Between June 21st and 24th the second COBRA training event took place—which we affectionately insist on referring to as the Marseille event, even though it once again could not take place physically, now at Aix-Marseille University. Most of the event was dedicated to courses given by COBRA’s senior researchers. In his lectures Computational Models of...
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Neurolinguistics by Dr. Kristof Strijkers
Dr. Kristof Strijkers is a researcher in the Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL) at Aix-Marseille University (AMU). During the first CoBra training event, Dr. Strijkers gave three lectures on Neurolinguistics, exploring the brain regions enabling human language. If it was usually considered that certain brain regions are specifically dedicated to language functions, Dr. Strijkers introduced...
Gender in science by Dr. Susanne Fuchs
What is gender and how can we measure it? Is science sexist? During the first Cobra training event Dr. Susanne Fuchs discussed questions such as these in her lecture series titled ‘Gender in Science’. What is gender? Dr. Susanne Fuchs began her presentation by highlighting perhaps the most important fact about gender: it is not...
Language and the Brain: The Neuroscience Workshop by Prof. Peter Hagoort
How does our brain make it possible for us to have conversations? What brain regions are the most important for speaking or for understanding speech? And how do we connect what we know about the human mind to what we know about the brain? During the first COBRA training event, Prof. Peter Hagoort, of the...
ESRs assemble – Welcome to the COBRA ESR blog
Introducing the ESR blog, where 15 PhD fellows from all over the world are writing about science and the ups and downs of being an MSCA ITN PhD fellow.