<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font size="4">Annual Symposium of the </font></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Society for Language Development </font></span></b></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:initial"><div id="m_1212050328097813944m_-5188505373080120385gmail-:37i" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="m_1212050328097813944m_-5188505373080120385gmail-:37j" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font size="4">Neural Coding in Speech, Language and Cognition</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Held prior to the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">1:00 – 6:00pm, Thursday November 7, 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">George Sherman Union, </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Boston University, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">How is language encoded in the brain? This year’s SLD Symposium brings together leaders in the study of the neural coding of speech, language and cognition. Attendees will hear about recent advances in the use of human brain recording and neural stimulation as humans hear and produce speech. This work has important implications for our understanding of how the brain forms and maintains generalizations about speech and language, including phonological and lexical encoding. There will be three presentations:</span></p></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:initial"><div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;overflow-x:hidden"><div style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b>Neural Algorithms of Speech Comprehension</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><a href="https://psychology.stanford.edu/people/laura-gwilliams" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(106,163,146)">Laura Gwilliams</span></a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Ph.D. </span><i style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(Stanford Univ.): </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b>Causal Parametric Mapping of Language with Direct Electrical Stimulation</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/psychology/directory/core-training-faculty/mahon-brad.html" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(106,163,146)">Brad Mahon</span></a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">, Ph.D. </span><i style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(Carnegie Mellon Univ.) </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><b>The Neural Representation of Auditory Word Form</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><a href="https://changlab.ucsf.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(106,163,146)">Edward Chang</span></a>, M.D. <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">(Univ. of California, San Francisco): </span></i></span> </p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin:0px;min-width:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:initial"><div><div style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;overflow-x:hidden"><div style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;overflow:auto hidden"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Registration for SLD Society members is $25 ($10 for students) and for non-members is $60 ($25 for students).  </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Registration can be done in person the day of the symposium.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:19.5px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To become an SLD Society member </span><a href="https://web.sas.upenn.edu/societyforlanguagedevelopment/" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">click here</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.  </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To register for the SLD Symposium </span><a href="https://www.bu.edu/bucld/registration/" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">click here</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. At the registration site, you can also register for the BUCLD conference but this is not required to attend the SLD symposium.<br clear="all"></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--------------------------------------------<br>John C. Trueswell <i>(he, him, his)</i><br>Professor of Psychology<br>University of Pennsylvania<br><a href="http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~trueswel/" target="_blank">http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~trueswel/</a><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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