Keynote Speakers

Each year at the annual meeting, a prominent researcher is invited to address the Academy. Here is a list of past speakers.

Year	Speaker	Institution	Meeting Location
2023	Prof. Sophie Scott	University College London (UCL)	Reading, UK, and Virtual (Hybrid)
2022	Dr. Dani S. Bassett	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia and Virtual (Hybrid)
2021	Dr. Salikoko S. Mufwene	University of Chicago	Virtual
2020	Elissa Newport	Georgetown University	Virtual
2019	Lyndsey Nickels	Macquarie University	Hong Kong
2018	Julie Fiez	University of Pittsburgh	Montreal
2017	Alex Martin	National Institute of Mental Health	Baltimore
2016	Marco Catani	King's College London	Llandudno
2015	Marta Kutas	University of California, San Diego	Tucson
2014	Isabelle Peretz	University of Montreal	Miami
2013	Stanislas Dehaene	Collge de France-Lucerne	Switzerland
2012	Gregory Hickok	University of California, Irvine	San Francisco
2011	Robert Zatorre	McGill University	Montreal
2010	Michael Petrides	McGill University	Athens
2009	Marc Hauser	Harvard University	Boston
2008	Riitta Salmelin	Helsinki Unversity of Technology	Turku
2007	Argye Hillis	Johns Hopkins	Washington, D.C.
2006	Kenneth Heilman	University of Florida	Victoria
2005	Pim Levelt	Max Planck Nijmegen	Amsterdam
2004	Alfonso Caramazza	Harvard University	Chicago
2003	Claus Wallesch	University of Magdeburg	Vienna
2002	Jean Berko Gleason	Boston University	New York
2001	Gary Van Hoesen	University Iowa	Boulder
2000	Leonard LaPointe	Florida State University	Montreal
1999	Giovanni Berlucchi	University of Verona	Venice
1998	Myrna Schwartz	Temple University	Santa Fe
1997	Liz Bates	UCSD	Philadelphia
1996	Edgar Zurif	Brandeis University	London
1995	Sheila Blumstein	Brown University	San Diego
1994	Ray Jackendoff	Brandeis University	Boston
1993	Ruth Lesser	London	Tuscon
1992	John Marshall	University of Cambridge	Toronto
1991	Klaus Poeck	Aachen University	Rome
1990	Harold Goodglass	Boston University	Baltimore
1989	AndrŽ Roch-Lecours	University of Montreal	Santa Fe
1988	Brenda Milner	McGill University	Montreal
1987	Jay McClelland	Carnegie Mellon University	Phoenix
1986	Antonio Damasio	University of Iowa
1985	Audrey Holland	University of Pittsburgh
1984	George Ojemann	University of Washington