Anthony Dick, Ph.D. recently published an article in Human Brain Mapping entitled "Co-speech gestures influence neural activity in brain regions associated with processing semantic information" with co-authors Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hasson, Jeremy Skipper, and Steven Small.

Pascale Tremblay Ph.D. presented a poster (“An fMRI study on sensorimotor and motorsensory contributions to speech production”) at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco in March 2009. She recently published three articles: “Contribution of the pre-SMA to the production of words and non-speech oral motor gestures, as revealed by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)” in Brain Research with co-author Vincent Gracco , “On the selection of words and oral motor responses: evidence of a response-independent fronto-parietal network” in Cortex with co-author Vincent Gracco, and “A mediating role of the premotor cortex in speech segmentation: an rTMS study“ in Brain and Language with co-authors Marc Sato and Vincent Gracco.

Jeremy Skipper, Ph.D., former graduate student, published an article in Current Biology entitled, "Gestures Orchestrate Brain Networks for Language Understanding," with co-authors Susan Goldin-Meadow, Howard Nusbaum, and Steven Small.

Steven Small, M.D. Ph.D., published an article in the International Journal of Psychophysiology entitled, "Database-managed Grid-enabled analysis of neuroimaging data: The CNARI framework," with co-authors Michael Wilde, Sarah Kenny, Michael Andric and Uri Hasson.

Michael Andric, one of our graduate students, presented a poster "HRF Phase Dynamics in Observing the Same Semantic Information Presented Manually and Orally" at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in June 2009 in San Francisco, California.

Uri Hasson, Ph.D., former Post Doctoral, published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, "Task-Dependent Organization of Brain Regions Active During Rest," with co-authors Howard Nusbaum and Steven Small.

We are pleased to announce that the first Neurobiology of Language Conference will be held at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, on 540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Marriott Downtown is in the heart of it all. Situated on Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile among world-class shopping, restaurants, and entertainment, this luxurious Chicago, Illinois hotel is within walking distance to the Windy City's top attractions, including Navy Pier, Sears Tower, Shedd Aquarium, Millennium Park, Theater and Museum Districts. Chicago promises to provide a most enjoyable setting for the meeting and for evening excursions. For more information, visit the Conference website: www.nlc2009.org