Symposium on Semantic Knowledge
1 April,
Title: Semantic learning in Developmental Amnesia
Federation of European Neuroscience, keynote lecture
10-14 July,
Title: The gift of speech
Dutch Society for Neuropsychology, plenary lecture
30 September – 1 October, Doorweth,
Title: Cognitive, neural and genetic basis of speech and language.
Norwegian Academy
3-5 October,
Title: KE family and FOXP2: The evolution of speech and language
The Dahlem Lecture series – Max Planck Institute
8 November,
Title: Neurogenetic bases of speech and language disorders
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, keynote lecture
18-20 November,
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