Schedule: 19th August  

Timetable / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / Poster(Room B1) / Poster(Room B2)

  Chairperson: Mark D'Esposito & Shintaro Funahashi
9:00 Shintaro Funahashi Working memory: How do prefrontal neurons store and process the information
9:25 Toshiyuki Sawaguchi The role of catecholamines on working memory processes in the primate prefrontal cortex
9:50 Masataka Watanabe Is there "affective" working memory?
10:15 Robert T. Knight Prefrontal cortex and working memory: Effects of neurological damage
10:40 Coffee Break
11:05 Motoichiro Kato Verbal working memory and dynamic aphasia
11:30 Bradley Postle Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to Working Memory Functions
11:55 Mark D'Esposito Towards understanding the role of the prefrontal cortex in cognitive control
12:20 Discussion
12:50 Lunch Time
  Chairperson: Susan M. Courtney & Mariko Osaka
14:00 Mariko Osaka Neural basis of focusing in executive function of working memory: Comparing focused- and non-focused-RST
14:25 Lars Nyberg Sustained and transient brain activity during tests of working memory and episodic memory
14:50 Fabienne Collette Transient and sustained cerebral responses during an updating task
15:15 Tea Time
15:40 Susan M. Courtney Working memory control processes affected by changing or repeating task demands
16:05 Michael Petrides Functional organization of the primate prefrontal cortex for memory
16:30 Discussion
17:00 Poster Session (Room B1 & B2)

 

 

Japan Society for Working Memory: JSWM, 2004