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8:00–9:30 Registration/Breakfast and Poster session A
9:30–9:45 Welcome (Denise Klein, director CRBLM)
9:45–10:30 Jenny Saffran (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Statistical learning and prediction in language development
10:30–11:15 David Plaut (Carnegie Mellon University): Cortical organization as optimization: Topography and lateralization in high-level vision
11:15–12:00 Marlene Behrmann (University of Pittsburgh): What is done by the dorsal visual pathway, and how
12:00–1:30 Lunch and Poster session B
1:30–2:15 Julie Fiez (University of Pittsburgh): A journey from basic research to a reading intervention
2:15–3:00 Greg Hickok (University of California, Irvine): Speech coordination as the basis for beat perception and synchronization
3:00–3:30 Break
3:30–4:15 Aniruddh Patel (Tufts University): Exploring the cognitive boundaries of speech and music processing using the speech-to-song illusion
4:15–5:00. Robert Zatorre (McGill University): Spectro-temporal modulations for speech and music: acoustical cues for two human communication systems
5:00–6:30 Snacks and Poster session C