Welcome to the CRL Newsletter! We are pleased to announce this edition's Technical Report:

Action and Object Processing across Three Tasks: an fMRI Study of Picture-Naming, Word Reading and Repetition in Italian Arévalo, A.L.1, Dick, F.2, Della Rosa, P.3,4, Dronkers, N.F.5,6,8, Bates, E.A.6,7, Cappa, S.F.3,4, & Perani, D.3,4 1 Hospital Santa Cruz, Curitiba, Brazil 2 School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, London, UK 3 Psychology/Neuroscience, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy 4 IBFM, CNR, Segrate Milan, Italy 5 University of California, Davis, CA, USA 6 Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA 7 Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA 8 Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA, USA

Back issues of the Technical Report are also available for download.

Abstracts for the CRL Speaker Series talks given in Spring 2010 can be found under talk abstracts. We also maintain a list of recent publications by CRL affiliates.

As you all know, CRL is a big, multi-disciplinary, international community. This newsletter aims to be a source for readers to turn to in order to find out what is going on in CRL at large. Examples of things you can find out in this corner are announcements for recent and upcoming talks, meetings and conferences, information about new faculty members, visitors, graduate students and staff affiliated with CRL, new publications, developments and accomplishments from the labs/departments involved...

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Elizabeth Bates Graduate Research Fund

The Center for Research in Language provides awards to assist affiliated graduate students in their research. The fund was created in memory of Elizabeth A. Bates, former director of the Center. Information will be available on the CRL website.

If you wish to contribute to this fund in memory of Elizabeth Bates, please send to: Elizabeth Bates Graduate Research Fund, c/o Center for Research in Language - MC 0526; University of California , San Diego ; La Jolla , California 92093-0526 (checks payable to Regents of UC). In keeping with Professor Bates' deep commitment to supporting students, this fund is used to assist graduate students in their research, emphasizing the many areas in which Professor Bates made pioneering contributions.

The Center for Research in Language has a training program, "Language, Communication, and the Brain." The NIDCD-funded grant supports 2 post-doctoral trainees and 7 pre-doctoral trainees. Applications are solicited every April 1.

http://crl.ucsd.edu/training/fellowships/predocannounce.php

http://crl.ucsd.edu/training/fellowships/postdocannounce.php

Below are links to some research institutes around the world that are part of the CRL community:

• University of Western Ontario, Canada

• University of Haifa, Israel