Discussion Meeting on Spatial Cognition, March 97

[Dr Neil Burgess - Anatomy UCL London]

``What are the parietal and hippocampal roles in spatial cognition?''

Date: 		19th and 20th March 1997
Location:	The Royal Society, 
		6 Carlton House Terrace, 
		London SW1 5AG, U.K.
Organisers: 	Neil Burgess & John O'Keefe

Synopsis:	The parietal cortex has long been identified
		as the neural substrate for spatial behaviour. More 
		recently a spatial role for the hippocampus has been 
		postulated, particularly in rats.  Do these areas both
		perform the same computations, do they complement each
		other, are they both nodes in an overall network of 
		spatial processing, or do they just have different 
		functions in different species? These questions will
		be addressed with respect to neurophysiology,
		neuropsychology and computational modelling.

Other Info:	Royal Society discussion meetings are free to attend, but
		an attendance form should be returned to the Royal Society
		by the 10th March (lunch tickets cost 11.00 pounds sterling).

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		Science Promotion Section, The Royal Society, 
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Speakers:	AMARAL, David (University of California)
		ANDERSEN, Richard (California Institute of Technology)
		ARBIB, Michael (University of Southern California)
		BERTHOZ, Alain (CNRS, Paris)
		BURGESS, Neil (University College London)
		GAFFAN, David (University of Oxford)
		KARNATH, Hans-Otto (University of Tubingen)
		MAGUIRE, Eleanor (Institute of Neurology, London)
		McNAUGHTON, Bruce (University of Arizona)
   	   	MILNER, Brenda (Montreal Neurological Hospital)
		MISHKIN, Mortimer  (NIMH, Bethesda)
		MORRIS, Richard (University of Edinburgh)
		MULLER, Robert (SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn)
		O'KEEFE, John (University College London)
		VALLAR, Guiseppe (University of Rome)
Programme:

	Wednesday 19th March

Session I. Chair: John O'Keefe (University College London)
9.45  O'KEEFE, John (University College London)
		Introduction
10.00 AMARAL, David (University of California)
		A neuroanatomical analysis of sensory inputs via temporal and
		parietal regions to the rat and monkey hippocampal formation
10.40 coffee
11.10 VALLAR, Guiseppe (University of Rome)
		Spatial frames of reference and somatosensory processing: a
		neuropsychological perspective 			
11.50 KARNATH, Hans-Otto (University of Tubingen)
		Spatial orientation and the representation of space with
		parietal lobe lesions
12.30 lunch

Session II. Chair: Brenda Milner (Montreal Neurological Hospital)
2.00  ANDERSEN, Richard (California Institute of Technology)
		Multimodal integration for stable representations of space in
		the posterior parietal cortex 			
2.40  ARBIB, Michael (University of Southern California)
		Modeling the Specialization of Parietal Subregions in 
		Providing Visual Affordances for Diverse Tasks	
3.20  tea
3.50  BERTHOZ, Alain (CNRS, Paris)
		Neural basis of spatial memory during real and imagined
		locomotor trajectories	
4.30  MISHKIN, Mortimer  (NIMH, Bethesda)
		Cortical sensory processing streams and the hippocampus	
5.10  general discussion
5.20  close

	Thursday 20th March

Session III. Chair: Mortimer Mishkin (NIMH, Bethesda)
10.00 MILNER, Brenda (Montreal Neurological Hospital)
		Medial temporal lobe contributions to object location memory 
10.40 coffee
11.10 MAGUIRE, Eleanor (Institute of Neurology, London)
		Hippocampal involvement in human topographical memory
11.50 GAFFAN, David (University of Oxford)
		Episodic memory, neglect and hemiamnesia
12.30 lunch

Session IV. Chair: Lynn Nadel (University of Arizona)
2.00  MORRIS, Richard (University of Edinburgh)
		Hippocampal plasticity : synaptic changes underlying the
		automatic recording of attended experience 		
2.40  MULLER, Robert (SUNY Health Sciences Center, Brooklyn)
		A Topological approach to cognitive mapping
3.20  tea
3.50  McNAUGHTON, Bruce (University of Arizona)
		Memory reprocessing in cortico-cortico and hippocampo-cortical
		neuronal ensembles
4.30  BURGESS, Neil (University College London)
		Robotic and neuronal simulation of the hippocampus and 
	 	rat navigation 						
5.10  general discussion
5.20  round-up
5.30  Close