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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 Closure of
the meeting
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