UCL INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
“TIMFEST”
TO CELEBRATE PROFESSOR TIM SHALLICE, FRS
Wednesday 18 October 2006, from 9.30am – 6.00pm
Venue: Room B10, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1
9.30 – 10.00
Registration at ICN reception, coffee in Room B04
10.00 – 10.10
Opening Remarks
Prof Jon Driver, Director, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
10.10 – 10.50
Prof David Plaut, University of Toronto
A Recurrent Neural Network Approach to Sequential Behaviour
10.50 – 11.30
Dr Lisa Cipolotti, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCL
Verbal generation of conceptual structures: Evidence from Neuropsychology
11.30 – 11.45
Coffee – FIL Reception (12 Queen Square)
11.50 – 12.30
Prof Jay McClelland, Stanford University
Cooperation Among Complementary Learning Systems in Memory
for Meaningful Materials
12.30 – 13.10
Prof Jacques Mehler, SISSA, Trieste
Detecting Sequencing and Structure of Phonological Units in
Speech Perception.
13.10 – 14.30
Lunch
14.30 – 15.10
Dr Rik Henson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
From Neuroimaging to Mental Structure: Déjà Vu?
15.10 – 15.50
Prof Jean-Pierre Changeux, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Bridging the Gap between Molecular Biology and Cognition: A Fair
Challenge?
15.50 – 16.10
Tea – FIL Reception (12 Queen Square)
16.10 – 17.00
Prof Chris Frith FRS, UCL Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging
The Mind is a Social Construct Created by Interacting Brains
17.00 – 17.40
Prof John Duncan, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
Brain Mechanisms of Attention
17.40
Discussion
Discussant: Prof Tim Shallice FRS, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
To attend the Timfest you MUST register by contacting Rosalyn Lawrence, ICN Secretary,
(rosalyn.lawrence@ucl.ac.uk)