Graduate Student Research Day 2005

12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Friday, March 11, 2005
Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities

Program

11:30 am Opening Remarks

12:00 pm – 12:15 pm
Bridging Basic and Clinical Research on Anxiety Disorders: A Developmental Perspective, Dr. Daniel Pine

12:15pm – 1:00 pm Poster Session / Lunch

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Graduate Student Presentations

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision, Dr. Melvin Goodale

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Daniel Pine is affiliated with the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He brings expertise in the area of affective neuroscience.

Dr. Melvin Goodale is from the Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on perception and action.

Graduate Student Presentations

Catherine M. Bohn - Developmental Trends in Narrative Comprehension: Tracking Aural and Written Story Events

Michael Burman - Dissociable Hippocampus Regions required for Expression of Fear and Acquisition vs. Retrieval of Fearful Memories

Adam Johnson - Hippocampal Replay contributes to Within-Session Learning in a Temporal Difference Reinforcement Learning Model

Aimee Dunlap-Lehtila - The Evolution of Learning: Adaptive Behavior in a Variable World

Amber Martin - Mental Rotation in Hearing and Deaf Users of American Sign Language

Dustin Wahlstrom - Assessing the Neural Mechanisms underlying Decision-Making in Healthy Adolescents: Autonomic Indicators of Iowa Gambling Task Performance