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Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Knowledge: Where Vision Meets Memory
May 29 - May 31, 2008
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Abstracts
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Thursday, May 29
Plenary Lecture
[Video]
- Haline E. Schendan, Tufts University, Opening Remarks
- Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President, Tufts
University, Welcoming Remarks
- Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, How does the brain know
what an object is? A synthesis of visual perception, attention,
search, and category learning
Friday, May 30
Session 1: Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Learning and
Memory
Chair: Ayanna K. Thomas, Tufts University
- Haline E. Schendan, Tufts University, Opening Remarks
Suparna Rajaram, Stony Brook University. Memory and
Awareness: Means of Access and Processing Requirements
[Video]
- Ken A. Paller, Northwestern University, Declarative memory,
perceptual implicit memory, and conceptual implicit memory
[Video]
- Neal J. Cohen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Hippocampus and Relational Memory in the Construction and Use of
Visual Representations
[Video]
Session 2: Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Visual
Knowledge
Chair: Holly A. Taylor, Tufts University
- Haline E. Schendan, Tufts University, When and Where Vision
Meets Memory: Prefrontal-Posterior Cortical Dynamics for Visual
Object Knowledge
[Video]
- Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health, Fine tuning
conceptual representations: A role for the anterior temporal lobes?
[Video]
- Jocelyne Bachevalier, Emory University, Medial Temporal Lobe
Structures and Memory: What Have We Learned from Lesion Studies in
Nonhuman Primates?
Panel Discussion, Sessions 1 and 2: How Can Memory Inform
Vision, and vice versa?
Moderator: Chantal E. Stern, Center for Memory and Brain,
Boston University
Saturday, May 31
Session 3: Comparative Perspectives on Visual Knowledge
Chair: Michael E. Hasselmo, Center for Memory and Brain,
Boston University
- Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University, What can language tell us about
visual cognition?
[Video]
- Robert Cook, Tufts University, Avian Perspectives On Visual
Knowledge: The Bird's Eye View
[Video]
- Charles E. Connor, Johns Hopkins University, The Neural Basis
Of Knowledge About Object Structure
[Video]
Session 4: Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Vision
Chair: Gina Kuperberg, Tufts University, MGH-NMR Martinos
Center
- Mary A. Peterson, University of Arizona, Inhibitory
Competition in Figure-Ground Perception: Effects of Familiarity and
Context
[Video]
- Lynn C. Robertson, University of California at Berkeley, Visual
Representations of Undetected Stimuli: Evidence from Patients
with Unilateral Visual Extinction
[Video]
- Stephen M. Kosslyn, Harvard University, Is One Cerebral
Hemisphere More 'Perceptual' than the Other?
[Video]
- Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania, When
Hand-Sight is 20/20: How Sensorimotor Experience Affects Memory for
Object Appearance
[Video]
Panel Discussion, Sessions 3 and 4: How Can Vision Inform
Memory, and vice versa?
Moderator: Giorgio Ganis, Harvard Medical School
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