Volume 34 (Supplement 3) May 2007 1st Annual Meeting The Canadian Association for Neuroscience / Association canadienne de neuroscience TORONTO, ONTARIO, MAY 23-25, 2007 ABSTRACTS Abstract Legend First number - Indicates Abstract number Letter - Indicates day and time of presentation A - Thursday, May 24 Morning, B - Thursday, May 24 Afternoon C - Friday, May 25 Morning, D - Friday, May 25 Afternoon Last series of numbers - Indicates room & board number 100 series - Giovanni Room, 200 series - Terrace Room 300 series - St. Lawrence Room, 400 series - St. George Room, Example: 1 A201 - Abstract number 1, being presented on Thursday, May 24 Morning, in Terrace Room on board #1 Published by the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences does not assume any responsibility or liability for any errors in the abstracts. Suppl. 3 – S1 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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IP address: 170.106.33.14, on 27 Sep 2021 at 11:43:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0317167100017066 LE JOURNAL CANADIEN DES SCIENCES NEUROLOGIQUES THE CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR NEUROSCIENCE / ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DE NEUROSCIENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Cognition and Behaviour 101 Homeostatic and Neuroendocrine Systems 24 Development 107 Other 35 Disorders of the Nervous System 110 Sensory and Motor Systems 66 Education 123 Techniques in Neuroscience 66 Excitability, Synapses and Glia: Cellular Mechanisms 127 Author Index COGNITION & BEHAVIOUR 2 B102 THE EFFECTS OF ACUTE ALCOHOL INTOXICATION ON IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT LEARNING 1 B101 Iris M. Balodis*, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, Mary C. Olmstead. Department of PERCEIVING AN OBJECT’S MATERIAL PROPERTIES Psychology & Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, THROUGH DYNAMIC SOUND ACTIVATES VENTRAL Kingston, Ontario OCCIPITOTEMPORAL AND INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTICES Stephen R. Arnott, Jonathan S. Cant, Melvyn A. Goodale. CIHR Group for The impact of alcohol on implicit, emotional learning is not well Action and Perception, Department of Psychology, The University of Western understood, partly because factors ranging from family history, drug use and Ontario task demands influence these processes. The Conditioned Pattern Preference (CPP) task provides a more ecologically valid means to investigate implicit Knowledge of an object’s material composition (i.e., what it is made of) cognition in the lab because it has low demand awareness and relies on alters how we interact with that object. Seeing the bright glint or hearing the associative learning with nonlinguistic cues that were previously paired with metallic crinkle of a foil plate for example, confers information about that reward. This study examined the effects of acute alcohol intoxication on plate before we have even