Conference Schedule

Conference Schedule

Wednesday July 5th

18:00 - 18:30 Conference Registration
18.30 - 18.35 Conference Opening and Welcome. This event is open to all who are interested! Non-conference attendees please sign up at info@gcb.nl
18:35 - 19:35 [Evolution of Speech I] Keynote: Willem Levelt - The Genetic Stance in Studying the Evolution of Speech. Some Historical Remarks
19:35 - 20:35 [Evolution of Speech I] Keynote: John L. Locke - The Evolution of Vocal Control
20:35 - 22:00 Welcome Reception

Thursday July 6th

09:00 - 11:55 [Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor I]
09:00 - 09:45 Keynote: David Ostry - The Boundary Between Perceptual and Motor Learning
09:45 - 10:20 Invited: Friedemann Pulvermüller - The Motor System's Role in Cognition and Understanding

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:15 Invited: John Houde - Advances in Modeling Speech Production as State Feedback Control
11:15 - 11:35 Matthias Heyne - Transfer of skilled behavior across different vocal tract activities
11:35 - 11:55 Saloni Krishnan - Changes in resting state functional connectivity due to speech motor learning

11:55 - 13:00 Poster Session I [Evolution of Speech III + Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor III]

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session I [Evolution of Speech III + Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor III]

15:00 - 16:00 [Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor II]
15:00 - 15:20 Alan Wrench - A massless 3D biomechanical model of the tongue and its relation to the lambda model
15:20 - 15:40 Gabriel Cler - Multivariate Analyses for Large Articulography Datasets of Speech and Induced Speech Errors
15:40 - 16:00 Ludo Max - Auditory modulation during speech planning in typical speakers and individuals who stutter
16:00 - 16:35 [Evolution of Speech II] Invited: Bart de Boer - Evolution of speech: anatomy and control

16:35 - 16:55 Coffee Break

16:55 - 18:25 [Evolution of Speech II]
16:55 - 17:30 Invited: Adriano Lameira - New advances in our understanding of speech evolution
17:30 - 18:05 Invited: Louis Jean Boë - Monkey vocalizations: New data, new tools, and new hypotheses
18:05 - 18:25 Marion Laporte - The specificities of chimpanzee vocalisations and their relationship to the vocal apparatus

Friday July 7th

09:00 - 10:15 [Modelling of Speech and Speech Technology I]
09:00 - 09:35 Invited: Sam Tilsen - A Model of the Emergence of Coordinative Control
09:35 - 09:55 Saeed Dabbaghchian - Does speech production require precise motor control?
09:55 - 10:15 Tanner Sorensen - Decomposing vocal tract constrictions into articulator contributions using real-time MRI

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:00 [Speech Development I]
10:45 - 11:20 Keynote: Carol Stoel-Gammon - Learning to Talk: Relationships Between Speech Motor Control and Phonological Development
11:20 - 11:40 Aude Noiray - How does the tongue learn to speak a language fluently? A cross-sectional study in German children
11:40 - 12:00 Elina Rubertus - The role of tongue control maturation for V-to-V coarticulation

12:00 - 13:00 Poster Session II [Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor IV + Modelling of Speech and Speech Technology II + Speech Development II + Speech Disorders II]

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session II [Thought – Action – Perception - Sensorimotor IV + Modelling of Speech and Speech Technology II + Speech Development II + Speech Disorders II]

14:45 - 16:00 Workshop EMMA by Carstens

16:00 - 18:55 [Speech Disorders I]
16:00 - 16:35 Invited: Soo-Eun Chang - Neural Signatures of Childhood Stuttering Persistence and Recovery
16:35 - 16:55 Nicole Neef - Broca’s region in persistent developmental stuttering – where stop meets go
16:55 - 17:15 Jennifer Chesters - Improving speech fluency in adults who stutter using transcranial direct current stimulation
17:15 - 17:35 Lawrence Shriberg - Motor Speech Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (MSD-NOS): Prevalence and Phenotype
17:35 - 17:55 Frank Boutsen - The AMPI classification of the dysarthrias
17:55 - 18:15 Yana Yunusova - Facial kinematics in the assessment and diagnosis of bulbar ALS
18:15 - 18:35 Panying Rong - Predicting speech intelligibility based on tongue-jaw coordination in persons with ALS
18:35 - 18:55 Dirk-Bart den Ouden - Vowel formant dispersion reflects severity of Apraxia of Speech after stroke in adults

19:45 Conference dinner, 't Feithhuis

Saturday July 8th

09:30 - 11:00 [Windows on the Brain I]
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote: Martin Sommer - Windows on fluent and dysfluent speech production
Invited: Edward Chang - Cancelled
10:15 - 10:35 Jason Tourville - Identifying Functional Regions of Interest Within the Speech Motor Control Neural Network
10:35 - 10:55 Adam Buchwald - Enhancing speech motor learning with noninvasive brain stimulation

11:00 - 13:00 Poster Session III [Speech Disorders II + Windows on the Brain III]

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:20 [Windows on the Brain II]
14:00 - 14:20 Carolyn McGettigan - Outcomes of speech training examined with MRI of the brain and vocal tract
14:20 - 14:40 Vincent Gracco - A framework for investigating speech production and its sensorimotor control
14:40 - 15:00 Frank Guenther - Quantitative Assessment of a Neurocomputational Model of Speech Production with Neuroimaging Data
15:00 - 15:20 Wolfram Ziegler - A "Phonological Mind" in our brains? Clinical evidence

15:20 Conference closing & farewell