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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2006
Spring Semester
February 1
Howard Chertkow, MD, FRCP(C), Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Medicine, McGill University
Semantic memory loss in Alzheimer Disease: Where it comes from, where it goes, and what to do about it.
February 15
David Eagleman, Department of Neurology and Anatomy, University of Texas
The timing of neural signals and the timing of perception
March 15
Barry Horwitz, Ph.D., Chief, Section on Brain Imaging and Modeling; Voice, Speech, and Language Branch
Using neural modeling and functional neuroimaging to study the neural substrates of language
March 29
Seija Pekkala, Department of Phonetics, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki
Finnish findings on language in dementia: A review
April 5
Anna Papafragou, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
Word learning and inference
April 19
Connie A. Tompkins, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, Professor, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Getting it Right: Language Comprehension after Damage to the Right Cerebral Hemisphere
2006
Fall Semester
September 13
Julia Fischer,
German Primate Center, University of Gottingen
Orienting asymmetries and the perception of sounds in nonhuman primates
and humans
October 4
Martha Burton,
Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Functional Neuroimaging of Phonological
Processing: Effects of Cognitive Load
November 1
Judith Kroll, Department of Psychology,
Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Cross-language competition in bilingual production
November 15
Jonathan Peelle, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Adaptation to distorted speech in young and older adults
December 6
Laurel Buxbaum,
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Use It or Move It: Two Action Systems in the Human Brain
