Fundamentals & Applications of EEG

Electroencephalography for Linguists introduces the electroencephalogram (EEG) and summarizes the state of the art in psycho– and neurolinguistic EEG research. Participants will study the neuronal substrate, recording, and analysis of scalp-level EEG data. They will learn about the timeline of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) from auditory perception to higher-level language comprehension—focusing on those ERPs that relate to sentence processing, highlighting the potential of the ERP methodology for experimental syntax research. In addition to ERPs, students will learn about complimentary research on the role of neural oscillations in speech perception and language comprehension, pointing out the vast fallow potential for the psycho– and neurolinguistic study of higher-level language comprehension.

A PDF version of the program can be found here.

Note:  This special event for graduate students complements a general-audience lecture that Dr. Meyer will be giving two days before. Details about the general-audience lecture are available at http://linguistics.uga.edu/news/stories/2019/linguistics-faculty-exchange-leipzig