@ Martinos Center and Tufts University

Invited Speaker: Language and Cognitive Processes Seminars, Boston University, Boston, MA: "Making sense of sentences: The role of the P600". 2003.

Speaker: Conference for Human Brain Mapping, New York City, NY: "Abnormal activation in the temporal cortex during indirect semantic priming in schizophrenia". 2003.

Invited Presentation to the Baer Trust, Boston, MA: "The Neuropathology of schizophrenia: from cortical thickness to cortical function". 2004.

Invited Speaker: The Origins of Language and Psychosis, SANE Prince of Wales Center, Oxford, UK: "Making sense of sentences in schizophrenia". 2004.

Invited Speaker: The Annual NARSAD Scientific Symposium, New York City, NY: "Multimodal imaging of language in schizophrenia". 2004.

Invited speaker: Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY: "The Cognitive Neuroscience of language in schizophrenia". 2005.

Invited speaker: Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mass. General Hospital, MA: "Making Sense of Nonsense: The Cognitive Neuroscience of language in schizophrenia". 2005.

Speaker: Conference for Human Brain Mapping, Toronto, CA: "From the Knight to the Right: an event-related fMRI study of schizophrenic thinking". 2005.

Invited speaker: Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Tufts New England Medical Center, MA: "Spatiotemporal imaging of language in schizophrenia". 2005.

Invited speaker: Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Hillside Hospital, NY: "The Cognitive Neuroscience of schizophrenia". 2005.

Invited speaker: U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Eighth Annual American-Chinese Frontiers of Science Symposium. Xiamen, China: "Brain Imaging". 2005.

Invited speaker: Colloquium Series, "Exploring the Mind": Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA: "Spatiotemporal imaging of language processing: towards an understanding of schizophrenic thought disorder". 2006.

Invited speaker: Satellite Symposium, "Unraveling the Mysteries of Meaning in the Brain: Contextual Cues to Language Comprehension", at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City, NY: "Making sense of sentences (Revisited)". 2006.

Invited speaker: Margaret Hamm Lecture, Wellsley College, MA: "The cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia". 2006.

Invited speaker: The Annual NARSAD Scientific Symposium, Boston, MA: "Multimodal imaging of meaning in schizophrenia". 2006.

Invited speaker: Clinical Research Training Fellowship lecture series, Judge Baker Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA: "Making sense of language and thought in schizophrenia". 2006.

Invited speaker: Symposium and Master Class: "Ambiguity in Language", Groningen University, Groningen, The Netherlands: "Ambiguity in language in healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia: Insights from spatiotemporal imaging". 2006.

Invited speaker: Satellite Symposium to AMLaP: "The Neurocognition of Unification", Nijmegen, The Netherlands: "The semantic/syntactic Interface: Evidence from neuroimaging methods". 2006.

Invited speaker at two Satellite Symposia at the 2006 ECNS (EEG and Clinical Neuroscience) Society Conference, Boston, MA: (1) "Beyond N400: Where recent functional and behavioral findings on language abnormalities in schizophrenia lead us"; (2) "Revealing the neural basis of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia using multiple neuroimaging techniques". 2006.

Invited speaker: Cognition Brain and Behavior series, Harvard Department of Psychology, Boston MA: "Neural routes to comprehension: Insights from electrophysiology and fMRI". 2006.

Invited speaker: An Interdisciplinary workshop on the Brain Mechanisms and Cognitive Processes in the Comprehension of Discourse: The Lorentz centre, Leiden, The Netherlands: "The neural basis of generating causal inferences in healthy individuals and in schizophrenia: Evidence from temporal-spatial neuroimaging methods". 2007.

Speaker. Conference: Building Meaning from Language, Tufts University, Medford, MA: "The neural basis of comprehension". 2007.

Invited speaker and Guest. The Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, German: "Beyond Syntax: The neural basis of comprehension". 2007.

Invited Speaker and Guest. Workshop, "Memory and Language: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" organized by Washington University at St. Louis in partnership with the Center for Psychology and Cognitive Science, (CPCS), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China: "The cognitive neuroscience of language comprehension". 2007.

Invited speaker: Seminar Series in Psychiatry Neuroscience. The Sackler Institute, Cornell Medical School, NY. "Spatiotemporal imaging of thought in schizophrenia". 2008.

Invited speaker: Electrophysiology Session. 1st Inaugural Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, Venice, Italy. "Selective neural deficits in evaluating emotional information within social vignettes in schizophrenia". 2008.

Chair. NeuroImaging Session. 1st Inaugural Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, Venice, Italy. 2008.

Invited speaker. Symposium, "The brain basis of language comprehension", the International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany: "From action to syntax: evidence from ERPs and fMRI for common neural systems". 2008.

Invited speaker: Maryland Linguistics Colloquium Series, Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, Maryland. "What can ERPs tell us about processing at the semantics/syntax interface?". 2008.

Invited speaker: Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Hillside Hospital, NY: "The Neural Basis of Thought in Schizophrenia: Insights from Spatiotemporal Neuroimaging". 2008.

Invited speaker: Zucker Hillside Hospital Research Seminar, Hillside Hospital, NY: "Spatiotemporal imaging of comprehension in schizophrenia". 2008.

Invited speaker: Symposium, "I knew you were going to say that...ERP studies reveal the role of expectancy-driven processes in language comprehension", the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR), Austin, Texas. "The origins of semantic prediction: a layered processing architecture". 2008.

Invited speaker: Raboud University of Nijmegen Colloquium Series, Department of Neuropsychology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. "So what is monitoring? What ERPs can tell us about the neural basis of language comprehension". 2009.

Invited speaker: Scuola Superiore dell'Università di Catania, Sicily. "The Brain and Language", Interdisciplinary workshop. 2009.

Invited Speaker: Symposium, "Probing the neurobiology of symptoms of schizophrenia." Society of Biological Psychiatry's 64th Annual Scientific Convention, Vancouver, Canada: "Spatiotemporal imaging of verbal and non-verbal thought disorganization in schizophrenia." 2009.

Invited Speaker: Symposium, "New Findings in the Neuroscience of Discourse." Society for Text and Discourse Nineteenth Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, the Netherlands: "What can ERPs and fMRI tell us about language comprehension? Streams of processing in the brain." 2009.

Invited Speaker: The Annual NARSAD Scientific Symposium, Boston, MA: "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Language and Thought in Schizophrenia" 2009.

Invited Speaker: Center for Research in Language, at the University of California, San Diego. "What can ERPs and fMRI tell us about language comprehension in the brain?" 2009