Symposium

2nd December 2013, 15:00 - 18:00 | public event

Action Semantics in the Brain

Speakers:

Laurel J. Buxbaum
Cognition and Action Laboratory, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, USA

“Objects of our actions: Influences of action semantics on object processing”

Luciano Fadiga
Department of Human Physiology University of Ferrara / The Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy

“The Action Grammar”

Marco Tettamanti
Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

“Embodiment versus Disembodiment: conceptual-semantic representations and their modulation by syntactic negation”