Program Overview

The Summer School ISOLDE: Infant Studies On Language Development in Europe

The Summer School ISOLDE is a program focused on infant studies on language development in Europe.

Programme

The program features various workshops and presentations, including:

• Titia Benders: IDS
• Matt Hilton: Executive Functions
• Liquan Liu: Bilingualism
• Carolyn Quam: Variability & Flexibility
• Claudia Männel: EEG
• Alan Langus/Tom Fritzsche: Pupillometry

The Method of Event-Related Brain Potentials in Language Acquisition Research

Introduction

The method of event-related brain potentials (ERP) has been employed as a powerful tool in developmental research.

Workshop Details

In the current workshop, the use of this method in language acquisition research will be discussed. The workshop will cover:

1. Basic concepts, including the neural origins of ERPs, recording and analysis principles, and interpretation of ERP components.
2. Language-related ERP components and how ERP experiments can be applied to study developmental trajectories and inter-individual differences in language acquisition.

Mandatory Readings

The following readings are mandatory for the workshop:

• De Haan, M. (2007). Current and future directions in infant electrophysiology, In M. De Haan (Ed.), Infant EEG and Event-Related Potentials. (pp. 305–316). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
• Friederici, A. D., & Männel, C. (2013). Neural correlates of the development of speech perception and comprehension. In K. N. Ochsner, & S. M. Kosslyn (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (Vol. 1, pp. 171–192). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/.013.0009
• Kappenman, E. S., & Luck, S. J. (2016). Best practices for event-related potential research in clinical populations. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , (2), 110–115. doi:10.1016/j.bpsc.2015.11.007
• Luck, S. J. (2014). A closer look at ERPs and ERP components, In S. J. Luck, An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Second Edition (p. 35–70). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Additional Readings

• Luck, S. J. (2014). An Introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique, Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Certificates and Memberships

The University of Potsdam holds various certificates and memberships, including:

• Bundesinitiative Klischeefrei
• Code of Conduct
• Exzellente Lehre
• HRK-Audit & HRK-Re-Audit
• HRS4R
• Systemakkreditierung
• Total E-Quality
• Netzwerk Studienorientierung Brandenburg
• Scholars at Risk
• EUA
• EDUC
• Yerun
• UA11+