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Preliminary Schedule - 07/08 CRLMB Speaker Series

Each year, the CRLMB organizes an excellent Speaker Series, and the 07/08 season of the series will be no exception. Based on feedback from our members, the centre Outreach Committee has chosen eight internationally-renowned scientists to visit Montreal, and to share their research with us.

All of the major research themes within the Centre - language acquisition, the neural bases of language, speech science modeling and visual language processing - are represented by this year's roster, which includes:



  • October 12, 2007
    Dr. Keith Rayner
    Distinguished University Professor at UMass; Atkinson Chair at UCSD;
    Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of California, San Diego
    "Eye movements and cognitive processes in reading"

  • November 9, 2007
    Dr. Janet Dean Fodor
    Professor of Linguistics
    Graduate Center, City University of New York
    "Setting syntactic parameters: Solving the Subset Problem"

  • December 7/07
    Dr. Steven Small
    Professor of Neurology and Psychology
    University of Chicago
    "Motor cortex and language comprehension"

  • January 18/08
    Dr. John Rothwell
    Professor, Sobell Department of Neurology
    University College London
    "Reorganisation of motor networks after stroke"

  • April 4/08
    Dr. Sheila Blumstein
    Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
    Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
    Brown University
    "Phonetic category structure and the mapping of sound structure to the lexicon: Evidence from lesion studies and functional neuroimaging"

  • April 18/08
    Dr. Victor Ferreira
    Associate Professor
    Department of Psychology
    University of California, San Diego
    TBA

  • early May 8/08 (TBA)
    Dr. Jacques Mehler
    International School for Advanced Studies
    Cognitive Neuroscience
    TBA
  • TBA
    Dr. Faraneh Vargha-Khadem
    Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
    Head, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit
    Institute of Child Health, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
    TBA