WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND THE BRAIN

[Hitomi Murata]

Dear Colleague,

The 21st Century COE Program Keio University Graduate School,
Centre for Integrated Research on the Mind
will be sponsoring the workshop called,
WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND THE BRAIN
on March 18, 2007 to be held at Kita-kan Hall, Keio University, Mita.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore multidisciplinary links between
research in linguistic theory investigating linguistic functions and
research in the cognitive sciences and brain sciences explicating functions
of the mind and brain. We hope to achieve this goal by presenting research
findings from each of the three research areas and providing a forum for
joint discussion.

The invited speaker are Prof. Alec Marantz (New York University, MIT), 
Prof. Liina Pylkkanen (New York University) and Prof. Thomas Roeper 
(University of Mssachusetts,Amherst).

Below you will find the Workshop program.

(Program)

March 18, 2007
10:00-10:10       Opening         Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

10:10-11:00
"Wh-island in Child Japanese"
Yukio Otsu (Keio University)

11:00-11:50
"Structure Dependence in Child Japanese"
Koji Sugisaki (Mie University)

13:00-13:50
"Recursion and Theory of Mind: Locating Language in a Multi-Modular
Brain"
Thomas Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

13:50-14:40
"Behavioral and Brain Studies on Japanese Passives and Unaccusatives"
Masayuki Komachi, Tohru Seraku, Tomoko Monou, Shozo Kojima and
Yukio Otsu (Keio University)
　
15:00-15:50
"Semantics in the Composing Brain: Neural Correlates of Type Mismatch
Resolution"
Liina Pylkkanen (New York University)

15:50-16:40
"Morphology in the Decomposing Brain:  Correlational Analyses of
Single Trial MEG Data"
Alec Marantz (New York University, MIT)

16:40-17:40
Discussion
Christopher Tancredi (University of Tokyo)

For details, visit our web site:
http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/

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