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ISCNS 2007
International Symposium on Cognitive Neurosurgery
17-20 March 2007, Castle of Weitenburg, Germany


ISCNS 2007 FINAL PROGRAM - INVITED LECTURES
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SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007
from 15.00 Registration
18.30 Opening Reception
   
SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2007
8.30 Welcome
8.45 Opening Lecture by Madjid Samii
Hannover, Germany
Brain mapping in neurosurgery
   
Session LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
9.20 Mitchel S. Berger
San Francisco, USA
Cortical mapping
9.45 Hermann Ackermann
Tübingen, Germany
The contribution of the cerebellum to speech motor control
and higher-order aspects of speech production:
Clinical and functional imaging data
10.10 Coffee Break, Posters A
10.35 Christophe Pallier
Paris, France
Brain imaging of individual differences in second language
learning
11.00 Alireza Gharabaghi
Tübingen, Germany
Intraoperative language mapping of subcortical pathways
visualized by fMRI and DTI
11.25 Hugues Duffau
Montpellier, France
Connectivity and plasticity of language networks:
Lessons from brain mapping in surgery for low-grade
glioma
11.50 Discussion
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Special Lecture by Nikos K. Logothetis
Tübingen, Germany
Neural mass actions studied with electrophysiology and
functional magnetic resonance imaging
   
Session FRONTAL LOBE:
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND WORKING MEMORY
13.35 Hans-Joachim Freund
Hannover, Germany
Are premotor and supplementary motor areas eloquent
cortex? Does excision matter?
14.00 Markus Ullsperger
Cologne, Germany
The role of fronto-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits in
performance monitoring
14.25 Coffee Break, Posters B, E, H
15.00 Michael Petrides
Montreal, Canada
Organization of lateral prefrontal cortex for the control of
memory processing
15.25 Volker Sturm
Cologne, Germany
The nucleus accumbens
15.50 Discussion
16.30 Social Program-Bus departure
OTHELLO by Guiseppe Verdi,
Stuttgart Opera House (18.00-21.00)
   
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2007
9.00 Special Lecture by Peter M. Black
Boston, USA
Intraoperative assessment of brain function
   
Session SOCIAL COGNITION AND TEMPORAL LOBE
9.35 David I. Perrett
St Andrews, UK
Seeing the future: Neural processing of actions and
static images of bodies
10.00 Kevin Pelphrey
Durham, USA
Brain mechanisms for interpreting the actions of others
from biological motion cues
10.25 Marina Pavlova
Tübingen, Germany
Body motion perception in lesional and neurosurgical
patients: MEG findings and brain connectivity
10.50 Coffee Break, Posters C, D
11.20 Philip Servos
Waterloo, Canada
Hearing and seeing speech: Insights from fMRI
11.45 Johannes Schramm
Bonn, Germany
Surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy and related aspects
of neuropsychology
12.10 Itzhak Fried
Los Angeles, USA
From percept to memory: Single neuron recordings
in the human temporal lobe
12.35 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Poster Session
   
Session VISUAL PERCEPTION, ATTENTION
AND BRAIN IMAGING
15.15 Maurizio Corbetta
St. Louis, USA
Intrinsic brain activity: Spatio-temporal patterns
and functional significance
15.40 Clara Casco
Padua, Italy
Different ERPs correlates of grouping and segmentation
in texture images
16.05 Max Hopf
Magdeburg, Germany
Neural bases of the spotlight of attention:
Insights from neuromagnetic recordings
16.30 Coffee Break, Posters F, G, I
17.00 Hans-Otto Karnath
Tübingen, Germany
Right hemisphere role in spatial orientation
17.25 Rudolf Fahlbusch
Hannover, Germany
Developments in intraoperative MRI and functional
neuronavigation
17.50 Discussion
18.00 Study Group
COGNITIVE NEUROSURGERY
19.30 Social Program
CONFERENCE BANQUET,
Castle of Weitenburg Restaurant
   
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2007
9.00 Special Lecture by Pierre Rabischong
Montpellier, France
Comprehensive anatomy of the cerebellum
   
Session CEREBELLUM
9.35 Peter Thier
Tübingen, Germany
A role of the cerebellum in visual perception:
Fact or fiction?
10.00 Peter L. Strick
Pittsburgh, USA
Cerebellar multi-synaptic 'loops': Circuitry for the
control of movement, cognition, perception and ...
10.25 Wolfgang Grodd
Tübingen, Germany
Functional imaging of the human cerebellum
10.50 Discussion
11.00 Coffee Break
11.25 Closing Lecture by Rainer Goebel
Maastricht, The Netherlands
The dynamics of inter-hemispheric compensatory
processes in mental imagery
12.00 Closing Ceremony, Poster Prize
12.30 Lunch
   
HOTLINE DURING THE ISCNS 2007:
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