Speech and Brain 2010 19.-20.3.2010

Venue: Siltavuorenpenger 10, aud. 1, Helsinki (map)

Programme

Day 1

• 9:00 Registration and coffee
• 9:30 Welcome words
• 9:45 -10:45 David Ostry (McGill Univ.) - Sensory plasticity and motor learning (presentation >>)
• 10:45-11:45 Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) - Language, Action, and the Brain
• 11:45 -12:45 Lunch break
• 12:45 -13:45 Alessandro D'Ausilio (University of Ferrara) - The role of the motor system in speech perception (abstract >>)
• 13:45-14:45 Sophie Scott (University College London) - Processing of speech and non-speech sounds in temporal and motor cortex
• 14:45 -15:00 Coffee
• 15:00-16:00 Riikka Möttönen (Oxford univ.) - Speech, Signs and the Motor Cortex
• 16:00-16:15 Closing words/Summary for the day
• 18:00-20:00 Evening programme: Reception by Helsinki University at the University Main Building. (Limited number of invitation cards.)

Day 2

• 9:00 Morning coffee
• 9:30-10:10 Riitta Salmelin (Aalto univ.) - Speech perception and production: cortical dynamics (abstract >>)
• 10:10-10:40 Sanna Malinen (Aalto univ.) - Data-driven fMRI analysis: application to audiovisual speech
• 10:50-11:30 Risto Näätänen (Helsinki univ.) - Speech-sound processing in schizophrenia as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN) (abstract >>)
• 11:30- 12.30 Lunch break^*
• 12:30 – 13:10 Kristian Donner (Helsinki univ.) - Was the emergence of speech an overdetermined event in animal evolution?
• 13:10-13:50 Minna Huotilainen (Helsinki univ.) - Optimal processing of natural speech and singing in the infant brain
• 13:50-14:10 Coffee
• 14:10-15:00 Petri Hoppu (Tampere univ.) - Imitation, empathy and dance (abstract >>) (presentation >>)
• 15:00-15:40 Tomi Kinnunen (Univ. of Eastern Finland) - Catching Imitation by Man or Machine (presentation >>)
• 15:40-16:20 Martti Vainio (Helsinki univ.) - Imitation by Machine: Adaptive Speech Synthesis
• Esa Uusipaikka (Turku univ.) – Bystander's review

Thank you for your interest in the seminar!

^*Please note that the Brain Research Society of Finland is arranging two public lectures at lunchtime on Saturday as a part of their Brain Awareness Week -lecture series. The lectures will be in Finnish. The speakers and topics are:

• Dosentti Minna Huotilainen, Helsingin yliopisto: "Aivot, puhe ja musiikki"
• Tohtori Riikka Möttönen, Oxfordin yliopisto: "Aivot, puhe ja kommunikaatio"

(The venue is the same: Siltavuorenpenger 10, aud. 1.)Tervetuloa/Welcome!