51st Annual Meeting

September 14-18, 2011
Westin Boston Waterfront
Boston, Massachusetts

2011 Annual Meeting Highlights

The keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops featured at the 2011 meeting of SPR represent a broad range of research interests and were selected to inform, motivate, and expand the horizons of SPR members.

2011 Keynote Speakers

BarnesAfferent Influences on Self and Emotion in Health and Sickness
Hugo D. Critchley, MBChB, DPhil, MRCPsych
Chair in Psychiatry and Co-Director, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
University of Sussex
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom

 

BarnesBrain Mechanisms of Memory: Changes During Normal Aging
Carol A. Barnes, PhD
Regents' Professor, Psychology and Neurology, Evelyn F. McKnight Chair for Learning and Memory in Aging and Director, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

CacioppoSocial Isolation
John T. Cacioppo, PhD
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor and Director, Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

 

2011 Presidential Address

BarnesThe Psychophysiology of Autonomic Regulation and Health
Gary G. Berntson, PhD
Professor of Psychology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

Invited Symposia

Presidential Symposium
Ground Psychodiagnosis in Neurophysiology: Promises and Challenges
Chris Patrick, President-Elect, Chair, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Panelists:
Greg Hajcak, SUNY-Stony Brook University
Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley
Angus McDonald, University of Minnesota
Bruce Cuthbert, NIMH, Discussant

Past Presidents' Symposium
The Present as the Past's Future
Emanuel Donchin, Chair, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

Panelists:
Jasper Brener, 1985-86, Stony Brook University, New York
Kees Brunia, 1991-92, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Donald Fowles, 1986-87, University of Iowa, Iowa
Arne Oman, 1984-85, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Invited Symposium 6.2
Interoception and Emotion: The Return of Peripheralism?
Chair: Robert W. Levenson, University of California, Berkeley

Presenters: Hugo Critchley1, Alfons Hamm2, & Eddie Harmon-Jones3
1University of Sussex, 2University of Greifswald, 3Texas A&M University