The Human Capacity for Language: Nature, Origins and Use

The Department of Psychology and the College of Science at Northeastern University would like to invite you to an interdisciplinary symposium titled:

"The Human Capacity for Language: Nature, Origins and Use" 

Friday, March 30, 2012
12:30 p.m.
Curry Student Center Ballroom (2nd floor)
Northeastern University 

 

Invited Speakers: 

Simon E. Fisher
Director, Language and Genetics, The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Honorary Research Fellow, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (WTCHG), University of Oxford, UK
Albert Galaburda 
Emily Fisher Landau Professor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Steven Pinker
Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

READ: Speaker Abstracts

Registration for the symposium begins at 12 p.m. on March 30, 2012 in the Curry Student Center Ballroom. Click here for the complete program schedule. 

 

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