ESLP2025
Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference
23-26 September 2025
Aix-en-Provence, France
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Keynote Speakers
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Barbara Kaup
University of Tübingen, Germany
Biography
Barbara Kaup is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Tübingen, where she leads the Language and Cognition research group. Her work targets the interplay between linguistic and non-linguistic cognition with a special focus on representational issues, embodied cogntion and the processing of negation.
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Dan Dediu
University of Barcelona, Spain
Biography
Dan Dediu is an ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. His research spans diverse fields including the processes that shape linguistic diversity, the origins and evolution of language in the context of human evolution, and the application of quantitative and computational methods to language sciences. He has a particular focus on studying how non-linguistic factors like biology and anatomy influence linguistic diversity, such as the effect of vocal tract anatomy on phonetics and phonology.
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Vincent Janik
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Biography
Vincent Janik is a Professor of Biology at the University of St Andrews and is affiliated with the Scottish Oceans Institute, the Sea Mammal Research Unit, and the Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences. His research focuses on the evolution of complexity in communication systems and how this complexity can affect social interaction. He studies both the environmental constraints that influence the design of vocal communication systems and the underlying cognitive skills required to overcome such constraints, with a particular emphasis on the acoustic communication of marine mammals, especially bottlenose dolphins.
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Katja Liebal
University of Leipzig, Germany
Biography
Katja Liebal is a Professor and Head of the Human Biology & Primate Cognition Research Group and of the Children & Nature Group at the interdisciplinary LeipzigLab, Leipzig University. Her research centers on the multimodal communication of nonhuman and human primates, particularly through gestural and facial signals. Using a cross-species, cross-cultural approach and both behavioral and non-invasive experimental methods, she investigates different aspects of primate communication and the underlying socio-cognitive skills, with a focus on the cognitive and communicative abilities that might be uniquely human and those shared with other primate species.
