We are very pleased to announce a two-day Summer School on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cognition (TMSC), supported by The Magstim Company Limited and hosted by the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience to be held in the Department of Psychology, UCL. The TMSC Summer School will cover the use of TMS in the study of perception, attention, memory, learning, plasticity and awareness. The speakers will also cover the latest developments in combining TMS with EEG, fMRI, neuropharmacology and single unit recording. The Summer School is aimed at new users and those with expertise wishing to develop their use of the technique.

Host: Professor Vincent Walsh, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and Dept of Psychology

DAY 1

Professor Vincent Walsh, ICN, UCL – CHAIR

Dr Matthew Rushworth, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Functional interactions of frontal cortex during attentional selection and action selection

Professor Martin Eimer, Dept of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London
Combined TMS/ERP investigations of attentional control and selectivity in vision

Dr Joseph Devlin, Dept of Psychology, UCL
Stimulating language: insights from TMS

Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, ICN, UCL
Numerical processing in the parietal lobes

Professor Alan Cowey, Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford – CHAIR

Dr Neil Muggleton, ICN, UCL
The frontal eye fields in vision

Professor Vincent Walsh, ICN, UCL
Cortico-cortical interactions in vision

Professor Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Study and modulation of plasticity with TMS

Professor Salvatore M Aglioti, Dept of Psychology, University of Rome ”“La Sapienza””, and IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Pain and touch in action

DAY 2

Professor Robert Rafal, Dept of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor – CHAIR

Dr Alexander Sack, Dept of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Parietal cortex and spatial cognition: combining fMRI, TMS and behavioural studies

Professor Michal Lavidor, Dept of Psychology, University of Hull
Form-specific priming in the right hemisphere

Professor Simone Rossi, Dept of Neuroscience, University of Siena, Italy
TMS studies of memory

Dr Domenica Bueti, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
Time perception

Professor Tomas Paus, Brain and Body Centre, University of Nottingham – CHAIR

Professor Antonio Strafella, Dept of Neurology, University of Toronto, Canada
Fronto-striatal functional interactions investigated with TMS/PET

Professor Klaus Funke, Dept of Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Cortical effects of TMS in experimental animals: single cell activity in V1, VEPs and protein expression

Dr Sven Bestmann, Functional Imaging Laboratory, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Visualising TMS-evoked cortico-cortical connectivity using concurrent TMS-fMRI

Dr Orlando Swayne, Sobell Institute, Institute of Neurology, University College London
Non-invasive brain stimulation – what are we changing, and what can we learn?

DEMONSTRATIONS

Dr Chris Chambers, ICN, UCL
Calibrating TMS intensity

There will be displays of magnetic stimulation, neuronavigation and electrophysiological products by:The Magstim Company and Rogue Research

The winner of the Magstim Young Investigator Award will be announced at the meeting. Nominations, including self nominations, should be sent to Vincent Walsh (v.walsh@ucl.ac.uk).

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No