Multisensory Interactions Subserving Orienting Behavior

描述(由申请者提供)：本提案请求支持题为“多感觉交互作用服从定向行为”的会议，这是运动神经控制学会第十二届年会的卫星。会议将于2002年4月14日至16日在佛罗里达州那不勒斯的那不勒斯海滩酒店举行。在NCM会议期间，从来没有关于多感官行为的会议。这次会议将使与会者能够轻松地参加卫星会议和国家管理委员会主要会议，因为专题讨论会的最后一天将于周二晚上结束，同时进行国家管理委员会主要会议的登记和接待。这颗卫星的中心是不同感觉模式(视觉、听觉、前庭和躯体感觉)的输入如何在不同动物物种的中枢神经系统的不同阶段结合起来，以指导有目的的空间行为。它将提供一个独特的机会，将该领域的顶尖研究人员聚集在一起。关于多感官定向行为的专门会议一直很少见。一个值得注意的例外是许多年前参加IBRO世界神经科学会议(日本新泻，1995年)的卫星。最近，国际多感知研究论坛组织了两次会议(英国牛津，1999年和纽约塔里敦，2000年)，主要强调感知而不是空间行为。我们的研讨会将以Barry Stein的主旨演讲开始。他在猫上丘及其几个皮质输入区域的多感觉整合的神经生理学和发育方面的开创性工作，触及了这颗卫星解决的问题的核心。然后会议将进行两天，每天组织三次研讨会。第一天讨论的是多感觉定向的皮质下和皮质机制，以及多感觉的“异国情调”。第二天的内容包括发育和可塑性现象、临床方面和多感官诱发行为。第二天将举行关于计算模型的专题海报和演示会。此外，计划在两个下午休息时间结束时举行两次一般海报会议，但在整个会议期间将展示海报，以便有足够的机会进入。研讨会的时间通常为两个半小时，在此期间，四位演讲者将有半个小时(包括5-10分钟)。讨论)，为听众和会议参与者之间的一般性讨论留出了充足的时间。会议领导人都是各自学科领域公认的领导人。他们将管理会议的内容，并与组织者一起选择副主题和投稿人。特别鼓励学生和博士后研究员出席并参与，奖学金计划将针对和加强会议的这一重要方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for a meeting entitled, "Multisensory Interactions Subserving Orienting Behavior," a satellite to the twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement. The meeting will be held April 14-16, 2002, at the Naples Beach Hotel in Naples, Florida. There has never been a meeting on multisensory behavior flanking the NCM meeting. The meeting will allow participants to easily participate in both the satellite and the main NCM meeting, as the last day of the symposium ends Tuesday evening, in tandem with the registration and reception for the main NCM meeting. The satellite centers on how inputs from different sensory modalities (visual, auditory, vestibular, & somatosensory) are combined at different stages in the CNS of different animal species to guide purposeful spatial behavior. It will provide a unique opportunity to bring together top researchers in the field. Dedicated meetings on multisensory orienting behavior have been rare. A notable exception was the satellite to the IBRO World Conference on Neuroscience (Niigata, Japan, 1995) many years ago. More recently, the International Multisensory Research Forum has organized two meetings (Oxford, UK, 1999, and Tarrytown, NY, 2000) which emphasized largely perception rather than spatial behavior. Our symposium will begin with a keynote lecture by Barry Stein. His seminal work on the neurophysiological and developmental aspects of multisensory integration in the cat superior colliculus, and in several of its cortical input areas, touches the very heart of the problems addressed in this satellite. The meeting will then progress over 2 days, organized as three symposium sessions per day. The first day deals with subcortical and cortical mechanisms underlying multisensory orienting, as well as multisensory 'exotica.' The second day covers developmental and plasticity phenomena, clinical aspects, and multisensory-evoked behavior. A dedicated Poster and Demonstration session on Computational Models will be held on the second day. In addition, two general poster sessions are planned at the end of the two afternoon breaks, though posters will be on display during the entire meeting to allow ample access. Symposium sessions will typically be 2 1/2 hours long, during which four speakers will have a half-hour (including 5-10 mins. discussion), leaving ample time for a general discussion between the audience and the session participants. Session leaders are all acknowledged leaders in their respective disciplines. They will govern the content of their sessions and select the subtopics and contributors in conjunction with the organizers. Students and post-doctoral fellows are specifically encouraged to attend and participate, and a scholarship program will target and enhance this important aspect of the meeting.