Brain and Language Series
This group began meeting in the fall of 1998, organized around tutorial presentations and discussions of background reading.
Over time, it has developed into a forum for presentation and discussion of research results and research in progress, and last year,
the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) joined the
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) as a sponsor.
Meetings take place on Wednesdays from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., roughly every other week, in the IRCS large seminar room (room 470),
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A.
Meetings will sometimes shift to Thursday or Friday morning, to accommodate the schedule of a visiting speaker.
When indicated below, advance reading material will be available on line, or
in paper form from the IRCS reception desk.
Special thanks goes to Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc. for its partial financial support of this series.
Some presentations (marked *) are supported by Penn's Center for Functional Neuroimaging.
2003
Fall Semester
September 17
Ken Pugh, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
and Haskins Laboratories
Methodological Issues in Neuroimaging Studies of Skilled Reading
and Reading Disability
October 1
Ofer Tchernichovski, Ph.D., Department of Biology, The City College of CUNY
Tracking the Entire Vocal Learning Process in the Zebra Finch
October 15
John van Swieten, Ph.D., Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Language and Other Cognitive Dysfunctions in Patients with FTDP-17
November 5
Malcolm McNeil, Ph.D., Department of Communication Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
The Nature and Diagnosis of Apraxia of Speech
November 19
Carol Lippa, M.D., Drexel University
Neurodegenerative Diseases: Linking Symptoms with the Underlying Disease Process
December 3
Yaakov Stern, Ph.D., Neurology, Columbia University
What is Cognitive Reserve?
Advance reading:
What is Cognitive Reserve?, PDF format, 178 KB
Exploring the Neural Basis of Cognitive Reserve, PDF format, 338 KB
Association of Life Activities, PDF format, 126 KB
2003
Spring Semester
February 5
Casey Halpern, University of Pennsylvania
Dissociation of Number Knowledge and Object Naming
February 19
David Poeppel, Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, Department of Biology, University of Maryland
MEG and Its Role in Studying Language Processing
March 5
Murray Grossman, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Is a Pizza More Than a Quarter?
March 19
Laura Gonnerman, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Lehigh University
Morphology in the Mental Lexicon
April 2
John-Claude Baron, M.D., Kenneth Appel Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Cambridge, UK
Mapping the Neural Substrates of Cognitive Impairment in Neurological Disorders
April 16
Argye Hillis, M.D., Johns Hopkins University
Neural Correlates of Hemispatial Neglect
May 7
John Kounios, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Concreteness Effects in Semantic Processing
