Scientific Program
Keynote Lectures | Discussion Panels | Slide Sessions | Poster Sessions
Keynote Lectures
Primate Auditory Cortex: Principles of Organization and Future Directions
Chair: Greg Hickok
Thursday, November 10, 9:00 am
Troy Hackett
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, USA
Broca's region -- architecture and novel organizational principles
Chair: Murray Grossman
Friday, November 11, 9:00 am
Katrin Amunts
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany
and Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen
University
Discussion Panels
Mechanisms underlying the lateralisation of speech perception
Chair: Jeff Binder
Thursday, November 10, 4:50 - 6:10 pm
David Poeppel
Department of Psychology, New York University, USA
Sophie Scott
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom
What is the Role of the Motor System in Action Concepts?
Chair: Greig de Zubicaray
Friday, November 11, 5:20 - 6:40 pm
Alfonso Caramazza
Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Harvard University, USA
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
Friedemann Pulvermuller
Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, United Kingdom and
Brain Language Lab, Free University of Berlin
Slide Sessions
Slide Session A
Chair: Pascale Tremblay
Thursday, November 10, 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
Did auditory localization drive the development of complex speech?
Lenhardt, M.
Neural correlates
of statistical learning in a word segmentation task: An
fMRI study
Karuza, E.A.
Auditory
discrimination in illiterates: How effective is
alphabetization?
Schaadt, G.
Cortical mechanisms
of selective listening in a multi-speaker environment
Mesgarani, N.
Slide Session B
Chair: Vincent Gracco
Thursday, November 10, 2:00 - 3:20 pm
The role of
task-specific feedback mechanisms in the categorical
perception of speech: A Kalman-filter driven Granger
analysis of MRI-constrained MEG/EEG data
Gow, D
How we store the sounds of words:
Testing the neurocognitive predictions of abstract and
exemplar models of spoken word recognition.
Wolmetz, M.
Can irony reveal extensive Theory
of Mind activation?
Spotorno, N.
Actor identification in
natural stories: Qualitative distinctions in the neural
bases of actor-related features
Alday, P
Slide Session C
Chair: Cynthia Thompson
Friday, November 11, 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
Modality Independent Decoding
of Semantic Information from the Human Brain
Simanova I.
Theta coherence as a
mechanism for long-range network formation for
lexical-semantic processing
Mellem, M. S.
Predicting language: MEG
evidence for lexical preactivation
Dikker, S.
Parkinson's disease
selectively disrupts processing of action verbs
Fernandino, L.
Slide Session D
Chair: Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Friday, November 11, 2:00 - 3:20 pm
Neurotransmitter receptor
distribution in Broca's area and the posterior superior
temporal gyrus
Bacha-Trams, M.
The role of competitive
neural inhibition in language production:Insights from the effects of trait anxiety on selecting among
competing word
Snyder, H. R.
A neuroanatomically grounded
model of spontaneous word generation in the human brain
Garagnani, M.
Functional connectivity at
rest predicts word comprehension after stroke
Wei, T.
Poster Sessions
Poster Session A
Thursday, November 10, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Speech Perception, Prosody, Acquisition, Manual & Sign Language, Pathology, Speech Production
Poster Session B
Thursday, November 10, 3:20 - 4:50 pm
Speech Perception, Prosody, Multilingualism, Social & Emotional processing, Reading & Writing
Poster Session C and Reception
Thursday, November 10, 6:15 - 8:15 pm
Multilingualism, Reading & Writing, Pathology, Manual & Sign Language, Speech Production, Acquisition
Poster Session D
Friday, November 11, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Syntax, Cognitive and Executive Processing, Anatomy, Conceptual/Semantic/Discourse processing
Poster Session E
Friday, November 11, 3:20 - 4:50 pm
Syntax, Cognitive and Executive Processing, Anatomy, Conceptual/Semantic/Discourse processing