First Annual Neurobiology of Language Meeting
The first Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting (NLC 2009) was held on October 15-16 2009, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL. We are proud to report that over 350 people (162 professors, 111 postdocs, 79 students), from 22 different countries, attended the first Neurobiology of Language Conference!
As announced, the best papers at the symposium have been invited for inclusion in a special issue of the international journal Brain and Language, to be published in 2010.
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The conference featured poster and slide presentations as well as keynote presentations by several of the field’s most distinguished researchers including: Simon Fisher (University of Oxford, UK), Michael Petrides (McGill University, Canada), Charles Schroeder (Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, USA), and Kate Watkins (University of Oxford, UK). The conference also included two panel discussions on controversial topics in the field of language neurobiology. The first panel focused on the issue of motor contribution to speech perception and featured talks by Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara, Italy) and Gregory Hickok (University of California, Irvine, USA). The other panel discussion focused on the role of Broca’s area and featured talks by Peter Hagoort (Radboud University Nijmegen, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) and Yosef Grodzinsky (McGill University, Canada).
NLC 2009 was developed under the direction of Drs. Steven L. Small (small@neurolang.org) and Pascale Tremblay (tremblay@neurolang.org) of The University of Chicago, by an international committee including Drs. Jeffrey Binder, Sheila Blumstein, Laurent Cohen, Vincent Gracco, Peter Hagoort, Marta Kutas, Alec Marantz, David Poeppel, Cathy Price, Kuniyoshi Sakai, Riitta Salmelin, and Bradley Schlaggar.
NLC 2009 was co-sponsored by the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and Neuroengineering Research (CINNR), the Human Neuroscience Laboratory and Department of Neurology of The University of Chicago, and by the International Journal Brain and Language.
Download the Scientific Program here!