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INS 2012 Fortieth Annual Meeting Wednesday, February 15, 2012 i Final Program Fortieth Annual Meeting International Neuropsychological Society February 15-18, 2012 Montréal, Québec, Canada WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012 9:00 AM–12:00 PM Wednesday Morning Continuing Education Courses Refer to CE Schedule for Location 12:00–4:00 PM Students of INS (SINS) Workshop: Writing Successful Grants in Neuropsychology Speakers: Mark Aloia, Rob Paul Verdun 1. ALOIA, MS Students of INS (SINS) Workshop: Writing Successful Grants in Neuropsychology 1:00–4:00 PM Wednesday Afternoon Continuing Education Courses Refer to CE Schedule for Location 4:15–5:45 PM Poster Session 1: Cognitive Rehabilitation/MS and Demylenation/Memory/Cross-cultural Salons Fontaine A and B Cross Cultural 1. ANDERSON, EC Written Expression Performance of Bilingual versus Monolingual College Students 2. BENNETT, J The Relationship Between Phonemic Fluency and IQ in Hispanic Bilingual Students 3. CROSSLEY, M The Northern Cultural Assessment of Memory (N-CAM): Normative Data from an Inner-city Clinic Supports Efficacy and Validity of a Cognitive Screen for Aboriginal Adults 4. JENKINS, JR Bilingual Proficiency and Contextual Memory Performance in a Hispanic Adult Sample 5. JOSHI, R Real-World Validity of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychological Testing: Cognitive Functioning and Occupational Level in India 6. LAU, KM Set-shifting, mental flexibility, and bicultural stress among Chinese American adults 7. MARTINEZ REYES, DA Monolingual and Multilingual Performance Differences on Tests of Unstructured Visuoconstruction Ability and Contextual Memory 8. RABIN, LA Trends in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Ethnic Minorities: A Survey of Neuropsychologists in the U.S. and Canada 9. RITCHIE, D Selection Criteria for Clinical Neuropsychology Internships 10. SAEZ, P The Impact of Sociocultural and Neurological Variables on Nonverbal Neuropsychological Test Performance Among Latino/a Epilepsy Patients 11. SCOTT, BM Determination of Suspect Effort: Primarily Spanish-Speaking TBI Patients and the Test of Memory Malingering 12. THAMES, A Neuroimaging & neuropsychological assessment among African Americans: The impact of literacy Cognitive Intervention/Rehabilitation 13. BELCHIOR, P The Association of a Multidimensional Construct of Useful Field of View With Standardized Visuospatial and Non-Visuospatial Measures 14. BOGDANOVA, Y Trial of Cognitive Rehabilitation in Anoxic Brain Injury 15. CAHILL, LS Maximising Memory: An Interdisciplinary Pilot Project Of Group Self-Management For Those With Mild Cognitive Impairment 16. CARSTENS, J The Effects of Goal Management Training in Undergraduate Students with Problems in Attention Functioning 17. CONSTANTINOU, M CBT improves cognition and reduces amount of seizures in children 18. FAHMI, H Web-based Delivery of a Cognitive Training Program ii Wednesday, February 15, 2012 19. FERLAND, MB Errorless Learning and Electronic Cueing Device Use for Training Daily Living and Diabetes Management Routines in a Young Woman with Initiation and Episodic Memory Impairments Following an Acquired Brain Injury 20. FYOCK, C Increased Strategy Use is Associated with Subjective Memory Improvement Following Cognitive Rehabilitation 21. GRIFFITHS, G Same Complaint, Different Profiles: An Examination of Reading Comprehension and Recall Deficits in Individuals with Acquired Brain Injury 22. GRILLI, MD Self-Knowledge and the Self-Imagination Effect (SIE) in Free Recall: Implications for Cognitive Rehabilitation and Memory Disorders 23. HUNT, A Executive Function, Self-Regulation, and Attribution in Acquired Brain Injury: A Scoping Review 24. MACHADO, MA Neuropsychological cognitive-linguistic analysis post-intervention program in daycare educators and children in Brazil 25. MCCANN, S An Abbreviated Version of an Established Cognitive Remediation Program (CRP) Improves Alternating Attention Abilities in Children with Neurological Disorders 26. MILLER, LA Evaluating Memory Training in Patients with Stroke 27. NAOYUKI, H Effects of Intensity of Transient Aerobic Exercise on Cognitive Function 28. O’DELL, KM Defining Meaningful Change in Supervision Level Using the Supervision Rating Scale: A Comparison of Two Methods 29. SIMARD, M Results of a 24-week Randomized Cross-Over Controlled Study on Cognitive Training of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Alzheimer’s Disease 30. STAMENOVA, V Recollection training in healthy older adults 31. SUMOWSKI, JF Retrieval Practice as a Memory Intervention in Multiple Sclerosis 32. WHITMAN, LA Feasibility of a Non-Pharmacological Working Memory Intervention (Cogmed) in Children with Epilepsy 33. WILSON, R The Effects of Distractors on Working Memory 34. YUTSIS, M The effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation Delivered via Telemedicine on Functional Independence in Persons with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A randomized Clinical Trial 35. GREMILLION, AL The Importance of Affective Stabilization in Neurorehabilitation Memory Functions 36. NEMETH, DG Using Music to Enhance Memory Recovery in Outpatient Neurorehabilitation 37. CRANE, J Memory for Scenes and Designs: Medial Temporal-Lobe Contributions 38. DÉJOS, M The identification of the four cognitive patterns with a unique virtual tool: a pilot study 39. ERICKSON, RL Visual Memory in Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum: Faces and Visual Reproduction 40. FAMA, R Striatal, Limbic, and Cerebellar Substrates of Visuomotor Learning in Alcoholism+HIV Infection Comorbidity 41. HEMANI, S Complementary hippocampal-caudate interactions during navigation of well-learned and novel environments 42. IAMPIETRO, M Executive and Encoding Aspects of Memory in Patients with Epilepsy as Assessed by a Novel Scoring System of the 15-item Biber-Glosser Figure Learning Test 43. JORDAN, LL Cognitive Factors Contributing to Verbal Memory Performance in a Pediatric TBI Sample 44. LANE, EM The Relationship Between White Matter Fiber Length, Cerebrovascular Disease Markers, and Memory Performance in Older Individuals 45. LECOMTE, SA Impact of cue-action strength of association in prospective memory performance in mild Alzheimer’s disease patients 46. LOGAN, DM Memory and Attention in Pregnant/Post-Partum Women: Neuropsychological Findings 47. LOUGHAN, AR TOMM Performance in Children with an Intellectual Disability 48. MANSOOR, Y Dimensionalizing the Serial Digit Learning Test Using Baddeley’s Model of Working Memory 49. MATTHEWS, MA Person-Identity Semantics Predicts Cognitive Decline in Cognitively Intact Older Participants 50. MCKEEVER, JD Associations Between Self-Reported Prospective Memory Problems and Objective Test Results in Multiple Sclerosis 51. MENDIZABAL, S Developmental differences of visual short-term memory 52. NOVITSKI, J Metamemory for Famous Names in MCI 53. PARADIS, V Brain Regions Involved in Retrospective and Prospective Memory Retrieval 54. PRESTON, T Neurocognitive Correlates of Prospective Memory in Clinically Referred Children 55. PRESTON, T Psychosocial and Behavioral Correlates of Prospective Memory in Clinically Referred Children 56. RASKIN, S Methods of Measurement of Prospective Memory 57. REYNOLDS, EW Imagining is Believing: The Imagination Inflation Effect in Adults With Alzheimer’s Disease 58. SAMARINA, V Executive Functioning and Working Memory as a Unitary Construct are Associated with Delayed Memory in Older Adults 59. SEIDEL, GA Cerebral Ischemic Disease, Carotid Stenosis, and Episodic Memory in Older Adults with Aortic Stenosis 60. SIMARD, S Effect of cue salience in event-based prospective memory in patients with a ruptured cerebral aneurysm: role of executive functions 61. TANNER, JJ Verbal Learning Profiles and Entorhinal Cortex Volume in Parkinson’s Disease 62. TROYANSKAYA, M Correlation Between Persistent Memory Impairment Following Mild, Blast-Related TBI and PTSD Symptoms in OEF/OIF Service Members and Veterans Wednesday, February 15, 2012 iii 63. WALD, DM The Relationship between Visual Spatial Processing, Attention, and Visual Memory Multiple Sclerosis/ALS/Demyelinating Disorders 64. BASSO, MR The CMDI Predicts Depression Diagnosis but not Neuropsychological Dysfunction in People with MS 65. MILLER, A Depressive Symptom Dimensions and Neuropsychological Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis 66. BEIER, ML Is There a Relationship Between Alcohol and SDMT Performance? 67. BEIER, ML Alcohol Use in an Outpatient American MS Sample 68. BERARD, J Neuroimaging Correlates of Cognitive Change Following Immunoablative Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplant in MS: A Pilot Study 69. BERARD, J Cognitive Fatigue in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis Undergoing Immunoablative Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplant 70. WALKER, LA PASAT Performance Before and After Immunoablative Therapy and Bone Marrow Transplant in Individuals with MS 71. BERRIGAN, L Cognition in Early Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: Consequences May Be Relative to Working Memory 72. BERRIGAN, L The Performance of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis and Controls on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test and the Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test: More than Just Processing Speed 73. DAGENAIS, E Subjective and Objective Prospective Memory Measures in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis 74. ENSLEY, M The Differential Effects of Disease Severity on Cognition, Depression, and Fatigue in Multiple Sclerosis 75. EPPIG, J Clock Drawing in Multiple Sclerosis: Relationship with Executive Functioning and Episodic Memory 76. FARRELL, EM Relationship of Anxiety, Depression, and Information Processing Speed for Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at an Outpatient Clinic 77.
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