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program (to be finalized)

Thursday, Oct. 8th 2009

AM

7:30                BUS Pick up in Paris

8:30                Welcome
9:9:30             Stanislas Dehaene (Neurospin)

9:30-10:15     Ritta Salmelin (HUT, Finland)
           "MEG in the study of language: timing, location and connectivity"

coffee break

10:30-11:15   Alec Marantz (NYU, USA)
           "Single trial regression analyses in source space for linguistic variables: some results for visual word recognition"
          abstract
                            
11:15 - 11:45   Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (NeuroSpin)

 11:45 - 12:15  Virginie van Wassenhove (NeuroSpin)



12:15-14:00   lunch

PM

14:00-15:30   Matti Hamalainen  (Harvard, MGH):
                      "Anatomically and functionally constrained MEG/EEG source estimates: Theoretical background and practical implementation in the MNE software"
                       abstract

15:30- 15:45 coffee break

15:45 - 18:00 Student/Post doc presentations+discussion, poster session:
(i) Phil Monahan: "Cortical Sensitivity to Formant Ratios: MEG Evidence"
(ii) Matthias Scharinger: "Phonemotopy in the auditory cortex: MEG evidence from English consonants" abstract
(iiii) Johanna Vartiainen: "Reading isolated words"
(iv) Alex Clarke: " Recurrent interactions support conceptual knowledge for picture naming"
(v) Elisabeth Fonteneau: "Lexical complexity of spoken words: an MEG/EEG investigation"

                            
18:00-18:30     Open panel   (Moderator: David Poeppel, NYU)


18:30-19:00    NeuroSpin visit
19:00              Bus to Paris
20:30              Diner in Paris

Friday, Oct. 9th 2009

AM

7:30                BUS Pick up in Paris
8:30                Welcome
9:00 -9 :45        David Poeppel (NYU, USA) :
                    "Cross-trial coherence analyses in auditory sentence comprehension"

9:45-10:30     Olaf Hauk (CBU, UK) :
                      "The early stages of visual word recognition: Parametric analysis of word-evoked EEG and MEG data"
                      abstract
                 

10:30-11:15 coffee break +poster session

11:15-12:00      Liina Pylkkänen (NYU, USA):
                  "Studying the neural bases of semantic composition with MEG"

12:00-13:30       lunch

PM

13:30-15:00       François Tadel (USC, BrainStorm Project):

"MEG source reconstruction with Brainstorm."

                          abstract

15:00- 15:30 coffee break+ posters

15:30 - 17:45    Student/Post doc presentations+discussion, poster session:

    (i) Ellen Lau: "Unpacking the N400 effect with MEG" abstract

    (ii) Gabriel Garcia: "MEG analysis of the left occipito-temporal region during reading"

    (iii) Doug Bemis: "The neural correlates of basic linguistic combinatorial processing"

    (iv) Jon Brennan: "Incrementally dissociating syntax and semantics with MEG"

    (v) Marina Papoutsi "Recurrent fronto-temporal interactions in sentence processing"


17:45:18:30    Closing panel  (Moderator: Lorraine Tyler, Cambridge)

18:30             Bus to Paris

20:30             Diner in Paris

Subpages (4): abstract.hauk abstract.marantz abstract.scharinger abstract.tadel