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2010 fall institute

photo of Marta Kutas

Marta Kutas,
Director, Center for Research on Language
Dept. of Cognitive Science,
University of California, San Diego
"Anticipating and incrementing: electrophysiological studies of sentence processing"

 

photo of Helen Tager-Flusberg

Helen Tager-Flusberg
Director, Developmental Science Program
Department of Psychology, Boston University
"Developmental and Neuroimaging Studies of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder"

Fall Institute 2010 Schedule

 

Wednesday, October 27
8:45 Registration
9:00 photo of Apostolos GeorgopoulosWelcoming Remarks
Apostolos Georgopoulos, Director1,2,3
9:15 photo of Mike Mensinkphoto of Mark Lewis“Relevance, Seduction, and Learning”
Mark Lewis1,4
Mike Mensink1,4
10:15   photo of Maria Sera“Learning Categories and Classifiers by Children and a Neural Network”
Maria Sera1,5
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 photo of Marta Kutas“Anticipating and incrementing: electrophysiological studies of sentence processing”
Marta Kutas
Director, Center for Research on Language
Department of Cognitive Science,
University of California, San Diego
12:30 Lunch
1:30 photo of Sashank Varma“The Neuroarchitecture of Sentence Comprehension”
Sashank Varma1,4
2:30 photo of Mary Kennedy“Memory, metamemory and language after traumatic brain injury”
Mary Kennedy1,6
3:30 Coffee Break
3:45 photo of Yang Zhang“Language-specific and language-general effects in speech perception”
Yang Zhang1,6
   

 

Thursday, October 28
9:00 Registration
9:15 photo of Sergeui Pakhomov“Assessment of Cognitive Functioning through Computerized Analysis of Spontaneous Speech”
Serguei V.S. Pakhomov1,7
10:15 photo of Brooke Leaphoto of Andrew Elfenbein“Alliteration and Rhyme as Memory Cues in the Reading of Poetry”
Andrew Elfenbein1,7
Brooke Lea1, Department of Psychology, Macalester College.
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 photo of Helen Tager-Flusberg“Developmental and Neuroimaging Studies of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Director, Developmental Science Program
Department of Psychology, Boston University
12:30 Lunch
1:30 photo of Jeanette Gundelphoto of Mark Wicklund“The use of referring expressions by children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder”
Mark Wicklund1,9
Jeanette Gundel1,9
2:30 photo of Apostolos Georgopoulos“Studies of cognition and language using magnetoencephalography (MEG)”
Apostolos Georgopoulos1,2,3
3:30 Concluding Remarks
 


Key to University of Minnesota affiliations:

1 Center for Cognitive Sciences
2 Department of Neuroscience
3 Brain Sciences Center, VA Medical Center, Minneapols
4 Department of Educational Psychology
5 Institute of Child Development
6 Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences
7 Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems
8 Department of English
9 Institute of Linguistics

 


Updated February 19, 2015