Adult Brain Plasticity

Working Schedule
UPDATED MAY 13, 1999
Saturday May 22
Sunday May 23
Monday May 24

Location:
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street Room 200
(between University and Greene)

Saturday  May 22
Morning:

9:15 - 9:30      Robert Shapley  Welcome and Introduction

9:30 - 10:30    Jean-Marc Edeline  Dynamics of receptive fields in the thalamo-cortical auditory system: Modulation by learning, neuromodulators and behavioral states.

10:30 - 10:45   refreshments

10:45 - 11:45  Dexter Irvine  Plasticity in the adult auditory system: Possible perceptual correlates

11:45 - 12:15   Discussion

12:15 - 1:30    Lunch break

Afternoon:

1:30 - 2:30  Daphne Bavelier  Cerebral Re-organization of Language and Visual Functions after Early Auditory Deprivation

2:30 - 3:00      refreshments

3:00 - 4:00  George Gerstein  Induction and interpretation of cortical plasticity.
 

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Sunday May 23
Morning :

9:00 - 10:00 Yves Fregnac  Imaging the Synaptic Integration Field of visual cortical neurons: Electrophysiological tools and implications for adult plasticity

10:00 - 11:00 Aniruddha Das  Topography of contextual modulations arising from short-range interactions in primary visual cortex.

11:00 - 11:15  break

11:15 - 12:15  Panel Discussion (Plasticity--receptive fields, maps, or brain
organization )

12:15 - 1:30  lunch break

Afternoon:

1:30 - 2:30 David Somers  Attentional modulations of early visual cortical processing

2:30 - 3:30 Ilona Kovacs  Slow development of visual perceptual organization in humans

3:30 - 4:00   refreshments

4:00 - 5:00  Jonathan Levitt  Contextual effects of receptive field surround in visual cortex

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Monday May 24
Morning:

9:00 - 10:00    Sacha Nelson  Sub-threshold Receptive Fields and Cortical Dynamics

10:00 - 11:00   Miguel Nicolelis  Spatio temporal receptive fields and their role in tactile information coding.

11:00 - 11:15    refreshments

11:15 - 12:15     Yadin Dudai  Molecular "novelty switches" in cortex.

12:15 - 1:30       lunch break

Afternoon:

1:30 - 2:30    Avi Karni  As practice makes perfect: The effects of experience on behavior and brain activity in the acquisition of motor skills.

2:30 0- 3:30 John Donoghue  Finding traces of learning in cortical circuits.

3:30 - 4:00    refreshments
 

4:00 - 5:00   Mike Calford  Short-term plasticity in monkey somatosensory cortex: Interhemispheric interactions and inhibitory plasticity.
 
 

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