Talks

Skipper, J. I. (2021). The neurobiology of language in naturalistic contexts and its relationship to mental health and wellbeing, Naturalistic Functional Mapping of the Human Brain: Clinical Applications from Neurology to Psychiatry Symposium, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2021). The role of the motor system in predicting speech during language comprehension, Prediction in Language, LingCologne, Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS), University of Cologne, Cologne

Skipper, J. I. (2021). The role of the neurobiology of language in consciousness, Mind and Matter: Conversations Across Disciplines, University of Helsinki and the Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.

Harle, R. (2022). The neurobiology of language mediates alterations in conscious experience induced by psychedelic drugs. 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Cooper, G. (2022). Understanding Neuroplasticity Induced by Tryptamines, Drug Science, Medical Psychedelics Working Group, Academy of Medical Sciences, London, UK.

Kewenig, V. (2022). When abstract becomes concrete: the neurobiology of conceptual processing in the real world. 14th Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2021). Aphantasia and its relationship to the neurobiology of language, inner speech, and consciousness, Aphantasia Network and the Extreme Imagination conference, Virtual/International.

Skipper, J. I. (2020). How and why do auditory and motor systems interact? Coghear, Google and Stanford University, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2020). Speech perception under the tent: A domain-general predictive role for the cerebellum, Western University, Canada and University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2018). A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions, SCALab, Perceptuo-Motor Relationships in Speech Communication Workshop, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Skipper, J. I. (2018). Brain reorganization in anticipation of predictable words, 1st Workshop on Predictive Processing, Symposium on ‘Prediction, Language and the Motor System’, San Sebastian, Spain.

Skipper, J. I. (2018). Do fictional monster reflect our reality?, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK.

• Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-09/monsters-we-create-reflect-our-fears-and-desires/1017488

Skipper, J. I. (2018). Is there a fixed organization of language and the brain?, New directions in language and action research: Implications for theory and treatment, University College London and the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). A core speech circuit between primary motor, somatosensory, and auditory cortex: Evidence from connectivity and genetic descriptions, SCALab, Université de Lille, Lille, France.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). A speech core: Evidence from structural and functional corticocortical connectivity and genetic phenotyping, Center for Research in Language, University of California San Diego, California, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Language and Big Data Workshop, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Languages’ transmogrifier: How motor cortex helps us hear, Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Moss Science Hour, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Pennsylvania, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Neuroscience and Film, New Approaches to Latin American Film Colloquium, University College London, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Primary motor and auditory cortex form a structurally and functionally connected circuit for speech, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar, University College London, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2017). Understanding the network organization of communication and the brain using TV and film, International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Vienna, Austria.

Wittenberg, E. (2017). Complexity matters only when it matters: Pronominal object and event reference rapidly access different aspects of situation models, Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Lancaster, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2016). Do inconsistencies between UCL’s environmental policy and actions influence intentions to engage in pro-environmental behaviours?, Conference Day on Sustainability: Systemic Change from the Individual to the Globe, UCLU Green Economy Society, University College London, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Context is all: There is no fixed organization of language and the brain, EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science, Towards a Neurobiology of Language Symposium, Turin, Italy.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Context is all: There is no fixed organization of language and the brain. Language in Context: An Ecological Turn in Embodied Language, European Psychological Society Workshop, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Echoes of the spoken past: How the brain ‘hears’ context during spoken language comprehension, Neuroscience Seminar Series, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Echoes of the spoken past: How the brain ‘hears’ nonverbal context during spoken language comprehension. ‘The Social Life of Voices’ symposium, British Neuroscience Association, Festival of Neuroscience, Edinburgh, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Interdisciplinary language research from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Reappraising the role of linear structure in language workshop. Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Big questions in cognitive science workshop. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). The natural organization of language and the brain. The School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Towards a neurobiology of conversation: Social interactive alignment as context for language understanding. Language Group, Wellcome Trust Centre For Neuroimaging, University College London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2015). Towards a neurobiology of natural language use. Centre for Educational Neuroscience, Birkbeck, Institute of Education, and University College London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2014). ‘And an echo murmured back the word’: How the brain constructs the speech we hear. Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Seminar, University College London, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2014). Echoes of the Spoken Past: Why real-world speech perception is not all that auditory to the brain. ‘A neurobiology of naturalistic language use?’ Symposium Session at the Sixth Annual Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference (SNL2014), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Skipper, J. I. (2013). How heard speech is a multimodal construction of the brain and what this tells us about signed languages. DCAL: Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre, University College London, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2013). Understanding the natural organization of language and the brain, Autumn school Methods in Language Comprehension, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.

Skipper, J. I. (2012). Hearing lips and… hands, smiles and print too: How listening to words in the wild is not all that auditory to the brain, University College London, Division Of Psychology And Language Sciences, London, UK.

Skipper, J. I. (2011). Lending a helping hand to hearing: How the brain extracts information from nonverbal movements to improve learning, Embodied Learning Symposium, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2010). Co-speech gestures facilitate language comprehension by reducing subsequent reliance on brain regions associated with early sensory processing, 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Frankfurt, Germany.

Skipper, J. I. (2010). The how and why of gesture in the brain, Workshop on the Neuroscience of Gesturing, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, German Frankfurt, Germany.

Skipper, J. I. (2010). The new organisation of language and the brain, Consolider CogNeuro Seminar Series, University of Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcellona, Spain.

Skipper, J. I. (2010). The new organisation of language and the brain, Science Colloquium Series, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2009). Context and the role of the predictive brain in real-world communication, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2009). The neurobiology of communication in natural settings, Department of Psychology Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2009). The role of context and the predictive brain during real-world communication, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior (CSBMB), Princeton University, Princeton, NY, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2009). So you think your brain is smarter than a 5th grader?, Annual Winter Conference on Current Issues in Developmental Psychobiology, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2008). Improving the analysis, storage and sharing of neuroimaging data using R, MySQL, and distributed computing, Sackler Science Meeting, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2008). Lending a helping hand to hearing: Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area, the cortical motor system, and the mirror system, Gesture Focus Group, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2008). Two scientists and a cup: How the brain keeps track of each actor during joint action, Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2007). Gestures in the brain’s language, International Society for Gesture Studies, panel on Neurocognition of gesture, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2006). Gestures in the brain’s language, Fall Psychology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2006). Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2006). Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Embodied Communication, Joint Action, Social Understanding workshop, ZiF, Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

Skipper, J. I. (2006). Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca’s area and the language mirror system, Architecture of Language, Pisa, Italy.

Skipper, J. I. (2006). The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2005). Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Cognitive Brown Bag in Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2005). Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing, Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2005). Hearing lips: speech perception and a frontal neural system for motor simulation, Annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University Psychology Graduate Students Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2004). Your brain says what it sees: motor mechanisms of audiovisual speech perception, Brain Research Imaging Center Roundtable, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2003). Differences between audio and audiovisual language comprehension, Brain Research Imaging Center Roundtable, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2002). Hearing lips and seeing voices: from audiovisual speech to audiovisual neurons, Brain Research Imaging Center Roundtable, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Skipper, J. I. (2001). A tale of two hemispheres: an fMRI investigation of variable asymmetry in discourse processing, Brain Research Imaging Center Roundtable, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Public talks given by the LAB Lab and as part of the UNITy Project.