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Rome 1999
Wednesday, 29 April 2009 14:17

31st Annual General Meeting of the

European Brain and Behaviour Society

29 September-2 October 1999, ROME, Italy

PROGRAMME

Wednesday September 29

  •  12.00: Last plenary lecture of the SINS Meeting: L. Pizzamiglio - "Frames of reference in spatial processes"
  •  14.00: Welcome by the President and the Organiser
  •  14.30-15.15: Plenary lecture by V. Gallese - "Motor and cognitive functions of the premotor cortex" - Chairperson: Alan Cowey
  •  15.30-17.30: Symposia

"Primitives for the control of movement in space"

Organisers: F. Lacquaniti and R. Grasso

E. Bizzi, Cambridge MA USA: Modular organisation of the motor system: implications of motor control and motor learning

R. Grasso, Rome: Motor patterns for human gait

D.M. Wolpert, London: Modularity in human motor control

J.F. Soechting, M. Flanders & M. Santello, Minneapolis: Grasping straws and other virtual objects

J. Sanes, Rome: Are there primitives for motor representations in the human brain ?

 

Stress, glucocorticoids and memory

Organisers: M. Oitzl and C. Sandi

C.Sandi, Madrid: Neural mechanisms involved in glucocorticoid actions on learning and memory

P.V. Piazza, Bordeaux: Interactions between glucocorticoids and dopamine as a possible substrate of vulnerability to drugs

R. Sakai, Pittsburgh: Neuroendocrine and neurochemical system changes following social stress

F.Ohl, Munich & E. Fuchs, Goettingen: Temporal dynamic effects of stress on cognitive functions:  function and behavior

M. Oitzl, Leiden: Early life events, vulnerability to stress and cognitive decline

 

  • 17.30-18.45: Poster session I (Themes: Emotion and Stress, Posture and Movement, Learning and Memory:Pharmacology, Modelling)

Thursday September 30

  • 9.30-11-30: Symposa

Mental representations in the brain

Organiser: C. Frith

J. Perner, Vienna: Implicit knowledge in development

R. M. Ridley & H.F. Baker, Cambridge UK: Mental representation in monkeys

C. Frith, London: Mental representation in the brain

A. Cleeremans, Brussels: Mental, neural and computational correlates of representation: how classical theories of mind leave no room for implicit cognition

 

Ecology, Brain and Behaviour

Organiser: H.P. Lipp

E. Alleva, Rome: Agonist encounters in mice housed in seminatural and laboratory conditions: reflections on measuring social relationships in mammals

L. Ricceri & G. Dell'Omo, Rome: Can mice learn a radial maze in seminatural conditions ?

H.-P. Lipp, Zurich: Micro- and macroevolution of the infrapyramidal mossy fiber projection in mice and small mammals

M.G. Pleskacheva, Moscow & H.P. Lipp, Zurich: Comparing hippocampus-dependent learning behavior across many species: A giant outdoor radial maze for comparative studies in birds and mammals

 

  • 12.00-12.45: - Plenary lecture by L. Ungerleider - "Mechanisms of visual attention in human cortex" - Chairperson: C.A. Marzi

Sponsored by Behavioural Brain Research, an Elsevier Scientific Journal

 

  • 14.00-16.00:  Symposia

Current issues in animal learning theory

Organiser: A. Dickinson

A. Dickinson, Cambridge UK: Animal learning theory for the new millenium

P. Holland, Durham USA: Conditioning and attention

J. Pearce, Cardiff: Evaluation of elemental and configural theories

M. Bouton & R. Frohardt, Burlington: Behavioral and brain dissociations of two effects of context following extinction

N.S. Clayton & D.P. Griffiths, Davis & A. Dickinson, Cambridge UK: What animals remember about past events: an ethological approach

From Sensation to Perception: Extra-retinal influences in parietal cortex

Organiser: U. Ilg

S. Treue, J.C. Martinez-Trujillo, D. Patzwhal & H.J. Rauber, Tuebingen: Attentional influences on visual motion processing

U.Ilg, Tuebingen: Representation of gaze-velocity in the activity of neurons in primate area MST

F. Bremmer, Bochum: Non-retinocentric representation of visual information in monkey posterior parietal cortex.

A. Grunewald, Pasadena: The nature of auditory responses in macaque lateral intraparietal area

M. Husain, London: Attention and motor control in the neglect syndrome

 

  • 16.30-17-15: Plenary lecture by E.B. Keverne - "Genomic imprinting, brain evolution and behaviour" - Chairperson: M. Ammassari-Teule
  • 17.15-18-45: Poster session II (Themes: Learning and Memory, Learning and Memory: Avians, Learning and Memory: Genetics, Time and Space)

Friday October 1

  • 9.30-11-30:  Symposa

Correlates of visual motion processing : ERP and brain imaging studies

Organiser: M. Niedeggen

M. Niedeggen Duesseldorf: ERP correlates of motion coherence and transparency

M. Bach, D. Ullrich, T. Dorn, A. Unsold & M. Hoffmann, Freiburg: : "ERPs and the mechanisms of motion adaptation

A. Cowey & L. Vaina, Oxford, UK: "Selective disorders of different kinds of visual motion perception"

A.T. Smith, K.D. Singh & M.E. Grenlee, London, UK: fMRI studies of motion processing in human

occipital cortex"

 

Retrieval and reactivation of the memory trace

Organiser: C. Bucherelli

J. Bures, Prague: Interhemispheric transfer demonstrates reactivation of spatial memory traces during retrieval od lateralized engrams

D. Perani, Milan: The anatomo-functional mapping of memory systems

S.J. Sara, P. Roullet & J. Pryzbyslawski, Paris: Reconsolidation of memory after its retrieval

C. Bucherelli, Firenze: Consolidation and retrieval in the rat: how these phases can be influenced

Coffee break

  • 12.00-12.45Plenary lecture by J. Tanji, Sendai - "Temporal organisation of multiple movements: participation of medial motor areas " - Chairperson: B.E. Everitt
  • 14.00-16.00: Symposia

Behavioural disinhibition and its relation to affective disorders

Organiser: A. Roberts

A. Bechara, Iowa City: Neural mechanisms underlying the behavior of patients with ventro medial prefrontal cortex

A. Roberts, Cambridge UK: Prefrontal cortex contribution to inhibitory control and affective behaviour: studies in marmosets

J. Evenden, Sodertaljie: Serotonin, dopamine and impulsive decision-making

J.D. Jentsch, New Haven: The neurochemestry of the prefrontal cortex, amaygdala, and ventral striatum in the modulation of affective responses

 

Perceptual and motor imagery

Organiser: V. Hoemberg

D. Sagi, Rehovot: Common mechanisms of visual imagery and perception

R. Seitz, Duesseldorf: Functional anatomy and motor imagery

A. Pascual-Leone, Boston: no title

V. Hoemberg, Duesseldorf: Improvement of motor performance by imagery

 

  • 16.30-17-15: Plenary lecture by M. Mishkin, Bethesda - "Anatomy and Pharmacology of memory and habits" - Chairperson: D. Gaffan
  • 17.15-18.45: Poster session III (Themes: Disease and Pathology, Functional Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology, Attention and Perception)

 

Saturday October 2

  • 9.30-11-30: Symposia

Memory and amnesia in man and animals

Organiser: D. Gaffan

D. Gaffan, Oxford: A cholinergic explanation of medial temporal amnesia

J. Aggleton, Cardiff: Mapping convergent systems in the rat brain held to identify pathways for memory

L. Chelazzi, Verona: Neural Mechanisms for top-down selection of high level visual representations: A common architecture for attention and memory retrieval ?

B. Murray, Bethesda: Role of perirhinal cortex in object information processing and object identification

 

Cerebellar plasticity during development and at adult age:

structural and behavioral effects

Organiser: P. Strata and A. Gramsbergen

F. Rossi, Turin: Regenerative activity and plasticity in the olivocerebellar system

J. Mariani & L. Rondi Reig, Paris: Role of the olivary complex in motor skills and motor learning in adult rats

A. Gramsbergen, J. Ijkema-Paassen, H. Bornmann, D. Kalichara, and J.J.L. van der Want, Groeningen: The effects of olivary destruction at early and later ages on the development of postural control during locomotion in rats

P. Strata, L. Morando and R. Rassetti, Turin: Electrical activity maintains innervation in the cerebellar cortex

 

  • 12.00-12.45Plenary lecture by B. Milner - "Functional imaging of language: data from normal volonteers and presurgical patients " - Chairperson: C. Thinus-Blanc

 

  • 14.00-16.00: Symposia

Brain Mechanisms of recognition memory

Organiser: J.J. Bolhuis

G. Horn, Cambridge UK: Properties of neurons in a visual recognition memory system E.B. Keverne & P.A. Brennan, Cambridge UK: Olfactory recognition: a simple memory system

M.W. Brown, Bristol: Recognition memory: neuronal substrates for the judgement of prior occurrence

R.J. Dolan, London: Imaging the human brain in recognition memory tasks

 

What genetically-defined animals can teach us about

what is being learned in common laboratory tasks

Organiser: W.E. Crusio

M. Ammassari-Teule & E. Passino, Rome: Genotype x environment interactions in brain area functionality and learning performance in hippocampal-mediated tasks

W. E. Crusio, Orléans: Multivariate genetic analysis of hippocampal regulation of shuttle box performance in mice

D.P. Wolfer & H.P. Lipp, Zurich: Dissecting cognitive and alternative behavioral strategies in the Morris maze: a factor analysis of 2000 inbred, transgenic and knockout mice

F.J. van der Staay, Cologne: Profound differences in learning between genetically defined strains of rats and mice: Implications for psychobiological research

 

  • 16.30-17-15: Plenary lecture by S.P.P. Rose - "Paradoxes of time and space in long-term memory formation" - Chairperson: Susan Sara

Sunday October 3

Final Worshop of a Human Frontier Science Program Network

"Sensorimotor transformations in the brain"

Organisers: R. Caminiti, F. Lacquaniti

  • 9.30-10.00: Kawato M. (ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto) "Multiple paired forward and inverse models of hierarchical sensory motor coordination"
  • 10.00-10.30: Nakano E., R. Flanagan, H. Imamizu, R. Osu, T. Yoshioka, and M. Kawato (ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories, Kyoto) "Composition and decomposition of multiple internal models: Behavioral studies using kinematic and dynamic transformations"
  • 10.30-11.00: Soechting,J.F., and K.C. Engel (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) "Eye and hand tracking in two dimensions"
  • 11.15-11.45: Flanders M. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) "Dynamic optimization in the control of arm movement"
  • 11.45-12.15: Lacquaniti F., J. McIntyre, and F. Stratta (IRCCS S.Lucia and University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome) "Short-term spatial memory for arm movement"
  • 12.15-12.45 Sanes J., F. Stratta , M. Demartin, and F. Lacquaniti, (IRCCS S.Lucia, Rome) "Spatial encoding of arm movements: Neuroimaging studies"
  • 15.00-15.30: Battaglia Mayer A. (University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome) "Early coding of reaching in the parieto-occipital cortex"
  • 15.30-16.00: Caminiti R. (University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome) Recursive networks for composition of motor commands"
  • 16.15-16.45: Johnson M.T.V., J.D. Coltz and T. Ebner (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) "Comparison of speed/velocity encoding in the motor and cerebellar cortices"
  • 16.45-17.15: Gomez J.E., C. Mason, and T. Ebner (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) "Neural control of grasp: motor cortical and cerebellar contributions"
  • 17.17-17.45: Chen, G., C.L. Hanson, R.L. Dunbar, and T. Ebner (University of Minnesota, Minenapolis) "Optically imaging the functional architecture of the cerebellar cortex"