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Conference on Brain, Language and Cognition

BLC conference speakers

Thursday, October 13, 2005
A.I. Johnson Great Room
McNamara Alumni Center
University of Minnesota

8:00 – 8:50 Conference Check-In, Refreshments
8:50 – 9:00 Apostolos Georgopoulos, Center for Cognitive Sciences Director
Welcome and Introduction
9:00 – 10:00 Michael Petrides
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
"Broca’s area in the human and the non-human primate brain: Anatomical aspects"
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:30 Marcel Just
Carnegie Mellon University
"The neuro-archtecture of language "
11:30 – 12:30 Charles Perfetti
University of Pittsburgh
"The accommodation of the brain's reading network to writing systems"
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 3:00 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
University of Texas Houston
"Mapping the language-specific cortex: an update on MEG applications"
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 Gary Hatfield
University of Pennsylvania
"On perceptual constancy'"
4:30 – 5:00 Discussion

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