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Wed Jul 11 2007 Confs: Applied Ling, Neuroling, Psycholing/Italy Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Frank Burchert, 8th Science of Aphasia Conference Message 1: 8th Science of Aphasia Conference
Date: 11-Jul-2007 From: Frank Burchert <burchertling.uni-potsdam.de> Subject: 8th Science of Aphasia Conference 8th Science of Aphasia Conference Short Title: SoA8 Date: 14-Sep-2007 - 19-Sep-2007 Location: Monopoli (Bari), Italy Contact: Frank Burchert Contact Email: burchertling.uni-potsdam.de Meeting URL: http://www.soa-online.com Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics Meeting Description: The SoA conferences are intended to bring together senior and junior scientists working in the multidisciplinary field of neurocognition of language and dealing with normal function as well as disorders. The size of the conference with a maximum of 100 participants ensures direct interaction between the participants. Science of Aphasia VIII, 2007, Italy The Neurocognition of Language Levels of description Program Friday 14 September on arrival Registration at the hotel desk http://soa-online.com/html/accommodation.html 17.00-19.30 Registration at the SoA desk 19.30 Dinner 21.00 Welcome drinks and warm-up party Saturday 15 September 08.30 Conference opening 08.50 Session 1: The Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of language Chairs: Prof. Dr. Riitta Salmelin, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Dr. Jubin Abutalebi, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milan, Italy 08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session 09.00-11.00 Invited presentations Tiina Parviainen, Helsinki, FIN Cortical correlates of language perception - neuromagnetic studies in adults and children Marco Catani, London, UK Fibre-tracking methods in the study of language 11.00 Coffee break and discussion 11.30-13.00 Contributed papers I Friedmann & Gvion: Conduction aphasia and sentence comprehension: phonological working memory up the garden path Jonkers & de Bruin: Tense processing in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia Poirier et al.: Neural underpinnings of rate of speech input on auditory sentence comprehension in aphasic and unimpaired adults: an fMRI investigation Rossi & Bastiaanse: Clitic position in restructuring and negative imperative sentences: data from agrammatism Stavrakaki: Verbs with alternating transitivity in Greek non-fluent aphasia Rausch et al.: Agrammatic speakers' comprehension of canonical and non-canonical structures in the verbal and nominal syntax domains in agrammatism 13.30 Lunch 15.00-16.30 Late Registration at the SoA desk 16.30 Coffee break and discussion 17.00-18.00 Invited presentation Stefano Cappa, Milan, IT The continuing usefulness of the anatomo-clinical method 18.00-18.30 Contributed papers II Friedmann & Lukov: Subtypes of surface dyslexia Heide et al.: The mental representation of derived verbs: Evidence from dyslexia Pernet et al.: When all hypotheses are right: A comparative VBM study of adult normal and dyslexic readers Aichert et al.: Segments and syllables as target units in the treatment of apraxia of speech: An investigation of learning and transfer effects Hogrefe et al.: Spontaneous gesturing in aphasic patients with highly reduced verbal output: Does limb apraxia have an impact? Staiger et al.: Phrase-level phonetic processes in spontaneous speech: an investigation of a patient with apraxia of speech 19.00 Dinner 21.00-22.00 Poster session I Bachmann & Lorenz: Word retrieval deficits in anomic aphasia: evaluation and comparison of two treatment approaches Gupta: Naming difficulties Kambanaros: Bilingual word processing: the effect of instrumentality on action and object naming in Greek-English anomic aphasic speakers Khatoonabadi et al.: Semantic processing of concrete and abstract words by right-hemisphere-damaged Farsi speakers Mishra: Modality and language influence in word production in a Hindi-English bilingual aphasic with jargon Suh & De Bleser: Dichotomous approach may be too rigid to account for heterogeneous symptoms in aphasia, intra- and interdependency between modalities, tasks, and levels of processing Wilson et al.: Noun verb double dissociation in acquired dysgraphia: evidence from Spanish Grogan et al.: A VBM study of semantic fluency in the normal and damaged brain George et al.: Using various cueing strategies, within, across and crosslinguistic conditions Zimmermann & Laganaro: Origin of phoneme substitution and phoneme movement errors in aphasia Sunday 16 September Session 2: Neurolinguistic theory - Representation and/versus processing Chairs: Prof. Dr. Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen, Netherlands PD Dr. Frank Burchert, Potsdam University, Germany 08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session 09.00-11.00 Invited presentations David Caplan, Boston, USA Capacity reduction models of aphasic syntactic comprehension Herman Kolk, Nijmegen, NL Language capacity and language control in agrammatic aphasia 11.00 Coffee break and discussion 11.30-12.30 Invited presentation Cynthia Thompson, Evanston, USA What the eyes say about sentence processing: Eye-tracking while listening studies in aphasia 13.00 Lunch Afternoon Social event: excursion 19.00 Dinner 21.00-22.00 Poster session II Fyndanis et al.: Wh-question production in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek Koukoulioti et al.: Tense and aspect in transitive, unergative and accusative verbs: Evidence from Greek aphasic patients Lorusso et al.: Null subjects and thematic roles in agrammatic and children production Mätzig & Druks: The production of prepositions in sentence completion, spontaneous speech and picture description by five aphasic patients and control participants Trofimova & Bastiaanse: Production of prepositions in Russian aphasia Martínez Ferreiro: Ibero-romance agrammatism and tree-pruning Kaprinis: Morphological and syntactic abilities in patients with Alzheimer's desease Alasseri & Pell: Influence of emotionality on pragmatic features of discourse produced by Arabic-speaking adults with aphasia El Hachioui et al.: Recovery of linguistic deficits in stroke patients: a three-year-follow up study Monday 17 September Session 3: Neurolinguistic intervention Chairs: Prof. Dr. David Howard, University of Newcastle, UK Dr. Wendy Best, University College London, UK 08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session 09.00-11.00 Invited presentations Argye Hillis, Baltimore, USA Can you target meaning vs. lexical output in treating naming impairment? Jenny Crinion, London, UK Using MRI to predict chronic language performance post stroke 11.00 Coffee break and discussion 11.30-12.30 Marina Laganaro, Geneva, Switzerland ERP correlates of different anomic patterns and their recovery: waveform analysis and temporal segmentation 13.30 Lunch afternoon Social event: sports (beach volleyball or equivalent) 16.30 Coffee break 17.00-18.00 Contributed papers III Wunderlich & Ziegler: Explicitly and implicitly presented mouth shape information as cues in spoken word production: dissociating effects in two anomic patients Hanne et al.: Cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming and word-picture-verification: tracing the locus of the effect Klitsch & Bastiaanse: The benefit of audiovisual speech presentation and the McGurk effect in aphasic speakers of Dutch Kuehn: Conceptual-semantic deficits in fluent aphasia 19.00 Social event: dinner and program Tuesday 18 September Session 4: Convergences and divergences between different approaches Chair: Prof. Dr. Ria De Bleser, Potsdam University, Germany Dr. Brendan Weekes, University of Sussex, UK 08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session 09.00-11.00 Invited presentations Dan Bub, Victoria, Canada Functional maps of the language cortex: Surveying the landscape Evelyn Ferstl, Sussex, UK t.b.a 11.00 Coffee break and discussion 11.30-12.30 Round table discussion 13.30 Lunch 16.30 Coffee break 17.00-18.00 Contributed papers IV Grassly et al.: Can the effects of impairment focused therapy be demonstrated within social model parameters? Law & Yeung: An ortho-phonological treatment for Chinese anomia Menke et al.: Dynamics of successful word recovery after intensive training in chronic aphasia Wedler et al.: Predicting the outcome of an intense anomia treatment in chronic stroke 19.00 Dinner 21.00-22.00 Poster session III Biedermann & Nickels: The representation of plural information in our mental lexicon Chiarelli et al.: ERP investigation of nominal compounds Wehrens et al.: Compounds in aphasia: influence of the verb constituent Mondini et al.: Deficits in writing noun-noun compounds Garraffa: Processing grammatical feature in a non-fluent speaker: the grammatical nature of minimal structures Martínez-Ferreiro: Why in agrammatic aphasia: evidence from Catalan and Galician Kljajevic: Comprehension of wh-dependencies in Croatian aphasics Wednesday 19 September Breakfast and departure Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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