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 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.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. and Janssen Medical Affairs for their financial support of this series.
Some presentations (marked *) are supported by Penn's Center for Functional Neuroimaging.
Archive:
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2004
Fall Semester
September 15, 2004
Tor Wager, Columbia University
Shifting attention and resolving interference: Components of thought?
October 6, 2004
Peter Carruthers, University of Maryland
Massively modular models of mind
October 20, 2004
Corey McMillan, The University of Edinburgh
Influences on the Lexical Bias Effect in Phonological Exchange Speech Errors
November 3, 2004
Dan Ragland, University of Pennsylvania
Role of semantic processing in episodic memory and frontotemporal dysfunction in schizophrenia
*November 10, 2004* New Date
Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard University
The representation of grammatical categories in the brain
December 1, 2004
Steven Small, University of Chicago
Toward a Physiological Basis for Aphasia Therapy
Past Series
2004
Spring Semester
January 21
Steven Small, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Language Use: The Role of Context and Environment
Advance reading:
Language Understanding in Context, PDF format, 200 KB
Neural Bases of Talker Normalization, PDF format, 2.2 MB
Listening to Talking Faces, PDF format, 240 KB
February 4
Nadine Martin, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Temple University
Temporal and Linguistics Influences on Short Term Memory
Advance reading:
Word Processing, Short Term Memory and Learning, PDF format, 375 KB
February 18
Phyllis L. Koenig, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Semantic Categorization of Novel Objects in Subtypes of FTD
March 3
Elias Melhem, Ph.D., Associate Chair of Radiology; Chief, Division of Neuroradiology; Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Brain
Advance reading:
Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Brain, PDF format, 1.9 MB
March 17
Joseph Tabbi, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
The Processual Page: Materiality and Consciousness in Print and Hypertext
Advance reading:
The Processual Page, PDF format, 108 KB
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April 7 - Cancelled
Sheila Blumstein, Ph.D., Brown University
The Mapping of Sound Structure to the Lexicon
