Welcome to the CRL Newsletter! We are pleased to announce this edition's Technical Report:
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Voxel-based Lesion Analysis of Category-Specific Naming on the Boston Naming Test
Juliana V. Baldo1, Analía Arévalo1, David P. Wilkins1, and Nina F. Dronkers1,2,3
1Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System
2Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis
3Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego
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Back issues of the Technical Report are also available for download.
Abstracts for the CRL Speaker Series talks given in Winter 2009 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.
NIH Fellowship Opportunities at CRL
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 6 pre-doctoral trainees. Applications for postdoctoral positions are solicited every March 1. (See our website for details.) Predoctoral trainees are selected by the executive committee of the training grant. Graduate students who are interested in participating in this program, or your faculty advisor, should contact a member of the committee to indicate your interest. The executive committee members are: Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science (Director of Program); Jeffrey Elman, Cognitive Science; Maria Polinsky, Linguistics; Martin Sereno, Cognitive Science; David Swinney, Psychology; and Beverly Wulfeck, Language & Communicative Disorders.
In addition, the Institute for Neural Computation offers pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships. The application deadline is April 1. For details, please refer to the INC website at http://inc.ucsd.edu.
CRL Around The World
Below are links to some research institutes around the world that are part of the CRL community:
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