The Third International Forum on Language, Brain, and Cognition

Prashant Pardeshi prashantpardeshi at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 1 07:36:37 UTC 2004


(Apologies for multiple postings)
The Third International Forum on Language, Brain, and
Cognition

Organized by: Tohoku University 21st Century Program
in Humanities
  Strategic Research and Education Center for an
Integrated Approach to
   Language, Brain, and Cognition
(http://www.lbc21.jp/)


Workshop on Linguistic Science at Interdisciplinary
Crossroads
  (http://www.lbc21.jp/TEMP/InfoForum03.htm)

Date: June 11 (Friday), 9am-17pm
Venue: The Cass
Centre(http://www.thecasscentre.co.uk/location.htm),
Cambridge, UK

*Pre-registration kindly requested (via COE Program
Secretariat: office at lbc21.jp)

Speakers:

Ina Bornkessel, Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience,
Leipzig
@@"Neurotypology: Towards a cross-linguistic
framework for language
comprehension"

Hiroto Hoshi, SOAS, University of London
       "Functional categories, structure building and
theta marking"

Naho Ikuta, Jungho Kim, and Masatoshi Koizumi, The COE
Program in
Humanities, Tohoku University
       "Brain activities related to the processing of
Japanese canonical
and scrambled sentences "

Sotaro Kita, Dept. of Experimental Psychology,
University of Bristol
       "Thinking-for-speaking in motion event
descriptions as revealed by
speech-accompanying gestures"

Kichun Nam, Dept., of Psychology, Korea University,
and Sunbeom Pyun,
College of Medicine, University of Ulsan
        "Behavioral neuropsychological assessment and
brain activation in
an acquired dyslexia: An fMRI study"

Prashant Pardeshi, Kaoru Horie and Shigeru Sato, The
COE Program in
Humanities, Tohoku University
         "Where grammar and socio-cultural cognition
meet: A case of ego
(speaker) as a goal"

Ian Roberts, Dept. of linguistics, University of
Cambridge
         "Parametric comparison: Can we measure the
syntactic distance between languages?"

Yuko Sassa, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Hideyuki Okamoto, Ryuta
Kawashima, The COE
Program in Humanities, Tohoku University
         "Functional organization of the human
inferior frontal cortex
involved in language processing"

Contact:

Secretariat, COE Program in Humanities, Graduate
School of International
Cultural Studies,
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8576 Japan
Tel. +81-22-217-7550, Fax. +81-22-217-7850, E-mail:
office at lbc21.jp



	
		
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