored to the ECRs needs is what the NCCR is trying to achieve. Whether it be through writing retreats, grant writing workshops, etc. the education office is always open to suggestion, and organises regular recurrent workshops.
Career Conversation : Beyond the Straight Path
A series of academic talks featuring PIs who discuss their career trajectories in research. The sessions focus on the decisions, challenges, and turning points that have shaped their professional paths. The series is intended for researchers at all career stages and aims to provide insight into the varied routes that can lead to long-term engagement in academia or the private sector.
Upcoming talks
Klaus Zuberbühler (University of Neuchâtel) – February 25, 12:00–2:00 PM
Balthasar Bickel (University of Zurich) – March 18, 4:00–6:00 PM
Nina Kazanina (University of Geneva) – April 20, 4:00–6:00 PM
Annual Schools and Retreats
Every year, the NCCR Evolving Language organises a school/retreat. This week long event is an opportunity to gather all the NCCR members in one place, where new ideas and group cohesion is of utmost importance.
Winter School in Champéry
In 2025, the NCCR Evolving Language’s retreat took place in Champéry. Discover the program here.
Summer School in Grindelwald
In 2023, the NCCR Evolving Language’s retreat took place in Grindelwald. Discover the program here.
Summer School in Champery
In 2022, the NCCR Evolving Language’s retreat took place in Champéry. Discover the program here.
Summer School in Engelberg
In 2021, the NCCR Evolving Language’s retreat took place in Engelberg. Discover the program here.











