SFB874/IGSN Conference - 25/26th April 2017

SFB 874 / IGSN Conference

The Sense Of Memory: Integration And Representation of Sensory Processes

25th—26th of April 2017, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr University Bochum

April 25th

9:15

Welcome - opening of the conference
Denise Manahan-Vaughan Director / Dean of Studies IGSN / Speaker SFB 874
Ulf Eysel Speaker IGSN

Session 1

9:25

Cellular Communication and Neuronal Networks

9:30

Cornelius Schwarz
Werner Reichardt Center of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Germany
Linking cortical columns. What is the functional basis of learned associations?
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10:05

Nathalie Rochefort
Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Behavioral state modulation of inhibition in mouse visual cortex
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10:40

Coffee break / Poster Session / Brainstorming Session (1)

12:00

Christine Grienberger
HHMI/Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, USA
Inhibition enhances spatial selectivity in CA1 place cells
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12:35

Lunch break

Session 2

13:40

Interaction of cortical, cortico-cortical and subcortical structures

13:45

Nadine Ravel
Center for research in Neuroscience (CRNL), University of Lyon, France
Detecting learning-induced modulation of oscillatory activities in olfactory memory network: a new functional imaging?
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14:20

Dora Angelaki
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Multisensory Neural Computations for Perceiving Self-Motion and Object Motion
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14:55

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (2)

15:45

Jeffry Isaacson
Center for Neural Circuits & Behavior, Department of Neuroscience, University of California, La Jolla, USA
Cortical circuits underlying audition
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16:20

Individual lab visits / individual meetings with RUB scientist (by request)

April 26th

Session 3

9:15

Categorization learning at the interface between perception and cognition

9:20

Simon Jacob
Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Neuronal dynamics and neuromodulation of category representations in primate frontoparietal cortex
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9:55

Sebastien Hélie
Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Rule-based categorization in a multiple-system framework
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10:30

Coffee break / Poster Session / Brainstorming Session (3)

11:30

Fabián Soto
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Florida, Miami, USA
Object categorization and perceptual separability: A two-way street
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12:05

Lunch break

Session 4

13:10

Higher order representations of memory and sensory experiences

13:15

David Redish
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Mental time travel: imagining the past and remembering the future
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13:50

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (4)

14:40

Pascal Fries
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience, Frankfurt/M., Germany
Rhythms for cognition: communication through coherence
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15:15

Anton Sirota
Department Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
Network and behavioral dynamics of sensory integration in the rodent hippocampal system
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16:00

Farewell — End of conference

International Graduate School of Neuroscience