Linking language and cognition to neuroscience via computation

在过去的十年里，有关语言神经科学和其他认知过程的信息爆炸式增长。我们现在有了相当合理的“脑图”，它指明了大脑中发生的主要操作，这些操作是语言处理各个方面的基础。然而，语言和大脑之间的关系充其量只是在相互关联的层面上被理解。对于专门的神经回路如何解释支撑语言计算和表征的特定操作的实现，目前还没有解释性的理解。本次研讨会的重点是将来自不同领域（如神经科学、认知科学、语言学、计算机科学和心理学）的专家聚集在一起，确定语言计算神经生物学的新方向。有两个预期的结果。首先，研讨会应该激发新的科学合作，使用计算来连接认知/语言和神经科学。其次，参与者将撰写一份“白皮书”，其中(i)总结这一跨学科研究领域的关键思想、问题和研究前景；（ii）为认知神经科学的未来工作确定并推荐有前途的问题和方法工具，特别强调语音和语言处理。

The past decade has seen an explosion of information concerning the neuroscience of language and other cognitive processes. We now have quite reasonable 'brain maps' that specify where in the brain the major operations occur that underlie various aspects of language processing. However, the relation between language and the brain is still at best understood at a correlational level. There is no explanatory understanding of how specialized neural circuits account for the implementation of the specific operations that underpin linguistic computations and representations. The emphasis of this workshop is to bring together experts from various fields (e.g., neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, computer science, and psychology) to identify new directions in the computational neurobiology of language. There are two intended outcomes. First, the workshop should stimulate new scientific collaborations that use computation to connect cognition/language and neuroscience. Second, participants will write a "white paper" that (i) summarizes key ideas, problems, and prospects for research in this interdisciplinary area of inquiry and (ii) identifies and recommends promising questions and methodological tools for future work in cognitive neuroscience, with a special emphasis on speech and language processing.