PROGRAM Thursday 5 June


(titles are working titles, speaker times including discussion are given between brackets)
08.30 Posters Cognition and Neurobehavior session to be mounted
 
08.30 Parallel sessions 37-39
 
Session 37
Psychosomatics of cortisol and tryptophan
Moderator: Jaap Korf (Groningen)
Markus Schwarz (Munich, Germany)
Evidence for an altered tryptophan metabolism in fibromyalgia (30)
Sietse Jan Koopmans (Lelystad)
Dietary rations of tryptophan to large neutral amino acids affect behaviour and plasma stress hormones in pigs exposed to social stress (15)
Mattie Tops (Groningen)
State-dependent regulation of cortical activation by cortisol (15)
Arthur van Gool (Rotterdam)
Depression induced by interferon-alpha as a research model on the pathophysiology of depression (15)
Rob Markus (Maastricht)
Effect of dietary-induced increases in brain tryptophan and 5-HT on stress and mental performance (15)

Session 38
Motor control (disorders) and the brain
Moderator: Bert Steenbergen (Nijmegen)
Yves Rossetti
(Lyon, France)
Mediate action versus here-and-now visuo-motor processing: evidence from optic ataxia (30)
Ron Keulen (Maastricht)
The influence of distractors on the control and execution of selective reaching (15)
Amanda Kaas (Maastricht)
Haptic processing of object orientation: an fMRI study (15)
Dominique van Roon (Nijmegen):
Reaching with a hand held spoon in tetraparesis: effects of perturbation of goal location (15)
Koen van Braeckel (Groningen)
Pointing and reaching-grasping behaviour in very pre-term born children (15)

Session 39
Auditory processing in the brain: from sound to language
Moderator: Miranda van Turennout (Nijmegen) 
Elia Formisano
(Maastricht)
Functional MRI of early auditory areas in humans: tonotopy and more (30)
Michael Schulte (Nijmegen)
Virtual pitch perception of non-successive harmonics (30)
Nienke van Atteveldt (Maastricht)
Graphemes modulate fMRI response to phonemes in auditory cortex (15)
Frank Eisner (Nijmegen)
Does perceptual learning in speech perception generalize across speakers? (15)
  
 
10.00 Poster session COGNITIve and behavioral neuroscience  (including break)

SATELLITE GpD
 

11.30 Session 40
PLENARY SESSION
Chairperson: André Aleman (Utrecht)
Michael Sullivan
(Montreal, Canada)
Psychological risk factors for pain and pain-related disability
Philip McGuire
(London, UK)
Neuroimaging of cognitive (dys)functioning in schizophrenics
   
12.30 Lunch
  
13.30 Parallel sessions 41-43

Session 41
FROM PERCEPTION TO ACTION
Moderator: Peter Hagoort (Nijmegen)
Ivan Toni
(Nijmegen)
Neural correlates of the perception-action cycle (30)
Jiska Memelink (Leiden)
Cognitive coding in action (15)
Lorenza Colzato (Leiden)
Feature integration between perception and action (15)
Floris de Lange (Nijmegen)
Imaging movement representations (15)
Rogier Mars (Nijmegen)
Error-related brain potentials and reward (15)

Session 42
Behavior monitoring and the brain
Moderator: Richard Ridderinkhof (Amsterdam)
Markus Ullsperger
(Leipzig, Germany)
Error monitoring and interference control (30)
Ellen de Bruijn (Nijmegen)
Error monitoring and pharmacological effects (15)
Eveline Crone (Amsterdam)
Error monitoring and feedback control (15)
Sander Nieuwenhuis (Princeton, NJ, USA / Amsterdam)
Error monitoring and reward prediction (15)
Rob Hartsuiker (Gent, Belgium)
Error monitoring and speech production (15)

Session 43
Sex differences and hormonal mechanisms in spatial ability
Moderator: Albert Postma (Utrecht)
Daniel Voyer (New Brunswick, Canada)
Influence of sex hormones and experience on sex differences in spatial abilities (45)
Sander Zuidhoek (Utrecht)
Sex differences in haptic spatial performance (15)
Channa de Winter (Utrecht)
Meta-analysis of testosterone effects on spatial cognition (15)
Celina Cohen (Utrecht)
Prenatal exposure to testosterone and spatial ability: a twin study (15)
 
15.00 Break
  
15.30 Parallel sessions 44-46
 

Session 44
Predictors and cognitive development in ADHD
Moderator: Hans Vles (Maastricht)
Hans Vles (Maastricht)
ADHD, chemistry between structure and function (30)
Jos Hendriksen (Maastricht)
Precursors of ADHD questionnaire: development and psychometric properties (15)
Dorine Slaats-Willemse (Utrecht)
Cognitive endophenotyping in ADHD (15)
Anne-Claire Beernink (Utrecht)
Predictors of externalizing problems in 14 months old children (15)
Petra Hurks (Maastricht)
Cognitive profile of school-aged children suffering from ADHD (15)

Session 45
Cognitive potentials in humans and animals
Moderator: Gilles van Luijtelaar (Nijmegen)
Jurij Brankack
(Prague, Czech Republic / Riken, Japan)
Oddball in rats: P300 and beyond (30)
Arjan Blokland (Maastricht)
Electrophysiological correlates of mismatch negativity in rats (15)
Natasja de Bruin (Beerse, Belgium)
The rat as an animal model to investigate the neural substrate of P50 gating in humans (15)
Gilles van Luijtelaar (Nijmegen)
Discrimination learning and ERPs in the amygdala of rats (15)
Anke Sambeth (Nijmegen)
Occasion setting in humans and rats: an ERP study (15)

Session 46
Spatial cognition
Moderator: Miranda van Turennout (Nijmegen)
Neil Burgess
(London, UK)
Spatial memory and the hippocampus (30)
Gabriele Janzen (Nijmegen)
Navigational relevance of object location encoded in parahippocampal gyrus: an fMRI study (15)
Daniel Haun (Nijmegen)
Cognitive maps of impossible spaces (15)
Marieke Scholvinck (Utrecht)
Knowing roughly where versus exactly where: an ERP study on categorical and coordinate spatial processing (15)
Marieke van Asselen (Utrecht)
Planning and remembering spatial searches in Korsakoff patients (15)
 
17.00 Poster Award Ceremony Cognitive & behavioral neuroscience and closure