We are planning the program for the next Neurobiology of Language Conference. Who would you like to see in the debate forum? Who would you like to see for keynote speakers?
How about a debate on the nature of concept representations in the brain? Alfonso Caramazza could argue for concepts as segregated into non-decomposable evolutionarily-relevant categories. Larry Barsalou could argue for concepts as being grounded in sensory-motor systems with binding of features occurring in association cortices. I may not have their exact positions right, but I think they differ roughly along those lines.
Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences, and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at UC Irvine. DavidPoeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.
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Debate topic: Neurobiological vs. cog-linguistic approaches to rehabilitation of aphasia.
Speakers: Steve Small vs. David Caplan
How about a debate on the nature of concept representations in the brain? Alfonso Caramazza could argue for concepts as segregated into non-decomposable evolutionarily-relevant categories. Larry Barsalou could argue for concepts as being grounded in sensory-motor systems with binding of features occurring in association cortices. I may not have their exact positions right, but I think they differ roughly along those lines.
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