13.2574, Confs: Psycholinguistics/SLI, London

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Subject: 13.2574, Confs: Psycholinguistics/SLI, London

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Date:  Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:29:36 +0100
From:  Theodore Marinis <t.marinis at ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  DLDCN Centre: Opening Workshop

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Date:  Wed, 09 Oct 2002 11:29:36 +0100
From:  Theodore Marinis <t.marinis at ucl.ac.uk>
Subject:  DLDCN Centre: Opening Workshop


Opening Workshop: Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and
Cognitive Neuroscience

**************************************************************
SLI, Genes, Development & Cognitive Neuroscience
**************************************************************

Friday 18th October 2002 to Sunday 20th October 2002

Department of Human Communication Science
University College London

The genetic identification of two novel loci involved in specific
language impairment in children (SLI Consortium) along with the
earlier findings of the FoxP2 gene implicated in this disorder, has
propelled SLI to centre stage for its potential for facilitating our
understanding of the relations between genes and cognition (Pinker,
2001). This focussed meeting aims to bring together a
multidisciplinary group to disseminate and discuss recent research
findings from genetics to cognitive neuroscience in SLI/developmental
disorders and related areas of language and cognitive development,
raising the controversial issues of the development of specialised
cognitive systems, in our search for understanding cognitive
development. It is clear that in order for us to advance in this area,
theoretical unification between neuroscience, linguistics,
psycholinguistics, and cognitive science is required.  Towards this
end a multidisciplinary list of speakers has been drawn up.  The
symposium aims to bring current knowledge and technical advances in
genetic and cognitive neuroscience investigations of language,
cognition and developmental disorders to the participants. Further the
workshop aims to provide an informal forum where in our quest for
knowledge about genomics and cognition, controversial issues can be
aired concerning the inter-related areas of the genetic and cognitive
heterogeneity of SLI and other disorders; domain-specificity, and
dissociation versus co-morbidity of specialised cognitive systems in
normal and atypical development.


->->->->->->->-> PROGRAMME <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-

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Friday 18th October 2002
- -------------------------------------------


2pm                     Introduction
                         Heather van der Lely, University College London

2.15 - 2.55pm           The genetic basis of a severe speech & language
disorder
                         Simon Fisher, University of Oxford

2.55 - 3.15pm           Discussion

3.15 - 3.55pm 		Genetics of language and cognitive impairment: GLI
			(general language impairment) in addition to
			SLI (specific language impairment)
                         Robert Plomin, King's College London

3.55 - 4.15pm           Discussion

4.15 - 4.40pm           Break

4.40 - 5.20pm           The heritability of language and language disorders
                         Karin Stromswold, Rutgers University

5.20 - 5.40             Discussion

5.40 - 6.20pm           SLI and dyslexia: same or different? Evidence from
			neurobiological and genetic studies
                         Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford

6.20 - 6.40pm           Discussion


- -------------------------------------------
Saturday 19th October 2002
- -------------------------------------------

9.00 - 9.40am           What developmental biology can tell us about innateness
                         Gary Marcus, New York University

9.40 - 10.00            Discussion

10.00 - 10.40           Evidence for and implications of a domain-specific
grammatical deficit
                         Heather van der Lely, University College London

10.40 - 11              Discussion
11 - 11.30am            Break

11.30 - 12.10am         Recent studies using normal and backward speech:
			behavioral and optical topographical measures
                      	in infants and adults
                         Jacques Mehler, SISSA, Trieste

12.10 - 12.30am         Discussion

12.30 - 1.30pm          Lunch

1.30 - 2.10pm           The way to syntax: The prosody/lexicon/syntax
			interface in German infants
                         Jürgen Weissenborn, University of Potsdam
                         Barbara Höhle, University of Potsdam

2.10 - 2.30pm           Discussion

2.30 - 3.10pm           Language acquisition is language change
                         Stephen Crain, University of Maryland

3.10 - 3.30pm           Discussion

3.30 - 4pm              Break

4 - 4.30pm              Selective versus general delays in language
acquisition of children with SLI: Refining the phenotype
                         Mabel Rice, University of Kansas

4.30 - 5pm              The exact model of specific language impairment and
			the explanation of why SLI presents
			differently in different languages:
			Quantitative tests of precise predictions
                         Ken Wexler, MIT

5 - 5.30pm              Discussion

5.30 - 5.40pm           10 minute break

5.40 - 6.20pm           Language learning without maturation
                         Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania

6.20 - 6.40pm           Discussion

7- 9pm                  Reception in Chandler House
                         Nicole Tibbels -  short recital of contemporary
music & song

- -------------------------------------------
Sunday 20th October 2002
- -------------------------------------------

9 - 9.40am              Grammatical processing in second language learners
                         Harald Clahsen, University of Essex

9.40 - 10am             Discussion

10 - 10.40am            Psychogrammar
                         Colin Phillips, University of Maryland

10.40 - 11am            Discussion

11 - 11.30am            Break

11.30 - 12.10am         Syntactic processing in the brain
                         Angela Friederici, Max-Planck-Institut für
			neuropsychologische

12.10 - 12.30am         Discussion

12.30 - 12.50pm         Discussants: Robert Plomin, Emmanuel Dupoux, Gary
Marcus, Uli Frauenfelder

12.50 - 1.25pm          Open discussion

1.25 - 1.30pm           Closing remarks


->->->->->->->-> REGISTRATION <-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-

There are a few places remaining for the workshop, which is also
described on the website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN.

If you would be interested in attending please fill in the
registration form on our website
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN/opening.html and send it to:

Claire Lister
Workshop Administrator
c.lister at ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7679 4204

- ----------------------------------------------
The Workshop is sponsored by:

The Wellcome Trust, Friends of UCL, Department of Human Communication
Science,

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
- ----------------------------------------------

Professor Heather K. J. van der Lely, Director

Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Human Communication Science
University College London
Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street,
London
WC1N 1PF
UK

Fax:(44) 020 7713 0861
e-mail: h.vanderlely at ucl.ac.uk
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN


Dr. Theodore Marinis
Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Human Communication Science
University College London
Chandler House
2, Wakefield Street,
London WC1N 1PF
UK


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