Speech Production, Comprehension Subject of Duke Brain Lecture

Duke University Medical Center
Thursday, 9 November 2000

How humans generate and comprehend speech will be the subject of a free, public lecture on Thursday, Nov. 16 at 5:15 p.m. in the Love Auditorium of the Levine Science Research Center on Duke University's West Campus.

The lecture on "The Generation of Single and Multiple Spoken Words" will be delivered by Willem Levelt, founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Holland, and Professor of Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen University.

The lecture is the second of four lectures in the 2000-2001 Mind, Brain and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the center for Cognitive Neuroscience. The series focuses on work at the cutting edge of human brain research.

Levelt's major research interests include how humans generate meaningful speech and how we comprehend the speech of others. He has published widely in psychophysics, mathematical psychology, linguistics and psycholinguistics.

The 2000-2001 Mind, Brain and Behavior Distinguished Lecture Series will continue with University of Pennsylvania researcher Martha Farah on February 8 and Wake Forest University School of Medicine scientist Barry Stein on April 26.

The Center for Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to theoretical and experimental work aimed at understanding the human mind and brain from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes work in psychology, neuroscience, computer science, philosophy, engineering, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, neurology, psychiatry, and related disciplines.

For more information, or to contact Duke University Medical Center, see their website at: www.mc.duke.edu