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Fourth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Applications
Cambridge, April 22-26 2006
MMN 2006 conference: Programme
Below is the programme of the conference. The full programme, including all abstracts, can be found in the program and abstract book [in pdf format].
April 22, 2006
3pm - 6:30pm - registration desk open
5pm - 6:15pm - Keynote lecture I: Risto Näätänen (Helsinki Univ)
6:30pm - 8pm - welcome reception
April 23, 2006
9am - 5pm - registration desk open
9:30am - 11am - Symposium 1: Current issues in the interpretation of MMN. Chair: I. Winkler (Inst for Psychology, Budapest)
Speakers: Elyse S. Sussman (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY), Istvan Winkler (Inst for Psychology, Budapest), Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz (Inserm U562, Orsay)
11am - 11:30am - tea break
11:30am - 12:45pm - Keynote lecture II: Dorothy Bishop (Oxford Univ)
12:45pm - 2:15pm - lunch break (on your own)
2:15pm - 3:45pm - Symposium 2: MMN and auditory memory: new developments. Chair: E. Schröger (Univ of Leipzig)
Speakers: Sabine Grimm (Univ of Leipzig), Thomas Jacobsen (Univ of Leipzig), Mercedes Atienza (Univ Pablo de Olavide, Seville), Titia van Zuijen (Helsinki Univ)
3:45pm - 4:15m - tea break
4:15pm - 5:45pm - Symposium 3: Mental set effects on involuntary attention. Chair: C. Escera (Univ of Barcelona)
Speakers: Gunes Yucel (Duke Univ Medical Center, Durham, NC), Janos Horvath (Inst for Psychology, Budapest) Stefan Berti (Psychology Inst, Mainz), Fabrice Parmentier (Univ of Plymouth)
5:45pm - 7:00pm Keynote lecture III: Israel Nelken (Hebrew Univ Jerusalem)
April 24, 2006
9:30am - 10:45am - Keynote lecture IV: John Duncan (MRC CBU, Cambridge)
10:45am - 11:15am - tea break
11:15am - 12:30pm - Symposium 4: Special topics symposium. Chair: F. Pulvermüller (MRC CBU)
Speakers: Risto J Ilmoniemi (Helsinki Univ of Technology), Olaf Hauk (MRC CBU), Yury Shtyrov (MRC CBU)
12:30pm - 2:30pm - Poster session 1+lunch break (light lunch served in poster area)
2:30pm - 4:00pm - Symposium 5: The question of language, MMN and everything. Chair: Y. Shtyrov (MRC CBU)
Speakers: Olli Aaltonen (Turku Univ), Milene Bonte (Univ of Maastricht), Anna Shestakova (Helsinki Univ), Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC CBU)
4:00pm - 4:30pm - tea break
4:30pm - 6:00pm - Symposium 6: MMN reflecting the neural basis of language impairments. Chair: T. Kujala (Turku Univ)
Speakers: Tomi K. Guttorm (Univ of Jyväskylä), Eira Jansson-Verkasalo (Univ of Helsinki & Univ of Oulu), Ferenc Honbolygó (Inst for Psychology, Budapest), Jenny Thomson (Cambridge Univ)
6:00pm - 8:00pm - Poster session 2 + MMN bar open
April 25, 2006
9:30am - 11am - Symposium 7: Schizophrenia and psychiatric disorders. Chair: P. Michie (Univ of Newcastle, Australia)
Speakers: Pat Michie (Univ of Newcastle, Australia), Ross Fulham (Univ of Newcastle, Australia), Dean F Salisbury (Harvard Medical School), Eira Jansson-Verkasalo (Univ of Helsinki & Univ of Oulu)
11am - 11:30am - tea break
11:30am - 12:45pm - Keynote lecture V: Charles Schroeder
12:45pm - 2:15pm - lunch break (on your own)
2:15pm - 3:45pm - Symposium 8: Visual and multitmodal MMN. Chair: I. Czigler (Inst for Psychology, Budapest)
Speakers: Istvan Czigler (Inst for Psychology, Budapest), Motohiro Kimura (Hokkaido Univ), Elena Amenedo (Univ Santiago de Compostela), A.Tales (Univ of Bristol), Julien Besle (Lyon Univ)
3:45pm - 4:15m - tea break
4:15pm - 5:45pm - Symposium 9: Localising the neural network of MMN: a multimodal view. Chairs: L. Deouell (Hebrew Univ Jerusalem), Y. Shtyrov (MRC-CBU)
Speakers: Timm Rosburg (Bonn Univ), Sophie Molholm (Nathan Kline Inst), Marta Garrido (UCL), Leon Deouell (Hebrew Univ Jerusalem)
7pm - Conference Dinner, venue: Queens' College.
April 26, 2006
9:30am - 11:30pm - Panel Discussion: Current views on MMN origins and its clinical and scientific applications