October 2008 - Banff, Canada

The Sixth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon was held in Banff, Canada, October 7-10.
The Sixth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

October 2006 - Montreal, Canada

The Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon was held in Montreal, Canada, October 11-13.
The Fifth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon

Winter 2006

John Benjamins Publishing Company has published the inaugural issue of The Mental Lexicon, (ISSN: 1871-1340, E-ISSN: 1871-1375) an interdisciplinary journal edited by Gary Libben and Gonia Jarema. This new journal will be published twice yearly and will provide an international forum for the best research on the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. The Mental Lexicon will foster integration across the subdisciplines of human cognition, linguistics, language education and language pathology by encouraging contributions of experimental research on the representation and processing of words, formal and computational models, clinical reports, and acquisition studies. The official language of the journal will be English. For more information about the journal, contact us here.

View the journal online here.

November 2005 - Montreal

A Fall Institute was held in Montreal on November 18-20, 2005. Students had the opportunity to present their research, form networks with other students and researchers, as well as participate in training sessions. Team members and post-docs led forums on working with populations, comparing languages, using language corpora and web databases, experimental paradigms, data preparation, statistical analysis, experimental software selection, academic development, targeting fundamental questions, new research opportunities, and new applications of research.

September 2004 - Edmonton

A student research meeting was led by R. Kemps on September 23, from 8:30-11:30 am, followed by a meeting with the Mental Lexicon advisory board from 1:00-1:30pm, and a student research presentation from 2:00-2:30pm. The Coinvestigators also held meetings throughout the week.

Student Research Presentation (pdf)

June 2004 - Windsor

Team Members' Preconference Agenda (pdf)

The June 29th, 2004 student workshop was organized by post-doctoral fellows R. Kemps and C.-M. Longtin on behalf of the graduate students at all the Canadian sites. The students invited three of our international collaborators to present workshops in their areas of expertise on the day preceding the Fourth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Students selected specific themes (statistical analysis, ERP testing, and children’s reading) to maximally benefit their training and scholarly development. This student initiative highlights the advantages that this type of forum provides them through the wealth of expertise that our international collaborators offer. This has led us to consider the creation of a new biennial Summer Institute devoted to training in mental lexicon research. Student Workshop (pdf) Pictures

Fourth International Conference on the Mental Lexicon Website

Conference Schedule (pdf)

March 2004 - Edmonton

The March 2004 meeting of co-investigators, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows was extremely productive. It afforded the co-investigators two consecutive days of planning sessions, as well as an important opportunity to consult with a SSHRC representative who provided valuable feedback to the executive team. The meeting also created a forum in which graduate students and post-doctoral fellows presented the results of their project-related research and benefited from cross-site input and discussion. This Poster Conference, showcasing research by over 20 of our graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, was advertised within the university community and open to the public. A final joint session of students and co-investigators focused on new integrative initiatives.

Co-investigator/Student/Administrator Meeting Agenda (pdf)

Conference Posters List (pdf)

October 2003 - Vienna

The collaborative meeting in Vienna was held immediately prior to the 'Academy of Aphasia Conference 2003'. We brought together 20 co investigators and collaborators from 16 sites whose emerging work was at a critical stage of development, such that it could maximally benefit from collaborative input. At the meeting delegates presented and discussed both completed and ongoing research in an atmosphere of intellectual excitement and collegiality. The meeting resulted in several new research initiatives, as well as the creation of the 140 page first volume of the Mental Lexicon Working Papers.

Meeting Agenda (pdf)

Pictures from Vienna meeting

May 2003 - Windsor

Co-investigator/student meeting Agenda (pdf)

October 2002 - Banff

Third International Conference on the Mental Lexicon website

Conference Program (pdf)

Lake Louise meeting (pdf)