The TWK programme consists of three symposia with invited speakers, an evening lecture by Prof. Manfred Spitzer, and poster presentations. The complete programme can be downloaded as a PDF file here.

Friday 30th January 2004

15:00 Registration and hanging of posters
16:25 Welcome
Symposium 1: Contributions of the Cerebellum to Sensation and Perception
(Klaus Mathiak, Universität Tübingen)

Symposium to be conducted in English
16:30 Introduction
Klaus Mathiak (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
16:40 Mapping Visually Activated Cerebellar Regions in Anaesthetised Monkeys with fMRI
Fahad Sultan (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen) & Nikos K. Logothetis (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
17:10 Contributions of the Cerebellum to Visual Perception
Thomas Haarmeier & Hans-Peter Thier (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
17:40 Cerebellar Contributions to Auditory Perception
Hermann Ackermann & Klaus Mathiak (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)
18:10 Coffee break
18:40 The Cerebellum as a Sensory Coordinator
Lawrence M. Parsons (University of Texas Health Science Center)
19:10 Does the Cerebellum Guide Attention?
Dagmar Timmann (Universität Essen)

  Pretzels and other light snacks will be served from 19:30.
Public evening lecture (to be given in German)
20:00 Die Macht innerer Bilder: Wahrnehmung, Vorstellung, Halluzination
Manfred Spitzer (Universitätsklinik Ulm)

Saturday 31st January 2004

Symposium 2: Visual Localization in Space-Time
(Dirk Kerzel, Universität Gießen)

Symposium to be conducted in English
09:00 Introduction
Dirk Kerzel (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
09:10 Compensation of Neural Transmission Delays by the Sensory and the Motor Systems
Romi Nijhawan (University of Sussex,UK)
09:40 Representational Momentum: Perception or Cognition?
Dirk Kerzel (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
10:10 Dynamic Mental Representations of Human Action
Ian M. Thornton (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 Visual Localization and Feature Processing During Eye Movements
Markus Lappe (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
11:40 Spatio-Temporal Integration of Propagating Subthreshold Activity – Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging in Cat Visual Cortex
Dirk Jancke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum & The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
12:10 A Network Model for Coding the Position of Continuously Moving Stimuli
Wolfram Erlhagen (University of Minho, Portugal)
12:40 Lunch break

Poster sessions
The posters will be divided into 4 groups. The authors should be present at their poster at least during the time allocated to their group as follows. The poster boards will be marked to indicate which group the poster is in.
14:00 Group A
15:00 Group B
16:00 Group C
17:00 Group D

19:30 Banquet at the Museum Restaurant
The poster prize will be awarded during the dinner.
NB: places are limited. Tickets may be reserved during online registration, and any remaining tickets will be sold at the registration desk.

Sunday 1st February 2004

Symposium 3: Signal Processing in the Central Auditory System
(Petra Arndt, Universität Oldenburg)

Symposium to be conducted in English
09:00 Introduction
Petra A. Arndt (Universität Oldenburg)
09:10 Auditory Lateralization and Spatial Hearing in Patients with Acquired Brain Lesions Affecting the Brainstem or the Primary Auditory Cortex
Rudolf Rübsamen (Universität Leipzig), Manon Grube (Universität Leipzig) & D. Yves von Cramon (MPI für Cognitive Neurowissenschaften Leipzig)
09:40 Mechanisms of Auditory Scene Analysis
Georg Klump (Universität Oldenburg), Mark A. Bee (Universität Oldenburg), Sonja B. Hofer (TU München) & Ulrike Langemann (Universität Oldenburg)
10:10 Spectro-Temporal Analysis and Streaming in the Auditory System
Torsten Dau (Centre for Applied Hearing Research, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen)
10:40 Coffee break
11:10 Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Auditory Cortex
Frank W. Ohl (Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg)
11:40 Effects of Auditory Localization on Intersensory and Sensorimotor Integration
Petra A. Arndt (Universität Oldenburg)

12:10 Closing discussion, removal of posters, end of conference