Workshop: Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication @ Cambridge, UK

Date: 26-Jun-2012 - 26-Jun-2012
Call Deadline: 28-May-2012

We are delighted to announce a one-day workshop on Neural Systems for Speech Communication to be held at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK, on 26 June 2012. The focus of the workshop is on representations and neural mechanisms for segmentation, abstraction, and categorisation in speech processing.

Our invited speakers are:

Kai Alter (University of Newcastle)
Matt Davis (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)
Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford)

The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion between researchers who approach the neurocognitive processing of suprasegmental and segmental information in speech from different intellectual contexts (notably linguistics, audition, language psychology, and cognitive neuroscience), and with different methodologies.

CFP : 4th APRU Symposium on Brain and Mind Research in the Asia Pacific @ Tokyo, Japan

29 – 31 August 2012
The APRU symposium series on Brain and Mind Research in the Asia-Pacific (BMAP) will hold its fourth symposium from 29 to 31 August, 2012.

Hosted by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, this year’s BMAP symposium will cover a broad range of topics in brain and mind research including behavioral and clinical neurosciences, psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders, molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neural stem and iPS cells, and the evolution of the brain under the overarching theme, “Diseases and Evolution of the Brain and Mind”.

The sessions at the symposium will cover various aspects of scientific and clinical neuroscience under the following sub-themes: