Program

Friday, May 29, 2009

10:15-10:45	Arrival, Breakfast
10:45-11:00	Opening Remarks

Commentator: Thomas Bever (University of Arizona)

11:00-11:25	Grasping syntax Alice Roy (CNRS, UCB) & Viviane Déprez (Rutgers University and CNRS, UCB)
11:25-11:35	Discussion - Audience
11:35-12:00	From Manual Action to Language: Combining Units is the Key Michael Arbib (University of Southern California)
12:00-12:10	Discussion - Audience
12:10-12:30	Commentary
12:30-12:40	Discussion - Authors
12:40-12:55	General Discussion

12:55-2:30	Lunch

Commentator: Philip Robbins (University of Missouri)

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	A framework for self-consciousness Marc Jeannerod (CNRS, UCB)
3:30-3:40	Discussion - Audience
3:40-4:00	Commentary
4:00-4:10	Discussion - Authors
4:10-4:25	General Discussion

4:25-4:45	Coffee Break

Commentator: Daniel Weiss (The Pennsylvania State University)

4:45-5:10	Mirroring and simulating in a shared world Robert Gordon (University of Missouri – St. Louis)
5:10-5:20	Discussion - Audience
5:20-5:45	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)
5:45-5:55	Discussion - Audience
5:55-6:15	Commentary
6:15-6:25	Discussion - Authors
6:25-6:40	General Discussion

9:30-10:00	Arrival, Breakfast

Commentator: Robert Berwick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00-10:25	Fox P2: Towards a Sophisticated View of Links between Genes, Brains and Language Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
10:25-10:35	Discussion - Audience
10:35-11:00	Language as Kluge Gary Marcus (New York University)
11:00-11:10	Discussion - Audience
11:10-11:30	Commentary
11:30-11:40	Discussion - Authors
11:40-11:55	General Discussion

12:00-1:30	Lunch

Commentator: Paul Pietroski (University of Maryland)

1:30-1:55	Modeling Language and Planning Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
1:55-2:05	Discussion - Audience
2:05-2:30	Putting Thoughts into Action David Rosenbaum (The Pennsylvania State University)
2:30-2:40	Discussion - Audience
2:40-3:00	Commentary
3:00-3:10	Discussion - Authors
3:10-3:25	General Discussion

3:25-3:45	Coffee Break

Commentator: Barry Schein (University of Southern California)

3:45-4:25	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)
4:25-4:35	Discussion - Audience
4:35-4:55	Commentary
4:55-5:05	Discussion - Authors
5:05-5:20	General Discussion

7:00-9:00	Conference Reception – Wang Center Lobby
9:00-	After dinner get-together: TBA

8:30-9:00	Arrival, Breakfast

Commentator: Richard Meier (The University of Texas at Austin)

9:00-9:25	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).
9:25-9:35	Discussion - Audience
9:35-10:00	How our Hands Help us Think Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
10:00-10:10	Discussion - Audience
10:10-10:30	Commentary
10:30-10:40	Discussion - Authors
10:40-10:55	General Discussion

10:55-11:55	Brunch

Commentator: Arthur Samuel (Stony Brook University)

12:30-12:55	An embodied theory of the syllabic organization of speech Louis Goldstein (Haskins Laboratories and University of Southern California)
12:20-12:30	Discussion - Audience
11:55-12:20	Mouths, Ears, and Brains in Foreign Language Pronunciation Ellen Broselow (Stony Brook University)
12:55-1:05	Discussion - Audience
1:05-1:25	Commentary
1:25-1:35	Discussion - Authors
1:35-1:50	General Discussion

1:50-2:30	Closing Remarks: Thomas Bever (University of Arizona)
2:30	End of Symposium