Faculty members Sid Segalowitz and Jane Dywan, post doc Diane Santesso, and six graduate students from the Brock University Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory attended the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Berlin, Germany, Oct. 21 to 24. While there, they hosted two symposia and made a number of presentations:
Symposium #1: The N170s Special Relation with Face Perception: How, Why and Where?
(Chair: Sidney J. Segalowitz) including talks: James Desjardins and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “Deconstructing the P1 and N170 Face-Effect Using Independent Component Analysis”; Xin Zheng, Mark D. Vida, Catherine J. Mondloch and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “The N170 ERP Relates to Both Featural and Configural Information Important for Face Processing”
Symposium #2: The Psychophysiology of Developmental Psychopathology
(Chair: Diane L. Santesso Discussant: Sidney J. Segalowitz) including talks by Diane L. Santesso, Angela Dzyundzyak and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “The Relation of Punishment Sensitivity to ACC Activation in an ERP Gambling Paradigm is Greater in Younger Adolescents”
Other presentations:
(1) Sidney J. Segalowitz and Diane L. Santesso: “ERN, FRN, and Stressors: ACC Activation Patterns as Related to the Comfort of Losing”
(2) Diane L. Santesso, Irene E. Drmic, Michelle K. Jetha, Karen J. Mathewson, Susan E. Bryson, Joel O. Goldberg, Geoffrey B. Hall, Sidney J. Segalowitz and Louis A. Schmidt: “An ERP Source Localization Study of Performance Monitoring in Autism Spectrum Disorder”
(3) Karen J. Mathewson, Irene E. Drmic, Michelle K. Jetha, Diane L. Santesso, Susan E. Bryson, Joel O. Goldberg, Geoffrey B. Hall, Sidney J. Segalowitz and Louis A. Schmidt: “Cardiac Responses to Affective Auditory and Visual Stimuli in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)”
(4) James Desjardins and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “EEG Dynamics Underlying the P1 and N170 Face Effect”
(5) Lesley J. Capuana, Jane Dywan, William J. Tays and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “Cardiac Autonomic Function and Response Control Deficits in Older Adults”
(6) Xin Zheng, Mark D. Vida, Catherine J. Mondloch and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “N170 is Sensitive to Several Factors Important for Differentiating Individual Faces”
(7) Meghan J. Weissflog, Sidney J. Segalowitz, Gillian E. S. Munro and Jane Dywan: “ERP Correlates of Emotional Face Processing in Psychopathy”
(8) Angela Dzyundzyak, Diane L. Santesso and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “Processing Reward Magnitude and Valence: Dissociations and Individual Differences in the FRB and P300”
(9) William J. Tays, Jane Dywan and Sidney J. Segalowitz: “Identifying the Functional Role of the Interference-Elicited Medial Frontal Negativity”
(10) Michelle K. Jetha, Sidney J. Segalowitz and Lisa Gatzke-Kopp: “Frontal EEG Asymmetry in Highly Aggressive 56 Year Old Girls”
As well, Sid Segalowitz and Jane Dywan participated in a panel discussion about couples in academia. Segalowitz also led an education and training round-table discussion on Developmental Psychophysiology and participated in a panel discussion of Elsevier journal editors on publishing and reviewing articles.
