http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/ News en http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/typo3conf/ext/tt_news/ext_icon.gif http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/ 18 16 News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 08 May 2012 15:11:00 +0200 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/literatur-und-architektur-der-moderne.html Julia Weber heads new Emmy Noether reseach group at the Cluster Dr. Julia Weber, literary scholar at the Peter-Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft and the cluster of excellence Languages of Emotion at the Freien Universität Berlin, will establish a new research group on the interaction between literature and architecture. The junior research group "Structures of Imagination. Literature and Architecture in Modernity" within the Emmy Noether Programme of the German Research Foundation is funded with one million euros.

The interdisciplinary group focuses on two investigation periods: "around 1800" and 1910-1935. In both phases, the group examines discursive convergences between literary and architectural aesthetics (the exchange of political, architectural and aesthetic ideas between architects, architectural critics and writers) and also addresses the question of how architecture is thematized and represented in literary texts, and which formal, aesthetic and narrative function its representation in such texts could serve. ]]> General Fri, 04 May 2012 14:23:00 +0200 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/ulla-haselstein-ueber-coolness.html New video lecture series Ulla Haselstein, professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin and principal investigator of the cluster Languages of Emotion, gives an overview over the history of "cool" and traces the cultural concept of "coolness" back to the 19th century.

Together with Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, professor for japanese studies, Ulla Haselstein heads a research project at the Cluster that investigates coolness in american and japanese culture.

Watch video (in German)]]> General Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:25:00 +0200 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/preis-fuer-winfried-menninghaus.html The Italian Society for Aesthetics honoured the work of the literary scholar Società Italiana d'Estetica – SIE) for his book "Wozu Kunst? Ästhetik nach Darwin" ("Art – what for? Aesthetics after Darwin"; Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2011). The award was presented at the Society's annual conference in Pistoia in April and includes funding for a translation of a book of the prize winner into the Italian language. ]]> Photo: Bernd Wannenmacher/FU Berlin General Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:30:00 +0100 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/sina-emde-ueber-gedenken-in-kambodscha.html New video lecture series Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler and Dr. Sina Emde ask how post-civil war societies deal with their past experience of violence, how it is communicated and remembered and which emotions play a role in this process. Sina Emde presents the results of her research in Cambodia and closely examines different forms of remembrance that are practiced privately and staged publicly.

Watch video (in German)]]> General Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:26:00 +0200 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/selbstwert-studienteilnehmer-gesucht.html Research project is looking for participants in online-survey
The questionnaire is available here: http://bit.ly/FQanjc If you have any questions, please contact the project members.

Contact person:
Dipl.-Psych. Aline Vater
Freie Universität Berlin
Cluster Languages of Emotion
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
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The group of scientists led by the neurobiologist and linguist Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller from Freie Universität Berlin and Prof. Yury Shtyrov from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge presented their participants with spoken words like "note" and pseudowords like "noke". At the beginning of each syllable, when only "no" has been heard, the brain cannot decide with certainty if the word is real or fake. To identify the word with certainty, the brain requires the additional information at the end of the syllable.

The researchers discovered that already within 50-80 milliseconds after the incoming sound signals first allowed the participants to recognize the words with certainty, a brain indicator differentiated between the meaningful and the meaningless items. This is much earlier than a previously established brain indicator of comprehension, the so-called N400-component, which peaks only at a latency of about half a second.

In their present study, the scientists were also able to re-confirm another early brain indicator of speech understanding. This indicator, which occurs after 150-200 milliseconds, was discovered by Prof. Pulvermüller’s group in Cambridge a few years ago. The other early component, sometimes called the "semantic mismatch negativity," was found to indicate rather fine-grained features of meaning comprehension, for example whether an incoming word relates to mouth or leg movements (examples: "talk" or "walk").

"Behavioral experiments had already indicated that human speech processing works very quickly," said Prof. Friedemann Pulvermüller. "However, here for the first time we see physiological evidence backing that assumption with brain measurements and defining the exact time course and unbelievable speed with which our brain decides between what makes sense and what doesn't." The scientists used a new technique for their study, called magnetoencephalography, and distributed source analysis. With magnetoencephalography it is possible to localize even the miniscule magnetic fields that the brain produces while working. Using distributed source analysis, the activation patterns in the brain can be located even if they involve several brain areas at the same time. The temporal precision of this method is unexcelled.

In the future Friedemann Pulvermüller, who just moved to Berlin after 12 years of work at Cambridge, and his new team would like to use the new knowledge about rapid language comprehension on patients with language problems following a stroke. "The early brain responses of word recognition might help us in measuring the progress made by stroke patients with a loss of normal language ability who undergo intensive speech therapy."

Reference
MacGregor, L. J., Pulvermüller, F., van Casteren, M., Shtyrov, Y., 2012. Ultra-rapid access to words in the brain: neuromagnetic evidence, nature communications 3, 711.

Further recent publications]]> General Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:27:00 +0100 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/vergebung-studienteilnehmer-gesucht.html Interview participants for a study of an interdisciplinary research project needed
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]]> Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: The return of the prodigal son (1668/69) Quelle: wiki commons General Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:11:00 +0100 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/neuerscheinung-empathy.html Special section of the journal Emotion Review Details Further recent publications]]> General Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:13:00 +0100 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/clemens-risi-ueber-oper-und-emotion.html New video lecture series Prof. Dr. Clemens Risi, professor of Theatre Studies at the FU Berlin, reconstructs the theoretical debates of the 17th century about the production of affects in the opera. He then turns to two 19th-century composers, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, and their ideas about the emotional effects of opera.

Watch video (in German)]]> General Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:35:00 +0100 http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/newsdetail/article/dominik-perler-ueber-emotionsphilosophie.html New video lecture series Watch video (in German)  ]]> General Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:26:00 +0100