MPI Colloquium Series - Program 2010

January 26
Jonas Obleser
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences,  Leipzig, Germany
From Sound to Meaning: Mapping Auditory Comprehension in the Human Brain

February 16
Uta Frith
UCL, London
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept. Psychology
Why we need cognitive explanations of autism

March 23 
Jonathan Harrington
University of Munich, Germany
Is sound change a natural consequence of the relationship between language and speech?

April   13
Elena Lieven
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Germany
and
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
How does what the child hears affect how grammar develops?

May 11
Dale Barr
Dale J. Barr
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, University of Glasgow
On the distributed nature of mutual understanding

June 14
Karalyn Patterson
University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, UK
How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from semantic dementia

September 21
Julia Simner
University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, UK
Yellow-tasting sounds? The cross-sensory world of synaesthesia

October 19
Manuel Carreiras
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Mechanisms of agreement

November 23
Usha Goswami
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, UK
Developmental Dyslexia: A Temporal Sampling Framework