On March 27th, 2025, the 76th session of the "Northeast Asia Academic Forum" hosted by the School of Northeast Asia Studies was held in Room 1614 of Nanchen Building. Prof.Chen Zhongmin of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, was invited to deliver an academic lecture titled "Motor Theories and Language Cognition".  The lecture was moderated by Ma Yuanjie, the Deputy Director of the Department of Korean Studies.

Prof.Chen elaborated in depth two classic issues of language cognition through phonetic experiment cases. Based on the neural foundation of the speech chain, he emphasized the significance of the feedback control system within the neural mechanism. Additionally, integrating insights from multiple fields such as language rehabilitation, artificial intelligence, and language teaching, he put forward enlightening suggestions.Based on motor theories, he unveiled, through two interactive experiments, the close connection between language cognition and the phonetic articulation planning and programming in the listener's motor cortex of the brain, pointing out that listeners can utilize their own linguistic articulation mechanisms to filter linguistic variations. During the interactive session, Prof.Chen engaged in in-depth exchanges with attending teachers and students on topics such as somatosensory feedback and second language acquisition.

Chen Zhongmin, Ph.D. in Linguistics, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, and also serves as a part-time professor at the Institute of Modern Linguistics and the Institute of Brain-inspired Intelligence Science. He concurrently holds various academic positions, including Vice President of the Chinese Neurolinguistics Society, Vice President of the Shanghai Philological Society, Vice President of the Shanghai Language Culture Association, Director of the International Memorial Society for Mr. Li Fanggui's Chinese Linguistics Research, Editor-in-Chief of Collected Papers on Language Research, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Linguistics Collected Papers, and Guest Professor at the Medical and Health Research Institute of East China Normal University. His professional research and teaching interests lie in experimental phonetics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, Chinese dialectology, and pathological linguistics.