Program (tentative), April 14

8:00

Invited Speech-15

"The action-perception paradigm: A new perspective in cognitive neuroscience"
Hiroshi Nittono	Hiroshima University, Japan

Chair: Roberto D Pascual-Marqui
(University Hospital of Psychiatry)

8:40

Invited Speech-16

"Testing Models of Attention with MEG"
Andreas loannides	The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN, Japan)

Chair: Tetsuo Kobayashi
(Kyoto University, Japan)

9:20

Invited Speech-17

"Review of linear tomographic methods for imaging neuronal electric activity: an update"
Roberto D Pascual-Marqui	University Hospital of Psychiatry

Chair: Ken Nagata
(Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels, Japan)

10:00

Invited Speech-18

"Tonotopic maps and short-term plasticity in the human primary auditory cortex"
Isamu Ozaki	Aomori University of Health and Welfare, Japan

Chair: Hiroshi Otsubo
(The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

"Event Related Potentials"
Chair: Mikio Oosawa
(Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan)

12:20

Luncheon seminar-3

"Principle and technique of NIRS-Imaging for human brain FORCE: fast-oxygen response in capillary event"
Toshinori Kato	Hamano Life Science Research Foundation, Japan

Chair: Con Stough
(Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

13:00

Invited Speech-19

Sound-induced activation of auditory cortices in patients with inner-ear hearing loss
Yasushi Naito	Kyoto University, Japan

Chair: Wolfgang Skrandies
(University of Giessen, Germany)

13:40

Invited Speech-20

"Brain Mapping of Evoked Potential Correlates of Semantic Meaning Cross-cultural Studies"
Wolfgang Skrandies	University of Giessen, Germany

Chair: Koichi Hirata
(Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Japan)

14:20

Invited Speech-21

"Cross-modal plasticity in the congenitally blind - Evidence from functional brain imaging and TMS studies"
Ron Kupers	Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Chair: Ken Nagata
(Research Institute for Brain and Blood Vessels)

15:00

Closing Remarks