2019 Conference Program
Monday, September 2nd
Location: Robinson College, Grange Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AN
8:45 Registration (Welcome tea/coffee)
9:15 Welcome address & conference introduction
Symposium: Split brain: split or unified agency (Chair Edward de Haan)
9:30 Matt Rosner: The split-brain phenomenon
9:55 Edward de Haan: The interaction between visual hemifield/body and respond hand
10:20 Yair Pinto: Challenges and pitfalls in the split-brain research
10:45 Anil Seth: Islands of awareness
11:10 Tea & coffee break with sponsor exhibits
11:30 Mid-Career Prize Lecture
Patrick Haggard
12:30 Speed presentation session 1
13:00 Lunch break with poster session 1 and sponsor exhibits
Symposium: The information content of brain activity in real time (Chair - John Duncan & Alexandra Woolgar)
14:15 Alexandra Woolgar: Spatial and feature-based attention have distinct, interacting, effects on population-level tuning
14:40 Sneha Shashidhara: Local field potentials contain stronger and more stable information than spikes
15:05 Mark Stokes: Separating competing task representations within prefrontal cortex
15:30 Denise Moerel: Disentangling the effects of attention and decision-making on the dynamic representation of visual stimuli
16:00 Tea & coffee break with sponsor exhibits
16:30 Invited keynote speaker
Kia Nobre: Memory and Attention: the Back and Forth
BACN Conference Dinner & Dance
Location TBC
Tuesday, September 3rd
Location: Robinson College, Grange Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AN
Open session 1
9:00 Edwin Dalmaijer: Big data statistics and high-resolution tests of cognition, attitudes , mental health, and socio-economic status reveal a complex interplay that shapes children’s educational outcomes
9:25 Roni Tibon: Mulitmodal integration and vividness in the angular gyrus during episodic encoding and retrieval
9:50 Carmel Mevorach: Hypoactivated precuneus as a potential mechanism underlying impaired dynamic attention in ASD
10:15 Tea and coffee break with sponsor exhibits
Open session 2
10:45 Amanda C. Marshall: Interoceptive inference: from bodily predictions to environmental interactions
11:10 Ashwani Jha: Metabolic lesion-deficit mapping of human cognition
11:35 Daniel Bor: Fluctuation in fMRI and MEG neural complexity during wakefulness relate to conscious level and cognition
12:00 Speed presentation session 2
12:30 BACN AGM
12:50 Lunch break with poster session 2 and sponsor exhibits
14:00 Early Career Prize Lecture
Micah Allen
15:00 Tea and coffee break with sponsor exhibits
Symposium: Brain stimulation as therapy - who responds? (Chair Katherine Dyke)
15:20 Camilla Nord
15:45 Jacinta O’Shea
16:10 Sarina Iwabuchi
16:35 Eileen Joyce
17:00 Main Conference End
Wednesday, September 4th - Language & Cognition Satellite Event
Location: Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge, CB2 7EF
9:40 Introduction from Matt Lambon Ralph (MRC CBU)
Current understanding of human semantic cognition
9:45 Beth Jefferies (University of York)
10:10 Paul Hoffman (University of Edinburgh)
10:35 Richard Binney (Bangor University)
11:00 JeYoung Jung (University of Nottingham)
11:25 Tea and coffee break
Language, speech and brain oscillations
11:40 Benedikt Zoefel (MRC CBN)
12:05 Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham)
12:30 Tobias Reichenbach (Imperial College London)
12:55 Lunch break
Multilingual language perception and production
14:15 Clara Martin (BCBL)
14:40 Esti Blanco Elorrieta (NYU)
15:05 Alexis Adelman Hervais (University of Zurich)
15:30 Francesca Branzi (MRC CBU)
15:55 Drinks reception