SFB 874 / IGSN Conference
Cortical and subcortical representation of sensory and cognitive memory
28th—29th of April 2015, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr University Bochum
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April 28th 9:00—18:15
Programme / Sessions
Session 1:
(9:10—12:00)
The temporal lobe:
locus for sensory and cognitive integration?
Kate Jeffery
Department of Behavioural Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, UK
Maintaining a stable sense of direction - insights from single-neuron studies in rodents
Emma Wood
Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems & Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Splitting and lumping: how hippocampal place cells support and constrain spatial learning and memory
Theodore W. Berger
Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Engineering Memories: A Neural Prosthesis for Memory
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Including brainstorming session (1)
Session 2:
(13:00—16:00)
Categorization learning at the interface
between perception and cognition
James McClelland
Department of Psychology, Center for Mind, Brain and Computation, Stanford University, USA
Integrating rapid neocortical consolidation into complementary learning systems theory
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
The geometry of high-level visual representations
Björn Schott
Department of Behavioral Neurology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg
Level of processing effects and category-specific processing in implicit and explicit memory
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Including brainstorming session (2)
16:00—18:00
SOCIAL EVENT (Argentine Tango Introductory lesson)
April 29th 9:00—16:25
Programme / Sessions
Session 3:
(9:00—11:50)
Cortical plasticity as an orchestrator
of sensory flexibility
Nicolaas Puts
Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Tactile function and GABA spectroscopy; what can we learn about plasticity?
Tara Keck
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, UCL, UK
Homeostatic plasticity in the mouse visual cortex
Takeo Watanabe
Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Roles of attention and reward in perceptual learning
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Including brainstorming session (3)
Session 4:
(13:00—15:50)
Cognition relevant information processing at the subcortical level
Oxana Eschenko
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen
The role of Locus Coeruleus for sensory processing within mesocortical dopaminergic pathway
Michael Hausser
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL, London, UK
All-optical interrogation of neural circuits
Marian Tsanov
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin, Ireland
Subcortical pathways of episodic memory: decoding signal processing in anterior thalamus
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Including brainstorming session (4)
16:00
Farewell —end of the conference
- All talks with a duration about 30 min plus discussion
- Poster session during conference
- Coffee and lunch breaks