Admission: Free

[preferably by 7/31]
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There will be a reception for exchange of opinions after the symposium at Hirosawa club, Wako RIKEN. Please let us know also if you wish to participate in the reception.

"Infancy Research from Asia"

Kick-off Symposium

Co- sponsored

Association for Young Researchers,the Japanese Society for Baby Science
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (16H06319)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (17H06382)

Date

8th Aug. 2017 10:00~17:00
17：30～20：00 exchange of opinions

Venue

Ikenohata Research Bldg.3F Conference Room
RIKEN Brain Science
(2-1 Hirosawa, Wako City Saitama, Japan)
http://www.riken.jp/en/access/wako-map/

Language

English

Speakers

10:05 - 10:50 Shelley Xiuli Tong (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong): "Cracking Chinese orthographic codes: Statistical learning as a key to understanding developmental dyslexia in Chinese."
10:55 - 11:35 Masahiro Imafuku (JSPS postdoctral fellow/ Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): "The perception-production link and eye contact effects in infant’s vocal imitation."
12:50 - 13:30 Hoshinori Kanazawa (JSPS postdoctral fellow/ Univ. of Tokyo, Japan): "Embodiment and sensorimotor interaction in early developmental stage."
13:30 - 14:15 Youngon Choi (Chung-Ang Univ. Korea): "Emergence of Korean infants’ ability to discriminate the three-way stop contrasts: Contribution of initial biases and nature of input."
14:20 - 15:00 Ayaka Ikeda (Kyoto Univ., Japan): "Sensitivity to linguistic registers in Japanese children."
15:20 - 16:05 Chutamanee Onsuwan (Thammasat Univ., Thailand): "Production and perception patterns of Thai lexical tones: Current data from Thai children, adults, and hearing-impaired individuals."
16:05 - 16:45 Yusuke Moriguchi (Kyoto Univ., Japan): "Development of executive function during early childhood."