Program

The program for this conference is available via the following link.
NCORA Schedule

Monday September 28, 2009

8:00 - 8:15   Greeting and Outline  Lewis Wheaton
8:15 - 9:45         Neural Substrates of Action Recognition; Chair: Lewis Wheaton
Ramon Leiguarda      Gesture Recognition Impairment: Clinical and Cortical Stimulation Studies
Esteban Fridman    Neural Basis of Gesture Recognition

9:45 - 10:00        COFFEE BREAK
                           
10 - 11:30         Object Recognition and Semantic Processing; Chair: Kathleen Haaland
 Andrew Kertesz    Object Recognition in Semantic Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy and Alzheimer's Disease. What Does it Tell Us About Semantic Memory?
J. Chris Mizelle    Neural Correlates of Conceptual-Object Relationships
           
11:30 - 1:15        LUNCH
                           
1:15 - 2:45        Skilled Hand-Arm Motor Control; Chair: Scott Grafton
Lewis Wheaton     Praxis Motor Learning:  The Role of Mirroring, Novelty, and Prior Representations
Edward Taub    CI Therapy: A Method for Harnessing Brain Plasticity to Produce New Treatments in Neurorehabilitation
                       
2:45 - 3:00        COFFEE BREAK

3:00 - 4:30        The Role of Perception in Action; Chair: Krish Sathian
Scott Grafton    Action Understanding: Evidence for Simulation, Hierarchy and Embodiment
Lawrence Barsalou    The Role of Perception in Action and Knowledge of Object Concepts

4:30 - 5:30        Day 1 Wrap-up Roundtable; Chairs:  Andrew Kertesz, Ramon Leiguarda & Scott Grafton



Tuesday September 29, 2009

7:45 - 9:15    Neural Mechanisms of Limb Apraxia; Chair: Joachim Hermsdorfer
Kenneth Heilman    The Disconnection Apraxias
Kathleen Haaland     Ideomotor Limb Apraxia: Neuroanatomical Correlates and Functional Implications

9:15 - 9:30        COFFEE BREAK

9:30 - 11:30    Cognitive Models of Object Action and Recognition; Chair: Esteban Fridman
Laurel Buxbaum        Recent Developments in our Understanding of Action Planning, Representation, and Execution
Special Joint Presentation - Eric Roy  and Genevieve Desmarais      Interactions Between Object and Action Information in Visual and Gestural Tasks
                           
11:30 - 1:00        LUNCH

1:00 - 2:30    Sensorimotor Transformations and Multisensory Integration; Chair: Lawrence Barsalou
Anna Borghi    Sensorimotor Transformations: Implications for Objects and Affordances
Brenda Hanna-Pladdy  Neural Mechanisms Mediating Multisensory Integration of Object Action

2:30 - 2:45        COFFEE BREAK

2:45 - 4:15        Skilled Hand-Arm Motor Control II; Chair: Brenda Hanna-Pladdy
Joachim Hermsdorfer   Skilled Use of the ‘Non-involved' Hand Following Left or Right Brain Damage
Steve Wolf    Explorations into Novel Interventions for Reacquisition of Upper Extremity Movement in Stroke: Robotics, Music and Beyond!

4:15 - 5:30    Day 2 Wrap-up Roundtable; Chairs:  Kenneth Heilman, Kathleen Haaland & Joachim Hermsdorfer


Wednesday September 30, 2009

8:00 - 9:30          Visuomotor Processing and Perception in Object Recognition; Chair: Laurel Buxbaum
Krish Sathian     Visual and Haptic Perception of Objects
Sarah Creem-Regehr   Dissociated Where and How Knowledge for Object Grasping                       

9:30 - 10:00        COFFEE BREAK

10:00 - 12:00        Review and Discussion Panel 
Development of research ideas.  Collaborative investigation teams to firmly decide next steps; Chairs: Lewis Wheaton, Brenda Hanna-Pladdy & Laurel Buxbaum

12:00             ADJOURN