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EBBS 2005
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update September 21, 2005 |
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SATURDAY Sept 24
13.00 - 15.30 Registration
15.30 - 16.00 Opening Ceremony |
16.00 - 17.00 Plenary Lecture 1: Patricia Churchland-Smith A neurobiological approach to self-control
Univ of California – San Diego, USA |
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17:00 - 19:00 |
1. Contrasting and complementary in vivo and in vitro approaches to subicular function
Organiser: Shane O'Mara (Trinity College, Ireland)
N. Spruston (University of Chicago, USA) Action potential bursting, resting and active properties of pyramidal neurons in subiculum and CA1 of rat hippocampus.
L. Menendez de la Prida (University of Madrid, Spain) Electrophysiological and morphological diversity of neurons from the rat subiculum in vitro: Synaptic Contributions to Focal and Widespread Spatiotemporal Dynamics in the Rat Subiculum
S. Deadwyler (Winston-Salem, USA) Differential but complementary mnemonic functions of the hippocampus and subiculum
S. O'Mara (Trinity College, Ireland) The subiculum: what it does, what it might do, and what we need to know |
2. Visual cortical plasticity: from environment to molecules
Organizer/Chair: Lamberto Maffei (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)
M. Bear (HHMI, MIT, Cambridge, USA). Molecular mechanisms of ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex
M. Sur (PCLM, MIT, Cambridge, USA) Dendritic spine motility in the visual
cortex: role of experience
A Sale (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) Enriched environment effects on visual system development and plasticity
N. Berardi (Psychology Dept. Florence, Inst. Neuroscience CNR, Pisa, Italy) Factors controlling adult visual cortical plasticity
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SUNDAY Sept 25
08.15 - 08.45
Set-Up Scientific Posters for Theme 1 & 2
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09.00 - 10.00 Plenary Lecture 2: Jim McGaugh Consolidating lasting memories: Involvement of emotional arousal
Univ of California - Irvine, USA
Elsevier Behavioural Brain Research Lecture
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10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Break + Viewing Posters Theme 1
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10:30 - 12:30 |
3. Control of behaviour by expected reward
Organiser: Wolfgang Hauber (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Chair: Eric M Bowman (University of St Andrews, UK)
S. Nicola (University of California San Fransisco, USA) Dopamine-dependent stimulus evaluation by nucleus accumbens neurons
G. Schoenbaum (University of Maryland, USA) From associations to expectancies: processing in the orbitofrontal-amygdalar system
P. DiCiano (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) Multiple mechanisms of associative control over drug seeking: a behavioural and neuroanatomical analysis
W. Hauber (University of Stuttgart, Germany) Role of prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum in guidance of instrumental behaviour by expected reward |
4. Mechanisms underlying cortical processing of emotional facial expressions
Organizer: Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy); Chair: Leonardo Chelazzi (University of Verona, Italy)
R. Dolan (University College London, UK) Cortical and subcortical pathways for processing facial expressions
A. Treves (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Attractors as the cortical contribution to memory computations
K. Gothard (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA) Convergence of differentially processed inputs in the primate amygdala
B. Jagadeesh (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Categorical processing of continuous dimensions in inferotemporal cortex
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12.30 - 13.30 Plenary Lecture 3: Gabriel Horn In search of memory's trace: the case of visual imprinting
University of Cambridge, UK |
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14:30 - 16:30
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5. Brain Opioids and Feeding
Organizer: Eugene O’Hare; Chair: John P. Cleary
C.M. Kotz (University of Minnesota, USA) Orexin A Integration of Feeding, Wakefulness and Activity: Implications for Energy Balance.
E-M. Kim (University of Ulster, UK) Recent Findings on Brain Opioid-Opioid Pathways
E. O’Hare (University of Ulster, UK) Behavioural Studies on Opioid Involvement in Feeding
A.S. Levine (University of Minnesota, USA) The Role of Opioids in Energy- and Reward-Induced Feeding
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6. Functions of the thalamic reticular nucleus
Organizer: Tom E Salt ( University College London, UK); Chair: Verity J Brown (University of St Andrews, UK)
J. W. Crabtree (University of Bristol, U.K). Anatomical and electrophysiological investigations of the connections of the thalamic reticular nucleus with thalamic relay nuclei.
K. McAlonan (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA) Response properties of the thalamic reticular nucleus neurons in macaques during performance of a behavioural task.
D. Ulrich (University of Bern, Switzerland) Electrophysiological characterization of synaptic connections of neurons of the thalamic reticular nucleus.
T.E. Salt (University College London, U.K.) Metabotropic glutamate receptors and the control of the TRN input to thalamocortical neurones in vitro and in vivo. |
| 16.30 - 17.30 Viewing Posters Theme 2 |
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MONDAY Sept 26
08.15 - 08.45
Set-Up Scientific Posters for Theme 3 & 4
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09.00 - 10.00 Plenary Lecture 4: Bruce McNaughton Hippocampal place units in the freely moving rat: Why they fire where they fire - Revisited,
University of Arizona, USA
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10.00 - 10.30
Coffee Break + Viewing Posters Theme 3
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10:30 - 12:30 |
7. Learning, memory and cortical plasticity
Organizer/Chairs: Malgorzata Kossut / Matthew Diamond
M. Diamond (SISSA, Trieste, Italy) Coding and memory of touch
H. Flor (University of Heidelberg, Germany) Memory of pain
M. Kossut (Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland) Inhibition in learning –induced cortical plasticity
J.-M. Edeline (Universite Paris Sud, Paris, France) Noradrenaline and cortical plasticity
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8. The frontal eye fields in visual analysis and eye movements
Organiser/Chair: Vincent Walsh ( University College London, UK)
A. Cowey (University of Oxford, UK) The discovery and rediscovery of the frontal eye fields.
N. Muggleton (University College London, UK). The human frontal eye fields in attention and eye movements.
C.-H. Juan (University of Taipei, Taiwan) On the Distinction between visual selection and saccade preparation in the Frontal Eye Fields of monkeys
T. Paus (University of Nottingham UK and Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada) The human frontal eye fields and visual perception. |
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12.30 - 13.30 Plenary Lecture 5: Giacomo Rizzolati Mirror neuron system and its implications for cognitive functions
Parma University, Italy |
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14:30 - 16:30
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9. A comparative approach to the neurobehavioral assessment of the development of learning
Organizer: Regina Sullivan ( University of Oklahoma, USA)
K. Braun, PhD (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany) Early emotional learning
R. M. Sullivan, Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma, USA) Neurobiology of Infant Attachment: Unique role of the Locus Coeruleus and Amygdala supporting learning
R. Nowak (Ph.D) (Université de Tours, France) Development of filial attachment in sheep: from behaviour to brain
B. Schaal (Université de Bourgogne Inra, France) A pheromone that enforces learning in the newborn rabbit
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10. The neurobiology of sensory decision making.
Organizer/ Chair : Stuart Smith (University of Dublin, Ireland)
J. Gold (University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, USA), How experience shapes the neural mechanisms that form decisions about sensory stimuli
C. Acuña (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Neural correlates of decision making in monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
M. Platt (Duke University, USA). Economics in the primate brain
L. Sugrue (Stanford University, USA) Choosing the greater of two goods: neural correlates of value based decision making |
16.30 - 17.30 Viewing Posters Theme 4
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| Evening Conference Dinner - Trinity College's 'Irish Night' |
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TUESDAY Sept 27
08.15 - 08.45
Set-Up Scientific Posters Theme 5 & 6
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09.00 - 10.00 Plenary Lecture 6: Leah Krubitzer How does evolution build a complex brain
University of California - Davis, USA |
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee Break +
Viewing Posters Theme 5
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11. Econometric and probabilistic models of learning in the primate brain
Organizer: James Ashe, (University of Minnesota, USA)
A. Rustichini (University of Minnesota, USA) Is the Brain a Bayesian Machine
D. Wolpert (University College London, UK) Probabilistic Models in Sensorimotor Learning
J. Ashe (University of Minnesota, USA) Neural Control of Probabilistic Motor Learning
J. O’ Doherty (Caltech, USA) Value dependent learning in the human
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12. Using the Performing Arts to Study the Brain
Organizer: Lauren Stewart (University College London, UK); Chair: Hans-Joachim Freund (University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
L. Jäncke (University Zurich, Switzerland) Musicians as a Model for Early and Ongoing Neuroplasticity
L. Stewart (University College London, UK) Tuning the Musical Brain
P. Haggard (University College London, UK) Seeing and Doing: Sensorimotor Simulation and Neuroaesthetics
R. McCarthy (University of Cambridge, UK) Choreography and Cognition
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13:30 - 15:30
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13. The cannabinoid system in brain reward and addiction
Organizer / Chairs: Areles Molleman and Ruediger Hasenoehrl* (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
S. Goldberg (National Institute for Drug Abuse, NIH, USA) Involvement of the brain cannabinoid system in the rewarding effects of addictive drugs.
G. di Chiara (University of Cagliari, Italy) Neuromodulatory substrates of drug and food reward: the role of dopamine-opioid-endocannabinoid interactions.
V. di Marzo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pozzuoli, Italy) Endocannabinoid signalling: a common target for high fat diets and substances of abuse?
G. Nomikos (Eli Lilly Co., USA) Cortical CB1 receptor antagonism regulates reward mechanisms. |
14. Attentional Capture
Organizer: Monika Harvey ( University of Glasgow, UK); Chair: Iain Gilchrist (University of Bristol, UK)
J. Theeuwes (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands). Attentional and oculomotor capture.
M. Harvey* and Stephen Butler (University of Glasgow, UK) Parietal lobe contributions to stimulus and goal driven search, evidence from brain-lesioned populations.
C. Ludwig* and Iain Gilchrist (University of Bristol, UK.) Functional underpinnings of capture by salient items in visual search.
S. Everling (The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario). Look away: Neural correlates for suppression of the visual grasp reflex in the anti-saccade task |
| 16.00 - 17.00 Viewing Posters Theme 6 |
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17.00 - 17.30 Closing Ceremony
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