10:00
OPENING
Benedek György Department of Physiology, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged

Functional imaging

10:15
Bodis-Wollner, Iván   State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn <bodisi01@hscbklyn.edu>
Dreamers and doers - an fMRI perspective abstract

10:35
Gulyás, Balázs  Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden <balazs.gulyas@neuro.ki.se>
A thought experiment: Neurotransmitter balance changes in human visual cortex during perception

Computational vision

10:55
Adorján, Péter; Piepenbrock,  Christian and Obermayer, Klaus Dept. of Computer Science, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany<adp@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Contrast adaptation in the primary visual cortex by changing the transmitter release probability. abstract

11:15
Lőrincz, András Dept. Information Systems Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest <alorincz@mail.matav.hu>
Entorhinal-hippocampal loop can be derived from a single principle  abstract

11:35
Földiák, Péter Psychological Laboratory University of St Andrews <pf2@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Pipeline architecture and neural selectivity in high-level visual cortex
 
11:55-13:00
Lunch break

Human psychophysics

13:00
Kovács, Ilona Lab.Vision Research, Rutgers Univ., New Jersey, USA <ikovacs@cyclops.rutgers.edu>
Slow development of perceptual organization in humans

13:20
Kozma, Petra HHMI & Ctr. Neural Sci.  New York Univ. New York, USA <petra@cns.nyu.edu>
Contour integration in amblyopia

13:40
Vidnyánszky, Zoltán Lab.Vision Research, Rutgers Univ., New Jersey, USA <vzoltan@zeus.rutgers.edu>
Interactions between motion, colour and stereopsis: Studies with superimposed transparent stimuli.

14:00
Fiser, József  Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Univ. of Rochester,   Rochester, USA <fiser@bcs.rochester.edu>
The effect of spatial frequency and contrast incoherence of contours on object recognition

14:20
Kincses Tamás, Szabó, Albert, Antal, Andrea,  Kéri, Szabolcs*, Kovács Gyula,  Zoltán, Benedek, György. Depts. of  Phys., *Psych., Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Univ., Szeged <AANTAL@phys.szote.u-szeged.hu>:
Early and late components of visual categorization: an event-related potential study abstract

14:40
Coffe break

Electrophysiology

15:00
Antal Andrea, Kéri, Szabolcs, Dibó**, György, Kincses, Zsigmond Tamás  Szabó, Albert, Janka,* Zoltán, Vécsei** László, Benedek György.Depts. of  Phys., *Psych., **Neurol., Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Univ., Szeged<kincsesz@phys.szote.u-szeged.hu>  :
Visual categorization in Parkinson's disease abstract

15:20
Vogels, Rufin Lab. Neuro- en Psychofysiologie, Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, Leuven, Belgium <Rufin.Vogels@med.kuleuven.ac.be>
Shape and other stimulus properties determining the responses of macaque inferior temporal neurons

15:40
Hernádi, István, Browning*, Andrew, Roll*s, Edmund, Lénárd**, László Dept. Neurobil. Janus Pannonius Univ., Pécs <steve@ttk.jpte.hu> *Dept. Exp. Psychol., Univ. Oxford, Oxford, England, **Neurphys. Res. Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, POTE, Pécs
The role of orbitofrontal cortex in the processing of new visual information in macaques abstract

16:00
Benedek, György Dept. Phys. Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical Univ. Szeged<benedek@phys.szote.u-szeged.hu>
Non-traditional spatial coding in the feline associative thalamo-cortical system

16:20
CLOSING AND DISCUSSION

16:30
SYMPOSIUM DINNER