Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Talma Hendler M.D.,
Ph.D.
Talma Hendler is an associate
professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Tel-Aviv University, and the
founding director of the Functional Brain Center at Tel-Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center. With direct access to advanced neuroimaging technologies
including fMRI and combined EEG, Prof. Hendlers group has extensive
experience in conducting a variety of research protocols on healthy
and clinical groups. Her work focuses on emotional brain mechanisms
and their pathological manifestations in humans, which represents a
unique connection between basic- and clinical neuroscience emphasizing
advanced imaging methodologies. During the last decade she has published
more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and co-edited
the volume Psychiatric Neuroimaging (with Virginia Ng and Gareth
J. Barker, 2003). She has an impressive record in giving lectures at
international conferences and labs in Israel, and around the world.
Csaba Pléh
DSc., MHAS
Csaba Pléh is the chair and founder of the Department of Cognitive Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the president of the Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) founded in 2009.
His research focuses on the
history of cognitive approaches in different disciplines (philosophy,
psychology, biology, linguistics), and the psychology of language including
both language processing and language development. Lately, his work
turned towards the study of language development in impaired populations
(especially those with Williams syndrome) and delayed language development.
Selected works: History and Theories of the Mind (2008), Eternal Themes of Psychology: a historical Historical Introduction (A pszichológia örök témái: Történeti bevezetés a pszichológiába, 2008), The Pleasures of Psyche and Psychology (A lélek és a lélektan örömei, 2008), Nature and Mind (A természet és a lélek, 2003), History of Psychology (A lélektan története, 2000), Tradition and Innovation in Psychology (Hagyomány és újítás a pszichológiában, 1998), Introduction to Cognitive Science (Bevezetés a megismeréstudományba, 1998), Comprehension of Sentences in Hungarian (A mondatmegértés a magyar nyelvben, 1998), When East Meets West: Sociolinguistics in the Former Socialist Block (co-edited with Jeff Harlig, 1995), Hungarian Child Language Research (1990), Narrative Structure and Mnemonic Patterns (A történetszerkezet és az emlékezeti sémák, 1986), The Horizon of Psycholinguistics (A pszicholingvisztika horizontja, 1980), On the Psychological Factors of Social Disadvantage (A hátrányos helyzet pszichológiai összetevőiről, 1976)