Symposium 1: New Trends in Neuropsychological Alzheimer Diagnostics

Chair: Andreas Monsch

• Detecting changes in cognitive functioning: Development of a shorter version of the German Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE)
• Applying the neurocognitive approach to picture naming in Alzheimer's disease: beyond total scores
• Integrating cognitive and neural models in the search for markers of very early AD

Symposium 2: Visual Field Defects and their Treatment

Chair: Thomas Schenk

• Acoustical vision
• Contralesional spatial bias in homonymous visual field defects
• Is training with visual exploration more effective than a placebo?

Symposium 3: Exploring the Dynamic Interaction between Genes, Environment and the Brain

Chair: Walter Mischel

• Nurturing Nature: Epigenetics, Neurobiological Development, and Evolving Concepts of Inheritance
• Epigenetics and the Effect of Early Trauma Across Generations
• Methylation Matters for Parenting and Child Development
• Integrating Epigenetic Factors Into Studies of Complex Neuropsychiatric Disease

Symposium 4: Spatial Neglect: Neuroanatomy, Numbers and Novel Treatments

Chairs: Georg Kerkhoff & Radek Ptak

• Spatial neglect and the frontoparietal network
• The anatomy of visual neglect in near and far space: a voxel-based morphometry study
• When the clinical neuropsychology of neglect meets numbers
• Optokinetic and galvanic vestibular treatment of neglect and associated deficits

Symposium 5: Damaged autobiographical memories: evidence from lifespan approaches, lesion studies, and brain imaging

Chair: Pascale Piolino

Symposium 6: Executive Functions and Attention in Childhood

Chairs: Karen Lidzba & Renate Drechsler

• Normative Data on Inattention and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity in Everyday Life: The German Standardisation of the Conners-3
• Questionnaires versus computer-based assessments to examine attentional processes
• Behavioral ratings of executive functions and objective test measures – do they overlap in children with ADHD?
• Executive Functions in Typically Developing Children and in Children with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Symposium 7: Insular Cortex between Cognition and Emotion

Chair: Dario Grossi

• Right Insula for our sense of limb ownership and self-awareness of actions
• Anterior insular cortex and social cognition
• Central role of the insula in temporal processing
• Lesion of the Insular Cortex reduces temporal discounting in humans

Symposium 8: Time and space interaction

Chair: Francesca Frassinetti

• Individual differences in the time and space
• Time and spatial attention: Effects of prism adaptation on time representation in brain damage patients
• Neural correlates of past and future: a comparison with timing of discrete intervals

Symposium 9: Neural and functional mechanisms of binding

Chairs: Jane Riddoch & Glyn Humphreys

• Automatic spread of attentional response modulation according to Gestalt criteria in primary visual cortex
• Separate and integrated channels for processing form, texture, and color: Evidence from fMRI adaptation and visual object agnosia
• Attentional control settings bind to objects
• Learning permeates visual binding – From effortless search to unconscious grouping

Symposium 10: The human others: a social neuroscience perspective

Chairs: Raffaella Rumiati & Claus Lamm

• The effect of agency in facilitating imitative actions
• Dopaminergic modulation of learning about a person’s trustworthiness
• The role of right temporo parietal junction and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in overcoming egocentricity bias during empathic judgements
• Humanized perception of potential victims during moral decision making recruits empathy-related brain areas

Symposium 11: Dissocations and interactions of perception and action control

Chairs: Thomas Schenk & Marc Himmelbach

• The bisection error in perception and action: A study on hemianopic patients
• Dorso-lateral versus dorso-medial parietal streams in reach to grasp actions: Grip versus transport components or amount of online control? Evidence from event-related fMRI
• Haptic feedback and egocentric coding explain why grasping is better than size-discrimination in a patient with visual form agnosia
• Interactions between ventral and dorsal streams: online visual information interferes with the visual guidance of grasping movements

Symposium 12: Episodic and procedural memory in children: developmental and clinical studies

Chair: Claire Mayor Dubois

• Procedural learning in normal development, in children with basal ganglia damage and in case of specific language impairment
• Episodic memory development: underlying mechanisms and new assessment tools
• Implicit memory and intellectual disability: the case of Down and Williams syndrome
• Episodic and procedural memory in dyslexia

Symposium 13: Factors influencing the outcome of neuropsychological rehabilitation

Chairs: C van Heugten, J Spikman, R Ponds & L Fasotti

• Predictors of treatment outcome in a successful treatment for executive dysfunction
• Insight into awareness
• The influence of learning style and coping style on rehabilitation outcome
• Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) and poor rehabilitation outcome: an unavoidable relationship?

Symposium 14: Perceptual and cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s disease. Implications for rehabilitation

Chair: NMJ Edelstyn

• Parkinson’s-dependent decline in recall/recollection: cognitive origins and implications for psychological interventions
• Impaired implicit task sequence learning in patients with Parkinson’s disease
• Cognitive disorders in patients with lateralised Parkinson’s disease: a review with a specific focus on neglect-related phenomena
• Procedural learning in Parkinson’s Disease