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We are pleased to inform you that the following speakers have accepted to give keynote lectures at the meeting: André AlemanUniversity of Groningen, The Netherlands Title: The neuropsychology of schizophrenia: from cognition to emotion and back again
André is a member of the Young Academy of the K.N.A.W. (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) and member of the Netherlands Health Council (Gezondheidsraad). He serves as an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. He has authored more than 120 scientific papers in international journals. Together with Frank Larøi he published the book Hallucinations: the science of idiosyncratic perception (Washington, American Psychological Association, 2008). Jon DriverUniversity College London, United Kingdom Title: Attention, multisensory integration, and interplay between remote but interconnected regions of the human brain
John DuncanUniversity of Cambridge, United Kingdom Title: Intelligence, mental programs and the frontal lobe
His work uses methods of experimental cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, functional brain imaging and single cell electrophysiology. Interests include selective attention, with its neural basis in biased competition, and more recently the adaptive neural functions of frontal and parietal cortex, and their role in human intelligence. He is Honorary Professor at the Universities of Cambridge and Bangor, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the British Academy. Elizabeth Jefferies
University of York, United Kingdom Title: The organisation of semantic cognition in the brain: Converging evidence from neuropsychology and TMS.
Her research interests are in the cognitive and neural organisation of semantic memory and language, drawing on studies of stroke and dementia patients and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies of healthy volunteers. |
André Aleman received his masters degree in Psychology (Neuropsychology and Psychophysiology) at Utrecht University, where he also obtained his PhD (cum laude). His current research interests concern the neural underpinnings of cognitive and affective dysfunctions in psychosis and depression. He conducted research on the cognitive basis of hallucinations, and the neural basis of emotion processing in schizophrenia, amongst others. In 2006 he was appointed as Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG). In the same year he was appointed as scientific director of the BCN-BRAIN Neuroscience Research Institute in the UMCG. The Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research awarded him a VIDI grant (700,000 EUR) in 2001, and in 2006 he received the European Young Investigator (EURYI) Award (1.2 M EUR) from the European Science Foundation.
Jon Driver is Royal Society Research Professor at University College London, in the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging. He trained in Oxford UK, then spent a formative postdoctoral period with Mike Posner in the USA, before taking a faculty post in Cambridge UK. He moved to London in the mid-1990s and was Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience from 2004-2009. He now co-chairs UCL Neuroscience together with Prof Michael Hausser, seeking to integrate more than 400 Neuroscience PIs at UCL. His own research concerns selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial cognition in the intact and damaged human brain.
John Duncan is Assistant Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. He received both BA (1973) and DPhil (1976) from the University of Oxford, and after postdoctoral work with Mike Posner at the University of Oregon, began work with the MRC in 1978.
Beth Jefferies is currently a senior lecturer in Neuropsychology at the University of York. Following a first degree at Oxford, she completed her PhD in Bristol with Alan Baddeley and Matt Lambon Ralph, and then moved to the University of Manchester to work as an RCUK research fellow in the Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit.