An International Workshop on Language, Brain and Cognition:
Linguistic Science at Interdisciplinary Crossroads

Speakers:

Ina Bornkessel, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig: Neurotypology: Towards a cross-linguistic framework for language comprehension

Hiroto Hoshi, SOAS, University of London: Functional categories, structure building and theta marking

Naho Ikuta, Jungho Kim, and Masatoshi Koizumi, The COE Program in Humanities, Tohoku University: Brain activities related to the processing of Japanese canonical and scrambled sentences

Sotaro Kita, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol: Thinking-for-speaking in motion event descriptions as revealed by speech-accompanying gestures

Kichun Nam, Dept., of Psychology, Korea University, and Sunbeom Pyun, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan: Behavioral neuropsychological assessment and brain activation in an acquired dyslexia: an fMRI study

Prashant Pardeshi, Kaoru Horie and Shigeru Sato, The COE Program in Humanities, Tohoku University: Where grammare and socio-cultural cognition meet: a case of ego (speaker) as a goal

Ian Roberts, Dept. of linguistics, University of Cambridge: Parametric comparison: Can we measure the syntactic distance between languages?

Yuko Sassa, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Hideyuki Okamoto, Ryuta Kawashima, The COE Program in Humanities, Tohoku University: Functional organization of the human inferior frontal cortex involved in language processing

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