You are invited to the first Amsterdam workshop on

The  neural basis of structure in language

Thursday, December 15, 11:00 - 17:00

Plantage Muidergracht 12, room REC-M 0.02

Program*
11:00 - 11:30	Gideon Borensztajn	Univ. of Amsterdam	Grammar acquisition as the construction of a memory system
11:30 - 12:00	Stefan Frank	Univ. College, London	Uncovering the cognitive structure of language: an integrated computational and experimental approach
12:15 – 12:45	Lou Boves	Radboud Univ., Nijmegen	To be announced
12:45 – 13.15	Discussion I	All participants	The role of analogy & topology in language processing & acquisition
13:15 – 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00	Patrick Sturt	Univ. of Edinburgh	The mental representation of hierarchical structure in language and other domains
15:00 – 15:30	Francesco Battaglia	Univ. of Amsterdam	Grammar-like models of memory consolidation and semantic memory
15:45 – 16:15	Jelle Zuidema	Univ. of Amsterdam	Recursion in the brain
16:15 – 17:00	Discussion II	All participants	Static & dynamic binding, recursion
17:00	Closing

With the participation of William Bechtel (University of California in San Diego), Rens Bod  (University of Amsterdam)

and Remko Scha (University of Amsterdam)

* The organizers reserve the right to make last minute changes to the program