Meet-and-Greet Event
Thursday, March 31st 2016
9:00 AM
Breakfast and Coffee
9:25 AM
Larry Silbart, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives
Opening Remarks
Gerry Altmann, Director, CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Welcome to the Institute
George Kuchel, Director, Center on Aging, UCHC
UCONN Center on Aging: 30th Anniversary and a Look Forward
David Steffens, Psychiatry, UCHC
Neuroscience of Late-life Depression
Joanne Conover, Physiology & Neurobiology
Stem Cells of the Brain: Development, Regeneration and Repair
Inge-Marie Eigsti, Psychological Sciences
Autism and language - a Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience approach
Ed Large, Psychological Sciences
Music Dynamics at Uconn
9:30 AM
9:45 AM
10:02 AM
10:14 AM
10:26 AM
10:38 AM
10:50 AM
Coffee Break
11:20 AM
Inge-Marie Eigsti, Roslyn H. Fitch Psychological Sciences
Auditory Processes and language in ASD: From mice to men
Alexander Jackson, Physiology & Neurobiology
Hubs and Spokes of the Lateral Hypothalamus
Eric Levine, Neuroscience, UCHC
Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Human Stem Cell Models
Marc Lalande, Director, Institute for Systems Genomics, UCHC
Institute for Systems Genomics - Update and Innovation
Letitia Naigles, Psychological Sciences
How do I study child language acquisition? Let me count the ways
11:37 AM
11:49 AM
12:01 PM
12:13 PM
12:25 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Jay Rueckl, Director, Brain Imaging Research Center
Towards a Theory of Variation among Readers & The Brain Imaging Research
Center: An Overview
Marie Coppola, Psychological Sciences
Language Creation and Cognition: A whirlwind tour of the Coppola Lab
Whit Tabor, Psychological Sciences
How self-organization helps make sense of in-between structures
Phillip Smith, Urology, UCHC
Your Bladder is Not Alone: An Integrative Model
Joe LoTurco, Physiology & Neurobiology
Malformations of Neocortex: Mechanisms and Consequences
1:47 PM
1:59 PM
2:11 PM
2:23 PM
2:35 PM
Open Forum
Meet-and-Greet Event
Friday, April 1st 2016
9:00 AM
Breakfast and Coffee
9:25 AM
Gerry Altmann, Psychological Sciences
How events in the world shape representations in mind
Roslyn H. Fitch, Director, Murine Behavioral Neurogenetics Facility
Murine Behavioral Neurogenetics Facility — What is it and how can I use it?
Emily Myers, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Neural Plasticity for Speech Perception
Jim Magnuson, Psychological Sciences
Mixed bag: some current research, and overviews of the Neurobiology of
Language Training Program and the Cognitive Science Shared
Electrophysiology Resource Laboratory (CSSERL)
Michael Lynch, Director, Humanities Institute
Why Humanities?
Diane Lillo-Martin, Linguistics
Sign Linguistics and Language Acquisition
9:37 AM
9:52 AM
10:04 AM
10:16 AM
10:28 AM
10:40 AM
Coffee Break
11:10 AM
Vince Gracco, Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Research at Haskins Laboratories
Marcus Rossberg, Director, UConn Logic Group
UConn Logic Group
Eiling Yee, Psychological Sciences
The sensory and motor underpinnings of concepts
Michael Coyne, Neag School of Education
Center for Behavioral & Educational Research, Neag School of Education
William Snyder, Linguistics
Biological approaches to children's language
11:17 AM
11:39 AM
11:51 PM
12:03 PM
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM
Amy Gorin, Associate Director, InCHIP
Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP):
Opportunities for team science at the intersection of brain and behavior
Jon Sprouse, Linguistics
Syntactic structure building and the cognitive neuroscience of language
John Salamone, Psychological Sciences
Brain Dopamine and Effort-related Decision Making in Rat Models: Relevance for
Treatment of Motivational Symptoms in Psychopathology
Erika Skoe, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
The Listening Brain
Kevin Brown, Biomedical Engineering
Complex Systems in Cognitive Science and Neuroimaging
1:47 PM
1:59 PM
2:11 PM
2:23 PM
2:35 PM
Open Forum