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EBBS Meeting of theEuropean Brain and Behaviour Society 35th Annual General Meeting, 17 - 20 September 2003, Barcelona, Spain
The meeting will include 6 plenary lectures, 14 symposia, 1 poster session
(update August 26, 2003) For full program and latest updates - always see the WEB-site of the meeting
Wednesday September 17
Joaquim Fuster - The prefrontal cortex and the temporal organization of action
Behavioral phenotyping in the home cage: Opportunities and pitfalls Organized by Frauke Ohl, Germany and Berry Spruijt, The Netherlands Chair: F. Ohl M. Kas and B.M. Spruijt, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Continuous automated observations of mice behavior in an enriched home cage H. Wuerbel, Goettingen, Germany: Environmental background: Implications for behavioural phenotyping C. Belzung, Tours, France: Epigenetic factors influencing behavioural traits in rodents J. Rodgers, Leeds, U.K.: Behavioural phenotypes of common progenitor strains: Implications for knockout research
Human anterior prefrontal contributions to cognitive control Organized and chaired by Stefan Pollmann, Germany K. Christoff, Cambridge, UK: Introspectively oriented thought processes and the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex E. Koechlin, Paris, France: Functional organization of the prefrontal cortex in human planning Y. Nagahama, Shiga, Japan: Dissociable mechanisms of attentional control of the set shifting behavior within the human prefrontal cortex S. Pollmann, Leipzig, Germany: Distinct frontopolar and anterior frontomedian contributions of visual attention
Thursday September 18
Howard Eichenbaum – The hippocampus and declarative memory: cognitive mechanisms and neural representation.
Basal ganglia and cognition Organized and chaired by Claudio Da Cunha, Brazil N. White, Canada: Multiple memory systems T. W. Robbins, Cambridge, UK: Basal ganglia and cognition M. Packard, USA: The striatal memory system C. Da Cunha, Parana, Brazil: The substantia nigra pars compacta as an essential component of the striatal memory system
Goals in Action Organized by Wolfgang Prinz and Birgit Elsner, Germany F. Waszak, Paris, France: Comparing stimulus-triggered reactions and goal-directed actions in behavioral and EEG studies B. Elsner, Heidelberg, Germany: How action effects are converted into action goals: Evidence from behavioral, PET and fMRI studies M. Brass, Leipzig, Germany: Why don't we imitate all the time? Neuropsychological and neuroimaging data on the inhibition of imitative responses M. Jeannerod, Bron, France: Recognition of one's own actions in normal subjects and schizophrenic patients
Michaela Gallagher – Amygdala-dependent memory encoding in cortex (Behavioural Brain Research Lecture)
Pheromones – from genes to behaviour Organized and chaired by E. Barry Keverne, U.K. K. Kendrick, Babraham, UK: Metabotropic receptors and olfactory recognition memory T. Insel and L. Yound, Emory, USA: Oxytocin and social recognition P. Brennan, Cambridge, UK: Vomeronasal mechanisms underlying mate recognition in mice. P. Mombaerts, New York, USA: Deficient pheromone responses in mice lacking a cluster of VNO receptors C. Dulac, Boston, USA: Sex discrimination in mice deficient for the VNO TRP2 gene
Anatomical correlates of conscious perception Organized by Hans-Otto Karnath, Germany Chaired by Beatrice De Gelder, The Netherlands V. Lamme, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The role of recurrent processing in visual awareness S. Clavagnier, Lyon, France: Multimodal connectivity as the neural basis of conscious perception? H.-O. Karnath, Tübingen, Germany: Anatomo-functional models of unawareness: spatial neglect and extinction G. Rees, London, U.K.: Functional imaging of conscious versus unconscious processing of visual information
Advances in understanding hippocampal contributions to memory formation Organized by Mike Stewart and Gernot Riedel, U.K. Chaired by Carmen Sandi, Spain A. Marighetto, Bordeaux, France: Temporary hippocampal inactivation dissociates two forms of memory processes in a radial-maze discrimination task in mice R.P. Kesner, Utah, USA: Subregional analysis of hippocampal mediation of pattern separation, pattern association, and pattern completion in the rat G. Riedel, Aberdeen, UK: The role of mossy fiber CA3 projection in spatial learning in mice M. Stewart, ilton Keynes, UK:Morphological correlates of learning in mammalian hippocampus
Cross-modal oganization and pasticity of brain and behaviour in the blind Organized and chaired by Josef P. Rauschecker, USA A. J. King, Oxford, UK: Cross-modal interactions and reorganization in animals T. Kujala, Helsinki, Finland: Cross-modal Interactions and reorganization in humans B. Roeder, Marburg, Germany: Cross-modal plasticity of spatial functions in the blind A. Pascual-Leone, Boston, USA: The role of visual cortex in tactile processing: A metamodal brain?
Friday September 19
Coding in the brain: Integrative hypotheses revisited Organized by Andrzej Wróbel, Poland and Reinhard Eckhorn, Germany Chaired by Susan Sara, France A. Wróbel, Warsaw, Poland: Beta activity: a carrier for visual attention R. Eckhorn, Marburg, Germany: Visual integration: cortical mechanisms cooperate at multiple time scales - dependent on stimulation and perception A. Arieli, Rehovot, Israel: Organization and function of cortical cell assemblies: the role of on-going and evoked cortical dynamics in sensory processing A. Aertsen, Freiburg, Germany: Neural dynamics in cortical networks: precision and variability
Early life experiences and their effects on the ability to cope with stress Organized by Fotini Stylianopoulou, Greece and Gal Richter-Levin, Israel Chaired by Robert Adamec, Canada J. Feldon, Zurich, Switzerland: Early life stressors and their effects in adulthood as a function of strain and sex differences F. Stylianopoulou, Athens, Greece: Molecular mechanisms mediating the sex differences in the effects of early experiences on stress vulnerability D. Diamond, Tampa, U.S.A.: An animal model of intrusive emotional memories G. Richter-Levin, Haifa, Isreael: An animal model of early-life traumatic experience effects on coping with stress in adulthood
Lawrence Weiskrantz – After, after-images
Saturday September 20 9:30 – 11:30 SYMPOSIA Midbrain dopamine neurons: Functions and regulation Organized and chaired by Philip Winn, U.)K. W. Schultz, Cambridge, UK: Dopamine activity and learning rules H.L. Alderson, St Andrews, UK: Cholinergic inputs to midbrain dopamine neurons and reinforcement C.D. Blaha, Sydney, Australia: Synaptic plasticity in substantia nigra and forebrain dopamine release P. Redgrave, Sheffield, UK: The tectonigral projection: A source of short latency sensory input to midbrain dopamine neurons
Genes, brain and behaviour Organized and chaired by Pierre L. Roubertoux , France J. Flint, Oxford, UK: Genetic effects on human cognition: Lessons from the study of mental retardation syndromes P.L. Roubertoux, Marseille, France: Genes, brain and behavior: the meaning of the links M. Dierssen, Barcelona, Spain: Neuro-behavioral disorders in Down Syndrome. A. Robichon, France : Genetic analysis of associative performances in Drosophila and bees.
Elisabeth Murray – What, if anything, is the medial temporal lobe ?
Cerebellum: Cognition and emotion Organized and chaired by Piergiorgio Strata, Italy R.F. Thompson, Los Angeles, USA: Historical perspective of cerebellar functions B. Sacchetti, Turin, Italy: Neural circuits of fear memories M. Molinari, Rome, Italy: Cognitive and emotional processes in human D. Timmann-Braun, Essen, Germany: Cognitive learning in cerebellar subjects
Widespread cortical contributions to visual attention Organized and chaired by Pieter R. Roelfsema, The Netherlands. P. R. Roelfsema, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Attentive contour grouping revealed by activity in the primary visual cortex S. Treue, Goettingen, Germany: Attentional modulation of motion processing L. Chelazzi, Verona, Italy: Selective attention to the component features of multidimensional visual objects: The role of primate Area V4 K.G. Thompson, Bethesda, USA: Visual attention in frontal cortex
17:30 – 18:30 Plenary lecture Jacques Paillard – Metric versus configurational framing of space
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