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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

09:15

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
Click here to download the abstract of German Barrionuevo's talk

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

10:50

Coffee Break

11:15Functional correlates of learning and memory

11:25

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

12:05

Agnes Gruart
Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain
Learning and memory as functional states of the brain
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12:50

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

13:20

Lunch Break (until 14:15)

Subcortical control of information storage

Host: Christian Bellebaum

14:15Thalamic interactions

14:25

N.N.

15:10

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

15:50

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

ca. 16:20

End of first conference day

Tuesday, 5th of March

Cortical control of information storage

Host: Boris Suchan

09:15Topdown control of cognition and memory

09:25

Axel Mecklinger (requested),
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

10:10

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

10:50

Coffee Break (until 11:20)

Extinction Learning and Forgetting

Host: Onur Güntürkün

11:20Extinction

11:30

Cyril Herry
INSERM U862, Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux, France
Amygdala neuronal circuits of fear extinction
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12:15

Stephen Maren (requested),
Texas A&M University, USA

12:55

Brainstorming session with speakers and students

13:25

Lunch Break

14:30Forgetting

15:05

Marie Monfils
University of Texas at Austin, USA

15:25

Thomas Agren
Uppsala University, Sweden

16:30Farewell / end of conference (16:15)

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

Length of each talk 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes discussion