Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, LONDON, WC1N 3AR, UK, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 1176, Fax +44 (0) 20 7679 1173 abla@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk, www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk NE and ACh WORKSHOP 9-11 February 2004 By invitation only Venue B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square London, WC1N 3AR Please see map at: http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/travel/index.html Supported by The Gatsby Foundation |Index|Objective|Attendees|Programme|References|Travel information|Accommodation| PROGRAMME [35 minutes talks plus 10 minutes for discussion]

Sunday 8 February
18:00-20:00	Welcome Drink [for those who are around] 4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square
Monday 9 February
12:00-13:00	Lunch and welcome
13:00-13:45	Richard Marrocco Acetylcholine and Norepinephrine in Covert Attention and Attention Deficits
13:45-14:30	Mike Hasselmo Cholinergic Regulation of Cortical Function: Physiological and Behavioral Experiments and Computational Modeling
14:30-15:15	Gary Aston-Jones Attention, Behavioral Flexibility and Decision: Functions of the Noradrenergic Locus Coeruleus System in Monkey
15:15-16:00	Tea break
16:00-16:45	Martin Sarter Bottom-Up and Top-Down: Attentional Functions of Cortical Cholinergic Inputs
16:45-17:30	Carolyn Harley Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine and the Attention-Memory Continuum
17:30-18:15	Christiane Thiel Cholinergic Modulation of Learning and Attention in the Human Brain: Insights from Pharmacological fMRI Studies
Tuesday 10 February
9:30-10:15	Maura Furey Cholinergic Neurotransmission and Systems Level Neural Modulation: Insights from Functional Imaging Studies
10:15-11:00	Paul Bentley How does Cholinergic Enhancement Modulate Neural Correlates of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processing in Human Visual Cortex?
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:15	Susan Sara TBA
12:15-13:00	Sebastien Bouret Towards an Understanding of the Contribution of Locus Coeruleus to Functional Networks and their Learning-Related Plasticity
13:00-14:00	Sandwich Lunch
14:00-14:45	Christiane Linster Modulation of Sensory Processing
14:45-15:30	Raju Metherate Nicotinic Regulation of Synaptic and Sensory Function in Sensory Cortex
15:30-16:15	Alex Thiele Acetylcholine, Spatio-Temporal Integration, and Attention
16:15-16:45	Tea break
16:45-17:30	Angela Yu Acetylcholine and Norepinephrine as Uncertainty Signals in Attentional Tasks
17:30-18:15	Chris Córdova and Andrea Chiba Cholinergic Modulation of Cortex: Attention and Plasticity
19:30-	Dinner at Trattoria Verdi, 110 Southampton Row
Wednesday 11 February
9:30-10:15	Verity Brown Attentional Functions of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus in the Rat: The Role of Acetylcholine
10:15-11:00	Jill McGaughy The Effects of Cholinergic and Noradrenergic Deafferentation of the Cortex on Memory and Attention
11:00-11:30	Coffee break
11:30-12:15	Mark Baxter Acetylcholine and Memory: Beware of Dogma
12:15-13:00	Jeffrey Dalley Functional Neurochemistry and Cognition in Rodents
13:00-13:45	Trevor Robbins Neuromodulation of Prefrontal Cortical Function across Species by Dopamine and Serotonin: Converging Empirical Approaches to Theoretical Issues
13:45-14:45	Sandwich Lunch
14:45-16:15	Discussion
16:15	Tea

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