54th Academy of Aphasia Conference

The 54th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia will be held at the Saint George’s Hotel; Llandudno, Wales, U.K. The Academy of Aphasia annual meeting fosters an intellectually stimulating interaction of original 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. Topics typically include Bilingualism, Speech Perception & Spoken Production, Reading & Writing, Syntactic, Morphological, and Phonological Processing, Word Retrieval, Neural Localization of Language Functions, Language Rehabilitation, among others. The Academy of Aphasia also attracts research presentations regarding state of art of techniques and approaches including functional neuroimaging (fMRI), voxel based lesion symptom mapping (VLSM), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), resting state fMRI and computational modeling all directed to furthering our understanding of aphasia.