Eighth Annual Meeting of ISBN
May 6 - May10, 2000

 

Cannon Beach, Oregon

USA

Meeting Program

Saturday, May 6

Arrival

Dinner on your own (cost not included in registration)

(To be confirmed: I believe the Hospitality Suite 149 is ours for the conference.

Feel free to get together there to schmooze, snack etc.)

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Sunday, May 7

(note: **Potential New Members)

7:30-9:00am Breakfast - Hospitality Suite 149

 

9:15 Welcome, Announcements, Business – Haystack Room

 

SYMPOSIUM: Language research: New frontiers

(Denise Klein: Chair)

(Half hour talks, 10 minutes each discussion)

Overview of symposium: The field of language research is vast, and a group of speakers has been chosen to reflect this diversity. All the work presented focuses on attempts to use different methodologies to explore the brain areas involved in different aspects of language processing, from auditory perception, through to complex aspects of linguistic processing.

 

9:30 CORTICAL RESPONSE TO SPEECH AND NONSPEECH VOCAL SOUNDS

P. Belin, R. J. Zatorre, P. Lafaille, P. Ahad, B. Pike

 

10:10 BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COGNITIVE MODELS AND NEUROIMAGING DATA: A CASE STUDY OF PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING DURING VERBAL WORKING MEMORY

Julie Fiez

 

10:50 Coffee Break

 

11:00 NEURAL SYSTEMS UNDERLYING LANGUATE AND HUMAN ACTION: EVIDENCE FROM AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE .

**David Corina

 

Noon Lunch – Pacific Horizon Room

 

1:30 CEREBRAL ACTIVITY IN LANGUAGE AREAS IN DEAF SIGN-LANGUAGE USERS

Laura Ann Petitto, Robert J. Zatorre, Kristine Gauna, E. J. Nikelski, Deanna Dostie, and Alan C. Evans .

 

2:10 FUNCTIONAL IMAGING STUDIES OF LANGUAGE IN PATIENTS WITH DOMINANT-HEMISPHERE BRAIN LESIONS

Denise Klein, Brenda Milner, Robert Zatorre, Regina Visca, Andre Olivier and Alexander Bastos

 

 

2:50 Break

 

4 PM:

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS:

Dr. George Ojemann – Haystack Room

Dr. George Ojemann is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, at the University of Washington. He has been a pioneer in the electrophysiological mapping of language and other higher cortical functions in the brain as well as a pioneer in the treatment of epilepsy. As an example of his influence in the field of neuroscience, he authored or co-authored over 10 papers in 1999 in journals such as Annals of Neurology, J. Neuroscience, Neuroimage, J. Cog. Neurosci. , Clinical Neurophysiology, to name a few.

 

5:30 Adjourn

 

6:30 PM Dinner HorD’ouevres Pacific Horizon Room

7:30 Banquet Pacific Horizon Room

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Monday, May 8

(note: **Potential New Members)

7:30- 9:00 Breakfast - Hospitality Suite 149

 

OPEN PAPER SESSION

(20 minute talks, 5 minute each discussion) Haystack Room

 

9:00 PROFILING BASIC VISUAL DEFICITS IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

** Sandy A. Neargarder,

 

9:25 DIRECTION OF GAZE ON EARLY CORTICAL PROCESSES: EEG AND MEG FINDINGS

Margot J. Taylor, Nathalie George

 

9:50 OVERLAPPING MECHANISMS OF ATTENTION AND WORKING MEMORY

**Edward Awh

 

10:15 Coffee Break

 

10:25 IMPAIRED PERCEPTION OF SPEECH STIMULI IN RATS WITH INDUCED MICROGYRIA

**Matthew Clark

 

10:50 DISSOCIATING CORTICAL PROCESSING OF THE CONTENT AND THE CARRIER OF SPEECH

**Alexander A. Stevens

 

11:15 HIPPOCAMPAL SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS REQUIRE VESTIBULAR INPUT

**R.W. Stackman

 

11:35 THE EFFECTS OF TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY ON PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING

Mary Lou Smith, Marla Bigel, Sandy Grayson and Laurie Miller.

 

Noon – 1pm Lunch Pacific Horizon Room

Afternoon Free (Weather permitting – hike, or bowling in Seaside)

Dinner (on your own - Cost not included in registration)

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Tuesday, May 9

(note: **Potential New Members)

 

7:30- 9:00 Breakfast – Hospitality Suite 149

 

Symposium: Structure-function relationships in brain morphometry or: does size matter?

(Robert Zatorre: Chair)

(Half hour talks, 10 minutes each for discussion)

9:00 QUANTIFYING VARIABILITY IN THE PLANUM TEMPORALE

Chris Westbury and Robert Zatorre

9:40 AUDITORY CORTEX MORPHOMETRY IN THE CONGENITALLY DEAF MEASURED USING MRI

Virginia B. Penhune

 

10:20 Coffee Break

 

10:30 VARIABILITY IN THE ANATOMY OF THE PLANUM TEMPORALE AND POSTERIOR ASCENDING RAMUS: DO RIGHT AND LEFT HANDERS DIFFER?

Anne L. Foundas

11:10 USING VOXEL-BASED MORPHOLOMETRY TO DETECT NORMAL AND ABNORMAL BRAIN STRUCTURE

**Kate Watkins

 

GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

 

12:00 Lunch (on your own, not included in registration)

 

2 - 3:00 Business Meeting (Coffee Available)

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

3:00 PROSPECTIVE MOTOR CODING IN SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY

Bradley R. Postle

3:20 A NEW TEST TO PERMIT DIRECT COMPARISON OF OBJECT AND FACE DISCRIMINATION

A. Cronin-Golomb and J.M. Donovan

 

3:40 MEMORY FLASH

Gabriel Leonard, Rhonda Amsel & Olivia Bottenheim

 

4:00 IMAGING THIS CENTURY

Jeri Janowsky

 

 

Dinner (on your own, Cost not included in registration)

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Wednesday, May 10

 

7:30- 9:00 Breakfast Hospitality Suite 149 - Airport Shuttles

 

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!

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