Hemispheric Asymmetries: Language, Handedness, and Beyond
November 20 - 21, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Onur Güntürkün
Dr. Sebastian Ocklenburg
Ruhr University Bochum
Hemispheric Asymmetries: Language, Handedness, and Beyond
November 20 - 21, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Onur Güntürkün
Dr. Sebastian Ocklenburg
Ruhr University Bochum
Program
Friday, November 2017
15:00 – 15:15 Welcome (Sebastian Ocklenburg)
15:15 – 16:15 Marco Hirnstein
Do sex differences in cognitive abilities arise from hemispheric asymmetries?
16:15 – 16-45 Coffee break
16:45 – 18:00 René Westerhausen
The role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries
18:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 21, 2017
09:00 – 10:00 Onur Güntürkün
Brain asymmetries: From structure to function
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Elisa Frasnelli
Evolution of hemispheric specialization
11:30 – 12:30 Clyde Francks
Genetics of hemispheric asymmetries
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Marc Brysbaert
Language lateralization
Program
Friday, November 20
15:00 – 15:15 Welcome (Sebastian Ocklenburg)
15:15 – 16:15 Marco Hirnstein
Do sex differences in cognitive abilities arise from hemispheric asymmetries?
16:15 – 16-45 Coffee break
16:45 – 18:00 René Westerhausen
The role of the corpus callosum for hemispheric asymmetries
18:00 Dinner
Saturday, November 21
09:00 – 10:00 Onur Güntürkün
Brain asymmetries: From structure to function
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Elisa Frasnelli
Evolution of hemispheric specialization
11:30 – 12:30 Clyde Francks
Genetics of hemispheric asymmetries
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Marc Brysbaert
Language lateralization