Academy of Aphasia

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The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia will be hosted at the Horton Grand Hotel, a beautifully reconstructed historic landmark in the vibrant Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego, California. We encourage onsite attendance – required for platform presenters – although we also offer the option to participate online via an interactive hybrid platform. The conference reception and welcome party will be held Monday October 27th during a twilight cruise on San Diego Bay. The Academy welcomes submissions of experimental, clinical, theoretical, and historical research from any field that contributes to the study of aphasia, including Speech-Language Pathology, Psychology, Neurology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, History, and Computational Modeling.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Victor Ferreira Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ferreira is a renowned expert in the field of language processing and cognitive neuroscience, with groundbreaking research on the lexical and syntactic mechanisms involved in language production, learning, and communication.

Now in its eighth year, the NIDCD-funded Academy of Aphasia conference grant (R13 DC017375) will sponsor selected student fellows to attend and present their work at the conference, pending continued funding. Selected fellows will also receive focused mentoring and training from expert faculty at the meeting. Both U.S. and international students submitting a first-author abstract are eligible to apply; please contact Swathi Kiran (kirans@bu.edu) or Heather Dial (hrdial@central.uh.edu) with inquiries. The grant also sponsors a state-of-the-art New Frontiers in Aphasia Research seminar. This year, behavioral and cognitive neurologist Dr. Zachary Miller, Associate Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, will present on risk factors for neurodegenerative disease.