Program
- Talks are to be 15 mins + 5 mins for questions
- Posters are to be in PORTRAIT format, maximum width 1 m, maximum length 2.4 m
Preconference Workshop:
9th EEGLAB Workshop, November 25-27, 2009
ASP Conference November 27-30, 2009
Friday 27 November
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6:30-8:30 p.m. Welcome Reception – Newcastle Surf Life Saving Club
Sponsored by Nightingale's Winery, Hunter Valley
Saturday 28 November
- 8:00 Registration
- 8:50 Opening Address Dr Stuart Johnstone, President ASP
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9:00 - 9:30 HMRI Skills Workshop 1 - Advanced EEG Analyses Techniques 1.
EEG spectral modulations associated with self-induced emotional imagery
Dr Julie Onton,
Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA; Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA, USA -
9:30 - 11:00 Session 1, CHAIR:
Atypical brain responses to sounds in children with specific language and reading impairments
McArthur, Atkinson & Ellis
Temporal processing ability linked to ear-asymmetry in mismatch negativity to between-channel gap sounds
Todd, Finch, Schall & Budd
Visual cues can improve musical stream segregation for cochlear implant users
Innes-Brown, Marozeau, Grayden, Burkitt & Blamey
The development of multisensory integration as indexed by an auditory-visual illusion
Innes-Brown, Barutchu, Crewther, Shivdasani & Paolini
- Coffee Break
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11:15 - 12:30 Session 2 CHAIR:
The rubber hand illusion and its relation to perceptual inference and psychological cooling
Paton & Hohwy
Natural control architecture of the human cognitive system
Burton
Predicting visual consciousness electrophysiologically
O'Shea, Kornmeier & Roeber
If electrophysiology plus psychophysics predict autistic class membership what are the implications for the development of core signs?
Crewther & Sutherland
A role for V5 in word identification?
Laycock, Crewther, Fitzgerald & Crewther - 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
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1:45 - 2:15 HMRI Skills Workshop 2
Applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation in cognitive neuroscience
Professor Jason Mattingley, Queensland Brain Institute -
2:15 - 3:45 Session 3 CHAIR:
Stop-signal ERPs
Hughes, Michie, Fulham, Smith & Johnston
Response inhibition in an implicitly cued Go/NoGo task
Randall & Smith
An investigation of the inhibition and conflict accounts of N2 and P3 in the Go/NoGo and two-choice tasks using sequence effects
Pregal, Smith & Heathcote
Executing, inhibiting and changing planned and unplanned responses in the Go/NoGo task: Examination of the conflict and inhibition accounts of N2 and P3
Randall & Smith - Coffee Break
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4:00 - 5:30 Session 4 CHAIR:
Facial EMG can predict ethnic discrimination in an Australian sample
Milston & Vanman
Neural processing of human faces: Insights from fixation-related potentials
de Lissa, Palermo, McArthur, Hawelka, Mahajan & Hutzler
Changes in autonomic responses to facial expressions following severe traumatic brain injury
Rushby, McDonald, Li, DeSousa, Dimoska & Tate -
5:30 - 7:00 Poster Session 1 and Drinks
Chronic cannabis use alters neurophysiological functioning during the Stroop color-naming task
Battisti, Roodenrys, Johnstone, Pesa, Hermens & Solowij
Varying task difficulty in the Go/Nogo task: A preliminary analysis Benikos, Johnstone & Roodenrys
Is Error Negativity task specific?
Carr, Martin & Adam
Age-related change in the response to auditory repetition: evidence of compensatory activity?
Cooper, Todd & Michie
Physiological and self-reported responses to dynamic emotional change in actual computer game avatars
Cummings & Potter
Genetic modulation of behavioural and neural measures of response inhibition
Cummins, Bellgrove, Nandam, Nathan, Wagner & Mattingley
Emotions in voice and music: Same code, same effect
Escoffier, Zhong, Qui & Schirmer
Risk factors of postpartum depression in women attending primary health centers of Mazandaran Province in Iran, 2009 year: A cohort study
Fatemeh, Saan, Zain, Ghazalie & Mehran
Effects of attention on the N1 reactivity profile
McKenzie & Barry
Mismatch negativity and other auditory evoked potentials in a rodent model of schizophrenia
Nakamura, Michie, Fulham, Hunter, Budd, Schall, Kemp, Cooper, Todd & Hodgson
The posterior parietal cortex in an RSVP reading task
Pammer & Holliday
Neural processing of phrase boundaries in speech and music
Peter, McArthur, Thompson & Crain
Neural correlates of inhibition in task-switching
Player, Mansfield, Jamadar & Karayanidis
Brain activity associated with extensive practice in a mental rotation task
Provost, Johnson, Brown & Heathcote
Neuroelectric evidence of early attentional bias towards threat in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Thomas, Gonzalvez & Johnstone
Sunday 29 November
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9:00 - 9:30 HMRI Skills Workshop 3
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Dr Ross Fulham, PRC Brain and Mental Health, University of Newcastle -
9:30 - 11:00 Session 5 CHAIR:
Neural correlates of prospective memory: Validating and improving an experimental paradigm
Wilson, Cutmore, Chan & Shum
Investigating top-down control in task-switching: ERP evidence from a voluntary task-switching paradigm
Mansfield & Karayanidis
Task-switching performance in schizophrenia
Jamadar, Michie & Karayanidis
Impairment of duration Mismatch Negativity in the schizophrenia prodrome
Atkinson, Schall, Stojanov, Inkpen, Hunt, Helmbold, Halpin, Carr, Todd & Michie - Coffee Break
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11:15 - 12:40 Session 6 CHAIR:
Is it about the mirror neuron system or top-down selective attention mechanisms? An fMRI study of self-name recognition
Tacikowski, Brechmann, Marchewka, Jednorog, Dobrowolny & Nowicka
Motor plans influence the perceptual processing of observed actions
Cunnington, Bortoletto & Mattingley
The effect of cognitive load on pre-movement activity during the readiness for action
Baker & Cunnington
Driven to distraction! The influence of central attentional load on steady-state evoked potentials to irrelevant visual stimuli
Hall & Mattingley -
12:40 - 1:15 Invited Address
Illuminating brain function with optical imaging
Dr Trevor Penney, Dept Psychology, National University of Singapore - 1:15 - 2:10 Lunch
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2:10 - 3:50 Session 7
Identification of ERP components underlying task-switching performance using variation across the RT distribution
Karayanidis, Provost, Jamadar, Brown, Paton & Heathcote
Preferred brain states in the auditory Go/NoGo task as a function of EEG frequency
Barry & de Blasio
An evaluation of P50 suppression methodologies
Dalecki, Croft & Johnstone
Preliminary validation of portable single-channel EEG recording device
Johnstone
Computerised inhibition and working memory training for children with and without Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An active-task EEG analysis
Loveday, Johnstone & Roodenrys
- Coffee Break
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4:15 - 4:55 Session 8 CHAIR:
Intergroup bias influences the perception of action
Halasz, Molenberghs, Mattingley, Vanman & Cunnington
The psychophysiology of decision making: Attempting to identify impairments in social functioning using a novel task
Kelly, McDonald, Rushby & Kellett -
4:55 - 5:30 HMRI Skills Workshop 4
Magnetoencephalography
Dr Blake Johnson, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University - 7:30 - 10:30 Conference Dinner - Harbourview on Queens Wharf
Monday 30 November
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9:00 - 10:50 Breakfast Meeting - Bridging ASP and Cognitive Neuroscience followed by AGM
Professor Pat Michie (in Keats Reading Room)
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10:50 - 11:25 Invited Address
Multiple aspects of self awareness
Professor Peter Walla, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle -
11:25 - 12:45 Session 9 CHAIR:
Strategy development in aging: behavioural and ERP evidence for practice improvements in task-switching
Whitson, Karayanidis & Michie
Working memory in women at risk of cognitive decline and dementia
Macpherson, Pipingas & Ellis
Anxiety and the attentional blink: A paradox for older adults
Carter & Pammer
Effects of 2G and 3G mobile phones on performance and neurophysiology in adolescents, young adults and older adults
Leung, Croft, McKenzie, Iskra, Cooper & Hamblin -
12:45 - 2:00 HMRI Student and Early Career Researcher Lunch
hosted by Professor Pat Michie, University of Newcastle with HMRI address.
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2:00 - 3:40 Session 10 CHAIR:
The independent and combined effects of taurine and alcohol on attentional processes
Lusk & Martin
The acute effects of caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee on the mismatch negativity in a healthy older population
Cropley, Croft, Silber, Stough, Scholey & Schmitt
Heart-rate and electrodermal changes to win and loss events during a computer-simulated gambling task
Lole, Gonsalvez, Blaszczynski & Clarke
When sexual arousal leads to sexual aggression: Does working memory capacity play an inhibitory role?
Spokes, Hine, Jamieson & Marks
Generalization of enhanced (evaluative) processing of snakes and spiders in individuals with high snake/spider fear
Mallan & Lipp
- Coffee Break
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4:00 - 4:35 HMRI Skills Workshop 5
If the only tool you have is a hammerâ¦. An exploration of the value of a multi-method approach using facial affect processing as an example
Dr Patrick Johnston, Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University - 4:35 - 5:00 Closing Address & HMRI Student Award Presentations
