Tentative Agenda
Annual Meeting of the Pavlovian Society
September 25 - 27, 2003; Bloomington, IN USA

TENTATIVE AGENDA

 

Thursday, September 25
2:00 - 6:00 pm	Registration (Conference Lounge)
4:00 - 5:00 pm	Executive Committee Meeting (location to be announced - Executive Committee only)
5:30 pm		Opening Reception
		University Club	
Friday, September 26, 2003
7:30 am		Continental Breakfast
		Frangipani Room
8:30 am		Welcome and Opening Remarks
		Georgian Room
		Joseph Steinmetz (Indiana University)
		President, Pavlovian Society
8:45 am		Brief Oral Presentations I  [Georgian Room]
	8:45 	Rat Perirhinal Cortex is Required for Delay Fear Conditioning to an Ultrasonic Social 
		Signal
		D.H. Linquist1, L.E. Jarrard2 & T.H. Brown1
		(1Yale University & 2Washington and Lee University)
	9:05	Nicotine Enhances Hippocampus-Dependent Versions
		of Fear Conditioning
		T.J. Gould (Temple University)
	9:25	Neural Mechanisms of Eyeblink Conditioned Inhibition
		John Freeman (University of Iowa)
	9:45	Extinction of Eyeblink Conditioning
		Michael Mauk (U. of Texas Medical School, Houston)
10:05 am		Break
10:25 am		Invited Address    [Georgian Room]
		Introduction by Aaron Blaisdell
		Sometimes Competing Retrieval (SOCR) of Pavlovian Responding: A Mathematical Implementation of the 
		Extended Comparator Hypothesis
		Ralph Miller & Steven Stout (SUNY-Binghamton)
11:25 am		Brief Oral Presentations II  [Georgian Room]
	11:25	Sex Differences in the Water Maze and Level Tasks in Rats and Humans, Respectively: Perceptual Versus Conceptual
		 Cognitive Styles and Perceptual Versus Conceptual Cognitive Abilities
		John Furedy (U. of Toronto), Valerie Sukhina (U. of Toronto) & Sakire Pogun (Ege University, Turkey)
	11:45	Sex Differences in Human Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Functions: Toward Real Improvements in the Psychological 
		Components of Smoke-Cessation Programs
		Valerie Sukhina (U. of Toronto), John Furedy (U. of Toronto) & Gregory Boyle (Bond University, Australia)
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm		Presidential Symposium  [Georgian Room]
		Classical Conditioning in Experimental Psychopathology
		William Hetrick, Chair (Indiana University)
	1:40	Opening Remarks
		Joseph Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	1:45	Eyeblink Conditioning Deficits Indicate Timing Abnormalities in Schizophrenia
		William Hetrick, Sarah Brown, Paul Kieffaber, Jennifer Vohs, Christine Carroll, Brain O’Donnell,
		 Anantha Shekhar & Joseph Steinmetz
		(Indiana University & Indiana U. School of Medicine)
	2:05	Classical Conditioning in Autism
		Lonnie Sears (University of Louisville)
	2:25	Effects of Social Perceptual Context, Awareness, and Clinically Relevant Dimensional Attention on
		 Discrimination Delay Conditioning in Humans
		Teresa Treat1, Richard McFall2, Donald Katz3, Richard Viken2 & Joseph Steinmetz2
		(1Yale University, 2Indiana University and 3BrandeisUniversity)
	
	2:45	Using Eyeblink Classical Conditioning to Test Theories of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
		Richard McFall, Jo Anne Tracy, Amanda Mortimer, Steven Seay, Sushmita Ghose & Joseph Steinmetz
		(Indiana University)
3:05 pm		Break
3:20 pm		Brief Oral Presentations III  [Georgian Room]
	3:20	Generality of Posttraining Deflation and Inflation of Comparator Stimuli on Conditioned Inhibition
		Jeffrey Amundson, Kouli Urushihara, & Ralph Miller (SUNY-Binghamton)
	3:35	Protection of Extinction is Mediated by the Expectancy of the US and no US Representations
		Aaron Blaisdell & Kosuke Sawa (UCLA)
3:50 pm		Short Break
4:00 pm		Indiana University Department of Psychology Colloquium
		[Georgian Room]  Introduction by Brian O’Donnell
		The role of hippocampal theta rhythm in memory guided behavior
		Michael Hasselmo (Boston University)
5:00 pm		Open Reception 
		Frangipani Room
5:30 – 7:00 pm	Poster Session
	1. 	Pre-test Reminders Alleviate Ontogenetic Forgetting in a Novel Object Recognition Task
		Matthew Anderson, Diana Karash & David Riccio
		(Kent State University)
	2. 	Temporal Changes in Contextual Control Over Interference
		James Briggs & David Riccio (Kent State University)
	3.	Is Spontaneous Forgetting the Result of Contextual Changes that Occur Over Time?
		Paula Millin & David Riccio (Kent State University)
	4.	The Role of Context Similarity in ABA, ABC, and AAB Renewal Paradigms
		J.L.M. Wickham, D. Vurbic, A.A. Froelich, D.E. Rosenblum & B.L. Thomas 
		(Baldwin-Wallace College)
	5.	Evidence that the Stress-Induced Impairment of Eyeblink Conditioning in Females is not
		due to Changes in Responding to the Unconditioned Stimulus
		Debra Bangasser & Tracy Shors (Rutgers University)
	6.	Stress Effects on Conditioning: Learning or Performance?
		D.A. Townsend & T. J. Shors (Rutgers University)
	7.	Sex Differences in Stress-Induced Suppression of Sensory Reactivity
		K.D. Beck, J. Willi, S.G. Kelly, T. Tumminello & R.J.
		Servatius (VA New Jersey Health Care System and New Jersey Medical School)
	8.	Pre-natal Exposure to a DNA Methylating Agent Leads to Subsequent Enhancement of Fear Conditioning
		M.R. Tinsely, J.J. Quinn, J.D. Jentsch, H. Moore, N. Hindiyeh & M.S. Fanselow (UCLA)
	9.	Age Related Impairments in Auditory Cued Fear Conditioning but not Contextual Fear Conditioning
		 in C57BL/6 Mice
		Olivia Feiro & Thomas Gould (Temple University)
	10.	Nicotinic Acetylcholinergic Receptors & AMP Receptors are Involved in Latent Inhibition of Cued
		 Fear Conditioning and May be Involved in Similar Neural Processes
		M.C. Lewis & T. J. Gould (Temple University)
	11.	Inhibition of Phosphodiesterase Reverses MK-801-Induced Deficits in C57BL/6 Mice Trained in
		 Latent Inhibition of Cued Fear Conditioning
		J.A. Davis & T.J. Gould (Temple University)
	12.	Stability of Fear Memory After Retrieval is Independent of mRNA Synthesis in the Amygdala
		R.P. Parsons, G.M. Gafford & F.J. Helmstetter
		(University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
	13.	GABAA Receptors in the Dorsal Hippocampus and Contextual Fear Conditioning
		G.M. Gafford, R.P. Parsons & F.J. Helmstetter
		(University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
	14.	Protein Synthesis Requirements in the Hippocampus During the Formation and Consolidation of
		 Contextual Fear Memory
		D.E. Baruch, R.P. Parsons, G.M. Gafford & F.R. Helmstetter (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
	15.	Olfactory Contexts are Dissociable from Spatial Contexts in the Rat Hippocampus
		D. Waxler & T. Otto (Rutgers University)
	16.	The Impact of Neonatal Injury on Spinally Mediated Instrumental Learning in Adult Rats
		Erin Young, Kyle Baumbauer, Audrea Elliot & Robin Joynes (Kent State University)
	17.	The Role of Protein Synthesis Inhibition in the Acquired Flexion Response in Spinal Rats
		Kyle Baumbauer, Erin Young, Kevin Hoy, Jill France & Robin Joynes (Kent State University)
	18.	Differences in Tolerance and Conditioned Compensatory Response with Yeast and Bacterial
		 Immunostimulatory Agents
		Kathryn Bryan & Benjamin Newberry (Kent State University)
	19.	Differentiation of CS+ and CS- by Rats in a Runway-based Pavlovian Conditioning Task
		Amber Chenoweth, Josh Hodges & W. Jeffrey Wilson (Albion College)
	20.	Conditioned Inhibition of Already-Elicited Autoshaped CRs in the Rat
		Sara West & W. Jeffrey Wilson (Albion College)
	21.	Rats use Compound Cues to Anticipate Chunk Boundaries in a Serial Learning Task
		Melissa Muller, Denise Smith & Stephen Fountain (Kent State University)
	22.	CS-Reminder Induced Recovery from Overshadowing in an Appetitive Pavlovian Preparation
		Kosuke Sawa & Aaron Blaisdell (UCLA)
	23.	Latent Inhibition did not Develop in Appetitive Signaled Barpressing Following 500 Massed Tone
		 Pre-exposures
		Erica Wensink & Daniel Miller (Carthage College)
	24.	A Comparison of Alcohol-Preferring (P) and Alcohol Non-Preferring (NP) Rats on a Signaled
		 Barpressing Task with a Delayed Response Requirement
		Ronald Villarreal & Joseph Steinmetz (Indiana Univ.)
	25.	Contextual Alterations Eliminate the Instrumental Appetitive-to-Aversive Transfer Impairment 
		in Phenytoin Treated Rats.
		A.L. McDowell, D.L. Samuelson, N.A. Mesnard & P.E. Garraghty (Indiana University)
	26.	Cerebellar Interpositus Nucleus Inactivation During Eye-blink Conditioning Causes Conditioned
		 Response (CR) Impairment but not Loss of Learning-Related Activity in HVI Region of Cerebellar Cortex
		K.B. Baker, R.P. Villarreal & J.E. Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	27.	Post-training Inactivation of the Cerebellar Interpositus Nucleus Disrupts Performance of the
		 Classically Conditioned Eye-blink Response and some Learning-related Activity of Purkinje Cells
		 in the Anterior Cerebellar Cortex
		R. W. Vogel III, J. T. Green & J. E. Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	28.	The Expression of Fear During Classical Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats
		Michele Nelson & Gabrielle Britton (Lafayette College)
	29.	Dissociation of Pre-exposure Effects on Acquisition of Delay vs Trace Eyeblink Conditioning
		 in Developing Rats 
		D.I. Claflin & M.L. Buffington (Wright State University)
	30.	Effects of Intracerebellar Infusions of Picrotoxin on Sensory Stimulation
		A.M. Poulos & R.F. Thompson (University of Southern California)
	31.	Neurophysiological Characterization of Amygdala Contributions to Eyeblink Classical Conditioning in Rats
		Linda Rorick & Joseph Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	32.	Context and Stimulus Pre-exposure effects on Latent Inhibition during Classical Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats
		Greta Sokoloff & Joseph E. Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	33.	Physiological Effects of Neonatal Alcohol-induced Purkinje Cell Loss in Adult Rats during Eyeblink Conditioning
		Brandt W. Young & Joseph E. Steinmetz (Indiana University)
	34.	Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats using Pontine Stimulation as a Conditioned Stimulus
		Christine Rabinak & John Freeman (Univ. of Iowa)
	35.	Differential Effects of Cerebellar Inactivation on Eye- blink Conditioned Excitation and Inhibition in Rats
		Hunter Halverson & John Freeman (Univ. of Iowa)
	36.	Second-order Eyeblink Conditioning in Rats
		Matthew Campolattaro & John Freeman (Univ. of Iowa) 
	37.	Unfamiliar Visual Stimuli: Eyeblink Conditioning but no Discrimination
		Lynn Harris1 & Joseph Steinmetz2 (1University of Wisconsin – Stout and 2Indiana Univ.)
	38.	Altered Auditory Neural Synchornization and Increased Schizotypy in Cannabis Users
		Patrick Skosnik, Giri Krishnan, Erin Aydt & Brian O’Donnell (Indiana University)
	39.	Early Event Related Potential Components Differentiate Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
		B.F. O’Donnell1, J.L. Vohs1, W.P. Hetrick1, C.A. Carroll1 & A. Shekar2 
		(1Indiana University & 2Indiana University School of Medicine)
	40.	Induced Gamma Band Activity During Motion Perception in the Electroencephalogram
		Giri Krishnan & Brian O’Donnell
		(Indiana University)
Saturday, September 27, 2003
7:30 am		Continental Breakfast [Frangipani Room]
8:00 am		Special Session – Grant-writing Tips for Students
		[Oak Room]
		Luci Robertson (National Institutes of Health)
9:00 am		Invited Address  [Georgian Room]
		Introduction by Diana Woodruff-Pak
		Modulatory Role of Norephinephine in Classical Eyelid Conditioning
		Paula Bickford, Daniel Paredes & Claire Cartford
		(University of South Florida College of Medicine)
10:00 am		Symposium III  [Georgian Room]
		Comparative and Associative Learning
		Todd Schachtman, Organizer (University of Missouri)
		Karen Hollis, Moderator (Mount Holyoke College)
	
	10:00	Introductory Comments
		William Timberlake (Indiana University)
	10:10	Effects of Cocaine on Sexual Conditioning in Male Quail
		Chana Akins (University of Kentucky)
	10:30 am	Break
	10:40	Profound Context Extinction Effects in the Rabbit’s Conditioned Nictitating Membrane Response Preparation
		E. James Kehoe & Gabrielle Weideman
		(The University of New South Wales)
	11:00	CS-US Interval Duration and the US Pre-exposure Effect
		Domhnall Jennings & Kimberly Kirkpatrick
		(University of York)
	11:20	Latent Inhibition of the US Signal Value
		Murray Goddard 
		(University of New Brunswick)	
	11:40	Maintaining a Competitive Edge: The Role of Pavlovian Conditioning in Food Competition
		Karen Hollis, Kristin Langworthy-Lam, Mary Romano, Julie Siegenthaler & Lisa Blouin (Mount Holyoke College)
12:00 pm		Presenter’s Lunch
		Federal Room
1:30 pm		Symposium IV  [Georgian Room]
		Neurobiology of Trace Fear Conditioning
		Fred Helmstetter, Chair (Univ. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
	1:30	Effects of Training ITI and Age on Trace Fear Conditioning
		James Moyer, Jr. (Univ. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
	1:55	Does the Hippocampus Play a Similar Role in Trace, Delay and Context Conditioning?
		Michael Fanselow (UCLA)
	2:20	Hippocampal Single Neuron Encoding of Auditory Trace Fear Conditioning in Rats
		Matthew McEchron (Pennsylvania State University)
	2:45	Trace Fear Conditioning in Humans
		Fred Helmstetter (U. of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)
3:10 pm		Break 
3:30 pm		Invited Address   [Georgian Room]
		Introduction by Jim Kehoe
		A Rabbit Model of Alzheimer's Disease - High Cholesterol and Trace Amounts of Copper
		Bernard Schreurs (University of West Virginia)
4:30 pm		Brief Oral Presentations IV  [Georgian Room]
	4:30 	Gulf War Illnesses: Nonspecific Reaction to Interoceptive Stressors?
		R. J. Servatius & K.D. Beck (New Jersey Medical
		School and VA, New Jersey Health Care System)	
	4:50	Special Presentation	
		Sto lat:  Konorski’s Centennial
		W. Jeffrey Wilson (Albion College)
6:00 pm		Reception   [Tudor Room]
7:00 pm		Closing Banquet  [Tudor Room]
		Dinner
		Brief Tribute to George Windholz
		John Furedy (University of Toronto)
		Key Note Address: 
		Don't Ignore Attention: Highlighting a Phenomenon and a Model
		John Kruschke (Indiana University)
		Presentation of Awards	
		Closing Remarks

 Note:  All meeting, reception and banquet rooms are located in the Indiana Memorial Union.