ILCB Garden Party 2025

The ILCB is happy to announce the next ILCB Garden Party, which will take place in the LPL garden!

📅 When? Friday, October 10, 2025

The event will feature:

  • A presentation by Philippe Albouy, ILCB-Iméra Chair 2025–2026
  • A presentation by Simon Thibault, ILCB postdoctoral fellow

    This will also be a great opportunity to welcome all our new members, including new PhD students, and to gather for a friendly lunch after the talks.


    A relaxed moment to meet, share, and kick off the academic year together.

    Mark your calendars – details coming in September!

ILCB Lunchtalk : Klaus Zuberbühler

Vendredi 29 novembre 2024

ILCB Lunch Talk

Klaus Zuberbühler

(Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Cognition Comparée)

Revisiting the origins of meaning

11h-12h AMU, Campus St. Charles, Espace Pouillon, 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille

Séminaire accessible sur réservation

ILCB Lunch Talk : Peter Vuust

Vendredi 24 mai 2024

ILCB Lunch Talk

Peter Vuust

(Center for Music in the Brain (MIB) ; Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University ; Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg)

Subdivide and Conquer: Brain processing of musical melody, harmony and rhythm

11h-13h AMU, Campus St. Charles, Salle des voûtes, Marseille

Séminaire accessible sur réservation

ILCB Lunch Talk : David Schlangen

Vendredi 9 février 2024

ILCB Lunch Talk

David Schlangen

(Université de Potsdam)

Understanding Understanding — in General, and in Large Language Models

12h-13h AMU, Campus St. Charles, Salle des voûtes, Marseille

Séminaire accessible sur réservation

ILCB Lunch Talk : Stéphanie Ries

ILCB Lunch Talk

June 2, 2023

Salle des voûtes –  Campus Saint Charles – 3 place Victor Hugo – 13003 Marseille

Stéphanie Ries

Associate Professor, San Diego State University

Why we should care about the dorso-medial prefrontal cortex in language production
  • 12h Talk Stéphanie Ries
  • 13h Lunch
  • Confirm your attendance (mandatory) by registering on the ILCB website

 

Abstract :
The dorso-medial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), including the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas as well as the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, has been a region of interest in studies of cognitive control and other areas of neuroscience for many years. Yet, traditional models of language production do not typically include this brain region, and its potential role in language and speech production has therefore only been more recently investigated. In this talk, I will review evidence from several research groups (including but not limited to my own) using fMRI, brain stimulation, and scalp and intracranial EEG in “monolinguals” and bilinguals with and without neurological damage that suggest that the dmPFC may play a bigger role than we previously had thought in language production. In particular, it seems likely involved in a response selection mechanism potentially taking place separately from lexical selection, in addition to speech monitoring. The implications of these findings for traditional cognitive models of language production will be discussed.