Academy of Aphasia

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The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia will be hosted at Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA in Nara (Japan). We encourage onsite attendance – required for platform presenters – although we also offer the option to participate online via an interactive hybrid platform. A welcome reception will be held on Friday, October 18th, at the conference venue. On Saturday, October 19, there will be a special event highlighting traditional Japanese culture (Noh performance), also at the conference venue. The Academy welcomes submissions of 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.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Atsushi Iriki, Senior Researcher of Innovation Design at Riken Research Institute and Research Supervisor of CREST “Multi-Sensing” projects at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Dr Iriki investigates evolutionary precursors to higher cognitive functions based on neurophysiological analyses of non-human primates, as well as studying cognition through functional and structural brain imaging. Dr Iriki is the principal investigator of the project Neurobiological mechanisms of cognitive niche construction.

Now in its seventh year, the NIDCD-funded Academy of Aphasia conference grant (R13 DC017375) will sponsor selected student fellows to attend and present their work at the conference. Fellows will also receive focused mentoring and training from seasoned faculty mentors at the meeting. Both U.S. and international students are eligible to apply; please contact Swathi Kiran (kirans@bu.edu) or Heather Dial (hrdial@central.uh.edu) with inquiries. The grant also sponsors a state-of-the-art New Frontiers in Aphasia Research seminar. This year's topic will focus on cortical tracking of speech and language processing, and the speaker will be Dr. Andrea E. Martin of Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (the Netherlands).

To view the Presenter Guidelines,  click here. 

If you are registered to participate in-person, you are advised to bring your laptop with you to Nara (or to pair with a registered colleague who has one), so you can log in to participate maximally within and through the interactive hybrid conference platform.

Please note that conference attendees must register by September 1 in order to take advantage of on-site childcare.

2024 Registration Rates

1. Breakfast and lunch are provided each conference day (on-site, in Nara) for all registered, in-person participants. Both registered in-person participants and registered virtual participants will have access to attend live platform presentations delivered in Nara and to participate in Q&A in real time (either in-person or via Zoom) at the designated platform presentation time. Only registered, in-person participants will have access to the in-person poster presentations-with-live-discussion, at the designated presentation time, in Nara. All registered conference participants will have access to the online poster presentations-with-live-discussion, at the designated presentation time, on the hybrid conference platform. All registered conference participants will have continuous, asynchronous access to online content within the hybrid conference platform during the full conference period, as well as during the 30-day, post-conference period. This continuous online content includes, but is not limited to, uploaded content of posters and poster-video materials associated with each poster presented in Nara and with each virtually presented poster, and accompanying asynchronous, written exchange of Q&A on the uploaded content associated with each poster.
2. Registration period expires when the end-date has passed everywhere on Earth (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth (AoE), 11:59pm IDLW time zone, which is on the Western Hemisphere side of the International Date Line, UTC−12:00).
3. LMIC registrants are residents of least developed, low income, and lower middle income countries/territories who are eligible for reduced registration. LMIC eligibility is determined based on the OECD criteria posted here. (Note that residents of upper middle income countries/territories are NOT eligible for LMIC registration.) The same reduced, LMIC registration rate applies for both in-person and virtual registration types.
4. Cancellation policy: There is no cancellation penalty to switch from in-person to online registration prior to Monday September 30, 2024 (5pm EDT). Requests should be emailed to academyofaphasia12@gmail.com. Refunds will be issued for the difference between the paid amount and the online registration rate in effect on the date the request is made, less any fees charged by PayPal. Changes from in-person to online registration following September 30 will incur an additional $50 penalty to cover the Academy’s financial obligations to the conference and reception venues. Online/virtual registrations permit 30-day access to recorded talks and the online poster hall and are nonrefundable.
5. Participants who have not yet paid the registration fees at the day of the conference will be asked to pay the fees at the reception desk. The fees can only be paid in cash in Japanese yen.