L.A.B. Presentations

996days since
The L.A.B. Lab Started

Invited Talks


2012
  • Hearing lips and... hands, smiles and print too: How listening to words in the wild is not all that auditory to the brain, University College London, Division Of Psychology And Language Sciences, London, England. |Abstract||Workshop Webpage|


2011
  • Lending a helping hand to hearing: How the brain extracts information from nonverbal movements to improve learning, Embodied Learning Symposium, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, USA. |Abstract|

2010
  • Co-speech gestures facilitate language comprehension by reducing subsequent reliance on brain regions associated with early sensory processing, 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Frankfurt, Germany. |Abstract|
  • The how and why of gesture in the brain, Workshop on the Neuroscience of Gesturing, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. |Abstract|
  • The new organization of language and the brain, Consolider CogNeuro Seminar Series, University of Barcelona and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcellona, Spain.  |Abstract|
  • The new organization of language and the brain, Science Colloquium Series, Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA. |Abstract and PDF|
 
2009
  • Context and the role of the predictive brain in real-world communication, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  • So you think your brain is smarter than a 5th grader?,  Annual Winter Conference on Current Issues in Developmental Psychobiology, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, USA.
  • The neurobiology of communication in natural settings, The Department of Psychology Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. |Abstract|
  • The role of context and the predictive brain during real-world communication, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior (CSBMB), Princeton University, Princeton, NY, USA. |Event Webpage|
 
2008
  • Lending a helping hand to hearing: Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca's area, the cortical motor system, and the mirror system, Gesture Focus Group, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. |Event Webpage|
  • Novel approaches to fMRI analysis, John Merck Fund Summer Institute on the Biology of Developmental Disabilities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • Two scientists and a cup: How the brain keeps track of each actor during joint action, Cognitive Brown Bag Series, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 
 
2007
  • Gestures in the brain's language, International Society for Gesture Studies, panel on Neurocognition of gesture, Chicago, IL, USA. 

2006
  • Gestures in the brain's language, Fall Psychology Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
  • Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. |Event Webpage|
  • Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Embodied Communication, Joint Action, Social Understanding workshop, ZiF, Universitat Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. |Workshop Webpage|
  • Speech associated gestures and the relationship between Broca's area and the language mirror system, Architecture of Language Conference, Pisa, Italy.
  • The cortical motor system simulates action descriptions conveyed by words and gestures, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.
 
2005
  • Lending a helping hand to hearing: The role of the cortical motor system in face-to-face communication, Cognitive Brown Bag in Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Face to face social interaction and inferior frontal processing, Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Hearing lips: speech perception and a frontal neural system for motor simulation, Annual University of Chicago/Northwestern University Psychology Graduate Students Symposium, Chicago, IL, USA.