Thank you for participating in our 2007 Spring retreat. We hope to see you again next year!!


San Diego Cognitive Neuroscience Community

2007 Annual Spring Retreat for Cognitive Neuroscience
in San Diego
 

Sat. June 2nd, 2007 (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM)

SALK INSTITUTE (Trustees Room)
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037 Tel: (858) 453-4100 ext. 1226
Directions

9:00 AM
  • SYMPOSIUM: "Learning and Memory: From Mechanisms and Molecules to Mind"

    • 9:00 AM
      Dan Feldman, (Biology)
      "Spike timing and plasticity in rat somatosensory cortex"

    • 9:30 AM
      Mark Mayford, (Scripps)
      "Genetic Tagging of Activated Neuronal Circuits"
    • 10:00 AM
      John Wixted, (Psychology)
      "Memory Strength in the Medial Temporal Lobe"

10:30 AM
Break
  • KEYNOTE:

    • 10:45 AM
      Thomas Carew, UC Irvine
      "Tracking The Flow Of Molecular Processing During Memory Formation"

11:45 AM (5 minutes)

  • BLITZ TALKS:
    • Ying Wu; "Iconic Gestures and Language Comprehension"
    • Brock Kirwan; “Item and Source Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe”

    • Micah Richert; “Excitation and Suppression in Area MT Receptive Fields as Revealed by Reverse Correlation”

    • Elizabeth Redcay; “Functional Brain Development in Typical and Autistic Toddlers”
    • Jonathan Nelson; “The Value of Information in the Mind and Brain”

    • Jonathan Nassi; “Contributions of Early Parallel Visual Pathways to Primate Extrastriate Cortex” [dvd presentation]

    • Kristy Sundberg; “Attentional Modulation in V4: Suppressing Irrelevant Items”

    • Eileen Cardillo; “Selective Attention to Speech Under Load” [dvd presentation]
12:30 PM
Lunch / POSTER SESSION
(Dimensions: 48" X 48")
  • LUNCH:
    • Bit of Italy Buffet, Chicken Parmesan, Vegetable Lasagna, Italian Vegetable Sauté, Mixed Greens, Garlic Bread and Bread Sticks, Fresh Fruit tray, Cheesecake and Moussecake
  • POSTER SESSION:
    • Jennifer Aron
      "Mechanoreceptive C-fiber stimulation activates interoceptive brain areas"
    • Cheryl Boudreau
      "Are Two Cues Better Than One? Assessing Whether Multiple Cues Improve
      Citizens' Decisions"
    • Cheryl Boudreau, Seana Coulson, Mathew D. McCubbins
      "When Do Citizens Trust Others? Combining Behavioral Responses and Brain
      Data"
    • David Brang
      "Contextual Priming in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study"
    • Jennifer Collins
      Spatial Language in Preschool-Aged Children with Early Focal Brain Injury
    • Steve Deiss
      "An Alternative to the Retina-LGN-V1-What/Where-"And Then a Miracle Happens" Pathway"
    • Heather Flowe
      "The Effects of Decision Bias on Simultaneous Lineup Identifications"
    • Vivian Iaramitaro
      "Crossmodal attention can alter responses in early visual cortex, with perceptual correlates best linked to V1"
    • Claudia Lainscsek
      "Temporal Dynamics of Movement in Parkinson's Disease."
    • Matthew McCubbins, Cheryl Boudreau
      “The Blind Leading the Blind: Who Gets Polling Information and Does it Improve Decision Making?”
    • Alan Robinson
      "FLODOG: A filtering model of brightness perception"
    • Darren Schreiber
      “Evaluating Political Questions: Evidence from Functional Brain Imaging”
    • Christine Smith
      "The neuroanatomy of recent and remote semantic memory: evidence from memory-impaired patients and neuroimaging"
    • Soren Solari
      The Anatomical Basis of Cognition and Confabulation Theory
    • Ursina Teuscher
      "Time-Space Synesthesia: An event-related brain potential (ERP) study"
    • Vladislav Volman
      "Autocatalytic neuronal network reverberations as a template for short-term memory - rescue by synaptic "noise""

1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
  • The Second Annual Symposium for the KIBM Innovative Research Program:
  • “From Brains to Minds: Innovative Research Supported by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind”

    • 1:30-1:45 pm
      Katerina Semendeferi, Anthropology, UCSD
      Eric Courchesne, Lisa Stefanicci
      “Neural substrates of socio-emotional processing: from evolution and development to pathology”

    • 1:45-2:00 pm      
      Lauren Cornew, MS, Developmental Cognitive and Social Neuroscience Lab, UCSD
      Leslie Carver, Karen Dobkins, Aubyn Stahmer
      “Social referencing in response to televised presentations of emotional information in children with autism”

    • 2:00-2:15 pm
      Matthew D. McCubbins, Political Science, UCSD
      Seana Coulson, Darren Schreiber
      “When Does Deliberating Improve Decision making?”

    • 2:15-2:30 pm
      Ralph Greenspan, The Neurosciences Institute
      “Does Sleep Require a Brain?

Afternoon Break
2:30-2:45 pm

    • 2:45-3:00 pm
      Pamela Reinagel, Neurobiology, UCSD
      “Is thalamus the gateway of sensory awareness?"

    • 3:00-3:15 pm
      Gedeon Deak, Cognitive Science, UCSD, Anna E. Holt, Cognitive Science, UCSD
      Nicholas J. Cepeda, Rita Ceponiene,  Anna E. Holt, Alan Lincoln, P. Jeanne Townsend
      “Developing adaptive minds: Neural and behavioral dynamics of cognitive flexibility in childhood”

    • 3:15-3:30 pm
      Seana Coulson, Center For Research in Language/Cognitive Science, UCSD
      Nina Dronkers, Suzanne Moineau
      “Lesion-symptom mapping and pragmatic language comprehension”

    • 3:30-3:45 pm
      Frank Haist, Psychiatry, UCSD
      Joan Stiles, Kang Lee
      “The cross-race effect: Testing the configural processing superiority hypothesis”

    • 3:45-4:00 pm
      Rita Ceponiene, Project in Neural and Cognitive Development, Center for Research in Language, UCSD
      Prof. Emeritus R. Galambos, Angela Ballantyne, Jeanne Townsend, Beverly Wulfeck
      “The first developmental findings on Retinal Functional Unit model”


Closing Address
4:15 pm
Terry Sejnowski


This retreat is sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program of
the Institute for Neural Computation, The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, The SALK INSTITUTE and follows in the tradition of the retreats sponsored by the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
If you plan to attend, please submit the registration form no
later than May 28, 2007 in order to reserve lunch and a slot in the
morning session.

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