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
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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
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