Wed, May 9, 2007
Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University (co-host)
George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd floor -- click here for map
CRAM co-hosted a one-day workshop that examined our progress in understanding the functional organization of the medial temporal lobe memory system. In recent years there has been considerable evidence from diverse approaches, including experiments on amnesia and functional imaging in humans and lesion and single neuron recording studies in animals, demonstrating functional dissociations among medial temporal areas. This full day workshop highlighted the findings and thoughts of several internationally known investigators who have generated these data. The goal of the workshop was to review their findings and consider whether the data shed light on an overall functional organization that underlies memory processing by the MTL.
Schedule
8:30 Check in (continental breakfast served)
9:30 Howard Eichenbaum
Welcome & Overview
9:45 Menno Witter
Reflections on the architecture of the medial temporal lobe memory system: Indications for interactions and functional differentiation
Session I (Michael Rugg, Chair)
10:15 Charan Ranganath
Familiarity, recollection, items, and associations: Making sense of the medial temporal lobes
10:45 Jocelyne Bachevalier
Medial temporal lobe structures and memory: What have we learned from lesion studies in nonhuman primate studies?
11:15 Moshe Bar
The parahippocampal cortex and contextual associations
11:45 James Knierim
Spatial and nonspatial information conveyed by parallel input streams into the hippocampus
12:15 Chair's discussion: Michael Rugg
12:30 Lunch
Session II (Neal Cohen, Chair)
2:00 Anthony Wagner
Remembering Events Past: Explorations of Human MTL Substructure Function
2:30 Wendy Suzuki
Comparing Associative Learning Signals across the monkey Hippocampus and Perirhinal Cortex
3:00 Craig Stark
Pattern separation in the human MTL
3:30 Matthew Wilson
Hippocampal-neocortical interactions in spatial memory processing
4:00 Chair's discussion: Neal Cohen
4:30 - 6:00 Evening reception
Fall 2006 CRAM Meeting
Wed, Nov 1, 2006
1 - 5 p.m.
MIT: 46-3189, 43 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
1:00pm-1:45pm Plenary: Role of the medial temporal lobe in short-term memory (John Gabrieli)
1:45pm-2:00pm Discussion
2:00pm-3:30pm Data blitz--10 minute talks
Juyang Weng (MIT)
Avniel Ghuman (Harvard University)
Scott Slotnick (Boston College)
Brandon Ally (Boston University School of Medicine)
Donna Rose Addis (Harvard University)
Frida Polli (MGH)
Elizabeth Kensinger (Boston College)
Justin Vincent (Harvard University)
Noa Ofen (MIT)
Reisa Sperling (Harvard Medical School)
3:30pm-5:00pm Poster session--informal, browse and discuss
Map of the MIT building 46 area
The inaugural CRAM meeting took place on Wednesday, January 18, 2006, at MIT in the new BCSP building.
CRAM Inaugural MeetingWed, January 18, 2006
MIT, Building 46-3189
1pm Introductory comments
Brad Dickerson: Purpose of meeting
Randy Buckner: William James on memory
1:15 Specificity of memory: Convergent perspectives
Howard Eichenbaum: Perspective from behavioral neuroscience
Dan Schacter: Perspective from cognitive neuroscience
2:15 Open discussion
2:45 Break/refreshments
3pm Data blitz (5 min talk, 5 min Q & A)
Michael Hasselmo (BU)
Cholinergic mechanisms in memory function: From slice physiology to fMRI
John Lisman (Brandeis)
LTP and CaMKII
Amy Griffin (BU: Eichenbaum/Hasselmo)
Gradual translocation of spatial correlates of hippocampal neuronal firing during spatial attention
Jon Horvitz (BC)
Dopaminergic modulators of appetitive conditioning
Scott Slotnick (BC)
Visual memory activity supports feature- and domain-specificity
Scott Hayes (JPVA/BU/Arizona: Schnyer)
The effect of visual context on episodic object recognition
Brad Dickerson (MGH/HMS)
fMRI of overt free recall
Lindsey Jubelt (MGH/HMS: Weiss)
Effects of nicotine on source memory in schizophrenia
Andrew Budson (BU/HMS)
Response bias in Alzheimer's disease
Reisa Sperling (BWH/MGH/HMS)
Memory networks in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease
Noa Ofen (MIT: Gabrieli)
Development of memory systems underlying successful memory encoding
4:40 Discussion
5pm Adjournment