[BIC-announce] Seminar annoucement

[Vincent Gracco]

The Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain (CRLMB) is pleased  
to announce a lecture entitled

NEUROIMAGING STUDIES OF READING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: AN UPDATE ON  
RECENT FINDINGS

As part of our CRLMB Distinguished Lecture Series

Presentation by Dr. Ken Pugh

Friday, November 7, 2008 at 1:30 pm -3:00 pm
Room 1034, McIntyre Medical Building

Ken Pugh is President and Director of Research, Senior Scientist, at  
Haskins Laboratories, in New Haven, Connecticut

ABSTRACT

Our research combines several types of neuroimaging technologies with  
intensive behavioral testing in order to examine developmental  
trajectories for language and reading in both reading disabled (RD)  
and non-impaired (NI) cohorts. In studies of both adults and children,  
RD readers demonstrate anomalous brain activation patterns at  
posterior regions in the left hemisphere (LH) during tasks that make  
explicit demands on phonological processing, along with, what appears  
to be, a compensatory reliance on frontal lobe sites and right  
hemisphere systems. Brain/behavior analyses have indicated that the  
development of reading fluency in young children is strongly  
associated with the development of the left hemisphere posterior  
reading system.

Our new longitudinal project is aimed at establishing key neuro- 
chemical and genetic factors associated with atypical brain/behavior  
trajectories; initial findings will be discussed. With regard to  
plasticity and learning, intervention studies have examined the  
influence of intensive phonological remediation in young at-risk  
children, revealing substantial gains in both reading scores and  
development of these LH reading systems for children afforded this  
treatment. Recent extensions of our learning research with older RD  
readers continue to suggest a high degree of plasticity in this  
population.



Further information at http://www.crlmb.ca/


Thanks,

Vince

Vincent L. Gracco, PhD
Director, Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain
McGill University
3640 de la Montagne
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2A8

ph: 514-398-7298
fax: 514-398-8123
email: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca

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