Neurolinguistics Reading Group - NPFL151
Title: Čtení z neurolingvistiky
Guaranteed by: Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Ondřej Bojar, Ph.D.
Class: DS, matematická lingvistika
Informatika Mgr. - Matematická lingvistika
Classification: Informatics > Computer and Formal Linguistics
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Annotation -
Through reading and presenting important or recent papers, you will learn about modern methods of objective measurement of cognitive processes (e.g. EEG, MEG, GSR), available recording devices, and interpretation and visualization of the data. We will discuss key basics from neurology (brain organization and its behavior) and limitations of current methods in analyzing typical activities (silent and aloud reading, etc.). We will demonstrate available devices, data and tools from the Internet. Our motivating vision are non-invasive methods, e.g. for recording the user's inner speech.
Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.05.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Credit will be awarded based on active participation in the seminar (attendance of at least 60%; remote participation is in principle possible upon prior individual agreement) and on the student's contribution. The contribution may take the form, for example, of a lecture discussing a selected article in detail, a review lecture summarizing multiple articles, or a prepared tutorial (“exercise”) during which other participants will try collecting, visualizing, interpreting, or otherwise analyzing data, etc.

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.05.2025)
Literature -

Kutas, M., & Federmeier, K. D. (2011). Thirty years and counting: finding meaning in the N400 component of the event-related brain potential (ERP). Annual review of psychology, 62(1), 621-647.

Van Boxtel, A. (2010, August). Facial EMG as a tool for inferring affective states. In Proceedings of measuring behavior (Vol. 2010).

Hoeks, J. C., Stowe, L. A., & Doedens, G. (2004). Seeing words in context: the interaction of lexical and sentence level information during reading. Cognitive brain research, 19(1), 59-73.

Brouwer, H., Fitz, H., & Hoeks, J. (2012). Getting real about semantic illusions: rethinking the functional role of the P600 in language comprehension. Brain research, 1446, 127-143.

Van Berkum, J. J. A., Brown, C. M., Zwitserlood, P., Kooijman, V., & Hagoort, P. (2005). Anticipating Upcoming Words in Discourse: Evidence From ERPs and Reading Times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(3), 443–467.

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.05.2025)
Syllabus -
  • Neuroscience basics, brain topology, timing, dependence on the context and subject.
  • Non-invasive imaging principles: brain-related (EEG, MEG), skin-related (GSR: galvanic skin response, EMG: electromyography). Interference.
  • Interpretation of the signal, connection to cognitive functions, connection to linguistic theories.
  • Selected non-invasive imaging devices.
  • Visualization.
  • Typical activities (silent reading, inner speech, loud reading, imagined speech, loud speech).
  • Ethics: informed consents, typical options for data storage and publication.

Last update: Mírovský Jiří, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.05.2025)