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IGSN - CONFERENCE

in cooperation with SFB 874 and Extinction Learning Group

Learning and memory: mechanisms, functional correlates, control and extinction

4th - 5th of March 2013, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr Universität Bochum

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Monday, 4th of March

09:00

Welcome by Michael Hollmann, Speaker of the IGSN
and Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Dean of Studies, IGSN

Learning and Memory

Host: Denise Manahan-Vaughan

09:15Molecular and cellular mechanisms of learning and memory

09:25

German Barrionuevo
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Synapse-specific compartmentalization of signaling cascades for LTP induction in CA3 interneurons
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10:05

Brian E. Derrick
University of Texas, San Antonio, USA
LTP and Function of the Direct Entorhinal Projections to Hippocampal regions CA3 and CA1 in vivo
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10:45

Coffee Break

11:05Functional correlates of learning and memory

11:15

Bruce Mcnaughton
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Doughnuts in the brain: A toroidal attractor theory of the cognitive map
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11:55

Agnes Gruart
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
Learning and memory as functional states of the brain
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12:35

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

13:05

Lunch Break (until 14:10)

Subcortical and cortical control of decision making and information storage

Host: Christian Bellebaum

14:10Introduction (1)

14:20

Marijn van Wingerden
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Good Vibrations: Rhythms and Plasticity in Neural Correlates of Value in Rat Orbitofrontal Cortex
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15:00

Coffee Break

15:20

Tobias Kalenscher
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Resisting and restricting temptation - neural signatures of willpower and precommitment
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16:00

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

ca. 16:30

End of first conference day

Tuesday, 5th of March

Subcortical and cortical control of decision making and information storage

Host: Boris Suchan

09:30Introduction (2) "Subcortical and cortical control …."

09:40

Dominic Cheng
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Functional MRI and tDCS Investigations of Human Eyeblink Conditioning
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10:20

Craig Stark
University of California, Irvine, USA
The role of human hippocampal subfields in pattern separation, aging, and MCI
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11:00

Coffee Break (until 11:20)

Extinction Learning and Forgetting

Host: Onur Güntürkün

11:30Introduction

11:40

Cyril Herry
INSERM U862, Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux, France
Amygdala neuronal circuits of fear extinction
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12:20

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

12:50

Lunch Break

14:00

Marie Monfils
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Reconsolidation-extinction interactions in fear memory attenuation
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14:40

Thomas Agren
Uppsala University, Sweden
Removing fear from memories using reconsolidation disruption
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15:20Farewell / end of conference (15:30)

Each session will start with a short introduction of topic and speakers

Length of each talk 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion