Final Program ABIM 2008
Sunday, January 13
REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION, HOTEL SUISSE (18:00-21:00)
Monday, January 14
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
INVITED TALKS (15:30-18:00)
15:30 | Marco Catani![]() Brain hodology and diffusion tensor tractography |
16:10 | Heidi Johansen-Berg![]() Imaging human brain connections |
16:50 | Coffee Break |
17:20 | Stéphane Lehéricy![]() Evaluation of tract specific white matter pathology using diffusion tensor imaging |
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (18:15-19:15)
18:15 | Marzia De Lucia(Center for Biomedical Imaging of Geneva and Lausanne, CH)
Single subject and single trial ERP analysis based on topographic information |
18:30 | Sara Gonzalez Andino(Geneva University Hospital, CH)
Amygdala involvement in the control of saccadic eye movements |
18:45 | Matthias Mueller(University of Leipzig, D)
Feature-based visual attention and biased competition for processing resources in the human brain |
19:00 | Gijs Plomb(EPFL, CH)
Early visual areas anticipate load and location; the fusiform gyri differentiate between task demands and orthographic status |
Tuesday, January 15
Motivation and Decision Making
INVITED TALKS (15:30-18:00)
15:30 | Hugh Garavan![]() Monitoring one's decisions: distinct roles for the anterior cingulate and nucleus accumbens |
16:10 | Hauke Heekeren![]() A multi-level perspective on the neurocognition of decision making |
16:50 | Coffee Break |
17:20 | Philippe Tobler![]() Neuronal coding of microeconomic reward parameters |
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (18:15-19:15)
18:15 | Evelyne Lepron(Inserm U825, Toulouse, F)
Dissociable neural pathways are involved in the perception of someone else's congruent and incongruent emotional facial response |
18:30 | Marie-Hélène Grosbras(University of Glasgow, UK)
Teenagers' brain activity while viewing angry faces or hand movements |
18:45 | Pascal Belin(University of Glasgow, UK)
fMR-adaptation in auditory cortex |
19:00 | Thomas Ethofer(University of Geneva, CH)
Repetition suppression in orbitofrontal cortex is modulated by anger in the voice |
Wednesday, January 16
Resting States of the Brain
INVITED TALKS (15:30-18:00)
15:30 | Helmut Laufs![]() The many EEG faces of the "default mode" |
16:10 | Pierre Maquet![]() Spontaneous activity during human sleep as assessed by EEG/fMRI |
16:50 | Coffee Break |
17:20 | Bertrand Thirion![]() Methodology for resting-state fMRI data analysis: univariate and multivariate techniques |
POSTER SESSION (18:15-20:00)
Thursday, January 17
Attention and Emotion in Pain Perception
INVITED TALKS (15:30-18:00)
15:30 | Markus Ploner![]() Neurophysiological studies on the subjective experience of pain |
16:10 | David Seminowicz![]() Pain's close connection with cognition |
16:50 | Coffee Break |
17:20 | Irene Tracey![]() Functional neuroimaging of pain perception and its modulation |
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (18:15-19:15)
18:15 | Emrah Düzel(University College London, UK)
Enhancement of declarative memory by reward prediction errors in the context of novelty |
18:30 | Kerstin Preuschoff(Caltech, US)
Human insula activation reflects risk prediction errors as well as risk |
18:45 | Tali Sharot(University College London, UK)
The future is bright: how emotion modulates expectations of upcoming events |
19:00 | Silke Anders(University of Luebeck, D)
Similarities of large-scale patterns of brain activity reflect affective appraisal space |
FAREWELL PARTY (20:30)