2nd Annual
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF CATEGORY LEARNING WORKSHOP
Date: September
19-20, 2003
Location: Williams and Harvard Clubs, New York, NY
With support from the J. S. McDonnell Foundation and the NIMHFRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 19th
All talks take place
at:
The Williams Club
24 East 39th Street (just east of Fifth Avenue)
Friday evening banquet will take place at:
The Harvard Club of New York
27 West 44th Street (between Fifth & Sixth Avenues)
* Note: Coat & Tie required for men.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
19TH
8:30am-9:00am: Coffee, Registration, Shmoozing
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(1) The Hippocampus and Medial Temporal Lobes
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9:00am
1.1. Categorization and Recognition: Integrating Computational
Modeling and Neuroscience Data
Paul Reber (Northwestern)
9:30am
1.2. Category Learning in Infants and Amnesics
Brad Love (Texas)
10:am
1.3. The Role of the Primate MTL in Associative Memory
Formation
Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
#### 10:30am - 11am BREAK ####
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(2) JSMF CNCL Summer Student Fellows.
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11am
2.1. Neurobiological Basis of the Anticipation of Reward
and
Punishment During Rule Selection in Category Learning
Vivian Valentin (Ashby-Pickering collaboration)
11:15am
2.2. FMRI of Rule-Based and Information-Integration
Categorization
Emi Nomura (Filoteo/Maddox-Reber collaboration)
11:30am
2.3. Category Learning in Parkinson's Disease
Daphna Shohamy (Gluck-Eidelberg collaboration)
#### 11:45am - 1:30pm Lunch on own in Bryant Park ####
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(3) The Basal Ganglia and Frontal-Striatal Loops
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1:30pm
3.1. Categorization in Humans, Animals, and Thalamocortical
models.
Richard Granger (UC, Irvine)
2pm
3.2. Coding of Feedback and Uncertainty in the Basal
Ganglia
Russell Poldrack (UCLA)
2:30pm
3.3. When are Parkinson's Patients Impaired (or Not)
at Category Learning?
Mark Gluck, Daphna Shohamy,
Catherine Myers (Rutgers), & Russ Poldrack
#### 3pm - 3:30pm
Coffee Break ####
3:30pm
3.4. Dissociating Rule-Based and Information-Integration
Category
Learning: Evidence for Multiple Systems of Perceptual Category
Learning
W. Todd Maddox (Texas), J. Vincent Filoteo (UCSD),
& Greg Ashby (UCSB)
4pm
3.5. Striatal Dopamine and Learning: Do Category Learning
Data
Constrain Computational Models?
Alan Pickering (England)
4:30pm
3.6. Antipsychotic Medication Effects on Probabilistic
Classification and Gambling Task Learning in Schizophrenia Patients
Richard J. Beninger (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)
5pm - 5:30pm General Discussion
6:30pm Cocktails (Harvard Club, 27 W 44th, Coat &
Tie Required)
7:15pm Dinner (Harvard Club)
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th
7am to 8am: Optional Morning Bike Ride Along Hudson River
9am -9:30am: Coffee & Shmoozing
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(4) Sensory Cortices.
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9:30am
4.1. Is Categorization Performance Intact in Amnesia?
A Meta-Analysis.
Safa Zaki (Williams College)
10am:
4.2 Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortices During Visual
Categorization in Monkeys
David Freedman and Earl Miller (MIT)
#### 10:30am - 11am Coffee Break ####
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(5) Data Blitz Presentations
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11:00am - 12:00pm (8 min talks, 2 min Q&A):
5.1. Probabilistic classification and gambling learning
in Parkinson's disease and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity.
James G. Perretta, Ph.D. expected Fall 2003, (Benninger Lab)
5.2. Recognition memory
Yasu Sakamoto, 4th year student (Love Lab)
5.3. An fMRI Study of Reward-Related Probability Learning
Mauricio Delgado & Liz Phelps (NYU)
5.4. Impact of Hypothesis-testing Deficits on Category
Learning in
Parkinson's Disease
Amanda Price (New Mexico)
5.5. Category Learning: An On-line Neural Based Approach
Pedro Rodrigues & Jaap Murre (Amsterdam)
5.6. Generalization of Implicit Category Structures
Kristin Christy (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio)
#### 12:00 - 2pm Lunch Break On Own in Bryant Park ####
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(6) Cross-Species Comparisons and Other Topics
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2:00pm
6.1. Neural Correlates of Probabilistic Learning in
Schizophrenia
Thomas Weickert, Terry Goldberg, Anand Mattay, &
Dan Weinberger (NIMH)
2:30pm
6.2. Category Learning in Rhesus Monkeys: A Study of
the Shepard,
Hovland, and Jenkins tasks
David Smith (SUNY-Buffalo)
3:00pm
6.3. Same-different Discrimination learning in pigeons,
baboons, and people.
Edward Wasserman (Iowa)
#### 3:30pm to 4pm:
Coffee Break ####
4pm
6.4. Habit Learning in Rodents and Humans
Barbara Knowlton (UCLA)
4:30pm-5pm: General
Commentary & Discussion
Russ Poldrack (UCLA), Paul Reber (Northwestern),
Rob Nosofsky (Indiana)
Free Evening for Dinners and/or Broadway Shows, etc.
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