GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON BRAIN AND COMMUNICATION:
CONSCIOUS & UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING
April 8-10, 1999
 
 
April 7, 1999, Wednesday

    6:00-9:00 p.m.      Reception - Registration
                                            Lobby of the auditorium in The Research Building

April 8, 1999, Thursday
 
 

Morning  
8:00  REGISTRATION
8:30 WELCOME George Farre and Josef Rauschecker
9:00 - noon SCALE IN PROCESSING Moderator: Josef Rauschecker 
Georgetown Inst. of Cognitive and Computational Sci. Washington, DC
    Panelists:  James Anderson - Scales 
Brown University 
Providence, RI 
Mark Laubach
Duke University
Durham, NC
Terrence Sejnowski - Dendrites and Phase 
Salk Inst. for Biological Studies 
San Diego, CA 
Afternoon
2:00 - 5:00 FEELING Moderator: Candace Pert 
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC
    Panelists: Joseph LeDoux - Amygdala 
New York University 
New York, NY 
Mortimer Mishkin - Frontal and Medial Temporal Lobe Processing 
National Institute of Mental Health 
Bethesda, MD 
Howard Shevrin - Orbitofrontal 
University of Michigan Medical Center 
Ann Arbor, MI 
Frank Wood - Medial Temporal Lobe - 
Case History 
The Bowman Gray School of Medicine 
Winston-Salem, NC 
 
 

April 9, 1999, Friday
 
 

Morning
9:00 - noon 
 
SENSING Moderator Jag Kanwal 
Georgetown Inst. of Cognitive and Computational Sci 
Washington, DC
    Panelists: Karen DeValois - Color Vision 
University of California 
Berkeley, CA 
Russell DeValois - Spatial Vision 
University of California 
Berkeley, CA 
Miguel Nicolelis - Somatosensory - 
Distributed Processing 
Duke University 
Durham, NC 
Daniel J. Simons - Somatosensory 
Differentiation 
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
Pittsburgh, PA
Afternoon
2:00 - 5:00 EXPERIENCE Moderator: Darlene Howard 
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC 
    Panelists: Judith Lauter - Hemispheric Relationships 
University of Oklahoma 
Oklahoma City, OK 
V. S. Ramachandran - Reference Frames 
University of California 
San Diego, CA 
Petra Stoerig - Within Hemisphere 
Relationships 
Heinrich-Heine-Universitat 
Dusseldorf, Germany 
Don Tucker - Front-back Relationships 
University of Oregon 
Eugene, OR 
 
 

April 10, 1999, Saturday
 
 

Morning
8:00 - 11:00 NATURAL 
PHILOSOPHY
Moderator: George Farre 
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC
    Panelists: Harald Atmanspacher 
Institut fuer Grenzgebiete der Psychologie 
Freiburg, Germany 
Patricia Churchland 
University of California 
San Diego, CA 
Yehuda Elkana 
ETH 
Zurich, Switzerland 
11:00 - noon WRAP UP Introducing:  Karen Gale 
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC
    Summarizing: Karl Pribram 
Georgetown University 
Washington, DC