Presentations

Invited presentations

Sentence Comprehension in Aphasia: Stability of Performance, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sanibel, FL, May 2005.
Effects of Typicality in single-Word Production, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Sanibel, FL, May 2005.
Syntactic Deficits in Aphasic Comprehension, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Tucson, April 2005.
Inhibition of LIFG in Complex Syntactic Processing in Fast Sentence Processors, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 2005.
Neural Correlates of Semantic Plausibility in Sentence Comprehension in High and Low Working Memory Groups. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 2005.
Event-related Examination of Animacy Effects on the Localization of Syntactic Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 2005.
The Effect of Task on the BOLD Signal Localization of Syntactic Processing, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 2005.
Syntactic Processing in Aphasia, Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY, March 2005.
Pronoun Resolution in Discourse in Whole-Sentence Presentation and Self-Paced Reading. Presented at the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, November 2004.
Syntactic Processing in Aphasia, Presented at the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, November 2004.
Sentence comprehension in normal aging and after neuropathology. Invited symposium paper to be presented at the American Speech and Hearing Association, Philadelphia, PA., November, 2004.
A Study of Syntactic Processing in Aphasia I: Behavioral (Psycholinguistic) Aspects, Academy of Aphasia, Chicago, October 2004.
A Study of Syntactic Processing in Aphasia II: Neurological Aspects, Academy of Aphasia, Chicago, October 2004.
Specialized verbal working memory for language comprehension. Invited presentation at the conference on Variation in Working Memory, University of Illinois at Chicago, August, 2003.
The Role of Broca’s Area in Language Processing. Invited symposium paper presented at theAcademy of Aphasia, Santa Fe, AZ., October, 1998.
How specialized is Working Memory? Evidence from Normals, Brain-damaged patients and Neuroimaging. Colloquium presented at the Five Colleges Cognitive Science Series, Amherst, MA., October, 1998
Fractionation of working memory. Colloquium presented in the Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, October, 1998.
Working memory and sentence comprehension: Evidence from individual differences. Invited presentation at the Sedona conference on Constraints on Language: Grammar, Memory and Aging organized by the Virginia and Fred Merrill Advanced Studies Center, March, 1998, Sedona, Az.
Working Memory and Language Processing. Colloquium presented in the Psychology Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, March, 1997.
Evidence for Multiple Working Memory Capacities in Language Comprehension. Invited Symposium paper presented at the European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanonne, Italy, January, 1996.
Single or Multiple Working Memory Capacities? Evidence from patients and dual-task studies. Symposium paper presented at the Psychonomics Society, Los Angeles, CA., November,
Language Processing after Stroke and Dementia. Department of Speech Language Pathology, Emerson College, Boston, MA., January, 1994.
The Nature of the Processing Resource System used in Language Comprehension. Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA., March, 1994.
What the study of patients tells us about the nature of the processing resource system used in language comprehension. Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA., March, 1994.
Language and memory in aging and dementia. Instituto di Gerontologia e Geriatria e Clinica Urologica, Universita di Firenze, Florence, Italy, May, 1993.
Short-term memory, processing capacity and language comprehension. Cognitive Science Group, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March, 1993.
Processing resources and language comprehension. Psychology Department, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, U.K., December, 1992.
The role of short-term memory in language comprehension. Psychology Department, University College London, London, U.K, November, 1992.
Short-term memory, processing capacity and sentence comprehension. Psycholinguistics Lab, Birkbeck College, London, U.K. , November, 1992.
Language comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease. MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, U.K., November, 1992.
The acquisition of literacy skills in congenitally deaf children. Behavioral Science Research Group, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, April, 1991.
The structure and role of auditory verbal short-term memory. Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, April, 1991.
Processing resources and stages of sentence comprehension in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Psychology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, December, 1991.
Reading acquisition in congenitally deaf children who communicate orally: Insights from an analysis of component reading, language and memory skills. Psychology Department,McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, April, 1989.
On the nature and functional role of auditory verbal short-term memory in language comprehension. Centre Hospitalier Cote des Neiges, Laboratoire, Th. Alajouanine, Montreal, Quebec, April, 1989.
A review of the Neuropsychological case studies on the role of short-term memory in language comprehension. Paper presented as part of an invited symposium at the Sixth International Congress on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, January, 1988.
Component processes in reading and spelling. Neurolinguistics Laboratory,Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, March, 1988.
Factors influencing the acquisition of reading and spelling skills. Keynote speaker at Parents and Teachers Conference, Landmark School for Learning Disabled Children, Beverley, MA., March, 1988.
Short-term memory, language comprehension and apraxia of speech. Neuropsychology Interest Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, November, 1988.
The role of short-term memory in automatic and controlled language processing. Paper presented with D. Caplan at a conference on Neuropsychological Impairments of Short-term Memory, Como, Italy, September, 1987.
Component processes in reading and spelling. Psychology Department, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, November, 1987.
The role of the articulatory loop in reading. Psychology Department, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, May, 1986.
Working memory and sentence comprehension. Haskins Research Laboratories, New Haven, Conn., June, 1986.
Working memory and written sentence comprehension. Paper presented at the meeting of Attention and Performance XII, London, England, August, 1986.