October 20, 2003, 9:00am-5:00pm

Emotions/Fear
Chair:  Ann Graybiel

09:10-09:50

Michael Davis (Emory University)
“Neural Systems Involved in Fear, Anxiety and Extinction”

09:50-10:30

Joseph LeDoux (New York University)
“Emotional Synapses and their Memories”

10:30-10:50

Break

10:50-11:30

Bruce McEwen (Rockefeller University)
“Stress Can Remodel the Brain!”

11:30-12:10

Rene Hen (Columbia University)
“Influence of Postnatal Development and Hippocampal Neurogenesis on Anxiety and Depression”

12:10-2:00

Lunch Break

Motor Cortical Systems
Chair:  Emilio Bizzi

2:00-2:40

Giacomo Rizzolatti (University of Parma, Italy)
“ The Mirror-Neuron System”

2:40-3:20

Eve Marder (Brandeis University)
“ Stability, Plasticity, and Modulation of a Rhythmic Motor System”

3:20-3:35

Break

3:35-4:15

Atsushi Iriki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
“ Parietal Mechanisms Subserving Monkey Tool-Using Behaviors”

4:15-4:55

Apostolos Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota)
“ Neural Mechanisms of Copying”

October 21, 9:00am-5:00 pm

Perception in the Cortex
Chairs:  Jim DiCarlo and Chris Moore

9:10-9:50

Kenneth Johnson (Johns Hopkins University)
“ Consistency as a Test of a Neural Coding Hypothesis”

9:50-10:30

   Michael Shadlen (University of Washington)
“ A Neural Mechanism for Making Decisions”

10:30-10:50

  Break

10:50-11:30

  Jennifer Groh (Dartmouth College)
“ The Eyes and Ears Both Have It:  Frames of Reference in the Auditory Pathway”

11:30-12:10

Christof Koch (Caltech)
“Towards a Murine Model of Selective Attention"

12:10-2:00

Lunch Break

Understanding Other Minds
Chair:  Nancy Kanwisher

2:00-2:40

Gyorgy Gergely (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
“Reasoning about Goal-Directed Actions During the First Year: The Young Infant's Teleological Stance and its Relation to Theory of Mind

2:40-3:20

Paul Bloom (Yale University)
“ Bodies and Souls”

3:20-3:35

Break

3:35-4:15

Rebecca Saxe (Harvard University)
“ Two Components of Theory of Mind:  fMRI Evidence”

4:15-4:55

Marc Hauser (Harvard University)
“ The Instinct to Cooperate: From Behavior to Neurobiology and Back”