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OPENING ADDRESS

Dr. Walter Ritter will give the Opening Talk.
Tuesday, May 1 — 6:00-7:00 pm
Reception will follow. [abstract]

Keynote Speakers and Topics:

Wednesday, May 2 — 11:00am-12:00pm
1. Dr. Mitchell Steinschneider, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Neural mechanisms of sound perception [abstract]

Thursday, May 3 — 11:00am-12:00pm
2. Dr. Catherine Best, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Phonetic variation and the complementary principles of phonological distinctiveness and phonological constancy [abstract]

Thursday, May 3 – 6:00-7:00pm
3. Dr. Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, California, USA
Time-frequency and independent components analyses in MMN research [abstract]

Friday, May 4 — 11:00am-12:00pm
4. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Computational modeling of working memory [abstract]

Friday, May 4 — 4:30-5:30pm
Closing talk will be given by Dr. Risto Näätänen, The University of Tartu, Estonia and The University of Arhus, Denmark
The MMN – a unique index of cognitive decline in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders [abstract]