2011 NIMH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program Annual Spring Retreat and Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Sixth Annual Symposium on Innovative Research

When:

Saturday, May 14, 2011
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Continental Breakfast served at 8:30 am
Registration closed.

Where:

University of California, San Diego
10100 John Jay Hopkins Drive San Diego Supercomputer Center (Auditorium- Room B211)
San Diego, CA 92093-0523

9:00 am Symposium: Human Cognition and Cognitive Disorders Chair: Terry Sejnowski

9:00 am	Leanne Chukoskie, Institute for Neural Computation and Autism Speaks “Advances in Autism Research”
9:30 am	Ursula Bellugi, Salk Institute “Advances in Willams Syndrome Research”
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Keynote Speaker: Robert Knight, University of California at Berkeley "Insights into Human Cognition from Intracranial Recording"
11:00 am	Break

(11:15 am - 12:00 pm) INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks Chair: Steve Hillyard
11:15 – 11:20 am	Anastasia Flevaris "Attentional modulation of early perceptual processing: Interactions between selection of spatial location and spatial frequency." (flash drive presentation- not attending).
11:20 - 11:25 am	Elan Ohayon "Simulation and synchrotron views into the fundamental elements of social networks"
11:25 - 11:30 am	David Peterson “Dopamine and STDP in dynamic perception-action maps”
11:30 - 11:35 am	Nedim Sahin "How might a large brain tackle large tasks? Clues from human intracranial electrophysiology (ICE) during language."
11:35 - 11:40 am	Marina Garrett “Functional Specialization of Higher Visual Areas in the Mouse”
11:40 - 11:45 am	James Jeanne "Behavioral relevance alters the neural encoding of natural auditory signals"
11:45 - 11:50 am	Adam Koerner "Speech as a control signal for brain-computer interfaces"
11:50 - 11:55 am	Nicole Swann “Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus alters the cortical profile of response inhibition in the beta frequency band: a scalp EEG study in Parkinson's disease”
12:00 pm	Lunch
(1:30 pm - 4:00 pm) Sixth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research "From Brains to Minds: Innovative Research Supported by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind" Chairs: Jeff Elman and Nick Spitzer
1:30 - 1:45 pm	Sergei Gepshtein, Salk Institute "Optimal sensory adaptation without prior representation of the environment"
1:45 - 2:00 pm	Katerina Semendeferi, Anthropology, UCSD; Alysson Muotri, Pediatrics, UCSD "Exploring human-chimpanzee neuronal differences using pluripotent stem cells"
2:00 - 2:15 pm	Ian Nauhaus, Salk Institute "Mapping populations of V1 receptive fields with two-photon imaging."
2:15 - 2:30 pm	Michael Pitts, Neurosciences, UCSD "Neural correlates of conscious and non-conscious visual processing"
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 - 3:00 pm	Stefan Leutgeb, Neurobiology Section, Biological Sciences, UCSD "Development and Reorganization of Medial Entorhinal Cortex-Hippocampus Projections”
3:00 - 3:15 pm	Larry R. Squire, Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology, UCSD and San Diego VA "Progress report: Post-mortem of two well-studied amnesic patients”
3:15 - 3:30 pm	Hendrikje Nienborg, Salk Institute “Optogenetic examination of the role of inhibition on visual responses in area V1 of the awake monkey”
3:30 - 3:45 pm	Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science, UCSD “Information Coding in the Dentate Gyrus”
4:00 pm	Closing Remarks