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Workshop on: Theta Oscillations in the Brain: Neural Mechanisms and Functions 6-8 September 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|Speakers|Programme|References|Travel information| PROGRAMME [30 minutes talks plus 10 minutes for discussion] Sunday 5 September 18:00-20:00 Welcome Drinks 4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square Monday 6 September 12:00-13:00 Lunch and welcome 13:00-13:45 Introduction Neil Burgess & John O'Keefe, UCL 13:50-14:30 Circuitry controlling Theta and Non-Theta states of the Hippocampal EEG Robert Vertes, Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences. Florida Atlantic University 14:30-15:10 Components of the Theta rhythm studied in vitro   Miles Whittington, Leeds University 15:10-15:40 Tea break - Room 213 15:40-16:20 Oscillatory properties of individual hippocampal neurons Ole Paulsen, Neuronal Oscillation Group, University of Oxford 16:20-17:00 Hippocampal Interneurons and Theta Oscillations                                 Thomas Klausberger, MRC Neuropharmacological Unit, Oxford University 17:00-17:40 Classification of Hippocampal Interneurons in freely moving rats Robert Muller, Bristol Neuroscience, Bristol University Tuesday 7 September 09:40-10:20 Internal dynamics and phase precession                                                  Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers University 10:20-11:00 STDP Imprinting and Retrieval of Oscillatory Patterns in a Hippocampal Neural Model.     Silvia Scarpetta, Department of Physics, Salerno University 11:00-11:30 Coffee break - Room 213 11:30-12:10 Theta Rhythm and the Origin of Variable Spatial Scaling along the septo-temporal axis of the Hippocampus Bruce McNaughton, University of Arizona 12:10-12:50 Hippocampal theta phase coding for integrative memory encoding and its participation in a global brain network   Yoko Yamaguchi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute 12:50-13:50 Sandwich Lunch 13:50-14:30 TBC Matt Wilson,  MIT 14:30-15:10 Dynamically detuned oscillations account for rate and phase coding in the hippocampus                                                                              Mate Lengyel, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL 15:10-15:40 Tea break - Room 213 15:40-16:20 Theta activity in amygdalo-hippocampal pathways related to fear expression and fear memory Hans-Christian Pape, Institute of Physiology, University of Magdeburg 16:20-17:00 Neurophysiological data and modelling support a role for theta rhythm in the encoding and context-dependent retrieval of sequences           Michael Hasselmo, Department of Psychology, Boston University 19:00- Dinner:  Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London, WC1 Wednesday 8 September 09:40-10:20 Imaging Coherent Oscillatory Brain Activity in Normal Human Subjects Claudia Tesche, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico 10:20-11:00 Rhinal-hippocampal contributions to declarative memory formation: Depth-EEG investigations                                                                Guillen Fernandez, FC Donders Institute for Cognitive Neuroimaging, University of Nijmegen 11:00-11:30 Coffee - Room 213 11:30-12:10 Oscillatory Correlates of Human Memory Function Per Sederberg, Brandeis University 12:10-12:50 Theta and Gamma Oscillations as the Clocking System for a Neural Code used by Cortex and Hippocampus                                                       John Lisman, Brandeis University 12:50 Wrap-up and Lunch 14:30 Workshop Closes