SYMPOSIUM 1

The Building Blocks of Behavior

Oral presentations
Wednesday, August 16, 09:30-14:20, Large Auditorium
Chair: I. Golani (Tel Aviv, Israel)

09:30

K. Grammer (Vienna, Austria). E-motion: digital image analysis of human body movements.

10:15

Coffee break

10:45

S.V. Budaev (Moscow, Russia). Measuring animal temperament.

11:05

S.D. Butcher, P. Courtney, M. Gill and G.J. Lithgow (Manchester, United Kingdom). Model-based tracking of C. elegans for behavioural characterisation.

11:25

C. Twining, C. Taylor, P. Courtney and C. Dourish (Manchester, UK). Characterising behavioural phenotypes using automated image analysis.

11:45

D.J. Heeren and A.R. Cools (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Classifying behavior of freely moving rodents with the help of fuzzy logic.

12:05

Lunch break and poster viewing

13:20

N. Kafkafi and I. Golani (Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.). Relative phase and traveling waves as building blocks of coordination patterns in free locomotor behavior.

13:40

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14:00

R. Mundry and D. Todt (Berlin, Germany). Automated measurement of tonal bird vocalisations: a methodological approach and examples of its application.

Poster presentations and demonstrations
Thursday, August 17, 14:00-17:30

1.1.

A.G. Rusu and I.M. Benta (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Behavior as discourse: a structural analysis of the feeding behavior of laboratory rats.

1.2.

S. Svirskis, B. Opmane and V. Klusa (Riga, Latvia). Recording of behavioural responses after unilateral injection of msh peptides into the rat left ventral tegmental area (vta).

1.3.

R. Jakobsen (Bergen, Norway). Conduct problems in children: translation and adaptation of family and peer process code.