This symposium intends to gather people with a variety of backgrounds who are active in the field of Brain Science on topics as diverse as therapy, entertainment, fundamental and applied research and business opportunities. Its goal is to present the latest research in the context of existing or future applications and to discuss options for innovations based on brain science. Invited presentations of distinguished scientists and entrepreneurs will fuel discussion on the applications of Brain Science that are relevant for society at large, and foster the formation of an innovation community. The symposium program will cover the following tentative topics:

Speakers:

• Michael Anderson, Ph.D. (University of Cambridge) | Suppressing Unwanted Memories
• Chris Brewin, Ph.D. (University College London) | A Theoretical Framework for Understanding
Recovered Memory Experiences
• Jennifer Freyd, Ph.D. (University of Oregon) | Motivated Forgetting: Perspectives from Betrayal
Trauma Theory
• Elke Geraets, Ph.D. (Erasmus University Rotterdam) | Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Recovered
Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
• Marcia Johnson, Ph.D. (Yale University) | The Cognitive Neuroscience of True and False Memories
• Richard J. McNally, Ph.D. (Harvard University) | Searching for Repressed Memory

Organizer: Robert F. Belli, Ph.D.

Visit www.unl.edu/psypage/symposium for:

12th NVP Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour

December 18 & 19 2009

Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands

Call for papers.

The NVP (Dutch Society for Psychonomics) is pleased to announce its 12th Winter Conference on Cognition, Brain, and Behaviour, to be held in Egmondaan Zee (the Netherlands) on December 18 and 19, 2009. This year's keynote speakers are: Edmund Rolls (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, UK) and Peter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands).