- NLC Updates -

November 27 2009: Survey Results Now Available Online!

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We are proud to announce that over 350 people (162 professors, 111 postdocs, 79 students), from 22 different countries, attended the first Neurobiology of Language Conference, which was held on October 15-16 2009 in Chicago.

As announced, the best papers at the symposium have been invited for inclusion in a special issue of the international journal Brain and Language, to be published in 2010. Click here for more info.

During this upcoming year, a Neurobiology of Language planning group will work on the long-term issues related to continuing these conferences into the future, including the possibility of creating an open, participatory society ultimately to take charge of future meetings. In order to help us plan the second Neurobiology of Language Meeting; we have conducted a survey on participants experience at NLC2009. We would like to thank all of our 203 survey respondents for their most valued feedback. Click here to view the survey results!

The second Neurobiology of Language Meeting will be held in San Diego, California, on Nov. 11-12, 2010, as a satellite of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Topics will relate to the neural mechanisms underlying perceptual, cognitive, motor, and linguistic processes used to produce and to understand language in both children and adults. The conference will feature poster and slide presentations as well as keynote presentations by several of the field’s most distinguished researchers.

NLC 2010 will provide a unique opportunity to bring together researchers across a broad spectrum of techniques and disciplines, who rarely, if ever, attend the same meetings. A primarly goal is to foster interaction, collaboration, and new approaches to understanding the neurobiology of language. The symposium will provide a platform for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among researchers whose complementary interests provide an important foundation for issues related to the neurobiology of language, allowing for the emergence of a greater common understanding of the topic as a whole. Younger scientists are encouraged to attend and meet more established scientists in the field.

Steven L. Small, Ph.D., M.D., and Pascale Tremblay, Ph.D., Human Neuroscience Laboratory, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

The Neurobiology of Language Planning Group:

• Jeffrey Binder, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
• Vincent Gracco, Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
• Yosef Grodzinsky, Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
• Murray Grossman, M.D., Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Peter Hagoort, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
• Gregory Hickok, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, USA
• Marta Kutas, Ph.D., The University of California, San Diego, USA
• Alec Marantz, Ph.D., New York University, USA
• Howard Nusbaum, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, USA
• Cathy Price, Ph.D., University College London, UK
• David Poeppel, Ph.D., New York University, USA
• Rita Salmelin, Ph.D., Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Kunioshi Sakai, Ph.D., Tokyo University, Japan
• Steven L. Small, Ph.D, M.D., The University of Chicago, USA
• Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Pascale Tremblay, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, USA
• Richard Wise, M.D., Ph.D, Imperial College, London, UK
• Kate Watkins, Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK

tremblay@neurolang.org