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From Neuron to Language
Message 1: From Neuron to Language
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Date: 17-Jul-2008
From: Wolfram Hinzen <wolfram.hinzendur.ac.uk>
Subject: From Neuron to Language
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From Neuron to Language
Date: 03-Oct-2008 - 04-Oct-2008
Location: Durham, United Kingdom
Contact: Wolfram Hinzen
Contact Email: wolfram.hinzendur.ac.uk
Meeting URL: http://
Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
Meeting Description:
This is an interdisciplinary symposium that surveys states of the art in the
current cognitive neuroscience of language from different perspectives,
centrally reflecting on methodologies and meta-theoretical issues.
From Neuron to Language
States of the Art in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
Interdisciplinary symposium under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced
Studies and the Wolfson Institute
Conveners:
Professor Wolfram Hinzen, Department of Philosophy
Professor Charlie Heywood, Department of Psychology
Professor David Milner, Department of Psychology
Professor Roy Quinlan, Department of Biological Sciences
Friday, 3 October 2008
Pemberton Building Room 21, Palace Green, Durham
Welcome
14:00-14:15
Professor Ash Amin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies
14:15-16:15
I. Linguistics and Brain Science
Professor Wolfram Hinzen
Department of Philosophy, Durham University
700 years of Universal Grammar: What Do We Know?
Professor David Poeppel
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Explanatory Progress in Relating Language to the Brain
Professor Harald Clahsen
Department of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex
Morphologically Complex Words in the Mind/Brain: A Linguist's Perspective
16:15-16:45
Discussion
16:45-17:15
Tea and coffee
17:15-18:35
II. The Form and the Meaning of Language
Professor Lorraine Tyler
The Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Cambridge University
Conceptual Structure
Professor Angela Friederici
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, MPI Leipzig
Syntax in the Brain
18:35-19:00
Discussion
20:00
Dinner in the Marriott Royal County Hotel
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Senate Suite, Durham Castle
9:00-11:00
III. Origins of the Human Mind
Professor Gary F. Marcus
Department of Psychology, New York University
Language as Kluge
IV. Neurogenetics, Development, and the Anatomy of Speech and Language
Professor Faraneh Varga-Khadem
Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, University College London
Speech, Language, and Mental Time-Travel
Professor Richard Wise
Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Imperial College London
The Anatomy of Language Comprehension and Production
11:00-11:15
Coffee and Tea
11:15-12:15
Panel Discussion:
Chair: Professor Colin Blakemore (to be confirmed)
All speakers, plus invited discussants (Professor Doug Saddy, Centre for
Integrative Neurosciences and Neurodynamics, Reading)
Practical Information:
Registration and contact: As places for this event are limited, please write to
Professor Charlie Heywood, at c.a.heywooddurham.ac.uk, by 5th September 2008,
if you want to receive an invitation. For all other inquiries please write to
Professor Wolfram Hinzen, at wolfram.hinzendur.ac.uk.
Conference website (under construction):
http://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/research/conferences/fromneurontolanguage/
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