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  • Monday, 27 September 2004
    • 08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
      Location: Main Building Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION 1h0'
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Methods used to study the brain
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Methods used to study the brain 1h15'
        Speaker: Leah Krubitzer (University of California at Davis, Centre for Neuroscience, USA)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:45 Perception and maps: functional organization of cerebral cortexbra
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Perception and maps: functional organization of cerebral cortexbra 1h15'
        Speaker: Mathew Diamond (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:45 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:45 Introduction to signalling
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Introduction to signalling 1h15'
        Speaker: John Nicholls (SISSA, Neurobiology Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:45 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 16:30 - 17:45 Development I
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Development I 1h15'
        Speaker: John Nicholls (SISSA, Neurobiology Sector, Trieste, Italy)
  • Tuesday, 28 September 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Exotic senses
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Exotic senses 1h15'
        Speaker: Paolo Zucca (Un. Trieste, Dept. of Psychology, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:45 The Comparative Approach
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 The Comparative Approach 1h15'
        Speaker: Leah Krubitzer (University of California at Davis, Centre for Neuroscience, USA)
    • 12:45 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:45 Development II
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Development II 1h15'
        Speaker: John Nicholls (SISSA, Neurobiology Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:45 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 16:30 - 17:45 Regeneration of central nervous system after injury
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Regeneration of central nervous system after injury 1h15'
        Speaker: John Nicholls (SISSA, Neurobiology Sector, Trieste, Italy)
  • Wednesday, 29 September 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Fundamental cognitive neuropsychology I
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Fundamental cognitive neuropsychology I 1h15'
        Speaker: Raffaella Rumiati (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:45 Fundamental cognitive neuropsychology II
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Fundamental cognitive neuropsychology II 1h15'
        Speaker: Raffaella Rumiati (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:45 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:45 Cortical evolution and the restructuring of the mammalian hippocampus
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Cortical evolution and the restructuring of the mammalian hippocampus 1h15'
        Speaker: Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:45 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 16:30 - 17:45 Somatosensorial maps in human cortex
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Somatosensorial maps in human cortex 1h15'
        Speaker: Mathew Diamond (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
  • Thursday, 30 September 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Evolution of Complex Brain
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Evolution of Complex Brain 1h15'
        Speaker: Leah Krubitzer (University of California at Davis, Centre for Neuroscience, USA)
    • 10:45 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 11:30 - 12:45 Neural representation of object images in the monkey inferotemporal cortex
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Neural representation of object images in the monkey inferotemporal cortex 1h15'
        Speaker: Manabu Tanifuji (RIKEN Brain Science Inst., Wako, Japan)
    • 12:45 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:30 - 15:45 Neuronal coding of sense of touch
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Neuronal coding of sense of touch 1h15'
        Speaker: Mathew Diamond (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:45 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 COFFEE BREAK 45'
    • 16:30 - 17:45 Cortical activation during viewing of natural scences
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 Cortical activation during viewing of natural scences 1h15'
        Speaker: Uri Hasson (the Weizmann Inst. of Sciences, Dept. Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel)
  • Friday, 1 October 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Single cell spikes in a low-noise network
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Single cell spikes in a low-noise network 1h15'
        Speaker: Michel Brecht (SISSA, Neurobiology Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 12:00 Cortical mechanisms of human perceptual learning
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 Cortical mechanisms of human perceptual learning 1h15'
        Speaker: Ben Godde (Un. Tuebingen, Medical Psychology & Behav. Neurobiology, Germany)
    • 12:00 - 12:45 tba
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 tba 45'
        Speaker: Ranulfo Romo (UNAM, Inst. de Fisiologia Cellular, Mexico City, Mexico)
  • Tuesday, 5 October 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Development of reasoning
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 09:30 Development of reasoning 1h15'
        Speaker: Luca Bonatti (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 11:00 - 12:15 Sensorimotor transformations and choice in parietal cortex
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 11:00 Sensorimotor transformations and choice in parietal cortex 1h15'
        Speaker: Shabtai Barash (the Weizmann Inst. of Sciences, Dept. Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 12:15 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:15 Neural basis of saccade selection and control
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 14:00 Neural basis of saccade selection and control 1h15'
        Speaker: Jeff Schall (Vanderbilt Un., Dept. Psychology, Nashville, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:15 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 15:15 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 15:30 - 16:45 From gaze and joint attention to autism
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 15:30 From gaze and joint attention to autism 1h15'
        Speaker: Shabtai Barash (the Weizmann Inst. of Sciences, Dept. Neurobiology, Rehovot, Israel)
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Effects of cortical sheet size on cortical field formation
      Location: Main Building Lecture Room C
      • 16:45 Effects of cortical sheet size on cortical field formation 45'
        Speaker: Sarah Long (University of California at Davis, Centre for Neuroscience, USA)
  • Wednesday, 6 October 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 The neuronal basis of visual object categorization
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 The neuronal basis of visual object categorization 1h15'
        Speaker: Hossein Esteky (IPM, School of Cognitive Sciences, Tehran, Iran)
    • 10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 11:00 - 12:15 Recent experiments reveal the significance of hippocampal structure
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Recent experiments reveal the significance of hippocampal structure 1h15'
        Speaker: Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:15 Survival with an asymmetrical brain
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Survival with an asymmetrical brain 1h15'
        Speaker: Giorgio Vallortigara (Un. Trieste, Dept. of Psychology, Italy)
    • 15:15 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:15 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 15:30 - 16:45 Finding words and rules in a speech stream
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Finding words and rules in a speech stream 1h15'
        Speaker: Luca Bonatti (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Parietal areas involved in hand use in New and Old World monkeys
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Parietal areas involved in hand use in New and Old World monkeys 45'
        Speaker: Jeff Padberg (University of California at Davis, Centre for Neuroscience, USA)
  • Thursday, 7 October 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Karen Emmorey
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Karen Emmorey 1h15'
        Speaker: Evan Balaban
    • 10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 11:00 - 12:15 Bird brains: object permanence and other cognitive tests in Jays
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Bird brains: object permanence and other cognitive tests in Jays 1h15'
        Speaker: Paolo Zucca (Un. Trieste, Dept. of Psychology, Italy)
    • 12:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 LUNCH BREAK 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 15:15 Non-imitative social learning processes in non-human primates
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Non-imitative social learning processes in non-human primates 1h15'
        Speaker: Caterina Spiezio (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 15:15 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:15 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 15:30 - 16:45 Imitation and tool use in Apes
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 Imitation and tool use in Apes 1h15'
        Speaker: Caterina Spiezio (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 16:45 - 17:30 Behavior, Genetics, and Neural Development
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:45 Behavior, Genetics, and Neural Development 45'
        Speaker: Evan Balaban (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
  • Friday, 8 October 2004
    • 09:30 - 10:45 Neural correlates of auditory perception
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Neural correlates of auditory perception 1h15'
        Speaker: Evan Balaban (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 10:45 COFFEE BREAK 15'
    • 11:00 - 12:15 From neuropsychological evidence to cognitive structure
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 From neuropsychological evidence to cognitive structure 1h15'
        Speaker: Tim Shallice (SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:15 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 12:15 LUNCH BREAK 1h15'
    • 13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 13:30 Poster Session 1h0'
        Speaker: participants' posters
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Closing Session
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 14:30 Closing Session 30'