MAIN SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

• Evolutionary Perspectives and Comparative Studies

• The First Neuron

• Fetal Behaviour and the Structural Correlate

• The Concept of Behavioural States

• The Three-Month-Transformation (Motor and Visual System)

• Face Processing Development

• Prefrontal Cortex Development

• The Mirror Neuron System

All main topics will cover typical and atypical development as well as specific disorders.

KEYNOTE LECTURERS


Milos Judas, Zagreb, Croatia
Development and evolution of the human brain in the life history framework

Juan Carlos Gomez, St. Andrews, UK
Comparative studies of cognitive development: the evolution of referential cognition

George Michel, Greensboro, NC, USA
The developmental origins of species-typical and individual differences in behavior

Ron Oppenheim, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Regressive events involved in nervous system development

Nicoletta Berardi, Pisa, Italy
Factors controlling cortical plasticity during development and in adults

Peter Wolff, Boston, MA, USA
What (if anything ) can single case studies tell us about behavioural development?
The biography of feral twins

Dawna Duncan Armstrong, Houston, TX, USA
Early development of the brainstem

Hanneke De Vries, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
From 8 weeks postmenstrual age to 80 years postterm, a continuous transformation

Gerard Visser, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Fetal behavioural states; physiology and pathophysiology

Franz Kainer, Munich, Germany
Abnormal general movements in fetuses with Down syndrome

Daniela Prayer, Vienna, Austria
Fetal MRI: from structure to behaviour

Christa Einspieler, Graz, Austria
The three-month-transformation. What is the sequence?

Fabrizio Ferrari, Modena, Italy
Perinatal brain lesion and later epilepsy

Giovanni Cioni, Pisa, Italy
Sensitive periods in the development of the corticospinal system in infancy: implications for neurology

Andrea Guzzetta, Pisa, Italy
Normal and abnormal development of the visual functions in the first months post-term

Arend Bos, Groningen, the Netherlands
The early motor repertoire in preterm infants as predictor for minor neurological dysfunction at school age

Martin Staudt, Tübingen, Germany
(Re-)organization after lesions to the developing human brain

Scania De Schonen, Paris, France
Normal developmental plasticity and post lesional plasticity. Studies on face and speech sound processing in infancy and early childhood

Milos Judas, Zagreb, Croatia
Postnatal development of the human frontal cortex: the structural basis of functional transitions

Leonardo Fogassi, Parma, Italy
The parieto-frontal motor system: control and cognitive functions