The spring '09 meeting was held in conjunction with a special meeting on "The Prospective Brain" organized by the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. Space is limited so register early:
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The fall CRAM meeting was dedicated to the memory of H.M. and his legacy of contributions to neuroscience research, and also to Dr. Sue Corkin for outstanding scientific investigation, teaching, and humanism in her studies of H.M.
Fall 2008 CRAM Meeting
Thur, Dec 4, 2008
1 - 5 p.m.
Center for Memory and Brain, 2 Cummington Street, Room 109
Boston University (Thanks to the Center for Memory and Brain for generous sponsorship)
1:00pm Plenary talks--Perspectives on human memory disorders
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Mieke Verfaellie, PhD, Director of Memory Disorders Research Center, VA
Boston and Boston University
- Semantic-episodic memory interactions in amnesia
Andrew Budson, MD, Director of Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center, Bedford VA; BU Alzheimer's Center, Boston University
- Understanding true and false memory in Alzheimer's disease
Brad Dickerson, MD, Director of MGH Frontotemporal Dementia Unit; MGH Alzheimer's Center, MGH, Harvard Medical School
- Three large-scale cortical memory networks: Insights from
patients with neurodegenerative disorders
2:30pm-3:00pm Discussion
3:10pm-5:00pm Poster session--informal, browse and discuss
Spring 2008 CRAM Meeting
This was the "memory day" of a 3 day vision and memory conference being hosted by Tufts University and co-sponsored by Tufts, the APA, and CRAM. Thanks to Haline Schendan and the program committee for organizing this outstanding conference and working with CRAM on co-sponsorship.
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF VISUAL KNOWLEDGE: WHERE VISION MEETS MEMORY
Second Annual Tufts University Conference on Emerging Trends in Behavioral, Affective, Social, and Cognitive (BASC) Neurosciences
Sponsored by Tufts University, the American Psychological Association, and the Charles River Association for Memory
Dates: Thurs, May 29 - Sat, May 31, 2008
Location: Tufts University in Medford, MA
Session 1: Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Learning and Memory
8:00 am - 7:00 pm Registration (outside Cohen Auditorium)
8:45 - 8:50 am Haline E. Schendan, Tufts University, Opening Remarks
8:50 - 9:40 am Suparna Rajaram, Stony Brook University. Memory and Awareness: Means of Access and Processing Requirements
9:40 - 10:30 am Ken A. Paller, Northwestern University, Declarative memory, perceptual implicit memory, and conceptual implicit memory
10:30 - 10:50 am Refreshment Break (included)
10:50 - 11:40 am Neal J. Cohen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Hippocampus and Relational Memory in the Construction and Use of Visual Representations
11:45 - 1:15 pm Lunch (Aidekman Alumni Lounge) (included)
Session 2: Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Visual Knowledge
1:15 - 2:05 pm Haline E. Schendan, Tufts University, When and Where Vision Meets Memory: Prefrontal-Posterior Cortical Dynamics for Visual Object Knowledge
2:05 - 2:55 pm Alex Martin, National Institute of Mental Health, Fine tuning conceptual representations: A role for the anterior temporal lobes?
2:55 - 3:15 pm Refreshment Break (included)
3:15 - 4:05 pm Jocelyne Bachevalier, Emory University, Medial Temporal Lobe Structures and Memory: What Have We Learned from Lesion Studies in Nonhuman Primates?
4:05 - 4:55 pm Panel Discussion, Sessions 1 and 2, How Can Memory Inform Vision, and vice versa?
5:00 - 6:30pm Poster Session 2
Fall 2007 CRAM meeting
Wed, Nov 14, 2007
1 - 5 p.m.
MIT: 46-3189, 43 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA
1:00pm-1:40pm Plenary 1: Sue Corkin on H.M.'s legacy to cognitive neuroscience
1:45pm-2:25pm Plenary 2: Betsy Murray: What, if anything, is the MTL, and is it a declarative memory module?
2:30pm-3:00pm Discussion
3:10pm-5:00pm Poster session--informal, browse and discuss
Map of the MIT building 46 area
Spring 2007 CRAM Meeting
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