Following the Talking Brains exhibition, we coordinated a series of lectures featuring diverse professionals who discussed topics such as the relationship between dementia and language, the genetics of language, linguistic and cognitive diversity among humans, and the characterization of language in the brain.
The participants were: Wolfram Hinzen (ICREA-UPF researcher), Jaume Bertranpetit (ICREA-UPF researcher), Peter Garrard (professor of Neurology at the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Science Research at Saint George’s University London), José Luis Molinuevo (neurologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the Fundació Pasqual Maragall), Joana Rosselló (professor of Linguistics at the University of Barcelona), Ruth de Diego (ICREA-UB researcher), Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (professor of Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry at University College London, director of the Center for Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and co-discoverer of the FoxP2 gene), Berta Salvadó (neuropsychologist and speech therapist), Stephanie Durrleman (senior researcher at the Department of Psycholinguistics at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Geneva and specialist in the relationships between language and cognition), Mavi Sánchez-Vives (ICREA-IDIBAPS researcher and director of the Systems Neuroscience group), Marco Catani (professor of neuroanatomy and psychiatry at King’s College London and director of the Neuroanatomy and Tractography Laboratory), Albert Costa (ICREA-UPF researcher and director of the Speech Production and Bilingualism research group) and Gerard Conesa (head of Neurosurgery at the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona and collaborator of the Sylvius project).