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Addendum: Changes to the Program Addendum: Changes to the Program The following changes to the program occurred after it was finalized. These changes will be included in an addendum to the Final Program in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS), Volume 20. The following abstracts have been rescheduled: WeDNESday July 9, 2014 2:00–3:30 PM Poster session 2: Attention, Autism, emotion, epilepsy, Genetics, laterality, Infectious Disease, Imaging, learning Disabilities, and Visuospatial Functions #32. KHeNTOV-KRAUS, l. Vowel letter Dyslexia. Moved to #41 in: Poster Session 3: Cognitive Intervention/Rehabilitation, executive Functions/ Frontal lobes, Memory Functions, and TBI (Thursday July 10, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM) 3:30–5:00 PM Paper session 6: Development and Genetics, Moderated by sarah Raz #4. ANAKI, D. Factors underlying Face and emotion Recognition in Women with Turner syndrome. Moved to #5 in: Paper Session 11: executive Functions, Moderated by yehuda Pollak (Friday July 11, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM) THuRsday July 10, 2014 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Poster session 3: Cognitive Intervention/Rehabilitation, executive Functions/Frontal lobes, Memory Functions, and TBI #10. HALLER, M. High Gamma Duration in Human Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Decision Time. Moved to #41 in: Poster Session 5: Assessment/Psychometrics/Methods, Cross Cultural, Drug/Toxin-Related Disorders, electrophysiology, Forensic Neuropsychology, Demyelinating Disorders, and Psychopathology/Neuropsychiatry (Friday July 11, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM) The following abstracts were withdrawn after being accepted for presentation: WeDNESday July 9, 2014 10:00–11:30 AM Poster session 1: Aging, Behavioral Neurology, Cancer, Dementia, and stroke/Aneurysm #10. AsGHAR, M. Potential role of grape powder in improving age-related decline in brain and kidney functions. 2:00–3:30 PM Poster session 2: Attention, Autism, emotion, epilepsy, Genetics, laterality, Infectious Disease, Imaging, learning Disabilities, and Visuospatial Functions #17. MOReNO De IBARRA, M. Pseudo-Crisis or Convulsive syndrome? Transdisciplinary Neuropsychologic Assessment Contribution to Differential Diagnosis. From the lab to Cognitive Intervention. #23. WOODs, sP. HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders Affect Resources Allocated to Prospective Memory Versus Ongoing Task Performance. #25. SCHONFELD, D. The effects of Bilingualism on Verbal Fluency and executive Functioning in HIV infected Hispanic Adults. THuRsday July 10, 2014 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Paper session 7: TBI (B), Moderated by Philippe Azouvi # 5. AsARNOW, R. effects of White Matter Disruption and Restitution in Children on Cognitive impairments and Recovery During the First year Following Moderate/severe Traumatic Brain Injury. 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Poster session 3: Cognitive Intervention/Rehabilitation, executive Functions/Frontal lobes, Memory Functions, and TBI #37. CHAMMAs, F. Contributions of personality assessment in understanding cognitive and affective disorders after TBI. #39. STARGATT, R. Can Reading Delay In Complicated Mild And Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Be Distinguished From Developmental Reading Delay On Neuropsychological Tests? 3:45–5:15 PM Paper session 9: Interventions, Moderated by Ronny Geva #4. IBARReTXe-BIlBAO, N. Improving Functional Disability, Depression and Cognition in Parkinson Disease with ReHACOP Program. 3:45–5:15 PM Poster session 4: Cognitive Neuroscience, language and speech Functions, and Medical/Neurological Disorders/Other #11. RIVOlTA, D. Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data reveals aberrant face- discriminant ability in people with congenital prosopagnosia. #14. NEUMANN-WeRTH, y. An electrophysiological Investigation of the lateral Anterior Positivity: Clinical Implications. FRIday July 11, 2014 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Poster session 5: Assessment/Psychometrics/Methods, Cross Cultural, Drug/Toxin-Related Disorders, electrophysiology, Forensic Neuropsychology, Demyelinating Disorders, and Psychopathology/Neuropsychiatry #9. AsANO, K. Word Retrieval Process Analyzed by Clustering and switching Components in Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test by Japanese with Parkinson’s Disease. #13. MOReNO De IBARRA, M. Neuropsychological Functioning of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, with High Functioning Autism and Without Diagnosis. From Research to Intervention. #17. KOTIK-FRIeDGuT, B. Cultural Neuropsychology: Roots and New Branches. #31. WILLSON, P. The utility of MMSE as a Predictor of Real-life Testamentary Capacity. Neuropsychology: From Lab to Rehab 35 Abstracts Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society 2014 Mid-Year Meeting July 9–11, 2014 Jerusalem, Israel WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 2014 Symposium 1: E. ADI-JAPHA. Developmental differences in the acquisition of a Developmental Differences in Skill Learning: From simple grapho-motor task. Basic Science to the Clinic Procedural memory plays a major role during childhood, when many new skills are acquired. Previous studies of age-related differences in Chair: Esther Adi-Japha skill acquisition mainly focused on skill learning within a single practice session. It was suggested that age-related differences in practice gains 10:00–11:30 a.m. depend on the amount of practice: in extended training, adults may reach asymptotic performance while children continuously improve. E. ADI-JAPHA, S. FERMAN, L. KISHON-RABIN, E. ADI-JAPHA & This limits the study of age-related differences in the evolution of mem- A. KARNI. Developmental differences in skill learning: From basic ory consolidation and retention over longer periods. The problem is more science to the clinic. pronounced in younger children whose training capacity is restricted. Symposium Description: The notion that children’s brains are more Here, I will present a simple grapho-motor (“invented letter”) task susceptible to shaping by experience has been invoked in explaining an (ILT). Kindergarten children and adults show a similar rate of im- apparent superiority of children in the acquisition of skills and implicit, provement by the end of the first training day on the ILT. Therefore, procedural, knowledge. There is, however, good laboratory evidence for the ILT was used for testing age-related differences in skill acquisition. very effective skill learning in adults. Furthermore, several studies have The task is typical of kindergarteners’ activities, and tests the same type shown an adult advantage in the rate of skill acquisition. These include of kindergarteners’ proficiencies that predict later academic achieve- studies of auditory perceptual learning, locomotion, serial reaction time ments, as indicated by recent analyses of several large-scale longitudinal (SRT) and learning artificial morphological rule. Only a few studies studies. The Performance of 20 kindergarteners, 20 second graders and reported advantageous learning in children. These studies used variants 20 adults on the task indicated larger training gains among kindergar- of the SRT task. Other studies reported similar learning in children and teners and second graders than among adults. Furthermore, children in adults. The measures were saccadic latencies, drawing movements and adults showed consolidation gains 24 hours post-training that were and the SRT task. One question to be discussed is whether the neural retained two weeks later. processes underlying skill learning are age-invariant, and the observed Next, the task was used to predict academic achievements in the year age-dependent difference is related to other maturational effects or following an assessment of 36 kindergarteners and 20 second grad- rather that qualitative differences in skill learning mechanisms develop ers. Our results indicate that long-term consolidated performance had with age. Sara Ferman will open the discussion by presenting findings predicative validity for academic achievements that is larger than that that indicate age-dependent maturation in the establishment of proce- of measures of short term memory that are often studied in relation to dural memory in learning a complex language task. Liat Kishon-Rabin learning disabilities. The performance of the task was further studied in will present findings from auditory perceptual learning tasks supporting kindergarteners with and without language impairments (LI). Forget- the notion that skill acquisition may reflect the interaction of two fac- ting in the absence of consolidation in children with LI will be discussed. tors: the maturation of procedural memory mechanisms and of specific, Correspondence: Esther Adi-Japha, School of Education, Bar-Ilan task relevant cognitive and sensory processing abilities. In contrast, Esti University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Ramat-Gan 52900002, Israel. E-mail: Adi-Japha will present findings from a simple grapho-motor learning [email protected] Keyword(s): child development, normal; learning disabilities; memory, implicit task suggesting that the neural processes underlying skill learning are age-invariant with a possible advantage for children over adults. From a A. KARNI. The consolidation of a motor skill in children and adults: complimentary perceptive, Avi Karni will report a childhood advantage a developmental matter of critical time. in the expression of long-term procedural memory (consolidation phase) A tacit and almost universally accepted notion is that children are better following the acquisition of a new finger movement sequence. Clinical than adults in the acquisition of skills (“how to”, procedural knowl- implications will be discussed. edge)
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