Symposium on Semantic Knowledge

1 April, Oxford

Title: Semantic learning in Developmental Amnesia

Federation of European Neuroscience, keynote lecture

10-14 July, Lisbon

Title: The gift of speech

Dutch Society for Neuropsychology, plenary lecture

30 September – 1 October, Doorweth, Holland

Title:  Cognitive, neural and genetic basis of speech and language.

Norwegian Academy of Science, keynote lecture

3-5 October, Oslo

Title: KE family and FOXP2: The evolution of speech and language

The Dahlem Lecture series – Max Planck Institute

8 November, Berlin

Title: Neurogenetic bases of speech and language disorders

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, keynote lecture

18-20 November, Philadelphia

Title: Inherited speech and language disorders

Media Coverage 

Research carried out by the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit in the areas of speech and language function in hemispherectomised patients, inherited disorders of speech and language, and childhood amnesia has received extensive coverage by the media.

Speech and language

Television

“Scientists find language disorder and autism gene”  BBC 1, 27 January 1998

“Speech disorder gene”  Sky News, February 1998

“Language Gene”  British Satellite News, February 1998

“Perspective: Unlocking Language”  World Wide Pictures, April 1998