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Friday, 02 Nov 2012


08:15 Registration

08:45 - 09:00 Opening Remarks


Spatial Attention: Neural Implementation


09:00 - 09:45
Neural mechanisms of spatial attention control in the primate brain
Sabine Kastner (Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA)

09:45 - 10:30
Anatomy of spatial attention: evidence from stroke patients
Hans-Otto Karnath (Center of Neurology, University of Tuebingen, Germany)


10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 - 11:45
Spatial attention deficits in humans after parietal lesions
Rik Vandenberghe (Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium)

11:45 - 12:30
Primate models for disorders of spatial attention
Melanie Wilke (Department of Cognitive Neurology, University of Medicine Goettingen, Germany)


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break


14:00 - 14:45
Attentional selection through brain-wide synchronization networks
Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany)

14:45 - 15:30
(Spatial) attention - computational modelling
Fred Hamker (Department of Computer Science, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)


15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break


16:00 - 18:00 Poster blitz: 1 min plenum intro into each poster followed by a poster session


18:00 Guided walking tour of Tübingen (free)

20:00 Social dinner (at own expense)

Saturday, 03 Nov 2012


 

 


Spatial Attention: Mechanisms


09:00 - 09:45
The body's functional space in allocation of attention
Catherine Reed (Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, USA)

09:45 - 10:30
Motor intention and allocation of attention
Heiner Deubel (Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany)


10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 - 11:45
Update on the premotor theory of attention
Daniel Smith (Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees, UK)

11:45 - 12:30
The impact of eye position on the prioritization of visual space
Daniela Balslev (Center of Neurology, University of Tuebingen, Germany & Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)


12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break


14:00 - 14:45
Cross-modal interactions in spatial attention
Charles Spence (Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK)

14:45 - 15:30
Emotion, attention and neglect
Patrik Vuilleumier (Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center & Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland)