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