[BIC-announce] FW: Reminder: BM Symposium - September 22, 2008

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY/COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE UNIT

MONTREAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE, MCGILL UNIVERSITY

BRENDA MILNER SYMPOSIUM

 

September 22, 2008

Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre - Montreal Neurological Institute

3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

 

8:55                 Introduction

                        Michael Petrides
<http://www.psych.mcgill.ca/faculty/petrides.html> 

                        Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada

 

9:00                 Memories of the Hippocampus

Eleanor Maguire <http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/>  

                        University College London, United Kingdom

 

9:45                 Schemas and Memory Consolidation

Richard Morris <http://www.cnr.ed.ac.uk/links/richardmorris.htm> 

University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

 

10:30               Coffee Break

 

11:00               Speech and Auditory Memory: How Deep is their
Connection? 

                        Mortimer Mishkin
<http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=187> 

                        National Institute of Mental Health, USA


 

11:45               Lunch Break

 

13:30               The Prefrontal Cortex: Rules, Concepts, and
Executive Control

                        Earl Miller
<http://web.mit.edu/ekmiller/Public/www/miller/> 

                        Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

14:15               Plasticity and Dynamics of Neuron and Astrocyte
Networks in Visual Cortex

                        Mriganka Sur <http://www.mit.edu/~msur/> 

                        Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

            

15:00               Coffee Break

 

15:30               Neuroplasticity and the Treatment of Executive
Deficits: Conceptual Considerations

Catherine Mateer <http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/mateer/> 

                        University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

 

16:15               Two Views of Brain Function               

Marcus Raichle <http://www.nil.wustl.edu/labs/raichle/> 

Washington University School of Medicine, USA

 

17:00 to 18:30   POSTER SESSSION            

 

 

Jennifer Chew

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre

MNI - WB317

3801 University Street

Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4

Telephone:  514-398-8554

Fax:  514-398-2975

 

 
Link below to the programme 

 

https://home.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=100856