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 afternoons, to accommodate the schedule of a visiting speaker.
When indicated below, advance reading material will be available on line, or
in paper form at the time of the lecture.
Special thanks go 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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2005
Fall Semester
October 5
Jamie Reilly, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Effects of Semantic Impairment on List Learning and Serial Recall:
Evidence from Semantic Dementia
October 19
David Caplan, M.D.,Ph.D., Department of Neurology, Harvard University
Deficit-Lesion Correlations for Syntactic Processing
November 9
Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, M.D.,Ph.D.,Department of Neurology, University of California,
San Francisco
Primary progressive aphasia, clinical and theoretical implications.
November 16
Sonja Kotz, M.D.,Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science
On the functional specification of the left anterior temporal lobe in auditory language processing
December 7
Arthur Wingfield,Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Brandeis University
Speech Comprehension and the Aging Brain
2005
Spring Semester
January 19
Sherry Ash, Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
The Deterioration of Discourse in Frontotemporal Dementia
February 2
Phyllis L. Koenig, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Implicit Learning of a Novel Semantic Category: An fMRI Study
February 16
Anna Papafragou, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Delaware
Spatial categories in language and thought
March 2
Donald Shankweiler, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut
Language by ear and by eye: Literacy differences and the brain.
Readers' Eye Movements Distinguish Anomalies of Form and Content
Sentence complexity and input modality effects in sentence comprehension: and fMRI study
An Event-related Neuroimaging Study Distinguishing Form and Content in Sentence Processing
March 16
Yosef Grodzinsky, Ph.D., Department of Neurology, McGill University
A Blueprint for a Brain Map of Syntax
March 30
Jordan Grafman, Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institutes of Health
Social Representations Within the Human Prefrontal Cortex
April 6
Sheila Blumstein, Ph.D., Brown University
The Mapping of Sound Structure to the Lexicon:
Evidence from Lesion Studies and Neuroimaging
April 20
Steve Moelter, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Making Sense of Verbal Fluency: What Does it Mean to Cluster and Switch?
