Mayfest 2001 Schedule

FRIDAY, MAY 18
8:45–9:00	Dean Harris and Stephen Crain	Welcome
	Hemodynamics
9:00–10:00	Guinevere Eden	Functional MRI studies of developmental dyslexia
10:00–11:00	Martha Burton	Functional Neuroimaging of Phonological Processes
11:00–11:30	BREAK
11:30–12:30	David Embick	Broca's Area in Syntactic Processing
12:30–2:00	LUNCH
	Aphasia
2:00–3:00	Rita Berndt	Grammatical Class Effects in Aphasia
3:00–4:00	Greg Hickok	The Functional Anatomy of Language: Clues from Sign Language Aphasia
4:00–4:30	David Poeppel	Commentary on Hemodynamics and Aphasia
5:30–	PARTY AT THE HOUSE OF STEPHEN CRAIN AND ROZZ THORNTON

SATURDAY, MAY 19
	Development
9:00–10:00	Barbara Landau	Space and Language: Modularity, Interaction, and the Case of Williams Syndrome
10:00–11:00	Mabel Rice	Children with Specific Language Impairment: Progress toward A Grammatical Phenotype
11:00–11:30	BREAK
11:30–12:30	Brian Byrne	Reading Disability as a Case Study in Bridging the Gap between Genes and Behavior
12:30–2:00	LUNCH
	Computation
2:00–3:00	Mark Steedman	Formalizing Affordance: Logical and Neurological Relations between Grammar and Action
3:00–4:00	Lokendra Shastri	From Simple Associations to Relational Structures and Language Understanding
4:00–4:30	Bob Frank	Commentary on Development and Computation
Evening	DINING OUT AT AREA RESTAURANTS

SUNDAY, MAY 20
	Electrophysiology
9:00–10:00	Riitta Salmelin	Cortical Dynamics of Language Function and Dysfunction
10:00–11:00	Edith Kaan	Using Event-Related Brain Potentials to Investigate Sentence Processing
11:00–11:30	BREAK
11:30–12:30	Alec Marantz	Putting "teach" back in "teacher": Using MEG to Distinguish Similarity vs. Identity in Mental Representations
12:30–1:00	Colin Phillips	Commentary on Electrophysiology