March 28, 2008: The Neurocognition of Language and Memory: Retention, Attrition, and Aging

*SAVE THE DATE: March 28th, 2008 * *The Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition at Georgetown University */Presents /*The Neurocognition of Language and Memory: Retention, Attrition, and Aging *A CBBC Workshop * Goal:* The workshop aims to bring together researchers, students and funders who are interested in various cognitive /and/ neural aspects of retention, attrition, and aging in language and memory, but who generally do not interact much -- in particular people from the Cognitive Neuroscience community who study memory or language, and researchers from the fields of Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). * Location: *New Research Building Auditorium, Georgetown University, Washington DC *Date: *Friday, March 28th, 2008, 9am to 6pm Note: This is timed to allow workshop participants to also attend the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference, which starts the following day, and which also takes place in Washington DC. * Speakers:* Russ Poldrack (UCLA) Monika Schmid (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands) Darlene Howard and James Howard (Georgetown University and Catholic University, Washington DC) Christophe Pallier (CNRS, Paris) Avi Karni (University of Haifa, Israel) Kara Morgan-Short, Cristina Sanz and Michael Ullman (University of Illinois, Chicago, and Georgetown University) *Organizers:* Cristina Sanz and Michael Ullman * For further information *on the workshop, or to *register* please go to http://cbbc.georgetown.edu/workshops/2008RA.html For more information on the CBBC and previous workshops, please go to http://cbbc.georgetown.edu <http://cbbc.georgetown.edu/>.