Dear Colleagues,
We would like to announce the Sixth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Application
When: May 1-4, 2012
Where: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth
Avenue, NY, NY 10016
Email: MMN2012@xxxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://mmn2012nyc.org
The Sixth Conference on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and its Clinical and Scientific Application is designed to bring together a diverse group of scientists, clinicians, postdoctoral fellows, and students who use, or who are interested in using, this electrophysiological technique to investigate clinical and basic science questions related to auditory function and their disorders. This forum will allow attendees to exchange ideas and foster collaborations, and to discuss and share recent research advances in using the MMN as a tool for scientific investigation. The conference will be comprised of symposia, keynote addresses, poster presentations, and workshops for professional skill development. This will be the first time the meeting will be held in the United States since its inception in Helsinki, Finland in 1998.
The Opening Talk, on the evening of May 1, 2012, will be given by Dr. Walter Ritter
Reception will follow.
Keynote Speakers and Topics:
Dr. Catherine Best, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Cross-linguistic speech perception and perceptual constancy in childhood
Dr. Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, California, USA
Time-frequency and independent components analyses in MMN research
Dr. Risto Näätänen, The University of Tartu, Estonia andThe University of Arhus, Denmark
The MMN - a unique index of cognitive decline in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders
Dr. Klaus Oberauer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Computational modeling of working memory
Dr. Mitchell Steinschneider, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Neural mechanisms of sound perception
SYMPOSIA – MAY 2-4, 2012 | ||
Symposium Title | Chairs | |
Genetic, neurochemical and neurodevelopmental underpinnings of involuntary attention | Carles Escera | |
Clinical MMN studies | Catherine Fischer and Pat Michie | |
Infant and Child Development | Dennis Molfese | |
Language | Thomas Jacobsen and Friedemann Pulvermuller | |
Music and MMN: Measuring neuroplastic effects of musical experience | Laurel Trainor | |
Neural mechanisms of MMN | Yonatan Fishman and Manuel Malmierca | |
Psychiatric disorders | Daniel Mathalon and Dean Salisbury | |
Theories of MMN | Erich Schröger and Istvan Winkler | |
Visual and multisensory MMN | Istvan Czigler and John Foxe | |
There will be a series of pre-meeting workshops held on May 1, prior to the opening talk and reception. The workshops are intended for beginner and advanced users of the MMN methodology. The format will be interactive, to encourage question-asking and discussion on the following topics.
WORKSHOPS – MAY 1, 2012 | |
Morning (Beginner’s Methods) | |
Title | Leader |
What is the MMN component? | Torsten Baldeweg |
Which analysis for MMN? | Marie-Helene Giard |
Using MMN to study multisensory processing | Trevor Penney |
Designing MMN paradigms to test auditory processing in infant and non-compliant populations | Valerie Shafer |
Afternoon (Advanced Methods) | |
Time-frequency analysis of MMN | Christoph Herrmann |
Linear techniques in analysis of high-spatial density EEG | Lucas Parra |
Objective detection of MMN | Curtis Ponton |
Virtual sensors to analyze the MMN | Michael Scherg |
If you would like to be on our mailing list, please send your name and email address to MMN2012@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sincerely yours,
Elyse S. Sussman
Valerie L. Shafer
Co-hosts