Words and Faces - An International Workshop on Cognitive Neuroscience
September 13-14, 2007
Macquarie University
Introduction
This meeting will be the first of a series of international conferences, intended to bring together cognitive scientists and neuroscientists to discuss the live issues in the use of brain imaging and other techniques in the assessment of cognitive processing. Also this year, we are honouring Professor Ryoji Suzuki's (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan) life in research.
Program of Activities
Wednesday 12 September 2007: Ceremony in honour of Professor Ryoji Suzuki
4:00-7:00: Words to celebrate Prof. Suzuki's life in research
Venue: Level 3, 299 Lane Cove Rd, Macquarie University
Thursday 13 September 2007: Workshop Part I (Workshop venue: Room 498, C5C, Macquarie University)
10:00-11:15 Alison Harris (U. of Pennsylvania, USA): Face selective responses represent both parts and wholes.
11:15- 11:30 Morning tea
11:30-12:30 Shih-kuen Cheng (The MEG laboratory of Academia Sinica/ National Central U, Taiwan): ERP and MEG studies of memory encoding and retrival.
12:30- 2:30 Lunch
2:30- 3:30 Kristen Pammer (ANU): TBA
3:30-4:30 Romina Palermo (MACCS, MU): ERP and MEG face processing studies.
5:30 Workshop Party
Friday 14 September 2007: Workshop Part II (Workshop venue: Room 498, C5C, Macquarie University)
10:00-11:15 Professor Masao Ohmi (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan): TBA
11:15- 11:30 Morning tea
11:30-12:30 Genevieve McArthur (MACCS, MU): Abnormal brain responses to sounds in children with reading and language impairments
12:30- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 2:30 Denise Hlsen Wu* and Yi-hui Hung** (The MEG laboratory of Academia Sinica/*National Central U. and **National Yang Ming U., Taiwan): Spatial attention orienting caused by predictive arrow cue and number cue: A MEG study.
2:30-3:30 Mark Williams (MACCS, MU): A cognitive neuroscience model of face and facial expression perception
3:30-4:00 Afternoon tea
4:00-5:15 Professor Brian Byrne*, Megan Gilliver*, Will Coventry*, Richard K Olson** and Stefan Samuelsson^ (* U. of New England, ** U. of Colorado, ^U. of Linkoping and Stanvanger U.): Some sources of variation in vocabulary growth.