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| Monday April 22 | Tuesday April 23 |
| 8:30 AM – Breakfast and Registration | 8:30 AM – Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:30 AM – Welcome and opening remarks | 9:30 AM – Invited talk: “On the context-sensitivity of syntactic production: We repeat what we hear, not who we hear it from”
Victor Ferreira (University of California, San Diego) |
| 9:45 AM – Invited talk: “Neural effects of iconicity in sign language”
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University) |
10:30 AM – Coffee break |
| 10:45 AM – Coffee break | SESSION 3: RELATIVE CLAUSES |
| SESSION 1: SENTENCE PROCESSING | 11:00 AM – “The Influence of Verb Bias on Online Mandarin Objective Relative Clause (ORC) Processing: an ERP study”
Jou-An Chung, Chun-Hsien Hsu and Chia-Ying Lee |
| 11:15 AM – “Does AGENT-first bias guide sentence comprehension? Evidence from eye-tracking”
Jingtao Zhu & Anna Gavarró |
11:15 AM – “Croatian Conjunct Agreement Preferences Disambiguate Relative Clause Antecedent”
Jana Willer Gold, Anita Peti-Stantic, Marijan Palmovic, and Ana Matic |
| 11:30 AM – “How the global contextual information shapes the Constraining and Cloze Probability Effects on Chinese Classifier Noun Agreement”
Chia-Ju Chou & Chia-Ying Lee |
11:30 AM – “The syntax – semantics interface during sentence processing: ERP evidence on relative clause attachment ambiguity in Greek”
K. Olioumtsevits & S. Popov |
| 11:45 AM – “Modulating “Surprise” with Syntax: a case study on Negative sentences”
Matteo Greco, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini, and Andrea Moro |
11:45 AM – Poster Session |
| 12:00 PM – Lunch & Advisory Board Meeting | 12:45 PM – Lunch |
| 1:00 PM – Invited talk: “Computational methods in theoretical and clinical neuroscience”
Mina Teicher (Bar-Ilan University) |
1:45 PM – Invited Talk: “The onset of bilingualism: Specificities in the first year of life”
Nuria Sebastian Galles (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
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| SESSION 2: COGNITIVE NETWORKS | 2:45 PM Coffee Break |
| 2:00 PM – “The universal language network”
Dima Ayyash, Jeanne Gallée, Zach Mineroff, Olessia Jouravlev, Saima Malik Moraleda, and Evelina Fedorenko |
SESSION 4: SOUND PROCESSING |
| 2:15 PM – “Relating Surprisal to the N400 and P600: A neurocomputational model”
Matthew W. Crocker, Francesca Delogu, Noortje Venhuizen, and Harm Brouwer |
3:15 PM – “Vowel Perception in Congenital Amusia”
Jasmin Pfeifer & Silke Hamann |
| 2:30 PM – “Disentangling syntactic and semantic components in basic adjective – noun composition: an MEG study”
Arnold Kochari, Ashley Lewis, and Herbert Schriefers |
3:30 PM – “N400 evidence that mismatch detection is sensitive to the phonetics but not the phonology of Mandarin tones”
Stephen Politzer–Ahles, Jueyao Lin, and Lei Pan |
| 2:45 PM – Coffee break | 3:45 PM – “Tracking What the Eyes Hear: An Eye Tracking Study on Phonological Awareness“Alexandra Marquis, Meera Al Kaabi, Tommi Leung, and Fatima Boush |
| 3:10 PM – NeLLab DataBlitz | 4:00 PM – Invited talk: “Audiomotor interactions in speech”
David Poeppel (New York University and Max Planck Frankfurt/Main) |
| 4:10 PM – Invited talk – “Concept representation in the brain”
Jeffrey Binder (Medical College of Wisconsin) |
5:00 PM – Closing remarks |
| 5:40 PM – Bus to Evening Reception | 5:15 PM – Bus to Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque |
| 6:00 PM – Evening Reception at Saadiyat Beach Club | 6:00 PM – Sunset Tour of Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque |