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PROGRAM. Days and times are preliminary and therefore definitely subject to change. Prior year programs (2007, 2006, 2005) can be viewed here.
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2009 Program
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Day 1 ~ Wednesday November 18, 2009
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8:45-9:00AM
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Welcoming Remarks
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9:00-10:30AM
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Keynote: Oscillations and boundaries in the neural mechanisms of memory
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Neil Burgess,
University College London
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10:30-11:00AM
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Break
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11:00AM-12:30PM
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Contributed Talks
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Six 15 min. talks:
Denis Sheynikhovich: Is There a Geometric Module for Spatial Orientation? Insights From a Rodent Navigation Model (Poster 50)
Himanshu Mhatre: A neural model of grid cell hexagonal map formation by self- organized learning (Poster 39)
Xue Han: Attention and location effects on spatial memory - Testing the predictions of a computational model (Poster 23)
Dylan Simon: Model-based learning and planning in a spatial navigation task (Poster 51)
Kai Krueger: Adaptive state space construction as a basis for improved learning through shaping (Poster 32)
Jeffrey Cockburn: A formal investigation of a dopaminergic dysfunction in ADHD: Asymmetrical reward prediction errors give rise to ADHD-like behaviors (Poster 9)
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12:30-2:00PM
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Lunch, on own.
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2:00-4:00PM
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Symposium: Top-Down Mechanisms of Visual Attention
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Steven Bressler, Florida Atlantic University (Moderator)
Top-down influences in visual attention: an overview
Marisa Carrasco, New York University
Effects of spatial attention on early vision
Jude Mitchell, The Salk Institute
Spatial attention decorrelates intrinsic activity fluctuations in macaque area V4
Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Feedforward and feedback processing in the visual cortex for perception
Gustavo Deco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Neurobiological basis of attention
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4:00-4:30PM
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Break
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4:30-6:00PM
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Contributed talks
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Six 15 min. talks:
Christopher Chatham: Computational mechanisms supporting performance on the n-back task: A PBWM model with temporal context (Poster 6)
Paul Miller: Recall of word sequences via short-term plasticity in a temporal context model (Poster 41)
James L. McClelland/Katia Dilkina: A single system for conceptual and lexical processing: An individual differences account (Poster 14)
Eddy J. Davelaar: Top-down mechanisms the flanker task as mediated by memory (Poster 12)
Tsung-Ren Huang: ARTSCENE Search: A Neural Model for Attention-Guided Context-Dependent Visual Learning and Search (Poster 25)
Anna C. Schapiro: A Computational Account of the Differences Between Unilateral and Bilateral Damage (Poster 48)
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6:30-8:30PM Main Poster Session Hors d'oeuvre w/ Cash Bar
~ NOTE: Poster Session will be held in the Hynes Convention Center - Room 302-306 ~
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Day 2 ~ Thursday November 19, 2009
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(No poster display Day 2)
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8:45-9:00AM
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Welcoming Remarks
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9:00-10:30AM
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Keynote: How to grow a mind: statistics, structure and abstraction
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Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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10:30-11:00AM
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Break
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11:00AM-1:00PM
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Symposium: Our Vision for the Word: Models of Orthographic Processing
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Carol Whitney, University of Maryland, College Park (Co-moderator)
The world of our vision for the word: Overview of orthographic processing
Jonathan Grainger, Universite d’Aix Marseille, CNRS, France (Co-moderator) (& Phil Holcomb)
From retinotopic features to location-invariant lexical representations
Donald Bolger, University of Maryland
Integration of Orthographic and Phonological Representations
Jay Rueckl, University of Connecticut (& Shin-Yi Fang)
The Coding of Letter Order Information in Learned (Hidden) Representations
Kalanit Grill-Spector, Stanford University
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1:00-3:00PM
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Business Meeting & Lunch
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Lunch on own
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3:00-5:00PM
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Symposium: Context, Memory and the Brain
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Michael Hasselmo, Boston University
Ken Norman, Princeton University (Co-Moderators)
Per Sederberg, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Unifying theories of hippocampal function: Learning to predict the future with the Temporal Context Model.
Howard Eichenbaum, Center for Memory and Brain, Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, Boston University
Neural ensemble representations of gradually changing temporal context support episodic memory
Marc Howard, Department of Psychology, Syracuse University
Temporal context as a physical model of episodic memory
Andre Fenton, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Neural correlates of cognitive control in hippocampus
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