This two-day symposium organized by the Brain Language Laboratory engages an interdisciplinary audience to reflect on advances in brain-based language research. It is held in memoriam of Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedemann Pulvermüller, whose contributions to the study of language, the brain, and human cognition have significantly shaped the field, and have inspired generations of colleagues and students to approach complex questions of cognition from a neuromechanistic perspective.

The symposium will also serve as a closing dissemination of the ERC Advanced Grant project “Material Constraints Enabling Human Cognition”. We will present key results from the project, including insights from brain-constrained neural network simulations of language in the brain. Finally, the symposium will mark the conclusion of the Neurolinguistics research group at Freie Universität Berlin.

The Brain Language Laboratory welcomes all interested researchers for two days of discussion and fruitful exchange. Focal topics of the symposium are:

• Brain-informed approaches to linguistic theory
• Aphasia therapy and clinical language research
• Neurosemantics and neuropragmatics
• Computational and neurobiologically grounded models of language and cognition
• Brain mechanisms of language processing