Submissions

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Embodied and Situated Language Processing Workshop 2011 (ESLP)

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

August 25-27, 2011

http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/pknoeferle/ESLP2011/home.html

Keynote Speakers:

Anna Borghi, University of Bologna, Italy

Seana Coulson, UC San Diego, USA

Beatrice de Gelder, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Peter Hagoort, MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

Olaf Hauk, MRC Cambridge, UK

Marta Kutas, UC San Diego, USA

Michael Spivey, UC Merced, USA

Submissions: We welcome submissions of abstracts for oral or poster presentations on topics related to embodied and situated language processing. Successful submissions will address theoretically important issues using appropriate empirical methods, such as computational modeling, behavioral experimentation, electrophysiology, and brain imaging. Abstract submission opens on March 1, 2011, and abstracts are due April 30, 2011 [Closed]. They will be reviewed anonymously by expert reviewers, and authors will be notified with decisions in early June 2011. Details on abstract submission will be posted on the submissions page: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/pknoeferle/ESLP2011/submissions.html

Schedule: Research presentations will start on August 25 and run through August 27 in a single-session format. In addition to the keynote speakers, there will be competitive slots for 20-minute oral presentations as well as posters.

About the meeting: ESLP 2011 is the fourth event in a workshop series that started in 2007. A key goal of the workshop series has been to bring together researchers working on the interaction of language and visual/motor processing in embodied, situated, and language-for-action research traditions. A further focus is on uniting converging and complementary evidence from three different methods (behavioral, neuropsychological, and computational). The first meeting led to the publication of a special issue on embodied language processing in Brain and Language (March 2010). ESLP took place again in June, 2009 in Rotterdam, in association with the meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Amsterdam. The third meeting took place together with the meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association in 2010 at UC San Diego (see http://embodiedlanguage.org/).

The ESLP community (psycholinguists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists and computational modelers) typically uses experimental and computational methods to ask questions about the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic embodiment as well as underlying the processing of language in its grounded physical and social contexts.

Sponsors: The 2011 meeting is supported by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), the Cognitive Interaction Technology Excellence Center, and the SFB 673 on "Alignment in Communication" at Bielefeld University, Germany.

Information and contact: For more information, please consult the meeting website: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/pknoeferle/ESLP2011/home.html  If you have further questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organizers, Michele Burigo, Maria Nella Carminati, Helene Kreysa, and Pia Knoeferle (chair) at eslp2011@googlemail.com

Accepted presentations will form a program of spoken papers presented in plenary sessions, and poster sessions. Depending on the number of submitted abstracts, spots for oral presentations may be quite competitive. Reviewers will be asked to identify the submissions that seem most likely to generate broad interest due to originality of ideas or significance to the field. Space constraints at the poster session also limit the number of posters submissions accepted for presentation.

ABSTRACT FORMATTING GUIDELINES

Abstracts can be submitted here. Abstracts should have no more than 500 words including references and should be submitted either in .doc or .pdf format. Please do not submit abstracts in the more recent .docx format. Note that the submissions system does not contain a feature for editing your abstract after submission. Upon submission you should receive a confirmation email. If you haven’t got a confirmation email it is likely your submission was not received.

We kindly ask authors to select one keyword from each of the three following groups and include it in their abstract.

METHOD

- eye tracking 

- EEG

- fMRI

- TMS

- MEG

- qualitative data

- ratings

- corpus data

- latency data

- reading data

- other;

GENERAL TOPIC

- language comprehension; 

- language production; 

- language learning; 

- other;

SPECIFIC TOPIC

- embodiment

 - situatedness

- emotion

- synaesthesia

- gesture

- figurative language

- syntax

- semantics

- prosody

- other;

The first line of the abstract should be the title, followed by an empty line, and then the body text. The body text should be followed by an empty line, the references, another empty line, and then the 3 keywords and the word count. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Please do not include author names in the abstract.

your title

your body text

your references

your keywords

your word count