Objective
The ability to produce and understand language is a complex cognitive skill whose intricate processes are often thought to be unique to humans, and it is sometimes selectively impaired following brain damage. Therefore, it has mainly been approached as an isolable faculty within the cognitive system, investigated separately from more basic faculties such as sensori-motor skills that are shared with other species. Nonetheless, recent evidence shows that sensori –motor information forms integral part of how we represent and access words. Building upon such findings, this project aims at testing whether this also holds for other aspects of language processing. In particular, we will test whether speech monitoring makes use of the same processes dedicated to control our motor actions. In the domain of motor control it is widely held that we use internal forward models to predict and correct motor commands before their effective output as physical actions. In particular, it has been proposed that this is done by having motor actions produce expectations of their sensory consequences (i.e. efference copies). These sensory outcome predictions are compared with the actual sensory input; whatever matches the outcome predictions is inhibited (i.e. reafference cancellation). In that way, a means is provided to detect any unpredicted sensorial data that should be attended to. Here we will seek to obtain evidence that efference copies are the basis of speech production error monitoring by (a) examining whether variables known to have an impact on monitoring of language production will modulate reafference cancellation; and (b) investigating the role of the cerebellum –hypothesized center of forward modeling– in the monitoring of speech production. Together the results of this project have the potential of providing strong direct evidence for shared action and language monitoring processes and thus enlarge our understanding of the relationship between humans and other species.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
You need to log in or register to use this function
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IEF
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
75794 PARIS
France
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.