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Volcano Posters

Due to the volcanic activity in Iceland, the following poster presenters were unable to attend this year's CNS Meeting and have asked that their posters be made available on the website. Click on a title to view the poster. Files are in PDF format and may be up to several MB in size.

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Poster # 

Title 

First Name Last Name

A26 

Top-Down Modulation of Social Perception by Mental-State Attribution 

Christoph Teufel

A31 

Training effects on neural correlates of the Own-Race Bias 

Johanna Stahl

A40 

Perceiving age and gender in unfamiliar faces: An fMRI study on face categorization 

Nadine Kloth

A68 

Perceiving manner- and place-of-articulation contrasts in speech: An MMN study 

Sonia Cornell

A69 

Orthographic knowledge affects the processing of unattended spoken words: Mismatch Negativity evidence 

Chotiga Pattamadilok

A75 

Influence of emotional connotations on word acquisition 

Thore Apitz

A78 

Immediate and delayed effects of novel word acquisition before and after nocturnal sleep - A MEG-study of language plasticity 

Annuschka Eden

A79 

Task-effects on early brain responses in visual word recognition revealed by EEG/MEG 

Yuanyuan Chen

A85 

Processing lexical complexity in Polish: behavioural and neuroimaging evidence 

Zanna Szlachta

A86 

Characterizing lexical complexity computations in the fronto-temporal language network 

Mirjana Bozic

A87 

Spatiotemporal dynamics of morphological processing: an MEG/EEG investigation 

Elisabeth Fonteneau

A88 

Contextual Word Learning – a MEG Study 

Kati Keuper

A98 

The segregation of semantic representation and resource allocation in number processing 

Yi-Fang Hsu

A103 

Temporal Consciousness and varieties of confabulations in Alzheimer’s disease and in amnesia 

Valentina La Corte

A127 

Neural representations of new objects are modulated by object-related sensory experience 

Christian Bellebaum

B10 

Dynamic attending and temporal processing in patients with cerebellar or basal ganglia lesions 

Michael Schwartze

B27 

Seeing or not: Vision modulates tactile attentional selection 

Bettina Forster

B45 

Emotional prosody processing in Parkinson’s disease: Sidedness of motor symptoms makes the difference 

Patricia Garrido-Vásquez

B53 

Social cues, mentalizing and the neural processing of speech and gestures 

Benjamin Straube

B58 

Segregating Theory of Mind from Action Simulation 

Marc Thioux

B78 

Brain oscillatory 1-40 Hz frequency responses during an auditory working memory task in 6-, 11- and 14-year-old children 

Anna-Mari Andersson

B88 

Neural substrates of cognitive switching and inhibition in a face processing task 

Camille Piguet

B92 

Underlying processes of switching between tasks: reconfiguration or adaptation? 

Wouter De Baene

B120 

Cognitive assessment and quantitative imaging in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 

Becky Haynes

C3 

Largely overlapping networks mediating attentional control during spatial and object-based attention 

Christian Stoppel

C9 

Prismatic adaptation in the therapy of spatial and object neglect: a case study 

Anna Grzybkowska

C12 

Effects of task demands on tactile spatial attention 

Elena Gherri

C16 

Anticipated Reward can reduce Spatial Neglect 

Paresh Malhotra

C17 

Exogenous tactile attention in detection and discrimination tasks: Event related potentials and behavioural measures 

Alexander Jones

C62 

Implicit and explicit levels of animacy perception in adults with high functioning autism 

Bojana Kuzmanovic

C85 

A computational model of word learning in infancy: Early interactions between visual and auditory processing enable categorical perception 

Nadja Althaus

C86 

The neuroanatomy of bodily self-consciousness: Distinct neural correlates for illusory own body perceptions with and without disembodiment of neurological origin 

Lukas Heydrich

C104 

Multimodal Perception of Whispered and Voiced Prosody in French: A Preliminary fMRI Study 

Marion Dohen

C108 

Hearing facial identities: Brain correlates of face-voice integration in person recognition 

Stefan Schweinberger

C110 

Time Reference in Turkish Agrammatism 

Elif Bamyaci

C120 

I know what you’re doing because I did it before: sensory-motor experience induces Peripersonal Space modifications during action observation 

Claudio Brozzoli

C123 

Co-variation of EEG synchronization and self-estimation of spontaneous emotional states 

Miroslaw Wyczesany

D19 

Grasping time – How temporal alignment affects gesture speech integration 

Christian Obermeier

D23 

Short- and Long-Term Memory contributions to Auditory Change Detection: a neurocomputational model 

Max Garagnani

D24 

The syllable as a relevant unit for speech perception – an ERP study 

Heidrun Bien

D26 

Can abstract pointing give you directions in a verbally ambiguous situation? 

J. E. Douglas Weinbrenner

D29 

The sound of silence: investigating the consequences of disfluent silent pauses in speech using event-related potentials 

Lucy J. MacGregor

D38 

How is prosodic processing lateralized in the brain? 

Jurriaan Witteman

D39 

Is the reduced N1 to self-generated tones an effect of temporal predictability? 

Kathrin Lange

D40 

Does phonological short-term memory capacity correlate with rhythmic ability? A behavioural and fMRI study of Individual differences 

Jessica Grahn

D49 

“Virtual lesion” of the left ventral premotor cortex disrupts preference for musical beat rate 

Katja Kornysheva

D53 

Spectral features of speech drive the induced EEG brain response: Parametric changes in Alpha- and Theta-band power 

Jonas Obleser

D73 

Are gaps the sounds with zero intensity? A study of empty and filled interval timing in sub-second range in human auditory system 

Maria D. Evstigneeva

D93 

The role of the noradrenergic system in the exploration-exploitation trade-off: A pharmacological study 

Marieke Jepma

E13 

The semantic priming effect in concurrent EEG-fMRI 

Sebastian Geukes

E22 

Neural correlates of the perception of prosodic focus in French: an fMRI study 

Marcela Perrone

E56 

The processing of facial expressions during pain 

Antje B. M. Gerdes

E87 

The SNAP25 gene is linked to working memory capacity and maturation of the posterior cingulate cortex during childhood 

Stina Söderqvist

E118 

Learning chunking hierarchies in non-motor (cognitive) sequences 

Anne B. Kühn

F3 

Memory for objects relevant for navigation in Alzheimer patients 

Roy Kessels

F5 

Establishing the boundaries: the hippocampal contribution to imagining scenes 

Chris M. Bird

F9 

The role of working memory in the active inhibition of competing representations in long term memory: Neural and behavioural evidence 

Rachael Elward

F49 

Can eye help you? An fMRI study into the effects of ‘social gaze’ on the neural correlates of action control as measured by a manual stimulus-response compatibility task 

Leonhard Schilbach

F51 

How Unconscious Effect Information and Motor Prediction Contribute to the Sense of Agency: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials 

Antje Gentsch

F61 

Eye Contact Enhances Mimicry of Intransitive Hand Movements 

Yin Wang

F65 

Dealing with actions or dealing with actors? From motor simulation to theory of mind 

Moritz F. Wurm

F82 

Sleep-Dependent Consolidation of Statistical Learning 

Simon Durrant

F90 

Serotonin transporter polymorphisms influence inhibitory control in healthy subjects 

Nils Inge Landrø

F94 

The Development of Interference Control 

Clare Killikelly

F98 

What cognitive processes contribute to the development of inhibitory control in childhood? An electroencephalography (EEG) study in young children and adults 

Donna Bryce

F106 

Manipulation of conflict strength in the flanker task: Does stimulus contrast matter? 

Jessica Strozyk

G10 

Anxiety Highlights the Negative: Electrophysiological Evidence that Personality Modulates Affective Processing 

Johanna Simpson

G11 

Is prediction error signal expressed on the scalp? 

Deborah Talmi

G16 

Unconscious goal priming can alter the effect of attention and emotion during face processing 

Swann Pichon

G42 

Comprehending familiar and unfamiliar metaphors 

Els Severens

G43 

Investigating the relationship between speech rhythm and semantic processing 

Kathrin Rothermich

G71 

New Buzzwords: Early Cortical Responses to Pseudo Words after Affective Conditioning 

Magdalene Ortmann

G79 

Novel evidence for a caudal-rostral gradient of convergence in the human temporal lobe: A probabilistic MR tractography study 

Richard J. Binney

G94 

Action Understanding in Autism 

Lauren Marsh

G96 

Pinpointing emerging effective connectivity in the human brain 

Kathrin Cohen Kadosh

H12 

The neural basis of great expectations and subsequent disappointments 

Sarah Mohammed

H19 

Cortical orienting response to novelty is enhanced in obsessive-compulsive disorder 

Norbert Kathmann

H30 

Attentional Processes Underlying Event Learning 

Marta Andreatta

H44 

Learning from errors: feedback-related negativity and P300 in processing negative feedback and encoding correct information 

Ellen de Bruijn

H62 

Gains in fluid intelligence after training non-verbal reasoning in 4-year-old children: a controlled, randomized study 

Sissela Bergman Nutley

H76 

Preserved encoding under high attentional load is specific to faces: ERP evidence 

Markus F. Neumann

H77 

Effect of Oppel-Kundt Illusion on simple Reaction Times 

Silvia Savazzi

H117 

Failure of spatial representation contributes to memory decline during aging 

Charlotte Russell

H118 

The influence of post-traumatic stress on hippocampally-mediated spatial memory 

John King

H127 

ERP indices of episodic and semantic memory deficits in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) 

Patric Meyer

I31 

When Complex Grammar Must Pass the Bottleneck of Degraded Acoustics: an fMRI Study 

Lars Meyer

I36 

Neurotransmitter receptor distribution for functional activations found in Broca’s region in the human cerebral cortex 

Mareike Trams

I40 

The neural basis of judgements of recency: evidence from fMRI 

Andrea Greve

I62 

Words and Pictures Give Rise to Different Neural Correlates of Recollection: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) 

Ida-Maria Skavhaug

I85 

Extrastriate cortex and medial temporal lobe regions care similarly about category, but differentially about featural ambiguity 

Matthew Mundy

I101 

Domain specific response in medial temporal and extrastriate cortex during perceptual learning of visually similar stimuli 

Kim Graham

I113 

Reduced configural processing of old faces in young observers: Evidence from the N170 face inversion effect 

Holger Wiese