Final Program ABIM 2013
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Sunday, January 6
REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION, HOTEL SUISSE (18:00-21:00)
Monday, January 7
Consciousness
TALKS (15:30-19:20)
| 15:30 | Lionel Naccache (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France)Imaging neural signature of consciousness: What, When, Where and How does it work? |
| 16:20 | Matthias Mueller(Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Germany) Biased competition or sensory gain? Neural dynamics during sustained visual attention in early visual areas of the human brain |
| 16:40 | Alexandre Comte(Department of Functional Neuroimaging (IFR 133 INSERM), CHU Besançon, France) Mental imagery: which automatic method to interpret consciousness paradigms? |
| 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | Olaf Blanke(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland) Neuroscience of self-consciousness |
| 18:20 | Athina Tzovara(University Hospital and University of Lausanne (CHUV)) Progression of auditory discrimination based on neural decoding predicts awakening from coma |
| 18:40 | Inga Steppacher(University of Konstanz, Department of Psychology) Speech, a beacon in the dark. N400 predicts recovery from unresponsive wakefulness and minimal consciousness states |
| 19:00 | Roberto Martuzzi(Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) Visuo-vestibular convergence in the retroinsular cortex: a 7T fMRI study |
Tuesday, January 8
Dynamics of cognitive control
TALKS (15:30-18:20)
| 15:30 | Michael X Cohen(Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Mechanisms of action monitoring or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the theta |
| 16:20 | Douglas Garrett(Max Planck-University College London Initiative for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research (ICPAR);) Amphetamine Successfully Increases BOLD Signal Variability in Older adults |
| 16:40 | Anna Custo(Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory, Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland) Take your time: GLM and hypothesis testing for EEG source imaging |
| 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | Petr Janata(UC Davis, University of California, USA) Sensorimotor coupling in music and being "in the groove" |
POSTER SESSION (18:20-20:00)
Wednesday, January 9
Neurostimulation and tDCS
TALKS (15:30-18:20)
| 15:30 | Michael Nitsche(Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany) Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on functional network connectivity |
| 16:20 | Karim N'Diaye(Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Inserm UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France) Longitudinal Changes of Brain Connectivity in OCD Patients Undergoing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: a Resting-State fMRI study |
| 16:40 | Camille Piguet(Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva) Neural correlates of switching and inhibition in mood disorder patients |
| 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | Amit Etkin(Stanford University, USA) Measuring and manipulating emotional circuits in humans |
POSTER SESSION (18:20-20:00)
Thursday, January 10
Social and affective regulation
TALKS (15:30-19:20)
| 15:30 | Claus Lamm(Universität Wien, Austria) From empathy to prosocial behavior |
| 16:20 | Olga Klimecki(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany) Differential Pattern of Functional Brain Plasticity after Compassion and Empathy Training |
| 16:40 | Luca Vizioli(Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Culture shapes neural representations for faces: an eye movement and fMRI study |
| 17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 | Simon Eickhoff(Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany) The amygdala: Behind fear and towards relevance |
| 18:20 | Swann Pichon(Lab. for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition – University of Geneva – Switzerland) Cumulative activity to emotional information in amygdala predicts subsequent reactivity to threat |
| 18:40 | Kinga Igloi(LabNic, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland) A nap to recap:Reward strengthens relational memory during daytime sleep |
| 19:00 | Agnieszka Burzynska(The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois) It is never too late to start: positive effects of physical exercise on white matter in very old age |
FAREWELL PARTY (20:30)