Participant Spotlight
Lyndsey Nickels, Macquarie University Research area: Cognitive Neuropsychology of LanguageLyndsey Nickels is Associate Professor and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University's Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science. Her research field can be broadly characterised as "the cognitive neuropsychology of language". In other words, she investigates language impairments (both developmental and acquired as a result of brain damage) and uses these to test the adequacy of cognitive models of language comprehension and production. For example, recent research has included an examination whether a current computational model of reading could, when 'lesioned' simulate the patterns of reading shown by individuals with reading disorders following stroke. However, not only can language impairments inform cognitive theories, but also theories can inform our understanding of the nature of language impairments and help identify how best to remediate them. Hence, a major focus of Lyndsey's research is the assessment and treatment of acquired language impairment (aphasia)and impaired literacy (dyslexia) in children and adults. One strand of this research has focused on treatments for the difficulties people with aphasia have in retrieving the words they want to say and whether one type of task might be more effective than another.
NewsSummerFest '09 Summer School: Acquired Language Disorders: how can they help us understand spoken word production?
Lyndsay Nickels, this week's spotlight, is presenting a Summer School course at this year's SummerFest. The course examines how the ways in which language breaks down after brain damage can inform our understanding of language processing in unimpaired individuals. This approach is known as cognitive neuropsychology; the course will illustrate how language impairment can test and develop theories in ways which both complement and extend data from experimental studies with individuals with intact language. The course will begin with a brief introduction to aphasia (acquired language disorder), giving an overview of the major symptoms and how they vary from person to person. It will then outline some of the major controversies in theories of spoken word production and demonstrate how language impairments can help discriminate between different theoretical accounts. Find out more about the complete Summer School program here: http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/summerschool.
Free SummerFest 2009 Registration for Nominated Undergraduates
For this year's SummerFest, which will be held in Sydney from November 30th to December 4th, we have a target of attracting 200 exceptional undergraduate (second, third or fourth year) students who are likely to go on to a research career; this is a great opportunity to attend a unique event that exposes students to interdisciplinary training and research, and lets them start networking early in their careers. Active HCSNet members have already provided names to fill more than half the available nomination slots; this is a last call to the wider membership before we close this part of the process. If you would like to nominate up to three students to be considered for free registration, please send their names and email addresses to ky.buckley@uws.edu.au no later than Monday 31st August.
Keynote Speaker: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technology Applications for Health and Medicine
Patty Kostkova is Head of the City eHealth Research Centre at the City University, London. Patty will be giving a talk entitled "Online Communities of Practise and Social Networking – What is the Potential?” This talk will address the issues surrounding the Internet delivery of medical knowledge to the public and professionals, online communities for evidence-based quality assurance and the need for a personalisation and user profiling. Social networking with an increasing amount of user-generated content provides highly accessible sources of real-time information for early warning systems (such as infection outbreaks) and can allow better understanding of public concerns about their health.
We will draw from the experience with the development and evaluation of the National electronic library of Infection (NeLI) http://www.neli.org.uk and international projects hosted by this infection portal accessed by over 400 000 users per month, and the recent study using Twitter to investigate user concerns about swine flu.
We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user experience to support online health communities. Registration for this workshop closes on the 7th of September, to find out more about the workshop and the keynote speaker please visit: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/socialtechnology09.
New Registration Date: HCSNet Workshop on Mobile Applications for Communication Disorders
This workshop is designed to facilitate communication between different disciplines in order to initiate the collaborative development of new mobile applications for communications disorders. As this field is in it's infancy, the primary focus of the workshop will be on identifying and understanding the potential of this new technology and determining possible clinical applications. Another focus will be currently developed tools or uses of mobiles and their possible applications in these populations.
This workshop will be held in conjuction with the HCSNet Workshop on Social Technology Applications for Health and Medicine. The new registration date is 7th September, 2009. To find out more and register please go to:
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/hcdeii-macd.
Upcoming Seminars
We list here upcoming seminars that are happening in the next month. A more complete list of seminars can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics: Sign Language Learning and Teaching
Bristol, United Kingdom
Date: 24 Sep 2009 to 26 Sep 2009
URL:
Upcoming Submission Deadlines
We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
BACL British Association of Clinical Linguistics
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Due date: 27 Aug 2009
URL: http://www.bacl.info/
OZCHI 2009 OZCHI 2009 – Design: Open 24/7
Melbourne, Australia
Due date: 28 Aug 2009
URL: http://www.ozchi.org/
Upcoming Conferences
We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.
Melody vs. Structure in Phonological Representations
Gniezno, Germany
Date: 2 Sep 2009 to 5 Sep 2009
URL: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/plm
sfcm 2009 Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Date: 4 Sep 2009
URL:
IE-IR-LSL Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for less resourced languages
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
Date: 7 Sep 2009
URL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil
The XIth International Conference Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics
Constantza, Romania
Date: 7 Sep 2009 to 14 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.cml.msisa.ru
The Third International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 10 Sep 2009 to 12 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.acii2009.nl
TSD 2009 An International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
Plzen, Czech Republic
Date: 13 Sep 2009 to 18 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.tsdconference.org/
ICANN 2009 19th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Limassol, Cyprus
Date: 14 Sep 2009 to 17 Sep 2009
URL: http://www.kios.org.cy/ICANN09
IVA'09 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 14 Sep 2009 to 16 Sep 2009
URL: http://iva09.dfki.de/
MME'09 Measuring Mobile Emotions: Measuring the Impossible?
Bonn, Germany
Date: 15 Sep 2009
URL: http://mme.cure.at
5th International Conference on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon
Pisa, Italy
Date: 17 Sep 2009 to 19 Sep 2009
URL: www.gl2009.org
Workshop on Natural Language Processing methods and corpora in translation, lexicography, and language learning
Borovets, Bulgaria
Date: 17 Sep 2009 to 18 Sep 2009
URL: http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in0963/ranlp/
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/socialtechnology09 Social Technologies for Health and Medicine
Melbourne, Australia
Date: 21 Sep 2009 to 22 Sep 2009
URL:
1st Symposium in Applied Sign Linguistics: Sign Language Learning and Teaching
Bristol, United Kingdom
Date: 24 Sep 2009 to 26 Sep 2009
URL:
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