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13th Annual meeting on Human Brain Mapping, Chicago (US), 10-14 June 2007
13th Annual Meeting of the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping is to be held in Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers on 10-14 June, 2007.
The Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) has confirmed the following speakers: the talairach lecture will be given by Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University Keynote Speakers include Maurizio Corbetta, Washington University, Gary Glover, Stanford University, Pim Levelt, Max-Planck, Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neurosicence Laboratories, Leah Krubitzer, University of California-Davis, Brian Wandell, Stanford University, and Larry Squire, University of California-San Diego.
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Talairach Lecture
The Talairach Lecture, named after famed neurosurgeon Jean Talairach, is a prestigious honor given only to top neurologists. Previous lecturers have included Pasko Rakic, etc. This year's Talairach lecture will be presented by Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University.
Daniel Kahneman is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University and Professor of Public Affairs at its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is best known as the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in prospect theory despite being a research psychologist and not an economist.
Keynote Lectures
Keynote lectures will cover a wide variety of topics. This year's meeting will feature the following seven Keynote Lecturers:
Attention - Maurizio Corbetta, Washinton University
Methods - Gary Glover, Stanford University
Development/Language - Pim Levelt, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik
Motor Behavior/Robotics - Mitsuo Kawato, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
Memory - Larry Squire, University of California-San Diego
Developmental Neuroscience - Leah Krubitzer, University of California-Davis
Visual Neuroscience - Brian Wandell, Stanford University
Symposia
Three member-initiated symposia will be presented, along with a symposium by the Local Organizing Committee. Each symposium is 75 minutes long and will feature presentations from 3-4 speakers.
Morning Workshops
Three morning workshops will be held each morning, Monday through Thursday, from 8:00-9:15 am. Proposals for the workshops were submitted by OHBM members and chosen by its Program Committee.
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