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