About the conference
The Institute for Science of Language and the Brain is organizing its second international conference (virtual edition) on 9-10 October, 2025. This international event is held in collaboration with Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tarbiat Modarres University, Shiraz University, and Linguistic Society of Iran with the aim to bring together the researchers from Linguistics, Psychology, Speech and Language Pathology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Medical sciences, Neural Engineering and other relevant fields to exchange the latest research findings and most cutting-edge approaches to all sorts of research relevant for language and the brain.
Scientific Secretary: Dr. Molood S. Safavi
Executive Secretary: Dr. Nayereh Joodi
Head of Language & Cognition panel: Prof. Dr. Azita Afrashi, Professor of Linguistics and the President of Iranian Linguistic Society
Head of Psycholinguistics panel: Dr. Arash Aryani, Cognitive Neuroscientist and Group Leader at Freie Universtität Berlin
Head of Neurolinguistics Panel: Dr. Mohammad Momenian, Research Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Head of Clinical Linguistics Panel: Dr. Mehdi Bakhtiar, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong
Where
Online
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Start of Call for Abstracts: 10 March 2025
- Deadline for submitting abstracts: 01 July 2025
- Registrations open: 19 July 2025 (for free)
- Announcing the review results and the final program: 25 August 2025
- Registration Deadline: 09 September 2025
- Conference: 9-10 October 2025
Keynote & Invited Speakers
Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert
Professor of Linguistics at University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Anthony Kong
Associate Professor of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Hong Kong
Dr. Florian Hintz
Group Leader at Philipps University of Marburg, Germany
Dr. Oksana Lyalka
President of the SLP Society of Ukraine and Product Manager at ANT Neuro, Germany
Dr. Katarzyna Marszałek-Kowalewska
Computational Linguist and Technical Product Owner at Yukka Lab AG, Germany
Dr. Narges Radman
Cognitive Neuroscientist and assistant professor of Psychiatry at University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Iran
Arianna Colombani, PhD. C.
PhD Candidate of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
Dr. Simin Meykadeh
PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, University of Tarbiat Modarres, Iran
Dr. Srdjan Popov
Assistant Professor of Neurolinguistics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Conference Program & Committee
The conference will be in two days with four panels of (1) Fundamentals of Language and Cognition, (2) Experimental Approaches in Psycholinguistics, (3) Experimental Approaches in Neurolinguistics, and (4) Clinical Linguistics. The morning panels will start at 11:00 AM (IRST) and the afternoon panels will start at 05:00 PM (IRST). This section will be updated soon with information on the program timeline, panel-specific scientific committee and the presentations, including the accepted talks/posters
Academic Collaborators
This conference is scientifically supported by Linguistic Society of Iran, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science Lab at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Department of Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University, and Department of Linguistics at Shiraz University.
