SYMPOSIUM 3

Measuring the Brain in Action

Oral presentations
Wednesday, August 16, 14:50-16:30, Large Auditorium
Chair: P. Hagoort (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

14:50

P. Hagoort (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Measuring what makes behavior possible.

15:10

R.L. Savoy (Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.). Behavioral measurements, functional MRI brain activation measurements: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

15:40

A.C. Nobre (Oxford, United Kingdom). Intracranial recordings and word recognition in the human brain.

16:10

W.N.J.M. Colier, M.C. van der Sluijs, J. Menssen and B. Oeseburg (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: from a single-channel towards a multichannel approach.

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

3.1.

N. Mathevon, S. Mottin, P. Laporte and R. Cespuglio (St-Etienne, France). Time-resolved laser spectroscopy of brain tissue in freely moving rodents: an opportunity to assess energy metabolism during behavioural activity.

3.2.

I. Jaquet, M. van der Hoeven, P.Hagoort, B. Oeseburg and W.J.N.M Colier (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Optical imaging of human brain function: application of near-infrared spectroscopy in language study.

3.3.

G.D. Kuznetsova, L.A. Zhavoronkova , A.V. Gabova, V.I. Passechnik, A.B. Janovich (Moscow, Russia). EEG and radiothermomapping in healthy persons and Chernobyl patients during mental activity.