Programme

Wednesday 15 June

8:45	Registration
9:45	Opening remarks
10:00	Evidence for plasticity in second language (L2) speech acquisition James E. Flege University of Alabama at Birmingham
10:30	Linguistic plasticity in adopted subjects Christophe Pallier Inserm Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit
11:00	Discussion
11:15	Poster Session I + Coffee
1:00	Lunch
2:00	Disruption and plasticity of the phonological system in developmental dyslexia Franck Ramus CNRS Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences Laboratory Gayaneh Szenkovits CNRS Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences Laboratory
2:30	Discussion
2:40	Poster Session II + Coffee
4:00	A critical period for the development of central auditory pathways Michael Dorman Arizona State University Anu Sharma Arizona State University
4:30	Infants' brain and behavioral responses to speech: Implications for the Critical Period Patricia K. Kuhl University of Washington
5:00	Discussion
6:30	Welcome Reception -- Westminster Boat Base

Thursday 16 June

9:00	The lexical utility of phoneme-category plasticity Anne Cutler MPI for Psycholinguistics James McQueen MPI for Psycholinguistics Dennis Norris MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
9:30	Plasticity in lexical competition: The impact of vocabulary acquisition Gareth Gaskell University of York Nicolas Dumay University of York
10:00	Discussion
10:15	Coffee break
10:30	Plasticity in systems for automatic speech recognition: A review Roger Moore University of Sheffield Stuart Cunningham University of Sheffield
11:00	Discussion
11:15	Poster Session III + Coffee
1:00	Lunch
2:00	The neural bases of plasticity in speech perception Sophie Scott University College London
2:30	Discussion
2:40	Poster Session IV + Coffee
4:00	Perceptual interference and learning in speech perception Paul Iverson University College London
4:30	Auditory learning: Implications for speech perception David R. Moore MRC Institute of Hearing Research
5:00	Discussion

Friday 17 June

9:00	Plasticity in speech perception: Lessons from cochlear implants Stuart Rosen University College London
9:30	Perceiving isn't only hearing: The role of speech production in the development of lexical tone perception Johanna Barry University of Oxford Kathy Lee The Chinese University of Hong Kong
10:00	Discussion
10:15	Coffee break
10:30	Sensitive periods for Absolute Pitch Glenn Schellenberg University of Toronto Mississauga
11:00	Discussion
11:15	Poster Session V + Coffee
1:00	Lunch
2:00	Learning how to learn: The acquisition of stress-based word segmentation strategies by infants Jenny Saffran University of Wisconsin Madison Erik Thiessen Carnegie Mellon University
2:30	The development of positional effects on phonetic discrimination Jessica Maye Northwestern University
3:00	Bilingual input and vowel categorization processes: Infant and young children data Laura Bosch Universitat de Barcelona Marta Ramon-Casas Universitat de Barcelona Daniel Swingley University of Pennsylvania Núria Sebastián-Gallés Universitat de Barcelona
3:30	Discussion
4:00	Close of conference