Invited speakers in 2006

Colin J. Davis (University of Bristol, UK) "How do readers recognise words?" (abstract). Friday, January 20

Edward M. Hubbard (INSERM Neuroimagerie Cognitive, France) "Individual differences among grapheme-color synaesthetes: Psychophysical and neuroimaging investigations." (abstract). Monday, February 6

Aliette Lochy (FC Donders Institute, the Netherlands) "Semantic uses of numbers: impact of training on cortical representations." (abstract). Monday, February 13

Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) "Why is it hard to begin a book?" (abstract). Tuesday, February 28

First Beer-Sheva - Ghent meeting on numerical cognition with Avishai Henik, Roi Cohen Kadosh (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
and Chantal Roggeman, Jean-Philippe Van Dijck, Wim Gevers, Wim Notebaert, Jolien De Brauwer, Tom Verguts (Ghent University). Friday, March 17

Janet G. van Hell (Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) "Cross-language activation in second language learners and proficient bilinguals." (abstract) Thursday, March 23

Edward Gibson (MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, USA) "Sentence processing: Interactions between top-down and bottom-up information." (abstract) Friday, April 7

Andreas Nieder (Primate NeuroCognition Laboratory, Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, University of Tuebingen, Germany) "Neural correlates of numerical cognition in the cortex of non-human primates." (abstract) Monday, April 24

Klaus Oberauer (University of Bristol, UK) "What is working memory capacity? The binding hypothesis." (abstract) Friday, April 28

Eva Kemps (School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia) "Chocolate, pizza and ice cream: An experimental cognitive approach to understanding and reducing food cravings." (abstract) Monday, May 29

Nathan Weber (School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia) "Monitoring and Control Processes in Eyewitness Memory." (abstract) Friday, June 2

Joachim Hoffmann (Department of Psychology, University Würzburg, Germany) "Merits and limits of the ideomotor-principle" (abstract) Monday, October 16

Peter Wühr (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Nuremberg, Germany) "Sequential modulation of congruency effects: Old and new issues" (abstract) Friday, November 17

Robert H. Logie (Human Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh, UK) "Testing the world's working memory" (abstract) Monday, November 20

Monique Lamers (Department of Linguistics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands) "The influence of animacy and verb type on word order in perception and production" (abstract) Friday, December 1

John Henderson (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK) "Direct and indirect control of fixation durations during scene perception" (abstract) Thursday, December 14

Fernanda Ferreira (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK) "Reanalyzing grammatical and ungrammatical sentences: evidence from eye movements and MEG" (abstract) Friday, December 15

Marc Brysbaert (Royal Holloway University, UK) "Hersenlateralisatie en visuele woordherkenning: evidentie op basis van fMRI en Doppler sonografie" (abstract) Wednesday, December 20