HBM2002: Monday June 3 PM

8th International Conference on
Functional Mapping of the Human Brain
June 2 - 6,2002, Sendai, JAPAN

Monday, June 3 PM
09:00-09:30
Keynote Lecture
Neural Computations and Neural Representations in Prefrontal Cortex: How Many Ways to Slice the Pie?
Suzanne Corkin
MIT
Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Progress toward understanding the computations and representations in prefrontal cortex demands the synthesis of information from several disciplines. Studies in monkeys and humans with discrete frontal-lobe lesions provide evidence about specific cognitive deficits, and about alterations in mood, personality, and arousal that may influence cognitive performance. The lesion approach provides important information about the brain circuits that are necessary for particular cognitive functions. Advanced structural imaging techniques, by revealing more subtle anatomical deficits, provide us with new tools to uncover precise brain-behavior relations. Functional imaging identifies the brain areas that are recruited in the performance of a particular cognitive task, and can leverage this knowledge to elucidate experimentally the component cognitive processes that underlie complex task performance. Information that is unobtainable in humans comes from single-unit recordings in awake, behaving monkeys, which inform us about neuronal activity during the performance of successive cognitive operations over time, and with spatial resolution yet unthinkable in human studies. Models that attempt to explain the function(s) of prefrontal cortex must take into account the information from these diverse disciplines. Recent attempts to do so have resulted in an apparent polarization of the field, with advocates of neural quasi-equipotentiality and adaptability on one side (Miller, Cohen, Duncan, Dehaene, Fuster), and proponents of multiple process-specific (or material-specific) specializations on the other (Petrides, Goldman-Rakic, Gabrieli, Wagner, Johnson, D’Esposito, Postle). Some of the questions that have grown out of this debate include: Is it possible to characterize prefrontal specialization in terms of specific cognitive operations? and Can lesion, imaging, and physiology data be explained in terms of the adaptation to task requirements of a general prefrontal mechanism? This talk will address these issues and other equally contentious points.

14:30-16:00
Oral Session: Memory & Emotion
Chair: E. Maguire

Chronometry of TMS interference on verbal working memory
Felix M. Mottaghy, Massimo Gangitano, Bernd J. Krause, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Laboratory for Magnetic Brain Stimulation, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Department of Nuclear Medicine (KME), Research Center Juelich, Germany, Istituto di Neuropsichiatria, Universita di Palermo
(Pos.No.:10364 Abs.No.:14734)

Anterior hippocampal activation predicts successful memory for face-name associations
Reisa Sperling, Elizabeth Chua, Andrew Cocchiarella, Daniel L. Schacter, Marilyn
Albert Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
(Pos.No.:10266 Abs.No.:13942)

Different neural networks for spatial context memory of experiment-room and stimulus-location: A functional MRI study
Maki Suzuki, Toshikatsu Fujii, Takashi Tsukiura, Yasuhiro Maeda, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Matsue, Atsushi Yamadori
Division of Neuropsychology, Department of Disability Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine,Brain Architecture Analysis Group, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),Division of Life Sciences, Kansei Fukushi Research Center
(Pos.No.:10316 Abs.No.:14394)

INFORMATION-DEPENDENT CEREBRAL REACTIVATIONS DURING POST-TRAINING REM SLEEP
Philippe Peigneux, Steven Laureys, Sonia Fuchs, Fabienne Collette, Xavier Delbeuck, Christian Degueldre, Guy Del Fiore, Joel Aerts, Andre Luxen, Axel Cleeremans, Pierre Maquet
Cyclotron Research Centre, Liege University, Neurology Department, Neuropsychology Unit, Liege University, Cognitive Science Research Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
(Pos.No.:10306 Abs.No.:14229)

Influence of reward and punishment upon spatial attention: Interaction between the limbic system and the spatial attention network
Dana Small, Darren Gitelman, Suzanne Bloise, Todd Parrish, M-Marsel Mesulam
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, Northwestern University Medical School
(Pos.No.:10242 Abs.No.:13751)

Affective modulation of gestural and visual speech stimuli: An ERP study
Kylie J Wheaton, George Aranda, Aina Puce
Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Brain Research Institute, Austin & Respatriation Medical Centre
(Pos.No.:10294 Abs.No.:14215)

Beauty in a smile: medial orbitofrontal cortex and facial attractiveness
John O'Doherty, Joel Winston, Hugo Critchley, David Perrett, D.M. Burt, Ray Dolan
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, School of Psychology, Univ St. Andrews
(Pos.No.:10336 Abs.No.:14465)

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