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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025

Join us at LPL Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic year!

🔗 Confirm your attendance (mandatory): www.ilcb.fr/event/garden...

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#ilcb #welcomeback2025 | Institut ILCB

🎉 ILCB Annual Welcome Back Party – 10 October 2025 Join us at Salle B 011, 5 avenue Pasteur, Aix-en-Provence for a morning of science, networking, and celebration as we kick off the new academic yea...

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 8d

Done! Daria successfully defended her PhD thesis!

And that in front of an incredible jury who are the absolute top on this topic: @annaborghi.bsky.social , @pennypexman.bsky.social , @gabriellavigliocco.bsky.social

So proud of her!

bravo of course also to Jo Ziegler and Núria Gala!

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 13d

✨ Building bridges between our MaSCo students!

Last night, M1 and M2 students came together for an evening of exchange and connection. Great discussions, shared experiences, and a chance to strengthen solidarity across promotions.

Big thanks to everyone who joined!

#ILCB #MaSCo #StudentCommunity

ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Seminar this Thursday (Sept 25, 1pm CET)

🎙️ Chloé Clavel (Inria Paris)
Understanding Social Interactions in the Era of LLMs – the Challenges of Transparency

📍 LIS, Campus Luminy + online
🔗 Zoom: univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/8685209402...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

univ-amu-fr.zoom.us

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Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · 25d

New exciting work from Elin Runnqvist’s group 📝:

Demonstrating that the brain’s medial frontal cortex monitors actions along a caudal-to-rostral gradient: simple movements at the back and complex speech errors at the front.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From movements to words: action monitoring in the medial frontal cortex along a caudal to rostral prediction error gradient

Speech error monitoring recruits the medial frontal cortex (MFC) region in the human brain. Error monitoring-related activity in the MFC has been inte…

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 27d

🌍 Neurosciences of Tomorrow at +2°
Oct 15–17, 2025 | #Marseille

3 days exploring:
🔹 Research & #ecology
🔹 Neuroscience & #societies
🔹 The future of #neuroscience

👉 Program & registration: neuro22m1a2deg.sciencesconf.org?lang=fr

Neurosciences de demain à plus de 2 degrés - Sciencesconf.org

neuro22m1a2deg.sciencesconf.org

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Registration open until September 14!

#ESLP2025

Explore interdisciplinary approaches to language processing, grounding, and the interaction between language, sensory, and motor systems.

🔗 Details: eslp2025.sciencesconf.org

#LanguageProcessing #CognitiveScience

Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference 2025 - ESLP2025 - Sciencesconf.org

eslp2025.sciencesconf.org

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔬✨ New publication from one of our PhD students!

Breathing is automatic—but during speech, the brain takes control. A new study in Scientific Reports reveals the neural mechanisms behind this shift.

👉 Read the article here: www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

#Cognition #Speech #Breathing

Respirer pour parler : quand le cerveau prend le contrôle de la respiration

La respiration est un geste vital, si automatique qu’on l’oublie.

www.insb.cnrs.fr

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Sep 2

✨ The ILCB Summer School 2025 is officially underway! ✨

Day 1 at CIRM, Marseille brought together students, researchers, and lecturers from all over the world for a week dedicated to language, brain, and cognition.

#SummerSchool #CognitiveScience #Language #Neuroscience #ScientificCommunity

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Aug 29

✨ #ILCB Summer School 2025 – Just a few days to go! ✨

From September 1–5, we’ll welcome students, researchers, and lecturers at CIRM, #Marseille for a week of courses, workshops, and discussions on #language, #brain & #cognition.

Looking forward to a stimulating week of scientific exchanges!

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌞 Back from the summer break!

We kick off the new season with an exciting ILCB Talk by Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh):

🗓️ Sept 26, 2025 – Marseille
🎙️ “Cultural evolution creates language-like structure: from humans to humpback whales and beyond”

🔗 ilcb.fr/event/simon-kirby

#ILCB

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jul 15

🗣️ Final call!
📍 SIGDIAL 2025 — Avignon, Aug 25–27
Cutting-edge research in discourse & dialogue, keynotes, demos, and a banquet at the Palace of the Popes!
📅 Early reg. ends July 18
🔗 2025.sigdial.org
#SIGDIAL2025 #NLP #DialogueSystems #AIConferences

SIGDIAL 2025 – 26th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)

2025.sigdial.org

ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jul 9

📢 Save the date!
🧠🎭 The Festival of Science & Beliefs is back → Sept 16–20, 2025 (Aix, Marseille, Aubagne).

Talks, performances, debates & more exploring where science meets belief.

☕ ILCB members: interested in joining the Science Café at the Mucem? Get in touch!

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🎉 Save the Date – Festival des Sciences et des Arts 2025 : Science et Croyances | Institut ILCB

🎉 Save the Date – Festival des Sciences et des Arts 2025 : Science et Croyances 🧠🎭 September 16–20, 2025 — Aix-en-Provence, Marseille & Aubagne The 6th edition of the interdisciplinary Festival ...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jul 8

🌿 Save the Date!

Join us for the ILCB Garden Party on Friday, October 10 at the LPL garden!
Featuring presentations by
🧠 Philippe Albouy (ILCB-Iméra Chair 2025–2026)
🔬 Simon Thibault (ILCB postdoc)

A warm welcome to all our new members followed by a shared lunch in the garden.

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jul 1

👏 Congratulations to Christian-G. Bénar, recipient of a 2024 ERC Advanced Grant!

He was awarded for his project OptiMEG: non-invasive recording of deep brain activity using mobile sensors optimized with intracerebral measures.

www.linkedin.com/posts/inserm...

#ERC #AdvancedGrant #amU #INS

Bravo à Christian-G. | Inserm | Cellule Europe

Bravo à Christian-G. Bénar, lauréat Inserm European Research Council (ERC) #AdvancedGrant 2024 ! 👨‍🔬 Christian-George, chercheur à l’INS - Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes à Marseille (Inserm/A...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 30

🧠✨ Workshop Curiosity and Intrinsic Motivation in Infant-Child Learning
To mark the end of his residency, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (ILCB-Iméra chair) is organizing a two-day internal workshop on June 27 & July 1, 2025, at Iméra (Maison Neuve).

More info 👉 www.imera.fr/en/agenda/cu...

Curiosity and intrinsic motivation in infant-child learning - Iméra

Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, FIAS FP x Iméra fellow 2024-2025, is organising an internal Iméra/ILCB/LPL workshop on the theme of curiosity and intrinsic motivation in learning for infants and children o...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 The 2025 Amidex Research Equipment Call is open!
Funding available to renew or acquire energy-efficient research equipment across AMU labs.
Deadline: Jan 5, 2026.
More info 👉 www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/la...

Appel à projets Équipement Recherche 2025 d'Amidex | Aix Marseille Université

L'appel soutient les unités de recherche du site Aix-Marseille qui souhaitent remplacer leurs équipements vieillissants par des équipements plus performants d’un point de vue énergétique afin de renfo...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 18

🎉 ILCB Newsletter #50 coming in September!

Got an idea for a special edition? Let us know! 🧠✨

We'll be discussing them at the next steering committee meeting in early July.

Past issues here: www.ilcb.fr/newsletter-2/

#ILCB #science #newsletter

Newsletter | ILCB

N°48 - June 15th, 2025

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 12

Researchers at Aix-Marseille: your voice matters! 🧠📊 Take part in this foresight initiative led by @amU and partners to help shape the university’s future strategy.

#SciencePolicy #ResearchStrategy #amU

Aix Marseille Université @univ-amu.fr · Jun 12

👉 Démarche participative d'amU et de ses partenaires sur le site d'Aix-Marseille : les communautés scientifiques sont invitées à participer à un questionnaire de réflexion prospective qui contribuera à éclairer les choix stratégiques dans les années à venir !📈

url.univ-amu.fr/prospective-...

ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚀 Excited to share that Abdellah Fourtassi (@fourtassi.bsky.social) will speak at the IA & Education workshop in Marseille on June 30!
Topic: "Can Large Language Models learn like children?"

More info 👉https://ia-edu.lis-lab.fr/

#AI #Education #LLM #Marseille

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧠✨ The #ExploreFestival is back in #Marseille, June 10–15!

🔍 Meet researchers in parks, bars & boats – incl. ILCB members Isabelle Dautriche, Clément François, Bruno Torresani, Benjamin Morillon & more!

📍 Free, fun & science-packed
🔗Full program: explore.univ-amu.fr

#ILCB #ScienceForAll #amU

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · Jun 3

🧠 New study from researchers at LPL, ILCB & CRPN: Learning to read reshapes how we hear words! After consolidation, spelling influences how similar-sounding words are processed in the brain.

📄 hal.science/hal-04975350v1

#Neuro #Cogsci #EEG #Reading #Psycholinguistics

Learning to read transforms phonological into phonographic representations

Learning to read changes the nature of speech representations. One possible change consists in transforming phonological representations into phonographic ones. However, evidence for such transformati...

hal.science

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · May 30

#PhDPosition available at #LPL in #AixEnProvence

Kristof Strijkers @strijkers.bsky.social · May 29

🚨Job offer🚨

PhD position on my #ERC grant 'LaDy' to study how we process language in the dyad using interactive paradigms and EEG hyper-scanning.

Info and application link here (correction: application deadline is 11/07):
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

@cnrs-dr12.bsky.social
@erc.europa.eu

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Doctoral student - ERC LaDy project M/F

emploi.cnrs.fr

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · May 28

📢 24-month postdoc at LPL (Aix-en-Provence) in NLP/Educational Tech on multimodal resources for LfPC (Cued Speech). Start: late 2025. Contact: [email protected]. #postdoc #NLP #EIAH #TAL

+INFO: www.linkedin.com/posts/n%C3%B...

Post-doctorant (2 ans) au Laboratoire Parole et Langage. | Núria Gala

Nous recrutons un post-doctorant pour 2 ans qui aura pour mission la création de ressources numériques multimodales pour l'apprentissage de la langue française parlée complétée (LfPC).

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · May 22

🎓⏰ Last call!

Only a few hours left to apply for the ILCB Summer School 2025 in Aix-Marseille (Sept 1–5)!

Join researchers from around the world to explore the mind & brain through lectures, courses, and discussions.

Apply now 👉 columbo.univ-amu.fr/index.php/53...

#Neuro #Ling #PhD #Postdoc

2025 ILCB Summer School Application

columbo.univ-amu.fr

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