Timetable
Friday 20 5:00 - 6:30 Registration
  6:30 - 8:30 Drinks and buffet supper
     
Saturday 21 9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and welcome
  9:30 - 1:00
Aaron Sloman (Birmingham) Keynote talk: Beyond old dichotomies: empiricist/nativist empiricist/rationalist Abstract
Karl Friston (London) Learning and inference in the brain Abstract
Douglas Saddy (Potsdam)

Applying symbolic encoding to event related brain potentials: trying to get the timing right

 Abstract
  Coffee break  
Cathy Price (London) Specialisation for language emerges from the integration of nonverbal neural systems Abstract
Piers Cornelissen (Newcastle) Visual word recognition: the first 500 miliseconds Abstract
  1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
  2:00 - 5:00
Jürgen Schmidhuber (Lugano) State-of-the-art recurrent neural networks Abstract
Hermann Moisl (Newcastle) Implementation of sentence meaning with attractor sequences Abstract
  Coffee break  
Peter Tino (Birmingham) Markovian bias in linguistic computation via state space trajectories Abstract
Stevan Harnad (Southampton) Grounding the lexicon Abstract
  7:00  Symposium dinner
     
Sunday 22 9:30 - 12:30
David Horn (Tel Aviv) Unsupervised context sensitive language acquisition from a large corpus Abstract
Peter Andras (Newcastle) Pattern languages Abstract
  Coffee break  
Ruth Kempson (London) The dynamics of language Abstract
Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle) Conventional representation of Natural Language Abstract
  12:30 - 1:00 Summing up
  1:00 - 2:00 Lunch