Language, Cognition, and Motor Control
The 2nd Alice V. and Dave H. Morris
International Symposium on Language and Communication
Stony Brook University
May 29-31, 2009
F RIDAY , M AY 29, 2009
10:15-10:45 Arrival, Breakfast
10:45-11:00 OPENING REMARKS
11:00-11:25
11:25-11:35
11:35-12:00
12:00-12:10
12:10-12:30
12:30-12:40
12:40-12:55
SESSION I: MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM I
Commentator: Thomas Bever (University of Arizona)
Grasping syntax
Alice Roy (CNRS, UCB) & Viviane Déprez (Rutgers University and CNRS, UCB)
Discussion - Audience
From Manual Action to Language: Combining Units is the Key
Michael Arbib (University of Southern California)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
12:55-2:30 LUNCH
SESSION II: MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM II
Commentator: Daniel Weiss (The Pennsylvania State University)
2:30-2:55
Action in language comprehension: Neural basis and time course
Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge)
2:55-3:05 Discussion - Audience
3:05-3:30
3:30-3:40
3:40-4:00
4:00-4:10
4:10-4:25
A Framework for self-consciousness
Marc Jeannerod (CNRS, UCB)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
4:25-4:45 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION III: MIRROR NEURON SYSTEM III
4:45-5:10
5:10-5:20
5:20-5:45
5:45-5:55
5:55-6:15
6:15-6:25
6:25-6:40
Commentator: Philip Robbins (University of Missouri)
Mirroring and simulating in a shared world
Robert Gordon (University of Missouri – St. Louis)
Discussion - Audience
Involvement of the motor system in phonological and syntactical processing: empirical
evidence and speculations
Luciano Fadiga (University of Ferrara and The Italian Institute of Technology)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
S ATURDAY , M AY 30, 2009
9:30-10:00 Arrival, Breakfast
SESSION IV: FOXP2 AND DESCENT WITH MODIFICATION
10:00-10:25
10:25-10:35
10:35-11:00
11:00-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:40
11:40-11:55
Commentator: Robert Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fox P2: Towards a Sophisticated View of Links between Genes, Brains and Language
Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics,
University of Oxford)
Discussion - Audience
Language as Kluge
Gary Marcus (New York University)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
SESSION V: MODELING
1:30-1:55
1:55-2:05
2:05-2:30
2:30-2:40
2:40-3:00
3:00-3:10
3:10-3:25
Commentator: Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland)
Modeling Language and Planning
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
Discussion - Audience
Putting Thoughts into Action
David Rosenbaum (The Pennsylvania State University)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
3:25-3:45 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION VI: LANGUAGE AND MULTIMODALITY
3:45-4:25
4:25-4:35
4:35-4:55
4:55-5:05
Commentator: Barry Schein (University of Southern California)
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the Mind: the Impact of Familial Left Handedness on
the Neurological Organization of Language
Thomas Bever (University of Arizona)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
5:05-5:20 General Discussion
7:00-9:00 CONFERENCE RECEPTION – WANG CENTER LOBBY
9:00- AFTER DINNER GET-TOGETHER: TBA
Language, Cognition, and Motor Control
Stony Brook University
May 29-31, 2009
S UNDAY , M AY 31, 2009
8:30-9:00 Arrival, Breakfast
SESSION VII: SIGN LANGUAGE
9:00-9:25
9:25-9:35
9:35-10:00
10:00-10:10
10:10-10:30
10:30-10:40
10:40-10:55
Commentator: Richard Meier (The University of Texas at Austin)
How the Human Body Shapes Language
Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University), Irit Meir (University of Haifa), Carol Padden
(University of California at San Diego) & Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa).
Discussion - Audience
How our Hands Help us Think
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
10:55-11:55 BRUNCH
SESSION VIII: MOTOR THEORY OF SPEECH PERCEPTION
11:55-12:20
12:20-12:30
12:30-12:55
12:55-1:05
1:05-1:25
1:25-1:35
1:35-1:50
Commentator: Arthur Samuel (Stony Brook University)
An Embodied Theory of the Syllabic Organization of Speech
Louis Goldstein (Haskins Laboratories and University of Southern California), Hosung Nam
(Haskins Laboratories), Elliot Saltzman (BU and Haskins Laboratories)
Discussion - Audience
Mouths, Ears, and Brains in Foreign Language Pronunciation
Ellen Broselow (Stony Brook University)
Discussion - Audience
COMMENTARY
Discussion - Authors
General Discussion
1:50-2:30 CLOSING REMARKS: Thomas Bever (University of Arizona)
2:30 END OF SYMPOSIUM
Language, Cognition, and Motor Control
Stony Brook University
May 29-31, 2009