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| Monday 20/9/10 | |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Symposium I: | Physiology and anatomy |
| Jon Kaas (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA) |
| The evolution of dorsal stream somatosensory networks in primates. |
| Claudio Galletti (Universita di Bologna, Italy) |
| Reaching and grasping activities in the medial posterior parietal cortex of the primate brain. |
| Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer (Universita ‘La Sapienza’ Rome, Italy) |
| The role of parietal cortex in the on-line control of hand Movement: a comparison with frontal cortex. |
| Mathew Rushworth (University of Oxford, UK) |
| Parietal-frontal interactions in people and macaques. |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | lunch | |
| 13.00 - 15.00 | Symposium II | Visuomotor function |
| Stephen Jackson (University of Nottingham, UK) |
| Parietal contributions to the planning and control of reaching movements. |
| Ivan Toni (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands) |
| How many brain areas does it take to grasp a light bulb? |
| Laurel Buxbaum (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA) |
| Form and Function: Interactions and conflicts between actions associated with objects. |
| Jody Culham (University of Western Ontario, Canada) |
| Parietal coding of movement components and object properties in reaching and grasping. |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Tea | |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Poster Session I | |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Keynote I: | Mick Rugg |
| (University of California, Irvine, USA) |
| What is the role of lateral parietal cortex in episodic memory retrieval? |
| Tuesday 21/9/10 | |
| 10.00 - 12.00 | Symposium III: | Somatosensory processing |
| Chris Dijkerman (Universiteit van Utrecht, Netherlands) |
| Somatosensory representations of the fingers. Evidence from finger agnosia and spatial directional judgements. |
| Salvador Soto Faraco (Universite di Barcelona, Spain) |
| The remapping of tactile space. |
| Ellen Poliakoff (University of Manchester, UK) |
| Investigating Somatic Perception and Misperception. |
| Brigitte Röder(University of Hamburg, Germany) |
| Crossmodally generated shifts of auditory localization. |
| 12.00 - 13.00 | lunch | |
| 13.00 - 15.00 | Symposium IV | Time, space & numbers |
| Vincent Walsh (University College London, UK) |
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| Brian Butterworth (University College London, UK) |
| Numbers and space in the parietal lobes and elsewhere. |
| Martin Fischer (University of Dundee, UK) |
| From sensory-motor associations to embodied numerical cognition. |
| Rainer Goebel (Universiteit van Maastricht, Netherlands) |
| Disentangling the functional role of the left and right parietal lobe in spatial mental tasks using fMRI and TMS. |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Tea | |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Poster Session II | |
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Keynote II: | Masud Husain |
| (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom) |
| Attention, working memory and parietal cortex |
