8:00-4:00, Thursday, April 12
Memorial Hall
McNamara Alumni Center
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN
8am Opening Remarks
8:10-9:10 Presentations of CCS Trainees
Julie Markant “Domain-specific development of implicit sequence learning”
Angela Tseng “Facial emotion processing in children: An fMRI study of amygdala response to overt and masked facial expressions”
Julia Cohen “The impact of emotional images on attention and response inhibition: A comparison of adults and adolescents”
9:10 Coffee Break
9:20-10:20 Invited Speaker, Ahmad R. Hariri, University of Pittsburgh
“Imaging genetics: Exploring the interplay of genes, brain and behavior in the pathophysiology of mood disorders”
10:20-11:20 Presentations of CCS Trainees
Michelle Loman “Child care quality, stress, and memory: A study of 4-year-olds in family child care”
Nathalie Vizueta “Trait fear and fearlessness: Utilizing ERP to investigate individual differences in affective processing”
Jeff Englema “Feeling jumpy? Developing a translational model of nicotine withdrawal in rats and humans”
11:20-12:20 Invited Speaker, John J. Curtin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Affective negative reinforcement in drug use and addiction: Insights from laboratory drug challenge and drug withdrawal experiments"
12:20-1:40 Lunch
1:40-2:40 Presentations of CCS Trainees
Serena Thompson “Object perception influences contrast discrimination”
Amy Kalia “Indoor wayfinding technology with route information for the visually-impaired”
Aimee Dunlap "Adaptive behavior in a variable environment: Experimental evolution of learning in Drosophila"
2:40 Break
2:50 - 3:50 Invited Speaker, Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University
“From brain reading to mind reading: fMRI approaches to decoding the contents of perception”
3:50 Closing Remarks