British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience
Joint Annual Meeting with the Welsh Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN)
1st-5th September 2008, Swansea University

Preliminary Programme

Monday 1st September (BACN)

10.00 - 2.00	Registration
2.00 - 2.15	Welcome from the BACN Chair & Conference Organiser
2.00 - 3.30	Symposium 1: ‘The Auditory Basis of Language Learning Impairments’
3.30 - 4.00	Tea
4.00 - 5.00	Symposium 1: (continued)
5.00 - 6.00	Keynote Speaker 1: Sophie Scott ‘fMRI studies of speech processing’, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
	Committee Meeting/Dinner

Tuesday 2nd September (BACN)

9.00 - 11.00	Symposium 2: ‘New Developments in EEG Source Localisation’
11.00 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00	Symposium 2: ‘Round Table Discussion’
12.00 - 1.00	BACN Annual General Meeting
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00	Keynote Speaker 2: Prof Kees Stam 'Exploring Normal and Disrupted Brain Networks with EEG and MEG' VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
3.00 - 3.30	Tea/coffee
3.30 - 5.30	Symposium 3: ‘New Developments in Functional Connectivity’
5.30 - 7.30	Poster Session (with a cheese & wine reception)

Wednesday 3rd September (BACN/WICN)

9.00 - 10.30	Platform presentations
10.30 - 11.00	Tea Coffee
11.00 - 12.00	Platform presentation
12.00 - 1.00	Keynote Speaker 3: Prof Dave Benton, ‘Nutrition, the Brain & Cognition’ , Dept of Psychology, Swansea University
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 4.00
4.00 - 4.30	Tea/coffee
4.30 - 5.30	Keynote Speaker 4: Dr Ed Wilding ‘New directions in electrophysiological studies of memory retrieval: Beyond correlates of retrieval success’ Dept of Psychology, Cardiff University
6.00 -12.00	Tour of Gower and Conference Dinner

2nd Annual Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Conference

The conference continues until Friday lunchtime with the 2nd Annual Conference of the Welsh Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience. Over the next day and a half, research funded by WICN will be presented in symposia on the WICN research priorities: Language & Thought, Learning & Memory, Attention & Emotion and Vision & Action.

BACN members are invited to continue their stay at Swansea and may attend the WICN conference at a reduced rate

Thursday 4th September

9.00 - 11.00	WICN Symposium 1: ‘Language & Thought’
11.00 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee break
11.30 - 1.00	WICN Symposium 2: ‘Learning & Memory’
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00	WICN Keynote Speaker 1: Prof Toby Lloyd Jones, Swansea University
3.00 - 3.30	Tea/coffee
3.30 - 5.30	WICN Symposium 3: ‘Attention & Emotion’
5.30 - 7.30	WICN Collaborative Open Discussion & Poster Session

Friday 5th September

9.00 - 11.00	WICN Symposium 4: ‘Research Presentations by the WICN Research Officers
11.00 - 11.30	Tea/Coffee break
11.30 - 1.00	WICN Symposium 5: ‘Vision & Action’
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch

Conference Closes at 2.00pm on Friday 5th September.

Symposium 1: ‘The Auditory Basis of Language Learning Impairments’

Organiser: Dr Torsten Baldeweg, Institute of Child Health, UCL

2.10	Mervyn Hardimann/ Dorothy Bishop	ERPs as a measure of auditory processing in children with SLI	Dept of Experimental Psychology, Oxford
2.30	Kate Baker	ERP correlates of structural brain differences in children with SLI
2.50	Lorna Halliday	Auditory maturation: an ERP study of children with dyslexia versus children with mild to moderate hearing loss	Institute of Child Health, UCL
3.10	Tim Fosker/ Usha Goswami	Rise time and duration detection deficits in children with dyslexia - an ERP study	Faculty of Education, Cambridge
3.30	Tea Break
4.00	Marie Gomot	fMRI/ERP studies of auditory processing in children with autism	Autism Research Centre, Cambridge
4.20	Katrin Schulze	Music, language, and working memory	Institute of Child Health, UCL
4.40	Sebastian Jentschke	Musical training in children with SLI	Institute of Child Health, UCL
5.00	Sophie Scott	*Keynote Speaker 1: ‘fMRI studies of speech processing’*	Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL

Symposium 2: ‘New Developments in Source Localisation’

Organiser: Dr Gaynor Evans, EGI/Aston University

One of the main driving forces behind the enormous growth of interest in Cognitive Neuroscience has been the development of methods for localising cognitive functions. Although this has largely been driven by measures based on blood flow (e.g. fMRI and PET), there have also been important development sin EEG/MEG source localisation, and despite the formidable problems faced, much progress has been made. For this symposium, we have invited leading scientists from the main commercial providers of EEG/MEG systems and software to discuss the recent progress in this area and to outline promising future developments. The emphasis will be on the theory behind the techniques not the commercial aspects. Speakers currently agreed are from CURRY, EGI, Brain products and Neuroscan. The symposium will be followed by a round table discussion on Source Localisation.

Symposium 3: ‘New Developments in Functional Connectivity’

Organiser: Prof Adrian Burgess, Dept of Psychology, Swansea

2.00	Kees Stam	Keynote Speaker 2: 'Exploring Normal and Disrupted Brain Networks with EEG and MEG'	VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
3.00	Tea/Coffee
3.30	Avgis Hadjipapas	‘Time varying classification distance between stimulus states to predict subsequent evoked and behavioural responses to stimulus changes’	Wellcome Trust Laboratory for MEG Studies, Aston
4.00	Dr. Joydeep Bhattacharya	t.b.a	Psychology Dept, Goldsmiths College
4.30	Tarek Medkour/ Andrew Walden	‘Partial Coherence, problems, pitfalls and solutions’	Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College
5.00	Adrian Burgess	‘Brain networks and Visual Feature Binding’	Dept of Psychology, Swansea

Symposium 4: Memory

Organiser: Prof Adrian Burgess, Dept of Psychology, Swansea

2.00	Andrea Greve	‘fMRI study investigated the influence of semantic knowledge on episodic memory’	School of Psychology, Cardiff University
2.30	Louise Venables/ Andy Parrott	‘Recognition Memory in Ecstasy/MDMA & Cannabis users: novel EEG findings’	Dept of Psychology, Swansea University
3.00	Stephan Boehm	‘Evidence for differential retrieval effects for faces for working, declarative and non-declarative memory systems’	School of Psychology, Bangor University
3.30	Seralynne Vann	‘Fornix damage and memory’	School of Psychology, Cardiff university
4.00	Tea/Coffee
4.30	Ed Wilding	Keynote Speaker 4: ‘New directions in electrophysiological studies of memory retrieval: Beyond correlates of retrieval success’	School of Psychology, Cardiff University

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker 1: Professor Sophie Scott
‘fMRI studies of speech processing’

Sophie Scott is Professor at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Her main research interests are the neurobiology of speech perception, including the functional sub systems in human auditory cortex, the evolution of speech, the difference between intelligibilty and comprehension, and profiles of recovery in aphasia. This relates to her work on dyslexia and processing of emotional information in the voice. She is also involved in a project looking at reading and rehabilitation in hemianopic alexia.

Keynote Speaker 2: Prof Kees Stam
'Exploring Normal and Disrupted Brain'

Kees Stam is Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology at the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. His current research interests involve the development and use of nonlinear time series analysis of EEG and MEG signals to study normal and disturbed cognitive function in a broad range of neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and brain tumour patients. Kees Stam is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neuroscience (ICEN) of the VU, chair of the science committee of the ICEN, and member of the science board of the VU. He is a member of the editorial board of Human Brain Mapping and the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, and associate editor of Clinical Neurophysiology

Keynote Speaker 3: Prof Dave Benton
‘Nutrition, the Brain & Cognition’

Dave Benton is Professor of Psychology at the department of Psychology, Swansea University. He is an internationally renowned expert on the effects of nutrition and cognition. His primary objective is to make dietary recommendations, or where appropriate to develop food products, that will facilitate mood and cognitive functioning. His research interests include: dietary induced changes in blood glucose on mood and cognition, the influence of meals, in particular breakfast, on cognition, the impact of various vitamins and minerals on mood and cognition, the role of macro-nutrient intake in mood and cognition (in particular the importance of fat intake and the level of fatty acids in the diet), food craving and health education

Keynote Speaker 4: Dr Ed Wilding
‘New directions in electrophysiological studies of memory retrieval: Beyond correlates of retrieval success’

Ed Wilding is reader at the Dept of Psychology, Cardiff University. His research interests are in human long term memory. He studies psychological models of human memory, and assess the adequacy of competing models. He is particularly interested in how we can exert control over our memories, and how these control processes change with age. A central issue here is how we manage to extract successfully specific bits of information from memory from amongst so many other highly similar bits. In pursuing these research questions, he investigates how people complete memory tasks, and measure brain activity while they are doing this using event-related potentials (ERPs).

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