Date: 12-Apr-2009
From: Susana Huidobro <shuidobro mac.com>
Subject: Language, Cognition and Motor Control
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Language, Cognition and Motor Control
Date: 29-May-2009 - 31-May-2009
Location: Stony Brook, NY, USA
Contact: Susana Huidobro
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/events/nyct09
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics
Meeting Description:
The Alice V. and David H. Morris International Symposium on Language and Communication has as its goal to draw eminent scientists from around the globe to Long Island to discuss fundamental issues in, and implications of, current research in human language. The first symposium in the series focused on the Evolution of Language; the second will focus on Language, Cognition and Motor Control Systems, and will be held at Stony Brook University, May 29-31, 2009.
The last decade has seen many exciting advances in our understanding of natural language as connected with, and to some extent rooted in, the other neural systems, particularly motor systems. We are interested in exploring those connections & roots in the symposium. This symposium brings together participants from a broad array of disciplines to discuss topics that include the connections between gesture and manual/signed languages, the extent to which genes important for natural language (FOXP2) are also implicated in complex motor and rhythmic activity, the semantics of motion & actions concepts, and their connections to the motor cortex in language production and understanding, recent discoveries regarding “mirror neurons,” and their implications for natural language understanding and linguistic intention, the motor theory of speech perception, language and multimodality generally: the extent to which non-linguistic cognitive/perceptual systems might play a role in the formation of linguistic concepts and in processing & production.
Below is a list of participants in this symposium, as well as the titles of the talks to be presented.
Michael A. Arbib - University of Southern California (USC)
''From Manual Action to Language: Combining Units Is the Key''
Mark Aronoff - Stony Brook University, Irit Meir - University Of Haifa - Carol Padden, University of California at San Diego (UCSD) & Wendy Sandler - University of Haifa
''How the Human Body Shapes Language''
Thomas G. Bever - University Of Arizona
''The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the Mind: The Impact of Familiar Left Handedness on the Neurological Organization of Language''
Ellen Broselow - Stony Brook University
''Mouths, Ears, and Brains in Foreign Language Pronunciation''
Luciano Fadiga - University of Ferrara and Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy.
''Involvement of the Motor System in Phonological and Systanctical Processing: Empirical Evidence and Speculations''
Simon Fisher - University of Oxford
''FOXP2: Towards A Sophisticated View of Links between Genes, Brains and Language''
Susan Goldin-Meadow - University of Chicago
''How Our Hands Help Us Talk and Think''
Louis Goldstein - University of Southern California (USC)
Title: TBA
Robert Gordon - University of Missouri - St. Louis
''Simulating, Mirroring, and Embodiment''
Ofal Hauk - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
''Action in Language Comprehension: Neural Basis and Time Course''
Marc Jeannerod - CNRS, UCB, Lyon, France
''Temporal Factors in Goal/Directed Actions''
Gary Marcus - New York University (NYU)
''Language as Kluge''
David Rosenbaum - Pennsylvania State University
''Putting Thought into Action''
Alice Roy - CNRS, UCB, Lyon, France & Viviane Déprez - Rutgers University and CNRS, UCB, Lyon, France
''Grasping Syntax''
Mark Steedman - University of Edinburgh, UK
''Modeling Language and Planning''
Commenters:
Thomas G. Bever - University of Arizona
Robert Berwick - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard P. Meier - The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Pietrosky - University of Maryland at College Park
Philip Robbins - Unviersity of Missouri-Columbia
Arthur Samuel - Stony Brook University
Barry Schein - University of Southern California
Daniel Weiss - Pennsylvania State University
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