Science of Aphasia 9
Chalkidiki (Greece), September 20-25, 2008
Methodological controversies
Program
Sep 20, 2008
21.00
Welcome drinks
Sep 21, 2008
09.00-11.00
Aphasic syndromes: why?
Historical developments of the concepts of syndromes
Ria De Bleser, University of Potsdam, Germany
Why I like syndromes?
Roelien Bastiaanse, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Why we should go without?
David Caplan, Harvard Medical School, USA
11.00
Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Contributed papers (agrammatism)
Bartunova & Burchert - Telicity, Tense and Aspect in Agrammatic Production: Evidence from Russian
Dragoy & Bastiaanse - Word order and argument structure in Russian agrammatic aphasia
Trofimova, Avrutin & Bastiaanse - Production of case-morphology in Russian non-fluent aphasia
Hanne, Sekerina, Vasishth, Burchert & De Bleser - Processing of Noncanonical Sentences in German
Agrammatic Aphasia: Evidence from Eye Movements
13.00-14.00
Lunch
16.30-18.30
Workshop 1
Methods in aphasia therapy (Wendy Best, University College London, UK, David
Howard, University of Newcastle, UK and Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern
University, Chicago, USA)
19.00-20.00
Poster session 1
Lombardi, Gnoato, Laws & Sartori – Modeling individual differences, stimulus facility and category effects in
semantic memory disorders
Grassly - Facilitation: the effects of different types of cue and methodological variations.
Semenza, Mondini, Chiarelli, Venneri & El Yagoubi - Count and mass nouns activate different brain areas.
De Jong-Hagelstein,Visch-Brink, Middelkoop & Van der Cammen- Naming and semantic processing in Alzheimer
dementia: a coherent picture?
Druks & Robinson - Object and action naming in semantic dementia (SD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)
Yadegari, Mehri & Nilipour - Is there a category-specific dissociation in naming in fluent aphasia and Alzheimer
Disease patients?
Gvion & Friedmann - Dyscravia: Voicing substitution dysgraphia
Ryll & Stadie - Treatment of Specific Components in the Spelling Process – A Single Case Study
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20.00 Dinner
Sep 22, 2008
09.00-11.00
Group vs. single case studies
Why groups?
Daniel Bub, University of Victoria, Canada
Why no groups?
Max Coltheart, Macquarie University, Australia
Why case series instead?
David Howard, University of Newcastle, UK
11.00 Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Contributed papers (naming and syntax)
Rossiter & Best - ‘Penguins don’t fly’: an investigation into typicality and its effect on naming in people
with aphasia
Lorenz, Hübner, Heide & Burchert - Production of nominal compounds in aphasia: evidence from
reading aloud and spoken picture naming
Wimmer & Penke – The formation of particles and plurals in German Wernicke’s aphasics
Biran & Friedmann - Syntactic information in the lexicon: Argument structure and grammatical gender in
aphasia
13.00-14.00
Lunch
16.30-18.30
Workshop 2
Neuroimaging techniques (Annette Baumgärtner, University of Hamburg, Germany,
and Isabell Wartenburger, University of Potsdam, Germany)
19.00-20.00
Poster session 2
Kiran, Minando & Rascati - Morphosyntactic Comprehension and Production: Comparisons in Bilingual EnglishSpanish and Monolingual English Aphasia.
Koukoulioti & Kambanaros - Morphological marking of different syntactic verb classes: evidence from a fluent
Greek-speaking aphasic patient
Martínez-Ferreiro - Subject-Verb Inversion in Agrammatic Aphasia
Yarbay Duman & Bastiaanse - What Is Wrong With Reference To The Past?
Verb Inflection Deficits in Turkish Agrammatic Aphasia
Lalonde, Kehayia, Ptito & Klein - Auditory comprehension deficits in mild TBI: Deciphering the differential role of
working memory and syntactic processing
Becker & Reinvang - Early stimulus processing in aphasia and right hemisphere brain damage as reflected by the N1
ERP-component – differences in pure tone vs. speech sound processing
Freeman & Spiro - Sing along? An exploration of why singing along compared to speaking along increases accuracy
in the speech of non-fluent aphasics
Foka-Kavalieraki, Kakavoulia, Economou, Varlokosta, Routsis, Kasselimis, Potagas, Evdokimidis & Protopapas- A
comprehensive approach to the analysis of narrative discourse production by Greek speakers with aphasia
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20.00 Dinner
Sep 23, 2008
09.00 – 11.00
Aphasia in a multicultural context
Organization: Jubin Abutalebi, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Introduction
Jubin Abutalebi, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milano, Italy
Representational and Control Issues in Bilingual Aphasia
David W. Green, University College London, UK
Bilingual Aphasia: Factors Affecting Recovery and Rehabilitation
Swathi Kiran, University of Texas, USA
Floor Discussion
Brendan Weekes, University of Sussex, UK
11.00
Coffee break
11.30-13.00
Contributed papers (reading and writing)
Riley & Thompson - Semantic Typicality Effects in Acquired Dyslexia: Evidence of Impaired LexicalSemantic Access in the Visual Modality
Schumacher, Ablinger, Radach & Huber - Are reading strategies in aphasia reflected by eye movements?
Heide, Wetter, Lorenz, De Bleser & Burchert- Reading and writing of German prefixed verbs: A
dissociation and root type effects
Arduino, Martelli & Daini – Perceptual and attentional mechanisms in Neglect Dyslexia
13.00-14.00
Lunch
Afternoon:
Excursion and social dinner
Sep 24, 2008
09.00 – 11.00
Neuroimaging dysfunctioning subjects
Modality and task effects in word processing: fMRI evidence from control and aphasic subjects
Annette Baumgärtner, University of Hamburg, Germany
Neuroimaging of reorganisation in the language system after stroke
Dorothee Saur, Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Freiburg,
Germany
Neuroimaging dysfunctioning subjects
Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
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11.30-13.00
Contributed papers (recovery)
Kümmerer, Kellmeyer, Mader, Weiller & Saur - Recovery of aphasia within ventral and dorsal language
streams
Kellmeyer, Saur, Weiller & Tyler - Age-related fronto-temporal reorganization of function in auditory
language processing
Hessler & Stadie - Evaluation of Treatment for Word Sound Deafness in Aphasia – A Single Case Study
Whitworth - Predicate argument structure deficit with intact verb retrieval: it’s not all about verbs
13.00-14.00
20.00
Lunch
Dinner
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