2013 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat And 8th Annual KIBM Symposium On Innovative Research

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

8:00 am	Welcome Continental Breakfast
Symposium: Genetic Basis of Mental Disorders Chair: Steve Hillyard
8:30 am	John Kelsoe Department of Psychiatry, UCSD “Genetics of Bipolar Disorder”
9:00 am	Dheeraj Malhotra Department of Psychiatry, UCSD "Genetics of Schizophrenia"
9:30 am	Eric Courchesne Department of Neuroscience, UCSD “Genetics of Autism”
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Keynote Speaker: Julie R. Korenberg, PhD, MD Director Center for Integrated Neuroscience and Human Behavior University of Utah "Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome: Prototypes for Human Systems Neuroscience"
11:00 am	Break

INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks (5-minute presentations) Chair: Terry Sejnowski

11:15 am	Ben Amsel "From Microvolts to Meaning"
11:20 am	Edward Ester "Measuring and evaluating stimulus likelihood from human cortical responses"
11:25 am	Jena Hales "Medial Entorhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Spatial Memory Acquisition in Rats"
11:30 am	Lavanya Krishnan "Functional Significance of Early Multi-sensory Responses in Modality-specific Cortex : An Electrophysiological Study"
11:35 am	Adam Calhoun “A Circuit for Spatial Learning"
11:40 am	Emily Caporello “Neural Correlates of Auditory Attention in the Songbird"
11:45 am	Naja Ferjan Ramirez "Neural Processing of Language in the Absence of Auditory Input: Evidence from American Sign Language" (PowerPoint)
11:50 am	Emilie Reas "A BOLD Medial Temporal Lobe Code for Spatio-temporal Memory" (Video of slide presentation)
11:55 am	Maya Sapiurka "Path Integration and the Medial Temporal Lobe"
12:00 pm	Lunch

Eighth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research Chair: Nick Spitzer (1:30pm – 4:15pm)
1:30 pm	Edwin Hutchins & Christine Johnson “Dolphin Social Attention in a Fission/Fusion Ecology”
1:45 pm	Eunho Noh “Using Single Trial EEG to Predict Subsequent Memory”
2:00 pm	Jan R. Wessel “Remembering to Control Yourself: Parsing Brain Networks for Self-Control”
2:15 pm	Davide Dulcis “Effect of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Dopamine Expression and Addiction”
2:30 pm	Andrew Schork “Pediatric Neural Architecture of Polygenic Risk for Dyslexia”
2:45 pm	Afternoon Break
3:15 pm	Thomas Urbach “I See What You’re Saying: Multisensory Training for Speech-in-Noise Comprehension”
3:30 pm	Jude F. Mitchell “Developing Marmosets as a Model for Visual Neuroscience and Optogenetics Research”
3:45 pm	Luke Miller “Plasticity of Body Representations Following Tool Use”
4:00 pm	Rachel I. Mayberry “Neurolinguistic Processing After a Childhood of Sparse Language Exposure”
4:15 pm	Ralph Greenspan and Terry Sejnowski "The BRAIN Initiative: Genesis and Prospects"