Programme:

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09.00 Opening words – Prof. Berit Kjelstad, Vice-Rector for education - NTNU

09.10 Greetings – Prof. Kathrine Skretting, Faculty of Humanities, and Prof. Jan Morten Dyrstad, Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management - NTNU

09.30 Tord Lien, Second Vice Chair, The Standing Committee on Education, Research and Church Affairs, The Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget)

09.45 Mila Vulchanova / Hermundur Sigmundsson, Biology and Learning Research Group, NTNU, Norway

Learning and skill development / A view from the body: Motor correlates of early language

10.15 Coffee

10.45 Joel Talcott, Aston University, UK

Refining phenotypes of disability: a dimensional view

11.30 Kenneth Hugdahl, Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway

The role of functional brain imaging in learning

12.15 Lunch

13.15 Turid Helland, Bergen University, Norway

Dyslexia, heredity and gender. From the Bergen Speak up! Project - a longitudinal study of children at risk of developmental dyslexia

14.00 Barbara Malt, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, USA

Bilingual word learning: Cross-language lexical interaction

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Kenny Coventry, Cognition and Communication Research Centre, Northumbria University, UK, and Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst, Germany

Semantic alignment in language and music

16.00 Ewa Dabrowska, Northumbria University, UK

Good-enough representations and good-enough input: A view from adult language comprehensionSlides (pdf).

16.45 Coffee

17.15 Robert Biegler, Department of Psychology, NTNU, Robert Sutherland, Centre for the Biology of Memory, NTNU/The Canadian Centre for Behavioral Neuroscience, Lethbridge, Alberta, and Gerit Pfuhl, Department of Psychology, NTNU

The roles of learning and mental modeling in deciding what to do next

18.00 Closing words

Organisers:

The Biology and Learning Research Group:

Mila Vulchanova Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, Director Department of Modern Languages, NTNU

Hermundur Sigmundsson Research group for learning and skill development, Department of Psychology, NTNU

Prior related event:

NordLing 1.5 PhD course on topics in Language and Cognition

Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, NTNU – Trondheim, Norway September 6-9th, 2010

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