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Festschrift in Honour of Professor Chris Frith, FRS: "Mind in the Brain"
- Hosted by:
- UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- September 17, 2008 at 09:30 am
- Ends:
- September 18, 2008 at 07:00 pm
- Location:
- Royal Society, Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience are delighted to announce a Festschrift in honour of Professor Chris Frith, FRS. This two-day event, taking place on 17 and 18 September 2008, will be hosted by Professors Ray Dolan, Paul Burgess, Jon Driver and Geraint Rees.
Festschrift in Honour of Professor Chris Frith, FRS
8.30– 9.30
DAY 1: Wednesday 17 Sept 2008
REGISTRATION
Topic: Control and Attention
Chair: Professor Semir Zeki, FRS (UCL)
09:30 Professor Daniel Wolpert (Cambridge)
Forward Models: Going Forth with Frith
10:10 Professor Jon Driver, FMedSci (UCL)
Crossmodal attention; and why Chris Frith remains at the top in top-down control
10.50 COFFEE
11:30 Dr Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus)
Bayesian machines in top-down interaction
12:10 Professor Paul Burgess (UCL)
Chris Frith’s medial rostral PFC
12:50 LUNCH
Topic: Schizophrenia and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Chair: Professor Ray Dolan FMedSci (UCL)
14:30 Professor Eve Johnstone FRSE (Edinburgh)
What progress did we make in 30 years of research into Schizophrenia?
15:10 Professor Paul Fletcher (Cambridge)
Using associative learning models to understand the symptoms of mental illness
15:50 TEA
16:30 Professor Karl Friston, FRS (UCL)
Dysfunctional connectivity in schizophrenia?
17:10 Professor Max Coltheart (Sydney)
Chris Frith and the cognitive neuropsychiatry of delusional belief
18:00 Reception
DAY 2: Thursday 18 Sept 2008
Topic: Social Cognition
Chair: Professor Richard Frackowiak FMedSci
09:45 COFFEE
10:30 Dr Natalie Sebanz
Understanding the mind through joint action
11.10 Dr Matthew Rushworth (Oxford)
Cingulate cortex and the valuation of social information.
11:50 Professor Kai Vogeley (Cologne)
Social gaze
12:30 LUNCH
Topic: Consciousness and Awareness
Chair: Professor Tim Shallice, FRS
14:00 Professor Adrian Owen (Cambridge)
When Thoughts Become Actions: Using fMRI to Detect Awareness
15:10 Professor Stanislas Dehaene (Paris)
Title of talk: TBC
TEA
15:50 Professor Geraint Rees (UCL)
Chris Frith’s consciousness
16:30 Professor Christoff Koch (San Diego)
Title of Talk TBC
17:10 Close of Event
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- No
Additional information
REGISTRATION: To attend the FESTSCHRIFT you MUST register. Please contact: Rosalyn Lawrence, Secretary, ICN, UCL. Email: rosalyn.lawrence [ at ] ucl.ac.uk
If you wish to attend please register by emailing me (rosalyn.lawrence [ at ] ucl.ac.uk). I will then put your name on the register and confirm your attendance when I receive payment of the fee. The full fee is 100 pounds. There is a reduced fee of 40 pounds available to students only and these student places are limited to 50. If you are a student please let me know and also please ask your supervisor/tutor to email me a confirmation of your student status.
