“Age, Hearing, and Speech Comprehension”: A Festschrift for Art Wingfield

A one-day event will be held on July 22, 2014 at the Shapiro Campus Center Theater to honor Art Wingfield, the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience, for his 40+ years of research and teaching at Brandeis. During his time at Brandeis, Art has made contributions to the areas of speech comprehension, cognitive aging, memory, and aphasia and has mentored numerous PhD students, research assistants and postdocs. Art has inspired countless other students in his course on Human Neuropsychology.

Some of the speakers will include former lab members and prominent researchers in the field:

• Mark Eckert, Department of Otolaryngology,
  Medical University of South Carolina
• Murray Grossman, Department of Neurology,
  University of Pennsylvania
• Stefanie Kuchinsky, Center for Advanced Study of Language,
  University of Maryland
• Jonathan Peelle, Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University in St. Louis
• Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Robert Remez , Department of Psychology, Columbia University
• Bruce Schneider, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga
• Liz Stine-Morrow, Department of Educational Psychology and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

For more information about this event can be found at www.artwingfieldfest.com/.

If you are interested in attending, please register at by July 5^th.