Scientific programme
Besides the invited keynotes, the LaP2024 meeting will include organized symposia related to the special theme “Spatial cognition“, and free papers on various aspects of learning and plasticity presented as posters. Note that besides the congress presentations, the meeting provides ample opportunities for informal scientific discussions amongst the participants.
Five confirmed symposia:
- Cognitive maps, from space to concepts (organizer Luca Rinaldi)
- Sharpening spatial cognition through participation in aesthetic experiences and implications for healthy aging (organizers Mariya M. Vodyanyk & Susanne M. Jaeggi)
- Spatial cognition in language and reading: Brain, eye-tracking, and cognitive studies (organizers Paavo Leppänen &, Susannah Otieno-Leppänen)
- Consolidation of spatial memories during sleep (organizer Miriam Nokia)
- Virtual reality in neuroscience and clinical research of spatial cognition (organizer Juha Salmi)
Detailed conference program
Sunday
16:00-16:30
Registration at Äkäshotelli (Auditorium)
16:30-16:45
Opening words
Matti Laine, Minna Lehtonen, Juha Salmi
16:45-17:35
Keynote Lecture 1
Arne Ekstrom: Navigating beyond the cognitive map
17:35-17:45
Short break
17:45-19.00
Symposium 1 – Cognitive maps, from space to concepts
Organizer: Luca Rinaldi
17:45-18:10
Roberto Bottini: Structuring knowledge across reference frames: Beyond hippocampal cognitive maps
18:10-18:35
Lukas Kunz: Neurons in the human entorhinal cortex map abstract emotion space
18:35-19:00
Luca Rinaldi: Retrieving spatial representation from natural language
19:15-20:15
Welcome Reception (Yläbaari)
Monday
14:00-14:50
Keynote Lecture 2
Nora Newcombe: Charting our way in space and time
14:50-15:05
Coffee break 15 min
15:05-16:45
Symposium 2 – Sharpening spatial cognition through participation in aesthetic experiences and implications for healthy aging
Organizers: Mariya M. Vodyanyk & Susanne M. Jaeggi
15:05-15:30
Petra Jansen: Motor expertise and spatial cognition
15:30-15:55
Aston McCullough: Dance-like state detection and curiosity: A pilot study on artful movement and mindfulness
15:55-16:20
Marina Martinčević: “Draw, not to withdraw”: Drawing as memory aid in older adults adults
16:20-16:45
Mariya Vodyanyk: Engaging mindful awareness and visuospatial cognition through observational drawing
16:45-17:00
Short break
17:00-18:55
Symposium 3 – Virtual reality in neuroscience and clinical research of spatial cognition
Organizer: Juha Salmi
17:00-17:40
Neil Burgess / Katarzyna Rudzka: Immersive virtual reality, dissociating the neural mechanisms of linear and angular path integration
17:40-18:05
Emiliano Macaluso: Visuo-spatial attention control in virtual environments: from explicit goals to implicit memories
18:05-18.30
Claudia Repetto: Embodied Spatial Cognition in Virtual Reality: Manipulating Perspectives and Frames of Reference for Cognitive Study and Rehabilitation
18.30-18.55
Jenni Uimonen / Siiri Laari: Virtual reality tasks with eye tracking for mild spatial neglect assessment
18:55-20.10
Poster session 1 (Äkäskabinetti) and coffee
Benavides-Varela S, Brigadoi S, Pasquini A, Piperno G, Porru A, Geraci A, Di Giorgio E, Lunghi M, Regolin L, Lucangeli D, Rugani R.: Neural Correlates of Spatial-Numerical Associations in 7 months-old infants: an fNIRS and a longitudinal study.
Kluge A, Cotroneo S, Levy J.: Three ways to detect how outgroup interventions modulate thinking patterns.
Hsu Y-F, Tu C-A, Hämäläinen JA.: Both local and global prediction errors show linear age-related declines.
Triana AM, Salmi J, Hayward N, Saramäki J, Glerean E.: Effects of daily environmental, physiological, and lifestyle factors on functional brain connectivity.
Liu X, Zhou W, Nolan F.: Interaction of emotion types and stimulus modality in L2 English emotion perception by Chinese English learners: An eye-tracking study.
Benlamlih K, Augier M, Roy AC, Boulenger V, Brozzoli C.: Effects of a longitudinal tool-use training on the comprehension of complex syntactic structures in French.
Santacroce F, Tosoni A, Di Censo D, Sestieri C, Committeri G.: Objective regularities extracted for generalisation of episodic experience in semantic knowledge.
Rinne N, Wikman P, Sahari E, Salmi J, Alho, K.: Exploring the development of interhemispheric connections in neurotypical adolescents and young adults.
Salmi J, Aquilino B, Riihimäki H, Kangas S, Kärhä S, Alho K, Wikman P.: Brain regions involved in auditory and visual attention: a meta-analysis.
Noppari T, Tuisku J, Lukkarinen L, Tani P, Lindberg N, Saure E, Lauerma H, Tiihonen J, Hirvonen J, Helin S, Salmi J, Nummenmaa L.: Autism spectrum disorder is associated with decreased and uncoupled dopamine D2 and μ-opioid receptor binding.
Anceresi G, Gatti D, Marelli M, Vecchi T., Rinaldi L.: The spatial representation of valence: Insights from words and pseudowords processing.
Stamer, S, Maßalsky, A, Klimecki, O, Wirth, M.: REMINDer: A randomized controlled pilot study to assess feasibility and effectiveness of a multimodal online intervention on overall physical and mental well-being in older adults
13:30-14.00
Keynote Lecture 3
Christian Doeller: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces
14:00-15.40
Symposium 4 – Consolidation of spatial memories during sleep Organizer: Miriam Nokia
14:00-14:25
Jozsef Csicsvari: REM and non-REM sleep antagonistically influence reactivation drift in the hippocampus
14:25-14:50
Heikki Tanila: Is transfer of memory from the hippocampus to the neocortex during sleep the failing link of recent episodic memory in Alzheimer’s disease?
14:50-15:15
Paavo Laitinen: Sleep spindle deficits in schizophrenia and their role in overnight memory consolidation
15:15-15:40
Miriam Nokia: Associations between respiration, heart rate and hippocampal electrophysiology
15:40-16:55
Poster session 2 (Äkäskabinetti) and coffee
Ylinen A, Wikman P, McMullen J, Lehtinen E, Hannula-Sormunen M, Alho K.: Effects of task and auditory distraction during arithmetic processing in school-aged children.
Fromm AE, Abdelmotaleb M, Flöel A, Antonenko D.: Feasibility of an intra-scanner visuo-spatial memory training.
Tolonen T, Leppämäki S, Alho K, Tani P, Koski A, Laine M, Salmi J.: Functional connectivity in spatial and verbal working memory tasks and related training effects in adults with ADHD.
Seesjärvi E, Merzon L, Aronen ET, Mannerkoski M, Huhdanpää H, Laine M, Salmi J.: Hyperactivity and spatial navigation in virtual reality in ADHD children and typically developing controls.
Triana-Hoyos AM, Tauriainen S, Merzon L, Huhdanpää H, Aronen ET, Mannerkoski M, Tohka J, Salmi J.: Using 1st person perspective videos of goal-directed behavior to study neural underpinnings of ADHD.
Tauriainen S, Henriksson L, Merzon L, Huhdanpää H, Mannerkoski M, Aronen ET, Salmi J.: VR-based behavioral state space modelling for studying the neural underpinnings of ADHD.
Merzon L, Tauriainen S, Triana A, Nurmi T, Huhdanpää H, Mannerkoski M, Aronen ET, Kantonistov M, Henriksson L, Macaluso E, Salmi J.: Real-world goal-directed behavior reveals aberrant functional connectivity in ADHD children.
Benavides-Varela S, Visibelli E, Fló A, Siugzdaite R.: At the dawn of human learning and consolidation.
Gatti D, Anceresi G, Marelli M, Vecchi T, Rinaldi L.: Decomposing geographical judgments into spatial, temporal and linguistic components.
Schommartz I, Lembcke PF, Ortiz-Tudela J, Bauer M, Kaindl AM, Buss C, Shing YL.: Neural correlates and reinstatement of recent and remote memory: a comparison between children and young adults.
18:00 –
Social Program (TBA)
9:00-10.15
Symposium 5 – Spatial cognition in language and reading: brain, eye-tracking, and cognitive studies
Organizers: Paavo Leppänen & Susannah Otieno-Leppänen
9:00-9:25
Xichu Zhu, Hongjun Chen, Ariane Tretow, Wei Qi, Susannah Otieno-Leppänen, Paavo H.T. Leppänen: Visuospatial attention and hemispheric processing of Finnish words and objects: An MEG and eye-tracking study
9:25-9:50
Wei Qi, Ariane Tretow, Béla Weiss, Hongjun Chen, Otto Loberg, Xichu Zhu, Susannah Otieno-Leppänen, Jarkko Hautala, Paavo H.T. Leppänen: Sentence reading of alphabetic Finnish and logographic Chinese: Combined MEG and eye-tracking study
9:50-10:15
Samuel Juma, Otto Loberg, Jarkko Hautala, Laura Kanniainen, Carita Kiili, Paavo H.T. Leppänen, Susannah Otieno-Leppänen: Examining the association between cognitive profiles and online research comprehension of typical readers and readers with learning-related difficulties
10:15-10.30
Closing the meeting
