Liberman Memorial Workshops

Bousefield Room 160, Liberman Room,

Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

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May 7, 2010 (PDF)

Haskins 75th Anniversary Inaugural Event

Current Research on Reading *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Ten years after the National Reading Panel Report: Evidence regarding phonics instruction

Susan Brady, University of Rhode Island and Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 Phonological stability in adult poor readers

Jim Magnuson, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 Supramodal potential as a condition for literacy

Don Shankweiler, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Haskins research on reading development and reading disability: Contributions from neuroimaging

Ken Pugh, Yale University School of Medicine and Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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May 13, 2011 (PDF)

Cross-language perspectives on language use: Reading, listening, talking, and signing *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Phonetics and phonology of foreign accent

Carol Fowler, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 Measuring sign language production

Martha Tyrone, Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 Effect of foreign and native accents on visual word recognition in L1 and L2

Laurie Feldman, University of Albany and Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Studies in bi-alphabetism: Reflections of the research of Georgije Lukatela

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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May 25, 2012 (PDF)

Applied and Conceptual Issues in Speech Perception and Production *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Audiovisual speech perception: Lessons from special populations

Julia Irwin, Southern Connecticut State University and Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 Speech perception differences in children with speech sound disorders

Johnathan Preston, Southern Connecticut State University and Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 Aspects of Accent Acquisition

Stephen Tobin, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Measuring Visual Contributions in Speech Perception

Lawrence Brancazio, Southern Connecticut State University and Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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May 31, 2013 (PDF)

Speech, Reading, and Brain *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Infants will tune to (pretty much) anything: implications for pediatric cochlear implant users

Heather Bortfeld, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 Learning language by ear and by eye

David Braze, Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 Sensitivity to speech-articulatory variables in printed word recognition

Stephen Frost, Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Emergence of categorical perception: Evidence from brain and behavior

Emily Myers, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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May 30, 2014 (PDF)

Writing Systems, Reading, and Brain Mechanisms *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Evaluating the orthographic depth hypothesis in Hindi

Anurag Rimzhim, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 The Korean writing system

Yang Lee, Geongsang National University and Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 The literate brain: how learning to read modifies language systems

Ken Pugh, Yale University School of Medicine and Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 A framework for understanding cross-language variation in the organization of the reading system

Jay Rueckl, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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May 29, 2015 (PDF)

New Insights on Language by Ear and by Eye *

3:00-3:20 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

3:20-3:50 Processing Mandarin Chinese Tonal Categories in the Brain

Jeffrey Malins, Haskins Laboratories

3:50-4:20 Genetic Insights into Reading

Kaja Jasinska, Haskins Laboratories

4:20-4:50 What does radical processing tell us about Chinese character recognition

Yi-Hui Hung, Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Modeling Language Learning and Evolution

Tao Gong, Haskins Laboratories

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 The speakers and invited guests gathered for dinner at the Carello and Turvey home.

8:30 All were welcome to join at Sweet William’s Pub at the Carello and Turvey home.

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June 8, 2016 (PDF)

This year’s workshop both commemorated the Liberman’s legacy and celebrated the extraordinary accomplishments of Profs. Marie Coppola and Emily Myers, both having received National Science Foundation CAREER awards, and included talks by them and by postdoctoral fellow from their labs.

1:00-1:45 Visit Al’s and Isabelle’s resting place to lay stones.*

2:00-2:50 Language by ear and by eye: The Libermans’ perspective

Michael Turvey, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

2:50-3:30 Language lays the foundation for number cognition

Marie Coppola, Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut

3:30-4:00 Cognitive development in deaf children with and without access to sign language

Matt Hall, Linguistics and Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut

4:10-4:50 Building new houses from old bricks: The challenge of non-native speech sound acquisition

Emily Myers, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories

4:50-5:20 Encoding articulator information in the brain during speech perception

Xue Xie, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences & Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut

5:20 General Discussion

6:30 Garden party and dinner at the home of Jim Magnuson and Inge-Marie Eigsti.

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(* Note — these Liberman Workshops at the University of Connecticut were preceded by visits to Al’s and Isabelle's resting places to lay stones. Within the Jewish faith, it is customary to leave a small stone on the grave. The visitor positions the stone on the grave using his or her left hand. Placing a stone on the grave serves as a sign to others that someone has visited the grave. It also enables visitors to partake in the mitzvah tradition of commemorating the burial and the deceased. Stones ares fitting symbols of the lasting presences of the deceased’s life and memory.)