26.01.09 - Symposium

Context-dependent plasticity and memory in olfactory systems

Edi Barkai
Dept. of Biology, University of Haifa, Israel
"A cellular mechanism of enhanced learning capability"

Diego Restrepo
Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Denver, USA
"Profound Context-Dependent Plasticity of Responses by Olfactory Bulb Mitral Cells"

Remi Gervais
Neurosciences sensorielles, comportement, cognition, University Claude Bernard Lyon, France
"Learning-induced plasticity in the mammalian olfactory system"

05.02.09 - Colloquium

Cliff Abraham
Department of Psychology and Brain Health and Reüaor ResearchCentre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
"mGluR-mediated metaplasticity – A history of activity"

09.03.09 - Symposium

Cross-modal information processing in sensory systems

Christoph Kayser
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
"Cross-modal influences along the auditory processing streams"

Peter Walla
Biological Psychology Unit, University of Vienna, Austria
"Olfaction, language and faces"

Daniel Senkowski
Dept. Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, Univ. Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
"Cross-modal binding through neuronal coherence: Empirical evidence from human studies"

02.04.2009 - Colloquium

Menno Witter
Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Centre for the Biology of Memory
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Trondheim, Norway:

"The Pivotal Position of the Entorhinal Cortex in Cortico-Hippocampal Interactions"

20.04.09 - Symposium

Magnetic resonance imaging of cortical connectivity and evoked responses in rodents in vivo

Santiago Canals
Institute of Neuroscience, Campus de San Juan, Alicante, Spain
"Functional MRI of synaptic plasticity: From synapses to networks"

Mathias Hoehn
Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany
"Molecular and cellular MRI in experimental neurology: The sky is the limit?"

Olivier David
Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, France
"Dynamic causal modelling of f MRI time series in the rat brain"

04.05.09 - Symposium

Confocal imaging of plasticity processes

Gerald Finnerty
Institute of Psychiatry, Medical Research Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, King's College London, UK
"What does experience-dependent plasticity tell us about learning and memory?"

Jason Kerr
Network Imaging Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
"Population imaging of neuronal activity in vivo: From the awake to the anesthetized"

Ryohei Yasuda
Dep. of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham,
North Carolina, USA
"Spatiotemporal dynamics of signal transduction in single synapses during synaptic plasticity"

08.05.2009 - Symposium

Brain meets theory: computational neuroscience at Riken

Sonja Grün
Statistical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute,
Wako-City, Japan
"Complementary signatures of assembly activity: Excess spike synchrony and local field potential"

Markus Diesmann
Computational Neurophysics, tTheoretical Neuroscience Group,
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-City, Japan
"Top-down and bottom-up approaches to investigate large-scale cortical networks"

08.06.09 - Symposium

Neuroscience and the visual arts

Irene Daum
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience / Neuropsychology,
Ruhr-University Bochum
"Art and the Brain - Introduction"

Mischa Kuball
Academe of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
" 'Broca ReMix' - An Artist's View "

Stefano F. Cappa
Division of Neuroscience, Vita-Salute University and San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
"The Body Image – Art and Neuroscience"

Bruno Laeng
Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway
"Drawing on either Side of the Brain"

19.06.09 - Neuroscience Seminar

Tara Keck
Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried
"Chronic structural imaging of cortical circuits following retinal lesions"

25.06.09 - Colloquium

Aaron Seitz
Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA
"The role of reward in perpetual learning"

06.07.09 - Symposium

Insect neuroscience: From development to a functional network

Gerd Technau
Institute for Genetics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
"Generation of cell diversity and segmental pattern in the embryonic CNS of drosophila"

Thomas Hummel
Institute of Neurobiology, University of Münster, Germany
"Sensory map formation in the drosophila brain"

Giovanni Galizia
Institute of Neurobiology, University of Konstanz, Germany
"Odor coding in neural network activity"

10.07.2009 - Neuroscience Seminar

Nathalie Rochefort
Institute of Neuroscience,
Technical University Munich
"Postnatal development of spontaneous and visually-evoked activity in the mouse visual cortex"

07.09.09 - Symposium

ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING
Evolution, Ontogeny and the Role of Irrationality in Normal Development and Psychopathology

Keith Jensen
Dep. of Developmental and Comparative Psychology,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany:
"Evolution of Cooperation: Insights from Economic Decision Making in Chimpanzees"

Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt - Kristina Leipold
Dep. of Economics, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
"Theory of Mind and Cooperation in Public Good Experiments.
The Impact of Social Preferences on the Ability to Anticipate Cooperation"

Martin Brüne – Julia Wischniewski
Dept. of Psychiatry, LWL-University Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Tolerance of Unfairness and Costly Punishment in Schizophrenia: Role of Empathic Perspective-taking"

12.10.09 - Symposium

Models for Invariant Object Recognition and Categorization

Thomas Serre
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
"Cortical mechanisms for invariant object recognition"

Tim Kietzmann
Institute of Cognitive Science, University Osnabrück Germany
"From Biological Findings to Computational Object Recognition Systems"

Bernt Schiele
Department of Comuter Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany
"Part Based Object and People Detection"

28.10.2009 - Colloquium - IGSN and the Philosophy of Cognition

Mosche Bar
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
"The Proactive Brain - Predictions in Visual Cognition"

02.11.2009 - Colloquium

Kate Jeffery
Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London, UK
"Navigating in a 3-D world: from neurons to behaviour"

09.11.09 - Symposium

Involvement of the thalamus in declarative memory

Andrew Mayes
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
"Variable symptoms in thalamic amnesia: A problem in high resolution imaging?"

Giovanni A. Carlesimo
Neuroscience Department and Fondazione IRCCS S. Lucia, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
"Prospective memory and thalamus"

Lisa Cipolotti
Department of Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
"Recognitionmemory:Thecontributionofmedial temporalandfronto/thalamicareas"

19.11.2009 - Colloquium - Young Scientist IGSN-Award 2009 for an Outstanding Publication of an Undergraduate

David Kremer
Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
"p57kip2 - a novel inhibitor of oligodendroglial differentiation"

01.12.2009 - Colloquium - IGSN and the Philosophy of Cognition

Nikolaus J. Sucher
Herbal Analysis & Pharmacology Laboratories, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
"Neuroprotective effects of traditional Chinese herbal medicines: A molecular perspective"

07.12.09 - Symposium

Circadian rhythms and cognition – recent advances in humans and animals

Steven W. Lockley
Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, USA
"A novel photoreceptor in the human eye: Circadian, neuroendocrine and neurobehavioural responses to light"

Martha Merrow
Department of Chronobiology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
"Living between two clocks: Internal and external time - clock mechanisms and human behaviour"

Martin R. Ralph
Center for Biological Rhythms and Cognition, University of Toronto, Canada
"On the function of time memory and a possible neural mechanism in mammals"