Organization:
Sino-Lusophone Academy of the University of Coimbra (ASL-UC) and Portuguese Council for the Brain (CPC)
2:15 pm – OPENING SESSION
João Nuno Calvão da Silva, Vice-Rector for External Relations and Alumni at the University of Coimbra
António Freire Gonçalves, Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Brain Council
2:30 pm – 4:30 pm | PANEL I – Language: Acquisition and Loss
Moderator: Rui Gama (Director of the Faculty of Arts and Deputy Director of the Sino-Lusophone Academy of the University of Coimbra)
2:30 pm – Language development – Mónica Vasconcelos (HP – CHUC)
15:00 – Acquisition and learning of a non-mother language – Cristina Martins (FLUC)
Moderator: António Gomes Ferreira (Director of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra)
15:30 – Language and Cognitive Neuroscience – Jorge Almeida (FPCEUC)
16:00 – Language alterations – Isabel Santana (FMUC)
16:30 – Interval
16:45 – 17:45 | PANEL II – Brain, Emotion and Music
Moderator: Carlos Robalo Cordeiro (Director of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra)
16:45 – Emotional language – Manuel João Quartilho (FMUC)
17:15 – Musical language – Catarina Peixinho (Conservatory of Music of Coimbra)
17:45 – MUSICAL MOMENT by the “Ensemble of the Classical Orchestra of the Center”