Prof. Linda Pagani exhibits the little control the  Young children exert over household tobacco smoke exposure which is considered as a developmnetnal neurotoxicant. Her presentation included information from questionnaires filled in by parents of 1035 children. Early childhood household smoke predicted self-reported antisocial risks at age 12. Conduct problems, proactive aggression toward peers, reactive aggression toward peers, school indiscipline, later school dropout risk.

Dr. Evangelos Paraskevopoulos was the last presenter of the session on neurosciences and music. He focused on statistical learning and presented a functional connectivity analysis identifying the significant contribution of musical training in the reorganization of the cortical networks subserving statistical learning. The results initiated a discussion for the role of Inferior Frontal Gyrus in statistical learning as well as the timing of processing of statistically learned tones from the auditory cortex.

Prof. Anastasios Bezerianos talks about vigilance enhancement using challenge integration in a naturalistic surveaillance task. Eye tracking and EEG promising preliminary results will lead to the build of a closed loop cognition enhancing strategies to simultaneously detect and prevent vigilance decrement as a future plan.

Prof. Panagiotis Bamidis introduced Prof. A. Papanicolaou who presented an exciting talk describing the use of functional neuroimaging techniques in pre-surgical mapping of brain activity. Prof. Papanicolaou initiated his talk focusing on the reproducibility of the neuroimaging methods, as an important marker for their reliability. Reliability of course is the key point in order to apply these techniques in pre-surgical brain operations. Prof. Papanicolaou distinguished TMS from the other neuroimaging techniques as an interventional method, which can serve as causal brain mapping method.