Final Program ABIM 2014
Sunday, January 12
REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION, HOTEL SUISSE (18:00-21:00)
Monday, January 13
Decoding Vision
TALKS (15:30-19:20)
15:30 | Yukiyasu Kamitani![]() Decoding visual contents from human brain activity |
16:20 | Gijs Plomp(Functional Brain Mapping Lab, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Dynamics of directed information transfer in visual processes |
16:40 | Isik Karahanoglu(Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland)
Recovery of Synchronous Patterns in Resting-State fMRI with Total Activation |
17:00 | Coffee Break |
17:30 | Julie Grèzes![]() The interactive aspect of emotional expressions |
18:20 | Markus Werkle-Bergner(Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Coordinated Within-trial Dynamics of Low-Frequency Neural Rhythms Controls Evidence Accumulation |
18:40 | Sandrine de Ribaupierre(Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, Canada)
Multivariate analysis of Age-Related Differences in cognitive intra-individual variability and brain patterns |
19:00 | Petra Ritter(Charité Berlin and Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Germany)
The Virtual Brain: Knowledge inference and application |
Tuesday, January 14
Social Communication
TALKS (15:30-18:20)
15:30 | Nathalie George![]() Neural underpinnings of the processing of social cues from faces |
16:20 | Dmitry Smirnov(Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science (BECS), Aalto University, Finland)
Hyperclassification reveals shared representation of action execution and observation across interacting brains |
16:40 | Marta Andreatta(Department of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany)
Appetitive conditioned responses induced by social relief |
17:00 | Coffee Break |
17:30 | Angela Sirigu![]() How Oxytocin modulates the human brain and behavior |
POSTER SESSION (18:20-20:00)
Wednesday, January 15
Reward and Motivation
TALKS (15:30-18:40)
15:30 | Mauricio Delgado![]() The social network: How reward processing is influenced by social context |
16:20 | Kristoffer Aberg(Lab. for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Geneva University, Switzerland)
Learn the right thing: Interaction between reward-related and attentional networks yield specific spatial biases |
16:40 | James Cousins(University of Manchester, UK)
Cued memory reactivation during slow-wave sleep promotes explicit knowledge of a motor sequence |
17:00 | Coffee Break |
17:30 | Mathias Pessiglione![]() The neural code of subjective value |
POSTER SESSION (18:20-20:00)
Thursday, January 16
Multisensory Perception
TALKS (15:30-19:20)
15:30 | Mark Wallace![]() Multisensory Temporal Function and its Role in Stimulus Binding |
16:20 | Eveline Geiser(Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Switzerland)
Neural correlates of global timing processing in the auditory domain |
16:40 | Steven Boker(University of Virginia, USA)
Windowed Cross-Correlation of BOLD Signals |
17:00 | Coffee Break |
17:30 | Amir Amedi![]() A step toward closing the gap between using sensory substitution for understanding brain plasticity and stability and for widespread practical visual rehabilitation |
18:20 | Andrea Serino(Center for Neuroprosthetics, EPFL, Switzerland)
The space around you. Ventral intraparietal area codes peripersonal space around one’s own and other faces |
18:40 | Delphine Roussillon(Inserm U960, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Alteration of speech induced theta and gamma oscillations in autism |
19:00 | Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua(Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Neural responses to emotional expression information in high- and low-spatial frequency in autism: Evidence for a cortical dysfunction |
FAREWELL PARTY WITH PRIZE CEREMONY (20:30)