2023    The effects of poverty on language, cognition, and brain development. Speakers: Elizabeth Spelke, Kimberly Noble, Elika Bergelson

2022    Event representations in language, learning, and memory. Speakers: Lila Davachi, Gina Kuperberg, Anna Papafragou

2021    BUCLD-SLD Memorial for Lila Gleitman

2020    [none]

2019    Linguistic and Conceptual Representation under Extreme Input Conditions. Speakers: M. Bedny, R. Mayberry, S. Goldin-Meadow

2018    Understanding other minds. Speakers: A. Rosati, G. Gergely, J. deVilliers.

2017    Formal models of statistical inference. Speakers: C. Yang, V. Valian, R. Levy.

2016    Time in development. Speakers: B. Landau, E. Newport, T. Hensch

2015    The development of pragmatics. Speakers: E. Clark, J. Snedeker, D. Barner.

2014    The Representation of Number: Origins and Development. Speakers: E. Spelke, E. Brannon. J. Cantlon.

2013    Mechanisms of word learning. Speakers: John Trueswell, Luca Bonatti, Michael Frank

2012    Neuroplasticity and language. Speakers: Rebecca Saxe, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Ani Patel

2011    Connections between written and spoken language. Speakers: Rebecca Treiman, Charles Perfetti, Mark Seidenberg

2010    Cognition and Language. Speakers: Noam Chomsky, Randy Gallistel

2009    Infant Cognition and Implications for the Acquisition of Language. Speakers: Laura Schulz, Gergely Csibra, Renee Baillargeon

2008    Slow Mapping, Fast Mapping: Children’s Word Learning 30 Years After Carey & Bartlett (1978). Speakers: Susan Carey, Susan Gelman, Linda Smith

2007    Generalization in language learning. Speakers: Janet Pierrehumbert, Josh Tenenbaum, Steve Pinker

2006    Cynthia Fisher, Dedre Gentner, Adele Goldberg

2005    Marc Hauser, Timothy Gentner, Michael Tomasello

2004    Heidi Feldman, Pat Kuhl, Laura-Ann Petitto (inaugural symposium)