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Language in developmental and acquired disorders: converging evidence for models of language representation in the brain

10 - 11 June 2013 09:00 - 17:00

 

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Dorothy Bishop FMedSci FBA, Professor Kate Nation and Professor Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FBA

Event details

Disorders of language that arise from developmental abnormalities or from adult brain injury provide complementary perspectives on the organisation of language, yet research in these areas has evolved independently. This discussion meeting will address some of the major questions about language representations - for example, which components of language are dissociable from one another with the goal of integrating neuropsychological and developmental perspectives.

The current list of speakers and their biographies is available below. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the event and the papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions B.

This meeting is immediately followed by a related satellite meeting at the Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.

Attending this event

This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields and is free to attend. There are a limited number of places and registration is essential. An optional lunch is offered and should be booked during registration (all major credit cards accepted). 

Enquiries: Contact the events team

Organisers

  • Professor Dorothy Bishop FMedSci FBA, University of Oxford, UK

    Dorothy Bishop studied Experimental Psychology at Oxford University and Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, before completing a D.Phil in neuropsychology back at Oxford. She was for 20 years funded by the Medical Research Council before moving in 1998 to the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford to take up her Wellcome Principal Research Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

    Her research focuses on the nature and causes of children’s communication problems, encompassing psychological, linguistic, neurological and genetic aspects. Her book Uncommon Understanding won the British Psychology Society’s annual book prize in 1998. As well as publishing in conventional academic outlets, she writes a popular blog which was a runner-up in the Good Thinking Society’s UK Science Blog 2012 prize. She is a founder of a YouTube campaign for Raising Awareness of Language Learning Impairments.

  • Professor Kate Nation, University of Oxford, UK

    Kate Nation is Professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Kate’s research is focused on language and literacy development and disorder.  She is interested in a range of questions concerning the nature of reading and its development, from how children begin to recognize words through to how we extract and construct meaning from written language.  Further details of her research can be found at: http://lcd.psy.ox.ac.uk

  • Professor Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FBA, University of Cambridge, UK

    Karalyn Patterson is a senior research fellow in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge; a Visiting Scientist at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; and Fellow and Wine Steward of Darwin College, Cambridge. Her educational background is in experimental psychology and neuropsychology, with degrees from the Universities of Toronto (Canada), Michigan and California (USA) and Cambridge (UK). Her research concentrates on what we can learn about the organisation and neural representation of language and memory from the study of neurological patients who were cognitively normal until the onset of brain disease or damage in adulthood. This research programme includes extensive cognitive testing of different patient groups, to obtain detailed patterns of processes that are impaired and those that are still relatively preserved, combined with structural and functional brain imaging to reveal malfunctioning brain regions. She has been lucky to be able to study and compare the impact of the same brain disorders on two very different languages, English and Japanese.