From: Peter Ford Dominey (dominey@isc.cnrs.fr)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 04:27:54 MDT
Conference Announcement: (Please Post)
"Language: Development and Dysfunction"
Friday June 30, 2000
9:30 - 6:00
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
CNRS UPR 9075
67, Boulevard Pinel
69675 BRON Cedex
FRANCE
Invited Speakers include:
David Caplan, Gary Marcus, Gloria Waters, Emmanuel Dupoux, Viviane Deprez
and Peter Dominey.
Summary:
Understanding the human language capability remains one of the primary
challenges for cognitive neuroscience. Such a challenge can only be met
through the convergence of multiple complimentary approaches. The study of
language acquisition provides important information about the initial state
of the language learner, and the processes by which this initial state
leads to the steady state of the adult. Likewise, studies of language
dysfunction in aphasia (and brain imagery in healthy subjects) demonstrate
specific components of linguistic function associated with localized and
distributed brain regions, while formal linguistics provides a theoretical
framework for these experimental studies. Finally, neural network models
can be developed to explain and predict observations from these
disciplines, synthesizing and testing the interaction of theories across
these different domains. This conference represents a step in this
approach to understanding language, by providing the perspectives of
contributors in each of these disciplines and their interaction.
Organized by: Peter F. Dominey
Supported by: The Cognitique Project of the MENRT
For additional information contact Peter F. Dominey at the email address
below and refer to the Institut web site where a detailed agenda will be
posted on or before May 31:
http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/agenda.htm
Peter Ford Dominey, Ph.D.
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
CNRS UPR 9075
67, Boulevard Pinel
69675 BRON Cedex
FRANCE
Telephone: 04 37 91 12 12
Direct line: 04 37 91 12 66
FAX: 04 37 91 12 10
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