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Date: 11-Jul-2007
From: Frank Burchert < burchert at ling.uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: 8th Science of Aphasia Conference
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:59:33
From: Frank Burchert < burchert at ling.uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: 8th Science of Aphasia Conference
8th Science of Aphasia Conference
Short Title: SoA8
Date: 14-Sep-2007 - 19-Sep-2007
Location: Monopoli (Bari), Italy
Contact: Frank Burchert
Contact Email: burchert at ling.uni-potsdam.de
Meeting URL: http://www.soa-online.com
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Meeting Description:
The SoA conferences are intended to bring together senior and junior scientists
working in the multidisciplinary field of neurocognition of language and dealing
with normal function as well as disorders. The size of the conference with a
maximum of 100 participants ensures direct interaction between the participants.
Science of Aphasia VIII, 2007, Italy
The Neurocognition of Language
Levels of description
Program
Friday 14 September
on arrival Registration at the hotel desk
http://soa-online.com/html/accommodation.html
17.00-19.30 Registration at the SoA desk
19.30 Dinner
21.00 Welcome drinks and warm-up party
Saturday 15 September
08.30 Conference opening
08.50 Session 1: The Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology of language
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Riitta Salmelin, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Dr. Jubin Abutalebi, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milan, Italy
08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session
09.00-11.00 Invited presentations
Tiina Parviainen, Helsinki, FIN
Cortical correlates of language perception - neuromagnetic studies in adults and
children
Marco Catani, London, UK
Fibre-tracking methods in the study of language
11.00 Coffee break and discussion
11.30-13.00 Contributed papers I
Friedmann & Gvion: Conduction aphasia and sentence comprehension: phonological
working memory up the garden path
Jonkers & de Bruin: Tense processing in Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia
Poirier et al.: Neural underpinnings of rate of speech input on auditory
sentence comprehension in aphasic and unimpaired adults: an fMRI investigation
Rossi & Bastiaanse: Clitic position in restructuring and negative imperative
sentences: data from agrammatism
Stavrakaki: Verbs with alternating transitivity in Greek non-fluent aphasia
Rausch et al.: Agrammatic speakers' comprehension of canonical and non-canonical
structures in the verbal and nominal syntax domains in agrammatism
13.30 Lunch
15.00-16.30 Late Registration at the SoA desk
16.30 Coffee break and discussion
17.00-18.00 Invited presentation
Stefano Cappa, Milan, IT
The continuing usefulness of the anatomo-clinical method
18.00-18.30 Contributed papers II
Friedmann & Lukov: Subtypes of surface dyslexia
Heide et al.: The mental representation of derived verbs: Evidence from dyslexia
Pernet et al.: When all hypotheses are right: A comparative VBM study of adult
normal and dyslexic readers
Aichert et al.: Segments and syllables as target units in the treatment of
apraxia of speech: An investigation of learning and transfer effects
Hogrefe et al.: Spontaneous gesturing in aphasic patients with highly reduced
verbal output: Does limb apraxia have an impact?
Staiger et al.: Phrase-level phonetic processes in spontaneous speech: an
investigation of a patient with apraxia of speech
19.00 Dinner
21.00-22.00 Poster session I
Bachmann & Lorenz: Word retrieval deficits in anomic aphasia: evaluation and
comparison of two treatment approaches
Gupta: Naming difficulties
Kambanaros: Bilingual word processing: the effect of instrumentality on action
and object naming in Greek-English anomic aphasic speakers
Khatoonabadi et al.: Semantic processing of concrete and abstract words by
right-hemisphere-damaged Farsi speakers
Mishra: Modality and language influence in word production in a Hindi-English
bilingual aphasic with jargon
Suh & De Bleser: Dichotomous approach may be too rigid to account for
heterogeneous symptoms in aphasia, intra- and interdependency between
modalities, tasks, and levels of processing
Wilson et al.: Noun verb double dissociation in acquired dysgraphia: evidence
from Spanish
Grogan et al.: A VBM study of semantic fluency in the normal and damaged brain
George et al.: Using various cueing strategies, within, across and
crosslinguistic conditions
Zimmermann & Laganaro: Origin of phoneme substitution and phoneme movement
errors in aphasia
Sunday 16 September
Session 2: Neurolinguistic theory - Representation and/versus processing
Chairs: Prof. Dr. Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen, Netherlands
PD Dr. Frank Burchert, Potsdam University, Germany
08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session
09.00-11.00 Invited presentations
David Caplan, Boston, USA
Capacity reduction models of aphasic syntactic comprehension
Herman Kolk, Nijmegen, NL
Language capacity and language control in agrammatic aphasia
11.00 Coffee break and discussion
11.30-12.30 Invited presentation
Cynthia Thompson, Evanston, USA
What the eyes say about sentence processing: Eye-tracking while listening
studies in aphasia
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon Social event: excursion
19.00 Dinner
21.00-22.00 Poster session II
Fyndanis et al.: Wh-question production in agrammatism: Evidence from Greek
Koukoulioti et al.: Tense and aspect in transitive, unergative and accusative
verbs: Evidence from Greek aphasic patients
Lorusso et al.: Null subjects and thematic roles in agrammatic and children
production
Mätzig & Druks: The production of prepositions in sentence completion,
spontaneous speech and picture description by five aphasic patients and control
participants
Trofimova & Bastiaanse: Production of prepositions in Russian aphasia
Martínez Ferreiro: Ibero-romance agrammatism and tree-pruning
Kaprinis: Morphological and syntactic abilities in patients with Alzheimer's desease
Alasseri & Pell: Influence of emotionality on pragmatic features of discourse
produced by Arabic-speaking adults with aphasia
El Hachioui et al.: Recovery of linguistic deficits in stroke patients: a
three-year-follow up study
Monday 17 September
Session 3: Neurolinguistic intervention
Chairs: Prof. Dr. David Howard, University of Newcastle, UK
Dr. Wendy Best, University College London, UK
08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session
09.00-11.00 Invited presentations
Argye Hillis, Baltimore, USA
Can you target meaning vs. lexical output in treating naming impairment?
Jenny Crinion, London, UK
Using MRI to predict chronic language performance post stroke
11.00 Coffee break and discussion
11.30-12.30 Marina Laganaro, Geneva, Switzerland
ERP correlates of different anomic patterns and their recovery: waveform
analysis and temporal segmentation
13.30 Lunch
afternoon Social event: sports (beach volleyball or equivalent)
16.30 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Contributed papers III
Wunderlich & Ziegler: Explicitly and implicitly presented mouth shape
information as cues in spoken word production: dissociating effects in two
anomic patients
Hanne et al.: Cumulative semantic inhibition in picture naming and
word-picture-verification: tracing the locus of the effect
Klitsch & Bastiaanse: The benefit of audiovisual speech presentation and the
McGurk effect in aphasic speakers of Dutch
Kuehn: Conceptual-semantic deficits in fluent aphasia
19.00 Social event: dinner and program
Tuesday 18 September
Session 4: Convergences and divergences between different approaches
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ria De Bleser, Potsdam University, Germany
Dr. Brendan Weekes, University of Sussex, UK
08.50-09.00 Introduction to the session
09.00-11.00 Invited presentations
Dan Bub, Victoria, Canada
Functional maps of the language cortex: Surveying the landscape
Evelyn Ferstl, Sussex, UK
t.b.a
11.00 Coffee break and discussion
11.30-12.30 Round table discussion
13.30 Lunch
16.30 Coffee break
17.00-18.00 Contributed papers IV
Grassly et al.: Can the effects of impairment focused therapy be demonstrated
within social model parameters?
Law & Yeung: An ortho-phonological treatment for Chinese anomia
Menke et al.: Dynamics of successful word recovery after intensive training in
chronic aphasia
Wedler et al.: Predicting the outcome of an intense anomia treatment in chronic
stroke
19.00 Dinner
21.00-22.00 Poster session III
Biedermann & Nickels: The representation of plural information in our mental lexicon
Chiarelli et al.: ERP investigation of nominal compounds
Wehrens et al.: Compounds in aphasia: influence of the verb constituent
Mondini et al.: Deficits in writing noun-noun compounds
Garraffa: Processing grammatical feature in a non-fluent speaker: the
grammatical nature of minimal structures
Martínez-Ferreiro: Why in agrammatic aphasia: evidence from Catalan and Galician
Kljajevic: Comprehension of wh-dependencies in Croatian aphasics
Wednesday 19 September
Breakfast and departure
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