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ucl.ac.uk>Opening Workshop: Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience ************************************************************** SLI, Genes, Development & Cognitive Neuroscience ************************************************************** Friday 18th October 2002 to Sunday 20th October 2002 Department of Human Communication Science University College London The genetic identification of two novel loci involved in specific language impairment in children (SLI Consortium) along with the earlier findings of the FoxP2 gene implicated in this disorder, has propelled SLI to centre stage for its potential for facilitating our understanding of the relations between genes and cognition (Pinker, 2001). This focussed meeting aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group to disseminate and discuss recent research findings from genetics to cognitive neuroscience in SLI/developmental disorders and related areas of language and cognitive development, raising the controversial issues of the development of specialised cognitive systems, in our search for understanding cognitive development. It is clear that in order for us to advance in this area, theoretical unification between neuroscience, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive science is required. Towards this end a multidisciplinary list of speakers has been drawn up. The symposium aims to bring current knowledge and technical advances in genetic and cognitive neuroscience investigations of language, cognition and developmental disorders to the participants. Further the workshop aims to provide an informal forum where in our quest for knowledge about genomics and cognition, controversial issues can be aired concerning the inter-related areas of the genetic and cognitive heterogeneity of SLI and other disorders; domain-specificity, and dissociation versus co-morbidity of specialised cognitive systems in normal and atypical development. ->->->->->->->-> PROGRAMME <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<- - ------------------------------------------- Friday 18th October 2002 - ------------------------------------------- 2pm Introduction Heather van der Lely, University College London 2.15 - 2.55pm The genetic basis of a severe speech & language disorder Simon Fisher, University of Oxford 2.55 - 3.15pm Discussion 3.15 - 3.55pm Genetics of language and cognitive impairment: GLI (general language impairment) in addition to SLI (specific language impairment) Robert Plomin, King's College London 3.55 - 4.15pm Discussion 4.15 - 4.40pm Break 4.40 - 5.20pm The heritability of language and language disorders Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University 5.20 - 5.40 Discussion 5.40 - 6.20pm SLI and dyslexia: same or different? Evidence from neurobiological and genetic studies Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford 6.20 - 6.40pm Discussion - ------------------------------------------- Saturday 19th October 2002 - ------------------------------------------- 9.00 - 9.40am What developmental biology can tell us about innateness Gary Marcus, New York University 9.40 - 10.00 Discussion 10.00 - 10.40 Evidence for and implications of a domain-specific grammatical deficit Heather van der Lely, University College London 10.40 - 11 Discussion 11 - 11.30am Break 11.30 - 12.10am Recent studies using normal and backward speech: behavioral and optical topographical measures in infants and adults Jacques Mehler, SISSA, Trieste 12.10 - 12.30am Discussion 12.30 - 1.30pm Lunch 1.30 - 2.10pm The way to syntax: The prosody/lexicon/syntax interface in German infants J�rgen Weissenborn, University of Potsdam Barbara H�hle, University of Potsdam 2.10 - 2.30pm Discussion 2.30 - 3.10pm Language acquisition is language change Stephen Crain, University of Maryland 3.10 - 3.30pm Discussion 3.30 - 4pm Break 4 - 4.30pm Selective versus general delays in language acquisition of children with SLI: Refining the phenotype Mabel Rice, University of Kansas 4.30 - 5pm The exact model of specific language impairment and the explanation of why SLI presents differently in different languages: Quantitative tests of precise predictions Ken Wexler, MIT 5 - 5.30pm Discussion 5.30 - 5.40pm 10 minute break 5.40 - 6.20pm Language learning without maturation Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania 6.20 - 6.40pm Discussion 7- 9pm Reception in Chandler House Nicole Tibbels - short recital of contemporary music & song - ------------------------------------------- Sunday 20th October 2002 - ------------------------------------------- 9 - 9.40am Grammatical processing in second language learners Harald Clahsen, University of Essex 9.40 - 10am Discussion 10 - 10.40am Psychogrammar Colin Phillips, University of Maryland 10.40 - 11am Discussion 11 - 11.30am Break 11.30 - 12.10am Syntactic processing in the brain Angela Friederici, Max-Planck-Institut f�r neuropsychologische 12.10 - 12.30am Discussion 12.30 - 12.50pm Discussants: Robert Plomin, Emmanuel Dupoux, Gary Marcus, Uli Frauenfelder 12.50 - 1.25pm Open discussion 1.25 - 1.30pm Closing remarks ->->->->->->->-> REGISTRATION <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<- There are a few places remaining for the workshop, which is also described on the website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN. If you would be interested in attending please fill in the registration form on our website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN/opening.html and send it to: Claire Lister Workshop Administrator c.listerMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue