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Mayfest 2001: Cognitive Neuroscience of Language

Mayfest is a workshop that brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to discuss fundamental issues in linguistics. Over the course of two days, participants engage in talks and discussion sessions to stimulate new insights and collaboration.

Hemodynamics

  • Guinevere Eden, Functional MRI studies of developmental dyslexia
  • Martha Burton, Functional Neuroimaging of Phonological Processes
  • David Embick, "Broca's Area in Syntactic Processing

Aphasia

  • Rita Berndt, Grammatical Class Effects in Aphasia
  • Greg Hickok, The Functional Anatomy of Language: Clues from Sign Language Aphasia
  • David Poeppel, Commentary on Hemodynamics and Aphasia

Development

  • Barbara Landau, Space and Language: Modularity, Interaction, and the Case of Williams Syndrome
  • Mabel Rice, Children with Specific Language Impairment: Progress toward A Grammatical Phenotype
  • Brian Byrne, Reading Disability as a Case Study in Bridging the Gap between Genes and Behavior

Computation

  • Mark Steedman, Formalizing Affordance: Logical and Neurological Relations between Grammar and Action
  • Lokendra Shastri, From Simple Associations to Relational Structures and Language Understanding
  • Bob Frank, Commentary on Development and Computation

Electrophysiology

  • Riitta Salmelin, Cortical Dynamics of Language Function and Dysfunction
  • Edith Kaan, Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Investigate Sentence Processing
  • Alec Marantz, Putting "teach" back in "teacher": Using MEG to Distinguish Similarity vs. Identity in Mental Representations
  • Colin Phillips, Commentary on Electrophysiology