Program

Program

July 31, 2015 (2F Conference Hall)

• Opening 9:30 Welcome to Brainconnects 2015

• Toshiharu Nakai (National Center for Geriatrics & Gelontology)

• Guest of Honor Speech 9:40 The Future of Clinical Neuroscience

• Gen Sobue (Nagoya Universotu)

• Keynote Lecture 10:00 Brain Computer Interfaces for the Industrial Application of

• Cognitive Neuroscience

• Fabio Babiloni (University of Rome La Sapienza)

• tea break

• Focused Lecture 11:00 Investigating the Microstructural Change in relation to Linguistic

• Functions in Healthy Aging with Diffusion Tensor Imaging

• Gloria Yang (Tsing Hua University)

• 11:40 Applications of Support Vector Machines in Neuroimaging Studies

• : Identifying Imaging Biomarkers and Real-time Brain State Decoding

• Epifanio Bagarinao (Nagoya University)

• 12:20 International Collaboration of Neuroinformatics: INCF and INCF

• Japan Node

• Yoko Yamaguchi (Riken, Brain Science Institute)

• lunch break

• Research Presentation 14:00 Working Memory Training-related Changes in Cognitive Abilities

• Belle Yee Ying Yick (Nanyang Technological University)

• 14:20 Can Elderly Improve Speech Articulation?: A Tongue Twister

• Training Study with fMRI

• Sachiko Kiyama (NCGG)

• 14:40 Functional Compensation in Older Adults for Novelty and Relational

• Encoding of Scenes: A Brain Activation and Functional Connectivity

• Study

• Leow Wei Yang Dayton (Nanyang Technological University)

• 15:00 Spontaneous Activation of Planed Actions in Episodic

• Future Thinking

• Yuichi Ito (Keio University)

• 15:20 Aging Patterns of Functional Connectivity in Japanese Auditory

• Semantic Processing: A fMRI Study

• Liu Heng Shuang (Nanyang Technological University)

• tea break

• Poster Presentation 16:00 - 17:30 See below

• Poster Viewing Session 18:00 - 20:00

Aug 1, 2015 (2F Conference Hall)

• Keynote Lecture 9:30 Networking of the Ageing Mechanisms: Theory, Models and

• Applications from Intracellular Networks and Brain Connectivity

• Mapping

• Tassos Bezerianos (SINAPSE, National University of Singapore)

  • 10:10 From Understanding Aging Networks to Modulating the Aging Brain

    • SH Annabel Chen (Nanyang Technological University)

    • tea break

• Focused Lecture

• 11:00 Classification of Age-related Brain Connectivity Using Resting State

• fMRI and Support Vector Machine

• Tetsuya Iidaka (Nagoya University)

• 11:40 Into the Wild: Towards Real-world Mobile Neuroimaging and

• Cognitive Monitoring

• Tim Mullen (University of California San Diego)

• 12:20 Social-Affective Function in Older Adults: A Positivity Effect and

• Trust Perspective

• Atsunobu Suzuki (Nagoya University)

• lunch break

• Research Presentation 14:00 Functional Connectome Approach Reveals Changes in Information

• Transfer Efficiency of Brain Functional Networks during Training

• on an Airplane Pilot Task

• Fumihiko Taya (SINAPSE, National University of Singapore)

• 14:20 Involvement of Striatal Projection System in Frontotemporal

• Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

• Yuichi Riku (Nagoya University)

• 14:40 Longitudinal Study of Gender Differences in Structural Brain

• Networks of Healthy Adults

• Yu Sun (SINAPSE, National University of Singapore)

• 15:00 Simultaneous Measurement of Blood Oxygenation Level-dependent

• Signals and Pupil Diameter

• Mitsunobu Kunimi (NCGG, ATR)

• 15:20 Age-related Changes in Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and

• Default Mode Network: An fMRI Study

• Heng Jiamin Gladys (Nanyang Technological University)

• Closing Remarks 15:40 Annabel SH Chen (Nanyang Technical University)

• Town meeting, (internal）

Poster Presentation (16:00 ~ 17:30, July 31 - Aug 1, 1F Conference Room)

1. Working Memory and Functional Mobility Association was Mediated by a Deficit-compensation Neural Activation Pattern.

2. Toshikazu Kawagoe (Kumamoto University)

3. Object Selection in Natural Scenes by SSVEP with Augmented Reality

4. Shuto Horii (Toyohashi University of Technology)

5. The Dorsomedial Prefrontal Gray Matter Enhances Elderly's Positivity Effect in Emotional Sentence Retrieval

6. Sachiko Kiyama (NCGG)

7. White Matter Microstructure between the pre-SMA and the Cingulum Bundle is Related to Response Conflict in Healthy Subjects

8. Maeri Yamamoto (Nagoya University)

9. Task Load-dependent Change of Functional Connectivity

10. Mitsunobu Kunimi (NCGG, ATR)

11. White Matter Hyperintensity is Related to Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Demented Elderly

12. Noriko Ogama (NCGG)

13. The Brain Network underlying the Velvet Hand Illusion: An fMRI Study

14. Nader Rajaei (Nagoya University, National Institute for Physiological Sciences)

15. The cerebellar-cerebral Network Represents the Real-time Interaction during Eye Contact:

16. A Hyperscanning fMRI Study

17. Takahiko Koike (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)

18. Development of an Encrypted Linkable Anonymizing Method to Protect Personal Information for Clinical Researches

19. Yuta Kitamura (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

20. Measurement of Cerebral Blood Flow Activation of Elderlies during Verbally-Based Cognitive Tasks: Comparison of fNIRS Signals between Mild AD and MCI Subtypes

21. Shohei Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

22. Development of a New Task Switching Paradigm.to Investigate the Effect of Aging .on the Brain Activity Using Functional MRI

23. Akihiro Yoshida (Nagoya University)

24. Cerebellar Contributions to Visual Working Memory

25. Monika Sobczak-Edmans (Nanyang Technological University)

26. Functional Compensation in Older Adults for Novelty and Relational Encoding of Scenes: A Brain Activation and Functional Connectivity Study

27. Leow Wei Yang Dayton (Nanyang Technological University)

28. Aging Patterns of Functional Connectivity in Japanese Auditory Semantic Processing: a fMRI Study

29. Liu Heng Shuang (Nanyang Technological University)

30. Longitudinal Study of GenderDifferences in Structural Brain Networks of Healthy Adults

31. Yu Sun (SINAPSE, National University of Singapore)

32. A Behavioral and Electorophysiology Investigation of Cognitive Training in Young and Older Adults (preliminary behavioral results)

33. Belle Yee Ying Yick (Nanyang Technological University)

34. Age-related Changes in Functional Hemispheric Asymmetry and Default Mode Network: An fMRI Study

35. Gladys Jiamin Heng (Nanyang Technological University)

36. Training-induced Changes in Information Transfer Efficiency of the Brain Network: A Functional Connectome Approach

37. Fumihiko Taya (SINAPSE, National University of Singapore)

    1. Potential of Robots Imitating Human Body Movements for Cognitive Training

    2. Shohei Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology)