To those of you who happen to be in this general geographical region around
the end of March the following one-day symposium might be of interest. We
organise it to promote interest in cognitive neuroscience, including
vision, and to honour Patricia Goldman-Rakic (see the program).
Cortical dynamics: From development to cognition
28 March 2000
Lecture Hall Megaron, Building Educatorium, Leuvenlaan 19, Uithof, Utrecht,
The Netherlands
09.00-09.25 Arrival and Coffee.
09.25-09.30 Opening Morning Program: Chair D.F. Swaab
09.30-10.20 P. Rakic - Neurogenetics of cortical development
10.20-11.10 R. Frackowiak: Imaging neuroscience: from perception to
cognition
11.10-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.20 A. Grinvald: Dynamics of shape perception
12.20-13.55 Lunch
13.55-14.00 Opening Afternoon Program: Chair W.J.M. Levelt
14.00-14.50 J.A. Movshon: Cortical mechanisms of visual perception
14.50-15.10 Tea
15.10-16.00 P.L. Strick: Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Loops with the
Cerebral Cortex: Motor and Cognitive Circuits
16.00-16.50 P.S. Goldman-Rakic: Topography of Cognition
16.50-17.00 Closing Remarks
17.00 Drinks
Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience in the honour of Patricia Goldman-Rakic
- this year's recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Utrecht University.
Supported by the Faculty of Biology, the Helmholtz Institute, and the
Governing Body of Utrecht University. Participation free (including
lunch), provided you pre-register before March 21 with the organisers
(W.A.van de Grind & M.J.M. Lankheet, Fax +31 30 254 2219, email
W.A.vandeGrind@bio.uu.nl; M.J.M.Lankheet@bio.uu.nl; Secr. Tel. +31 30 253
4230).
About the speakers and chairmen
D.F. Swaab, Director Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, KNAW (Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam; Professor of
Neurobiology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Pasko Rakic, Professor of Neurobiology, Chairman Neurobiology Department,
Yale University, New Haven, USA.
Richard Frackowiak, Co-Head of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive
Neurology, Wellcome Principle Research Fellow; Dean of the Institute of
Neurology, University College London.
Amiram Grinvald, Director of the Grodetsky Center for Research of Higher
Brain Functions, The Dominic Brain Research Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
W.J.M. Levelt, Director Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
J. Anthony Movshon, Presidential Professor New York University; Professor
of Physiology and Neuroscience at New York University School of Medicine;
Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Peter L. Strick, Co-Director Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and
Professor Departments of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Editor-in-Chief of the
Journal of Neurophysiology:
Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Professor of Neuroscience, Yale University,
Honorary Doctor Utrecht University (27 March 2000).
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Wim. A. van de Grind
Comparative Physiology & Helmholtz Institute
Utrecht University, Padualaan 8
3584 Ch Utrecht
Tel. +31 30 253 3645
Fax +31 30 254 2219
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