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	The BSI Spring Symposium: Neuroscience & Cognition June 13, 2008 Johns Hopkins University, Turner Auditorium 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205 10:00 am -- 4:30 pm Tilghman Auditorium/Turner Concourse

SUMMARY The Brain Science Institute announces a Symposium on Neuroscience and Cognition, to be held Friday, June 13, 2008 at Tilghman auditorium on the School of Medicine campus in East Baltimore. The symposium will run from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Lunch will be served and a reception will follow. The purpose of the symposium is to bring together Hopkins researchers interested in the neural basis of cognition. Invited speakers will address three themes: Learning and Memory, Language and Communication, Perception and Aesthetics. The symposium will be accompanied by a poster session. Students, fellows, and faculty are strongly encouraged to present posters based on recent work. The poster session is designed to highlight the wide range of systems and cognitive neuroscience research done at Hopkins.
AGENDA 9:00 - 9:25 am Refreshments 9:25 - 9:30 am Welcome Marilyn Albert, M.D. Professor of Neurology Director, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience 9:30 - 11:00 am Learning and Memory "An Introduction to Learning and Memory" Una McCann, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry "Learning control of movements" Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience "Neural Circuitry of Verbal Short-term Memory" John Desmond, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Science "Episodic Memory and Neurocognitive Aging" Michela Gallagher, Ph.D. Professor Krieger-Eisenhower Chair of Psychological and Brain 11:00 - 11:15 am Break 11:00 - 12:45 pm Language and Communication "An Introduction to Language and Communication" Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professor, Mind Brain Institute "Why hearing impairment is a hard problem (neural plasticity is not always good)" Eric Young, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering "TBA" Barbara Landau, Ph.D. Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science "The Literate Brain" Brenda Rapp, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Cognitive Science 12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch and poster session 2:15 - 4:15 pm Perception and aesthetics "An Introduction to Perception and Aesthetics" Gary Vikan, Ph.D. Director, The Walters Art Museum "Neural Basis for Appreciating 3D Shape" Ed Connor, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neuroscience "An Introduction to Perception and Aesthetics" Steve Hsiao, Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience "Neural Substrates of Musical Creativity" Charles Limb, M.D. Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery "Spatial Perception, Perceptual Deficits, and Art" Mike McCloskey, Ph.D. Professor of Cognitive Science 4:15 - 4:30 pm concluding remarks Guy McKhann, M.D. Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience 4:30 - 5:30 pm reception and poster session