[visionlist] Online workshop (17th-18th of May) on Memory and Attention in Healthy and Pathological Ageing: Theories and Applications

[Moreno Coco]

Dear colleagues,



We are thrilled to invite you to the online workshop *Memory and Attention
in Healthy and Pathological Ageing: Theories and Applications* to be held
*online* on the 17th and 18th of May 2021 and hosted by the Faculdade de
Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa (PT).



The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging findings and latest
insights on memory and attentional processing and how these may change in
healthy and pathological ageing.

This international event will consist of a series of invited talks, each
followed by a Q&A session, and you will have the opportunity to participate
in a round table discussion at the end of each day.



Our exciting programme is as follows:



*Day 1 – Monday 17th of May 2021 (GMT+1)*

2.30 pm – Welcome, introduction and initial remarks.

2.45 pm – *What does research on eye-tracking as a biomarker for
Alzheimer’s Disease reveal about the relationships of attention, working
memory and the inhibitory control*? Trevor Crawford

3.15 pm – *Subjective remembering experience in aging: Disconnection
between vividness ratings and objective recollection.* Christine Bastin

3.45 pm – *Topographical memory: a special window into healthy and
pathological ageing*. Maddalena Boccia

4.15 pm – BREAK

4.30 pm – *Topographic memory and spatial delusions: unraveling the neural
basis of reduplicative paramnesia*. Pedro Nascimento Alves

5.00 pm – *Using Eye Tracking to explore memory and attention in ageing*.
Sam Hutton

5.30 pm – *The importance of images on understanding memory changes during
aging*. Wilma Bainbridge

6.00 pm – Final round table discussion



*Day 2 – Tuesday 18th of May 2021 (GMT+1)*

2.30 pm – Welcome, introduction and initial remarks.

2.45 pm – *Conscious balance processing in older adults: Friend or foe?*
Toby Ellmers

3.15 pm – *The relationship between anxiety, attentional processes and
mobility in people with Parkinson’s and freezing of gait.* William Young

3.45 pm – *The forgotten cognitive concept of Forgetting*. Sergio Della Sala

4.15 pm – BREAK

4.30 pm – *To Do, or Not to Do: Benefits of Physical Enactment of Intended
Actions in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment*. Antonina Pereira

5.00 pm – *Semantic deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment*. Sven Joubert

5.30 pm – *Linking eye-movement responses to effects of semantic
interference on long-term visual memory in healthy and pathological
cognitive ageing*. Moreno I. Coco

6.00 pm – *The intersection of memory and active vision in aging*. Jennifer
Ryan

6.30 pm – Final round table discussion





Registration is *free* and open to all PhD students, researchers and
academics.



The event will be hosted on Zoom; details on how to access the workshop
will be released closer to the date. Please have a look at the full program
and book of abstracts by clicking here
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mo7orc0mUGqPHs5v7dVxvuOyKRvnS_wm/view?usp=sharing>;
you can join us for the event by registering here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LvCnNwjz8kahBoaPI8tOBvstODTKu2qgOVvkLsjyP20/edit>.




We hope to see you at the workshop,



Best wishes,



The Organizing Committee



*[Dr Moreno I. Coco, Dr Ana Raposo, Dr Emma Delhaye, Dr Giorgia
D’Innocenzo, Ms Anastasiia Mikhailova]*
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