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