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5th Conference 

of the European Association 

for Behaviour Analysis 

RETHYMNO CRETE, GREECE 

SEMPTEMBER 21-24, 2010 

CONFERENCE 

e a b a 

european association for behaviour analysis 

PROGRAMME 

PANTEION UNIVERSITY 

UNIVERSITY OF CRETE

5th CONFERENCE 

OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION 

FOR BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

RETHYMNO, CRETE, GREECE 

21-24 SEPTEMBER, 2010 

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 

PANTEION UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL 

AND POLITICAL SCIENCES 

DEPARTMENT 

OF PSYCHOLOGY 

UNIVERSITY OF CRETE 

DEPARTMENT 

OF PSYCHOLOGY

ANNOUNCEMENT 

We are pleased to announce that the European Journal of Behavior Analysis (EJOBA) 

will be printing another Special EABA edition of the journal to be published late in 2010 

or early 2011. The special edition will include papers submitted by the EABA keynote 

and invited speakers. The EJOBA is also issuing an open invitation to EABA presenters 

to submit manuscripts for peer review to be included in this special edition. 

NOTE TO PRESENTERS 

All conference rooms and halls will be equipped with projectors and with PCs with 

MS PowerPoint © and Media Player © programmes. 

THE PROGRAMME IN BRIEF 

Tuesday September 21 

4.30-9.30 pm 

Registration 

(FRIENDS OF CULTURE HALL, #10 VERNADOY STREET, OLD QUARTER RETHYMNO) 

6.00-7.00 pm 

7.00-9.00 pm 

Presidential Address: Erik Arntzen. European Association for Behaviour Analysis: Update 

(RETHYMNO ODEON, next to the Friends of Culture Hall) 

Welcome Reception 

(Nerantzia Square, next to the Rethymno Odeon) 

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9.00-10.20 am 

10.30-11.30 am 

12.00-1.20 pm 

12.00-1.20 pm 

2.20-3.40 pm 

3.40-.6.00 pm 

6.00-7.00 pm 

7.00-9.00 pm 

Baer Room: Symposium #1 

WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND 

STILL ARE LEARNING FROM 

CABAS® 

SCHOOLS THROUGH THE WORLD 

Chair – Nirvana Pistoljevic 

Wednesday September 22 

UNIVERSITY OF CRETE CAMPUS AT GALLOS 

Keller Hall: Symposium #2 

INCREASING AND DECREASING 

BEHAVIOURS IN YOUNG CHILDREN 

WITH AUTISM 

Chair – Anna Budzinska 

Ferster Hall: Paper session #3 

TRAINING AND DISSEMINATION 

ISSUES 

Chair – Philip Chase 

Dinsmoor Room: Paper Session #4 

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS 

OF BEHAVIOUR I 

Chair – David W. Dickins 

Invited Address #5 (Skinner Hall): Giulio Lancioni 

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH SEVERE, PROFOUND & MULTIPLE DISABILITIES 

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ADDRESSING CRITICAL 

DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATION 

BEHAVIOUR IN CHILDREN 

ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM 

Chair – Diane Fraser 


ACADEMIC SKILLS, 

ON-TASK BEHAVIOUR, TOY PLAY 

Chair – Francesca Cavallini 

Dinsmoor Room: Paper session #8 

DISSEMINATION 

OF BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Javier Virues-Ortega 

LUNCH 


METACONTINGENCIES IMPOSED 

ON PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAMES 

SELECT INTERLOCKING 

BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Sigrid S. Glenn 


MORE ON THE EMERGENCE OF 

LANGUAGE LEARNING 

CAPABILITIES AND CONDITIONED 

REINFORCERS 

Chair – R. Douglas Greer 


INTERVENTIONS FOR PROBLEM 

BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Charlotte Scocco 

Dinsmoor Room: Symposium #12 

BEHAVIOURAL CUSPS: 

JOINT ATTENTION 

AND SOCIAL REFERENCING 

Chair – Per Holth 

REST / BEACH BREAK 

FRIENDS OF CULTURE HALL, OLD QUARTER RETHYMNO 

Invited Address #13: Richard Shull 

BOUTS, CHANGEOVERS & OPERANT UNITS 

Posters – Business Meetings 

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9.00-10.20 am 

10.30-11.30 am 

12.00-1.20 pm 

1.20-2.20 pm 

2.20-3.40 pm 

3.40-.6.00 pm 

6.00-7.00 pm 

7.00-9.00 pm 

9.00-Late 

Baer Room: Paper session #14 

AUTISM APPLICATIONS 

Chair – Claire McDowell 

Thursday September 23 


Keller Hall: Paper session #15 

STEREOTYPY AND CHALLENGING 

BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Elena Clo 


STAFF TRAINING ISSUES 

Chair – Jens Erik Skår 

Dinsmoor Room: Paper session #17 

DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS FOR 

DIFFERENT POPULATIONS 

Chair – Jon Lokke 

Invited Address #18 (Skinner Hall): Neil Martin 

THE BEHAVIOR ANALYST CERTIFICATION BOARD & INTERNATIONAL CREDENTIALING 


PARENT AND SIBLING TRAINING 

Chair – Shahla Alai-Rosales 


DECREASING PROBLEM AND 

ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS 



CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND 

BEHAVIOURAL 

INTERPRETATIONS 

Chair – Robert Mellon 

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LUNCH 


CHILDHOOD OBESITY 

AND EATING PROBLEMS 

Chair – Paolo Moderato 

Keller Hall: Paper Session #23 

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS 

OF BEHAVIOUR II 

Chair – Iver Iversen 

Ferster Hall: Symposium #24 

USING CONTINGENCY 

NOTATION TO TEACH 

BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS: 

Chair – Francis Mechner 

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Invited Address #25: Gina Green 

IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES FOR AUTISM TREATMENT 

Posters (EXPO) – Business Meetings 

CONFERENCE DINNER (TAVERNA IN RETHYMNO) 

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9.00-10.20 am 

10.30-11.30 am 

12.00-1.20 pm 

1.20-2.20 pm 

2.20-3.40 pm 

3.40-.6.00 pm 

6.00-7.00 pm 

7.15 pm 


AUDIENCE CONTROL 

AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 

Chair – Daniel Gould 

Friday September 24 



DELAYED DISCOUNTING, 

RECYCLING, WORKER 

ATTENDANCE AND 

GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Jeffrey Weatherly 


VARIABLES INFLUENCING 

FORMATION OF EQUIVALENCE 

CLASSES Chair – Erik Arntzen 

Invited Address #29 (Skinner Hall): Julian Leslie 

ANIMAL MODELS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS: BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVES 

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READING AND COMPREHENSION 

SKILLS FOR CHILDREN WITH 

AUTISM 

Chair – Janet Twyman 


BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTION 

FOR ASD - THE EVIDENCE BASE 

Chair – Jane Howar 


DERIVED RELATIONS 

IN NONHUMANS AND HUMANS 

Chair – Gerson Tomanari 

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LUNCH 


DIFFERENT TOPICS WITHIN 

BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Karola Dillenburger 


INCREASING ORGANISATIONAL 

PERFORMANCE USING BEHAVI- 

OUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Fabio Tosolin 

Ferster Hall: Paper Session #35 

CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES 

AND AUTISM 

Chair – Angeliki Gena 

Dinsmoor Room: 

Paper Session #36 

ON METACONTINGENCIES 

Chair – Nayla Cristina 

Santiago da Silva 



Panel Discussion #37: Fergus Lowe, Erik Arntzen, Gina Green, Gary Novak, Dan Gould, Paolo Moderato 

CAN BEHAVIOUR ANALYSTS CHANGE THE WORLD 

CLOSING EVENT 

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FULL PROGRAMME 

Tuesday September 21 

4.00 – 9.30 pm 

Friends of Culture Hall 

10 Vernadoy Street, Old Quarter Rethymno 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION 

6.00 – 7.00 pm 

Rethymno Odeon 

8 Vernadoy Street, Old Quarter Rethymno 

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 

European Association for Behaviour Analysis: Update 

ERIK ARTZEN 

A musical programme will precede and follow the President’s address 

7.00 – 9.00 pm 

Nerantzia Square 

Just outside of the Rethymno Odeon 

WELCOME RECEPTION 

Wednesday September 22 

University of Crete Campus at Gallos 

9.00 – 10.20 am 

Baer Room 

#1 WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED AND STILL ARE LEARNING FROM CABAS® SCHOOLS 

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 

Chair - Nirvana Pistoljevic 

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From Naming Through Learning through Observation: Educational Procedures and 

Tactics to Induce Higher Order Verbal Capabilities in Students with and without 

Developmental Delays 

NIRVANA PISTOLJEVIC, R. Douglas Greer, Claire Cahill, Mara Oblak, Jalene Moreno, 

Fabiola Casarini, Ananya Goswami 

New Repertories and Verbal Capabilities for Students in Elementary General and 

Special Education Classrooms 

YASMIN HELOU-CARÉ, R. Douglas Greer, Jessica Singer-Dudek, Darcy Walsh, Joan Broto 

The CABAS® School in Italy; Comprehensive Application of Behavior Analysis to 

Schooling in Italy: The Pilot Project 

FABIOLA CASARINI, Francesca Cavallini, R. Douglas Greer 

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Keller Hall 

#2 INCREASING AND DECREASING BEHAVIOURS IN YOUNG CHILDREN WITH AUTISM 

Chair - Anna Budzinska 

The Use of Script and Script-fading Procedures to Teach Verbal and Social 

Behaviours to Children with Autism 

IWONA RUTA-SOMINKA 

Activity Schedules to Increase Independence and Academic Skills in Children with 

Autism 

MARTA WOJCIK 

The Use of Applied Behaviour Analysis Techniques in Reducing Self-Injurious 

Behaviours in a Three-Year-Old Autistic Girl 

ANNA BUDZINSKA 

Ferster Hall 

#3 TRAINING AND DISSEMINATION ISSUES 

Chair – Philip Chase 

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Public Dissemination of Behavioural Science: The Role of the Cambridge Center for 

Behavioral Studies 

PHILIP CHASE 

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International Dissemination: Didactic Classrooms to Applied Practicums in the 

Education of Behaviour Analysts 

JOSH PRITCHARD 

Behaviour Analysts Specializing in Autism Interventions: Strengthening and 

Expanding Higher Education 

SHAHLA ALAI-ROSALES, Lise Roll-Pettersson, Sarah Pinkelman 

Blended Learning Formats in Higher Education with a Focus on Autism and Applied 

Behaviour Analysis 

LISE ROLL-PETTERSSON, Shahla Alai-Rosales 

Dinsmoor Room 

#4 EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOUR I 

Chair – David Dickins 

Establishing Multi-Nodal Equivalence Classes without Reinforcement: 

Same-Different Responding versus Matching-to-Sample 

ANDREJS OZOLINS, David W. Dickins 

Nodal Distance and Reaction Times of Transitive Responses in Serial Learning and 

Stimulus Equivalence 

DAVID DICKINS 

Comparing Human and Pigeon Performance in a Visual Categorization Task: 

Evidence for a Fuzzy Prototype Model 

RANDOLPH GRACE, Mark Berg 

Errorless Learning and 'Work Ethic' Effect 

JOANA ARANTES 

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10.30-11.30 am 

Skinner Hall 

#5 INVITED ADDRESS 

Assistive Technology for Behavioural Interventions for Persons with Severe, 

Profound and Multiple Disabilities 

GIULIO LANCIONI 

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12.00-1.20 pm 

Keller Hall 

#6 ADDRESSING CRITICAL DIMENSIONS OF COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOUR IN 

CHILDREN ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM 

Chair – Diane Fraser 

The Effect of Rules and Contingencies on Children with Pervasive Developmental 

Disorder 

MELANIE LABERGE, Jacques Forget, Celine Clement 

The Creation and Validation of a Data System and Guide for Direct Observation οf 

Elementary Verbal Behaviours with Young Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder 

Mélina Rivard, Jacques Forget, CELINE CLEMENT, Normand Giroux 

A Descriptive Analysis of Prompting, Gaze Shifting and Social Referencing in the 

Development of Manding in Young Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder 

DIANE FRASER, Olivier Bougueil 

Ferster Hall 

#7 ACADEMIC SKILLS, ON-TASK BEHAVIOUR, AND TOY PLAY 

Chair – Francesca Cavallini 

Effects of Learning Skills Interventions on Student Learning 

FRANCESCA CAVALLINI, Sara Andolfi, Martina Nani 

On the Relative Effect of Positive versus Negative Reinforcement on Maintaining 

On-Task Behaviour in Three Clients 

RUDI JUNGER, Jens Erik Skår 

The Effects of Two Conditioning Procedure to Promote Appropriate Toy Play and 

Two Dimensional Items as Reinforcers: A Pilot Study 

ROBERTO CATTIVELLI, Gian Luca Amato, Vanessa Artoni 

A Case Study of Behavioural Assessment and Treatment of School Anxiety 

FRANCESCA CAVALLINI, Federica Berardo, Valentina Tirelli, Laura Pignoli 

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Dinsmoor Room 

# 8 DISSEMINATION OF BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Javier Virues-Ortega 

Translating and Developing the Terminology of Behaviour Analysis to a National 

Language: Its Challenges, Advantages, and Fascination 

MARTTI T. TUOMISTO, Lauri Parkkinen 

Behaviour Analysis and the Scientometric Structure of Science: A Social Network 

Analysis 

JAVIER VIRUES-ORTEGA, Celia Nogales-Gonzalez 

The Science of Learning in Italy 

FRANCESCA CAVALLINI, Fabiola Casarini, Silvia Perini 

Parental Satisfaction, Potential and Critical Aspects of ABA Specialist School 

Education in Italy: The Experience of a Special Summer School in the Land of Full 

Inclusion 

FRANCESCA DEGLI ESPINOSA, Elena Clo, Valentina Bandini 

2.20-3.40 pm 

Baer Room 

#9 METACONTINGENCIES IMPOSED ON PRISONER'S DILEMMA GAMES SELECT 

INTERLOCKING BEHAVIOUR 

Chair - Sigrid S. Glenn 

Effects of Cultural Consequences and Communication on the Selection of Group 

Choices 

DYEGO DE CARVALHO COSTA, Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos, Clarissa de Pontes Vieira 

Nogueira, Fernanda Duarte, Lucas Soares Caldas 

Selection of Different Arrangements of Responses in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: 

The Role of Cultural Consequences, Communication and Choice Type 

CLARISSA DE PONTES VIEIRA NOGUEIRA, Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos, Dyego de 

Carvalho Costa 

An Iterated N-Players Prisoner's Dilemma Game with an External Selecting Agent: 

A Metacontingency Experiment 

APRIL BECKER, Daniele Ortu, Sigrid S. Glenn 

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Keller Hall 

#10 MORE ON THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE LEARNING CAPABILITIES AND 

CONDITIONED REINFORCERS 

Chair - R. Douglas Greer 

Verbal Foundational Cusps: I Hear What You Say, I Listen to What You Say, I Do 

What You Do, I Say What You Say, and I Tell You What to Do 

NIRVANA PISTOLJEVIC, R. Douglas Greer, Jessica Dudek, Claire Cahill, Lin Du, 

Jo Ann Pereira- Delgado, Jacqueline Maffei Lewis, Jinhyeok Choi, 

Matthew Howarth, Fabiola Casarini, Dollene-Day Keohane 

Naming Components and How Naming Changes Effective Instruction 

R. DOUGLAS GREER, Nirvana Pistoljevic, Claire Cahill, Jinhyeok Choi, Jennifer 

Longano, Alison Corwin, Susan Buttigieg, Mara Oblak 

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How Children Come to Want and Talk about New Things through Observing Others 

JESSICA SINGER-DUDEK, R. Douglas Greer, Mara Oblak, Michelle Zrinzo, 

Jeannine Schmelzkopf, Jinhyeok Choi, Nirvana Pistoljevic 

Ferster Hall 

#11 INTERVENTIONS FOR PROBLEM BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Charlotte Scocco 

Treatment of Severe Selective Eating in a Boy with Autism, Malnutrition, and 

Challenging Behaviour 

FRANCESCA DEGLI ESPINOSA, Valentina Bandini, Monica Mercatelli, Paola Nobile, 

Tom Randell 

To Tic or Not to Tic 

VALENTINA TIRELLI, Francesca Cavallini, Roberto Cattivelli 

An Analysis of Sensory Reinforcing Properties of Hand Mouthing and Hand 

Washing in Rett Syndrome 

CHARLOTTE SCOCCO, Svein Eikeseth, Laura Talme 

Reduction of Disruptive Behaviours using an Intervention Based on the Good 

Behavior Game (GBG) and Say-Do-Report Correspondence (S-D-R) 

JAVIER HERRUZO 

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Baer Room 

#12 BEHAVIOURAL CUSPS: JOINT ATTENTION AND SOCIAL REFERENCING 

Chair - Per Holth 

Natural Sources of Joint Attention 

PER HOLTH 

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Intersections between Joint Attention and Social Referencing in Identifying Autism 

Martha Pelaez, JAVIER VIRUES-ORTEGA 

Mutually Responsive Orientation, Joint Attention, and Social Referencing: Three 

Early Behavioural Cusps 

GARY NOVAK 

Old Quarter of Rethymno 

6.00-7.00 pm 



Bouts, Changeovers and Operant Units 

RICHARD SHULL 

7.00-9.00 pm 

BUSINESS MEETINGS 

AND POSTER SESSION 


Cognitive-behavioural Treatment of Aggressive and Self-injurious Behaviour in a 

Residential Rehabilitative Psychiatric Centre 

Roberto Truzoli, M. C. Filippo, C. Vigan, G. Ba 

Teaching Autistic Children Thematic Pretend Play Skills using Video Modeling 

Janne Mari Akselsen Sorensen 

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Reading: A Matching to Sample Procedure and Textual Response Emergence, 

Recombination Generalization of Textual Units and Stimulus Equivalence 

Maria Angeles Rebollar Bernardo, Aikaterini Dounavi 

Pilot Results from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-enhanced Smoking 

Cessation Intervention for adolescents in Cyprus 

Maria Karekla, Margarita Kapsou, Vasilia A. Ioannou, Andria Christodoulou, Irene 

Gregoriou 

Functional Behaviour Assessment of Severe and Chronic Self-Injury 

F.J. Barrera, Kieva Hranchuk, Ross Violo, Carobeth Zorzos 

The Use of Graphic Organizers in Teaching a Young Boy with Autism ‘Story Sequencing’ 

Christina Mavraki 

Parent program for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders 

Kenneth Larsen, Nina Vetvik, Terje Wårheim, Vegard Henriksen 

Computer-based Listening Training with Immediate Reinforcement for Japanese 

Learners of English 

Mitsuyo Toya, Kazuchika Manabe 

Assessing Stimulus Preferences in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 

Lars Klintwall Malmqvist, Svein Eikeseth 

Outcome of Children with ASD receiving Early and Intensive Behavioural 

Intervention in a Community Setting 

Svein Eikeseth, Peter Karlsson, Lars Klintwall Malmqvist, Laura Talme 

Treating Vocal Stereotypy in a Child with Autism: Differential Reinforcement of 

Other Behaviour and Sensory Integrative Therapy 

Aikaterini Dounavi 

The Establishment of Social Stimuli as Conditioned Reinforcers 

Trine Arnesen 

The Training and Preparation of Behaviour Analysts in Higher Education: 

Where have we gone and where are we going 

Ellis Janet, April Becker, Shahla Alai-Rosales 

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Spatial Memory and Differential Outcomes: An Investigation with Five-year-old 

Children 

Laura Esteban, Montserrat Megías, Victoria Plaza, Ana B. Vivas, Efrosini Kaliva, 

Angeles F. Estévez 

Differential Outcomes: Improving Delayed Face Recognition in Patients with 

Alzheimer's Disease 

Victoria Plaza, Laura Esteban, Sandra Castaño Llorente, Carmen Antúnez, Luis J. 

Fuentes, Angeles F. Estévez 

A Comparison between Tact and Intraverbal Training in the Acquisition of a Foreign 

Language 

Aikaterini Dounavi 

Problem Behaviour Reduction in Autism Spectrum Disorders 

Eftichia Markoulaki 

The Effects of, and Relations Between, Behavioural Contingencies and 

Metacontingencies 

Brook Wheetley 

Effects of Corrective Training in Reading and Writing Experimental Articles in the 

Elaboration of Research Questions 

Maria Antonia Padilla Vargas, Natalia Fuentes Gonzalez, Hugo Enrique Vélez Rodriguez 

General Instructions and Rule Following: Two Experimental Investigations 

Ronaldo Teixeira, Carla Cristina Paiva Paracampo 

Foraging from a Multidisciplinary Approach: Different Procedures and Similar Results 

Oscar Garcia Leal, Maryed Rojas Leguizamon, Luis Alfaro Hernandez 

Cultural Selection: The Effects of Reinforcement on Interlocking Behavioural 

Contingencies in a Microsociety Design 

Gunnar Ree, Eivind Haukaas 

Sensitivity to Reinforcer Amount: No Magnitude Effect 

Cristiano Santos, Hugo Reyes 

Performances of Unnoticed Human Participants under Mixed Schedules of 

Reinforcement 

Kaname Mochizuki, Yumi Kato, Masahiro Murata 

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Thursday September 23 


9.00-10.20 am 

#14 AUTISM APPLICATIONS 

Chair – Pagona Tzanakaki 

Baer Room 

Use of a Tactile Prompt to Increase Social Initiations in Children with Autism 

PAGONA TZANAKAKI, Corinna Grindle, Richard Hastings, Carl Hughes, A. Hulson-Jones 

Intervention within the Community Context 

REUT PELEG, Nicole Dias 

Intervention within a Mainstream Preschool Classroom 

NICOLE DIAS, Reut Peleg 

Keller Hall 

#15 STEREOTYPY AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Elena Clo 

Reduction of Escape-Maintained Stereotypic Behaviour during Discrete Trial 

Instruction through Manipulation of a Reflexive Conditioned Motivating Operation 

ELENA CLO, Francesca degli Espinosa 

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The Effectiveness of an Intervention Based on Functional Play and Physical Activity 

on the Reduction of Stereotypic Behaviour in Two Children with Autism Spectrum 

Disorders 

Katerina Mascha, IRAKLEIA KOUTOULAKI 

Using Positive Reinforcement and Prompting to Change Negative or to Modify 

Already Existing Behaviours in a Young Girl with Autism 

CHRISTINA MAVRAKI 

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#16 STAFF TRAINING ISSUES 


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Ferster Hall 

Challenges in Training Staff, a Theoretical Overview 

JENS ERIK SKÅR 

Staff Training: Theoretical Skills versus Practical Competence 

LILLIAN PELIOS, Jens Erik Skår 

The Relative Effectiveness of Educating Staff through Staff Meetings vs. in Vivo 

Training 

LINDA TEIKARI, Svein Eikeseth 

Dinsmoor Room 

#17 DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS FOR DIFFERENT POPULATIONS 

Chair – Jon Lokke 

Rule-Governed Behaviour in Obsessive-compulsive disorder 

ATHANASIOS HASSOULAS, Louise McHugh, Phil Reed 

Implications of Behavioural Neuroresearch on Effective Interventions in ADHD 

GUNN LOKKE 

Management of Behavioural Changes Following Severe Brain Damage: A Case 

Report 

AIKATERINI VAROTSI, Christalena Kattami, Evangelia Saleptsi 

Treatment of Problem Behaviour in the Elderly Using Fixed-Time Presentations of 

Potential Reinforcing Stimuli 

JON LOKKE, Jorn Vold 

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10.30-11.30 am 

Skinner Hall 


The Behavior Analyst Certification Board and International Credentialing 

NEIL MARTIN 

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12.00-1.20 pm 

Baer Room 

#19 PARENT AND SIBLING TRAINING 

Chair – Shahla Alai-Rosales 

Behavioural Training for Siblings of Children with Autism 

JAMIE HUGHES, Karen Flotkoetter 

Sunny Starts: Behavioural Intervention for Parents and Toddlers with Autism 

SHAHLA ALAI-ROSALES 

STAMPPP for Europe: Multi-Media, Multi-Lingual, Multi-Everything! 

KAROLA DILLENBURGER, Mickey Keenan, Stephen Gallagher, Tony Bryne, Neil Martin, 

Borge Stromgren, Luis Pérez-González, Hanns Rüdiger Röttgers, Bernhard Brugger 

Keller Hall 

#20 DECREASING PROBLEM AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS 


An Overview of Procedures used to Decrease Problem Behaviours 

JENS ERIK SKÅR 

Reduction of Anti-Social Behaviour 

REUT PELEG, Nicole Dias 

Reducing Challenging Behaviours in Autistic Children 

ILIAS KIRIAKOU, Jens Erik Skår 

Trigger Training; Reconditioning Stimuli Eliciting Emotional Reactions 

MARITA KVIA, Jens Skår 

Ferster Hall 

#21 CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND BEHAVIOURAL INTERPRETATIONS 

Chair – Robert Mellon 

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The Need for a Formal Symbolic Language for Codifying Behavioural Contingencies 

FRANCIS MECHNER 

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The Concept of Culture Survival in B.F. Skinner’s Theory: A Dialogue with Marvin 

Harris’s Cultural Materialism 

CAMILA MUCHON DE MELO, Júlio de Rose 

A Functional Interpretation of Thought-Action Fusion 

ROBERT MELLON, Ioannis Aggelakis 

Descriptive Analysis of the Verbal Behaviour of a Therapist: A Known-Group 

Validity Analysis of the Behavioural Functions involved in Clinical Interaction 

JAVIER VIRUES-ORTEGA, Montserrat Montaño-Fidalgo, María Xesús Froján-Pargab, 

Ana Calero-Elvira, Celia Nogales-Gonzalez 

2.20-3.40 pm 

Baer Room 

#22 CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND EATING PROBLEMS 

Chair – Paolo Moderato 

Fighting Child Obesity Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of the Food Dudes 

Program in Italy 

NANNI PRESTI, Paolo Moderato 

Naming and Tasting as Determinants of Preschool Children's Consumption of Fruit 

and Vegetables 

PAULINE HORNE, Janette Greenhalgh, Mihela Erjavec, Fergus Lowe, Simon Victor, 

Chris Whitaker 

Increasing Food Acceptance in Children with Autism Using Positive Reinforcement 

Procedures 

MARIA SAVILLE, Carl Hughes, Corinna Grindle, Richard Hasting, R. Maynard, S. 

Winkel 

Keller Hall 

#23 EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOUR II 

Chair – Iver Iversen 

S Δ Control in Simple Discriminations 

IVER IVERSEN 

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Schedule-Induced Lever Pressing Shows Steeper Food-Delay Gradients than 

chedule-Induced Licking 

RICARDO PELLÓN, Ángeles Pérez-Padilla 

Warning Signals, Safety Signals and Human Behaviour: 

Is Escape Reinforced by the Stimuli that it Produces 

Robert Mellon, IOANNIS AGGELAKIS 

Go/No-Go Procedure with Compound Stimuli and Emergent Relations in the Pigeon 

PAULA DEBERT, Heloisa Cursi Campos 

Ferster Hall 

#24 USING CONTINGENCY NOTATION TO TEACH BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Francis Mechner 

How the Contingency Language Clarifies Behavioural Concepts 

FRANCIS MECHNER 

Teaching Behavioural Contingency Analysis: What our Students Taught Us 

LAURILYN JONES, Francis Mechner 

Contingency Codification as a Pedagogic Tool for Teaching Behaviour Analysis 

ROCIO HERNANDEZ POZO 

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6.00-7.00 pm 



Implementing Evidence-Based Guidelines for Autism Treatment 

GINA GREEN 

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7.00-9.00 pm 

BUSINESS MEETINGS AND 

POSTER SESSION (EXPO) 


Cyprus Association for Behavior Analysis 

Lefki Kourea, Xanthi Polydorou, Athena Pastou, Andrea Anastasiou 

Norwegian ABA 

Terje Gundhus, Jon Lokke, Erik Arntzen 

Bachelor’s Programme in Learning Psychology with an Emphasis in Behaviour 

Analysis 

Heidi Skorge Olaff, Anne Bakke 

Master and PhD in Behavior Analysis: Akershus University Norway 

Ingunn Sandaker, Erik Arntzen 

Masters Programme in Applied Behaviour Analysis at the University of Wales, 

Bangor, UK 

J. Carl Hughes, Sandy Toogood, Marguerite L. Hoerger, Richard Hastings, Steve 

Noone, Corinna Grindle 

The Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group (EABG) 2011 meeting 

J. Carl Hughes, Michael Beverley 

Institute of Applied Behavior Analysis 

Jens Erik Skår, Linda Teikari, Rudi Jünger, Marita Kvia 

Panhellenic Community for Behavior Analysis 

Ioannis Aggelakis, Georgios Kandylis, Efstratios Tsoukaris, Paraskevi Neofotistou, 

Robert Mellon 

Behavior Analysis Online, University of North Texas 

Shahla Alai-Rosales, Leslie Burkett, Janet Ellis, Sigrid Glenn, Susan Miller, Laura 

Ramsey, Brook Wheetley 

9.00-late 

CONFERENCE DINNER (TAVERNA IN RETHYMNO) 

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Friday September 24 


9.00-10.20 am 

Baer Room 

#26 AUDIENCE CONTROL AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 

Chair – Daniel Gould 

Talk to Me: Spoken Language Outcomes of a Discrete Trial Intervention with 

Preverbal Children with ASD 

PAUL RHEA, Ioanna Tsiouri 

The Role of Echoic Responding in the Emergence of Naming in Children with 

Autism 

FRANCESCA DEGLI ESPINOSA, Bob Remington 

Audience Control in Bilingual Children with Autism 

DANIEL GOULD 

Keller Hall 

#27 DELAYED DISCOUNTING, RECYCLING, WORKER ATTENDANCE AND GOAL- 

DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR 

Chair – Jeffrey Weatherly 

Delay Discounting of Social-Policy Issues 

JEFFREY WEATHERLY, Karyn Plumm 

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Comparing the Use of Information, Social-Interventions and Incentives as Possible 

Applied Behaviour Analysis Interventions for the Promotion of Recycling Behaviour 

in Students 

ANJA SCHUMANN, Stephen Gallagher, Julian C. Leslie 

The Effects of Short-Delay Payment on Worker Attendance and Company Costs 

RACHAEL WHITAKER, Carl Hughes 

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Ferster Hall 

#28 VARIABLES INFLUENCING FORMATION OF EQUIVALENCE CLASSES 

Chair – Erik Arntzen 

Equivalence Class Formation in Children following One-To-Many and Many-To-One 

Training Structures with and without Familiar Stimuli as Nodes 

ERIK ARNTZEN, Silje Nikolaisen 

Observing Responses in a Matching-To-Sample Task: Assessing the Effects of 

Different Training Structures on the Formation of Equivalence Classes 

GERSON YUKIO TOMANARI, Erik Arntzen, Eliana Isabel de Moraes Hamasaki, Paulo 

Sérgio Dillon, Soares Filho, Lígia Mosolino de Carvalho 

An "Orwellian" Account of Stimulus Equivalence: Are Some Stimuli "More 

Equivalent" than Others 

JULIO DE ROSE, Renato Bortoloti 

10.30-11.30 am 

Skinner Hall 


Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders: Behaviour Analysis Perspectives 

JULIAN LESLIE 

12.00-1.20 pm 

Baer Room 

#30 READING AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM 

Chair – Janet Twyman 

Engineering Early Critical Thinking: How Headsprout Teaches Reading 

Comprehension 

JANET TWYMAN 

Reading as Derived Relational Responding in Autistic Children 

G. PRESTI, C. Copelli, A. Messina 

Teaching Conversation in Small Groups of Children and Youths with Moderate and 

Severe Disabilities 

NICHOLAS KYPARISSOS, Christina Lappa 

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Addressing Reading Difficulties using the Secondary Level of Prevention 

LEFKI KOUREA, Lia Papanicolaou 

Keller Hall 

#31 BEHAVIOURAL INTERVENTION FOR ASD – THE EVIDENCE BASE 

Chair – Jane Howard 

How Research can guide Behaviour Analytic Intervention for Children with ASD 

JANE HOWARD, Coleen Sparkman 

Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: Clinical Research Results from an Italian 

NHS Centre 

CRISTINA COPELLI, Paolo Moderato, Laura Villa, Giovambattista Presti 

Ferster Hall 

#32 DERIVED RELATIONS IN NONHUMANS AND HUMANS 

Chair – Gerson Tomanari 

Associative Symmetry by Pigeons after Few-Exemplar Training 

SAULO MISSIAGGIA VELASCO, Edson Massayuki Huziwara, 

Armando Machado, Gerson Yukio Tomanari 

Effects of Arbitrary Matching-to-Sample Training on Oddity-From-Sample 

Performance in Pigeons 

MIRIAM GARCIA-MIJARES, Gerson Yukio Tomanari 

Delayed Matching-to-Sample: Effects of Fixed and Titrated Delays in Children 

TORUNN LIAN, Erik Arntzen 

Fixed and Titrating Delays in Equivalence Tasks 

CHRISTOFFER EILIFSEN, Erik Arntzen 

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2.20-3.40 pm 

Baer Room 

#33 DIFFERENT TOPICS WITHIN BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Karola Dillenburger 

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A Sample from a Recent Interview with Dr. Murray Sidman 

PER HOLTH, Iver Iversen 

Cultural Selection and Large Scale Behaviour 

INGUNN SANDAKER 

Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma: A Behaviour Analyst’s Approach to the 

Issues 

KAROLA DILLENBURGER, Montserrat Fargas 

✽ 

Keller Hall 

#34 INCREASING ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE USING BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS 

Chair – Fabio Tosolin 

The Growth of OBM in Italy and Europe: How to Involve Governmental, Institutional, 

Scientific and Productive Organizations in Disseminating Behavioural Safety 

FABIO TOSOLIN 

Behaviour-Based Safety as a Scientific Tool to Get Measurable Safety Results in 

the Workplace: The Application of B-BS in a Glassworks 

MARIA GATTI, Paola Silva, Andrea Torretta 

Precision Teaching - Building Effective E-Learning: Historical and Methodological 

Issues and Examples of Applied Research 

FABIO TOSOLIN, Italo Viganò, Maria Gatti 

Ferster Hall 

#35 CROSS-CULTURAL ISSUES AND AUTISM 

Chair – Angeliki Gena 

✽ 

A Cross-Cultural Study on the Effectiveness of Behavioural and Eclectic Intervention 

Programmes for 6.5-14 Year Old Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders 

MARIA MAKRYGIANNI, Angeliki Gena, Phil Reed 

Cross-Cultural Validation of a Core Skills Assessment for Autism 

PAMELA OLSEN 

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The Development of Theory of Mind Skills and Affect Responsiveness in Children 

with Autism: A Pilot Study 

ERIFYLLI TSIREMPOLOU, Angeliki Gena 

A Psychoeducational Intervention for Parents of Children with Autism and 

Schizophrenia 

Angeliki Gena, IOANNA TSIOURI, Elli Papadopoulos, Odysseas Mouzas, Marina 

Oikonomou 

Dinsmoor Room 

#36 ON METACONTINGENCIES 

Chair – Nayla Cristina Santiago da Silva 

Framing and Production Cost on Resources Using a Common Dilemma Game 

NAYLA CRISTINA SANTIAGO DA SILVA, Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos, Dyego de 

Carvalho Costa 

✽ 

Social Contact and the Resolution of the Drama of Commons Game: 

Transforming a Macrocontingency in a Metacontingency 

ELAYNE ESMERALDO NOGUEIRA, Laercia Abreu Vasconcelos, Dyego de Carvalho Costa 


6.00-7.00 pm 


#37 PANEL DISCUSSION 

Can Behaviour Analysts Change the World 

FERGUS LOWE, ERIK ARNTZEN, GINA GREEN, GARY NOVAK, DAN GOULD, PAOLO 

MODERATIO 

7.15 pm 


CLOSING EVENT 

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PRESENTERS AND AUTHORS 

Abreu Vasconcelos, Laercia, 

#9, #36 

Aggelakis, Ioannis, #21, #23, 

Expo 

Akselsen Sorensen, Janne 

Mari, Poster 

Alai-Rosales, Shahla, #3, #18, 

Poster, Expo 

Alfaro Hernández, Luís, 

Poster 

Amato, Gian Luca, #7 

Anastasiou, Andrea, Expo 

Andolfi, Sara, #7 

Antúnez, Carmen, Poster 

Arantes, Joana, #4 

Arnesen, Trine, Poster 

Arntzen, Erik, #28, #32, #37, 

Expo 

Artoni, Vanessa, #7 

Ba, G., Poster 

Bakke, Anne, Expo 

Bandini, Valentina, #8, #11 

Barrera, F.J., Poster 

Becker, April, #9, Poster 

Berardo, Federica, #7 

Berg, Mark, #4 

Beverley, Michael, Expo 

Bortoloti, Renato, #28 

Bougueil, Olivier, #6 

Broto, Joan, #1 

Brugger, Bernhard, #18 

Bryne, Tony, #18 

Budzinska, Anna, #2 

Burkett, Leslie, Expo 

Buttigieg, Susan, #10 

Cahill, Claire, #1, #10 

Calero-Elvira, Ana, #21 

Casarini, Fabiola, #1, #8, #10 

Castaño Llorente, Sandra, 

Poster 

Cattivelli, Roberto, #7, #11, 

Cavallini, Francesca, #1, #7, 

#8, #11 

Chase, Philip, #3 

Choi, Jinhyeok, #10 

Christodoulou, Andria, Poster 

Clement, Celine, #6 

Clo, Elena, #8, #15 

Copelli, Cristina, #30, #31 

Corwin, Alison, #10 

Cursi Campos, Heloisa, #23 

de Carvalho Costa, Dyego, 

#9, #36 

de Carvalho, Lígia Mosolino, 

#28 

de Moraes Hamasaki, Eliana 

Isabel, #28 

de Pontes Vieira Nogueira, 

Clarissa, #9 

de Rose, Júlio, #21, #28 

Debert, Paula, #23 

degli Espinosa, Francesca, 

#8, #11, #15, #26 

Dias, Nicole, #14, #20 

Dickins, David, #4 

Dillenburger, Karola, #18, #33 

Dounavi, Aikaterini, Poster 

Du, Lin, #10 

Duarte, Fernanda, #9 

Eikeseth, Svein, #11, #16, 

Poster 

Eilifsen, Christoffer, #32 

Ellis, Janet, Poster, Expo 

Erjavec, Mihela, #22 

Esteban, Laura, Poster 

Estévez, Angeles, Poster 

Fargas, Montserrat, #33 

Filho, Soares, #28 

Filippo, M.C., Poster 

Flotkoetter, Karen, #18 

Forget, Jacques, #6 

Fraser, Diane, #6 

Froján-Pargab, María Xesús, 

#21 

Fuentes González, Natalia, 

Poster 

Fuentes, Luis, Poster 

Gallagher, Stephen, #18, #27 

García Leal, Óscar, Poster 

Garcia-Mijares, Miriam, #32 

Gatti, Maria, #34 

Gena, Angeliki, #35 

Giroux, Normand, #6 

Glenn, Sigrid, #9, Expo 

Goswami, Ananya, #1 

Gould, Daniel, #26, #37 

Grace, Randolph, #4 

Greenhalgh, Janette, #22 

Green, Gina, #25, #37 

Greer, R. Douglas, #1, #10 

Gregoriou, Irene, Poster 

Grindle, Corinna, #14, #22, 

Expo 

Gundhus, Terje, Expo 

Hassoulas, Athanasios, #17 

Hasting, Richard, #14, #22, 

Expo 

Haukaas, Eivind, Poster 

Helou-Caré, Yasmin, #1 

Henriksen, Vegard, Poster 

Hernandez Pozo, Rocio, #24 

Herruzo, Javier, #11 

Hoerger, Marguerite, Expo 

Holth, Per, #11, #33 

Horne, Pauline, #22 

Howard, Jane, #31 

Howarth, Matthew, #10 

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Hranchuk, Kieva, Poster 

Hughes, Carl, #14, #22, #27, 

Expo 

Hughes, Jamie, #18 

Hulson-Jones, A., #14 

Huziwara, Edson Massayuki, 

#32 

Ioannou, Vasilia, Poster 

Iversen, Iver, #23, #33 

Jones, Laurilyn, #24 

Junger, Rudi, #7, Expo 

Kaliva, Efrosini, Poster 

Kandylis, Georgios, Expo 

Kapsou, Margarita, Poster 

Karekla, Maria, Poster 

Karlsson, Peter, Poster 

Kato, Yumi, Poster 

Kattami, Christalena, #17 

Keenan, Mickey, #18 

Keohane, Dollene-Day, #10 

Kiriakou, Ilias, #20 

Kourea, Lefki, #30, Expo 

Koutoulaki, Irakleia, #15 

Kvia, Marita, #20, Expo 

Kyparissos, Nicholas, #30 

Laberge, Melanie, #6 

Lancioni, Giulio, #5 

Lappa, Christina, #30 

Larsen, Kenneth, Poster 

Leslie, Julian, #27, #29 

Lian, Torunn, #32 

Lokke, Gunn, #17 

Lokke, Jon, #17, Expo 

Longano, Jennifer, #10 

Lowe, Fergus, #22, #37 

Machado, Armando, #32 

Maffei Lewis, Jacqueline, 

#10 

Maglieri, Kristen, #27 

Makrygianni, Maria, #35 

Malmqvist, Lars Klintwall, 

Poster 

Manabe, Kazuchika, Poster 

Markoulaki, Eftichia, Poster 

Martin, Neil, #18 

Mascha, Katerina, #15 

Mavraki, Christina, #15, 

Poster 

Maynard, R., #22 

Mchugh, Louise, #17 

Mechner, Francis, #21, #24 

Megías, Montserrat, Poster 

Mellon, Robert, #21, #23, 

Expo 

Mercatelli, Monica, #11 

Messina, A., #30 

Miller, Susan, Expo 

Mochizuki, Kaname, Poster 

Moderato, Paolo, #22, #31, 

#37 

Montaño-Fidalgo, Montserrat, 

#21 

Moreno, Jalene, #1 

Mouzas, Odysseas, #35 

Muchon De Melo, Camila, 

#21 

Murata, Masahiro, Poster 

Nani, Martina, #7 

Neofotistou, Paraskevi, Expo 

Nikolaisen, Silje, #28 

Nobile, Paola, #11 

Nogales-Gonzalez, Celia, #8, 

#21 

Nogueira, Elayne Esmeraldo, 

#36 

Noone, Steve, Expo 

Novak, Gary, #11, #37 

Oblak, Mara, #1, #10 

O'Hora, Denis, #27 

Oikonomou, Marina, #35 

Olaff, Heidi Skorge, Expo 

Ortu, Daniele, #9 

Ozolins, Andrejs, #4 

Padilla Vargas, María Antonia, 

Poster 

Paiva Paracampo, Carla 

Cristina, Poster 

Papadopoulos, Elli, #35 

Papanicolaou, Lia, #30 

Parkkinen, Lauri, #8 

Pastou, Athena, Expo 

Pelaez, Martha, #11 

Peleg, Reut, #14, #20 

Pelios, Lillian, #16 

Pellón, Ricardo, #23 

Pereira-Delgado, Jo Ann, #10 

Pérez-González, Luis, #18 

Pérez-Padilla, Ángeles, #23 

Perini, Silvia, #8 

Pignoli, Laura, #7 

Pinkelman, Sarah, #3 

Pistoljevic, Nirvana, #1, #10 

Plaza, Victoria, Poster 

Plumm, Karyn, #27 

Polydorou, Xanthi, Expo 

Presti, Giovambattista, #22, 

#30, #31 

Pritchard, Josh, #3 

Ramsey, Laura, Expo 

Randell, Tom, #11 

Rebollar Bernardo, María Ángeles, 

Poster 

Ree, Gunnar, Poster 

Reed, Phil, #17, #35 

Remington, Bob, #26 

Reyes, Hugo, Poster 

Rhea, Paul, #26 

Rivard, Mélina, #6 

Rojas Leguizamón, Maryed, 

Poster 

Roll-Pettersson, Lise, #3 

Röttgers, Hanns Rüdiger, #18 

Ruta-Sominka, Iwona, #2 

Saleptsi, Evangelia, #17 

Sandaker, Ingunn, #33, Expo 

Santiago Da Silva, Nayla 

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Cristina, #36 

Santos, Cristiano, Poster 

Saville, Maria, #22 

Schmelzkopf, Jeannine, #10 

Schumann, Anja, #27 

Scocco, Charlotte, #11 

Sérgio Dillon, Paulo, #28 

Shull, Richard, #13 

Silva, Paola, #34 

Singer-Dudek, Jessica, #1, 

#10 

Skår, Jens Erik, #7, #16, #20, 

Expo 

Soares Caldas, Lucas, #9 

Sparkman, Coleen, #31 

Stromgren, Borge, #18 

Talme, Laura, #11, Poster 

Tammemagi, Triona, #27 

Teikari, Linda, #16, Expo 

Teixeira, Ronaldo, Poster 

Tirelli, Valentina, #7, #11 

Tomanari, Gerson Yukio, #28, 

#32 

Toogood, Sandy, Expo 

Torretta, Andrea, #34 

Tosolin, Fabio, #34 

Toya, Mitsuyo, Poster 

Truzoli, Roberto, Poster 

Tsiouri, Ioanna, #26, #35 

Tsoukaris, Efstratios, Expo 

Tsirempolou, Erifylli, #35 

Tuomisto, Martti, #8 

Twyman, Janet, #30 

Tzanakaki, Pagona, #14 

Varotsi, Aikaterini, #17 

Velasco, Saulo Missiaggia, 

#32 

Vélez Rodríguez, Hugo Enrique, 

Poster 

Vetvik, Nina, Poster 

Victor, Simon, #22 

Viganò, C., Poster 

Viganò, Italo, #34 

Villa, Laura, #31 

Violo, Ross, Poster 

Virues-Ortega, Javier, #11, 

#8, #21 

Vivas, Ana, Poster 

Vold, Jorn, #17 

Walsh, Darcy, #1 

Wårheim, Terje, Poster 

Weatherly, Jeffrey, #27 

Wheetley, Brook, Poster, 

Expo 

Whitaker, Chris, #22 

Whitaker, Rachael, #27 

Winkel, S., #22 

Wojcik, Marta, #2 

Zorzos, Carobeth, Poster 

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