| Speakers: | Various (see below) |
| Location: | Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Rice University |
| Date: | March 5-6, 2001 |
| Topic: | Neurobiology of Perception and Communication: From Synapse to Society |
| Format: | Speeches |
| Length: | Varies |
| Abstract: | The Fourth DeLange Conference at Rice University addressed the topic "Neurobiology of Perception and Communication: From Synapse to Society". The conference was organized around four different scientific areas: memory, language, sensory processes, and higher order perception. |
| Links: | DeLange Conference, DeLange Conference IV, Rice University news release, Rice News article |
DeLange Conference Schedule
Monday, March 5, 2001
Opening
8:30 - 9:00 am
Introduction
James R. Pomerantz, Eugene H. Levy, Michael C. Crair
Higher Order Perception
9:00 - 9:45 am
"Attention
as an Organ System"
Chair:
Michael I. Posner, Sackler Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry; and
Director, Sackler Institute
10:10 - 10:55 am
"Cortical Dynamics and Visual Perception"
Charles
D. Gilbert, Professor, The Rockefeller University
10:55 - 11:40 am
"Mechanisms
of Visual Attention in the Human Brain"
Sabine Kastner, Professor, Princeton University
Language
1:30 - 2:15 pm
"The Cortical
Architecture of Speech Perception in Space and Time"
David
Poeppel, Assistant Professor, Departments of Linguistics and Zoology,
University of Maryland
2:15 - 3:00 pm
"Varieties
of Silence: The Impact of Neuro-Degenerative Diseases on Language Systems
in the Brain"
Karalyn
Patterson, Research Staff, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit; Cambridge,
England
3:25 - 4:10 pm
"Language in Infancy: A Look at the Biological Foundations of Language"
Jacques
Mehler, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy;
Directeur de recherches au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique;
Paris, France
4:10 - 4:55 pm
"Specificity and Plasticity in Human Brain Development: ERP and
fMRI Studies"
Chair: Helen J.
Neville, Lab Director, Brain Development Lab, University of Oregon
Banquet
7:30 - 7:35 pm
"Introduction"
James W. Patrick
7:35 - 8:35 pm
"What Happens to Choice and Responsibility if the Brain is a Causal
Machine?"
Patricia S. Churchland,
Professor of Philosophy, University of California at San Diego
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
Memory
8:30 - 9:15 am
"Memory Systems of the Brain: Human, Monkey, Rodent"
Chair:
Larry R. Squire, Research Career Scientist, Veteran's Administration
Medical Center, San Diego; Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University
of California at San Diego
9:15 - 10:00 am
"The Hippocampus and Declarative Memory: Cognitive Mechanisms and
Neural Codes"
Howard Eichenbaum,
Professor of Psychology, University Professor, Boston University
10:25 - 11:10 am
"Emotional Synapses"
Joseph E. LeDoux,
Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science, Center for Neural Science, New
York University
11:10 - 11:55 am
Susumu Tonegawa,
Whitehead Professor of Biology and Neuroscience; Investigator, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute; Director, Center for Learning and Memory; The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Sensory Process
1:15 - 2:00 pm
"How Hearing Happens: Mechanoelectrical Transduction and Amplification
by Hair Cells of the Internal Ear"
Chair:
A. James Hudspeth, Investigator, HHMI; F. M. Kirby Professor, The Rockefeller
University
2:00 - 2:45 pm
"Songbirds: A Model System for the Study of Vocal Learning and Basal Ganglia Function"
Allison
Doupe, Associate Professor, Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
and Depts of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of California at San
Francisco
2:40 - 3:30 pm
"Targeting Olfaction"
Peter
Mombaerts, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Developmental Biology
and Neurogenetics, The Rockefeller University
Closing Panel
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Closing Panel
Michael P.
Stryker, W. F. Ganong Professor of Physiology at the University of
California, San FranciscoPhysiology , U. C. San Francisco
Huda Zoghbi, Investigator,
HHMI; Professor in Departments of Pediatrics, Neurology, Molecular and
Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
5:00 - 5:10 pm
Wrap Up
James Pomerantz and Michael Crair
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