Structural, functional and computational approachesto studying cortical representatives and memory storage

Martina Manns
Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Combining information of two hemispheres: What we can learn from the avian brain"

Laurenz Wiskott
Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Slowness as a learning principle in the visual system"

Magdalena Sauvage
Mercator Research Group: Structure of memory, Ruhr-University Bochum
"Towards a functional architecture of memory"

Lars Fugger
Department of Neuroimmunology, University of Oxford, UK
"The Functional Impact of Risk Genes in the Pathogenesis of Multiple Sclerosis"

Brain-reading and consciousness

John Dylan Haynes
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin
"Decoding conscious and unconscious mental states from brain activity in humans"

Axel Cleeremans
Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group, University of Bruxelles, Belgium
"Consciousness and free will: The radical plasticity thesis"

Gottfried Vosgerau
Institute for Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf
"Representational Content and Consciousness"

Information processing via the temporoammonic pathway to the hippocampal CA1 region

Ray Kesner
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
"A behavioral analysis of processes and pathways associated with CA1 function"

Charles F. Zorumski
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO, USA
"Modulating Hippocampal Synapses: Metaplasticity and Depotentiation"

Lynn E. Dobrunz
Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
"Developmental changes in short-term plasticity at temporoammonic synapses in hippocampus"

Seekers of Emotion: Neuroscientific understanding of affective behaviour

Kevin S. LaBar
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
"Brain mechanisms for remembering real-world emotional events"

Giuseppe Blasi
Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Bari, Italy
"Filling the gap between genetic variability and emotion processing in humans"

Harald T. Schupp
Department of Psychology, University Konstanz, Germany
"The brain signature of emotion processing"

Thomas Wennekers
Centre for Robotic and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth, UK
"Spike Train Metrics and Sensitivity Analysis"

John Van Opstal
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
"Role of monkey superior colliculus in head-unrestrained gaze shifts"

Relationship of synaptic plasticity to information and memory processing

Zafar Bashir
Department of Anatomy, MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol, UK
"Synaptic plasticity - from mechanisms to roles in learning and memory"

Dimitri Kullmann
Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
"Synaptic plasticity and information processing in the cortical interneuron circuit"

Gaël Malleret
CNRS - Department of Sleep and Memory Research, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
"Memory inhibitory constraints: a positive role in cognition?"

Nicolas Bourmeyster
CNRS UMR 6187 - Institut de Physiologie et Biologie Cellulaires, Université de Poitiers, Pôle Biologie Santé, Poitiers Cedex, France
"Role of RhoA in the regulation of GJIC"

Young Scientist IGSN-Award 2010 for an Outstanding Publication of an Undergraduate

Yun Xiang Chu
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
"Enhanced synaptic connectivity and epilepsy in C1q knockout mice"

In vivo whole-cell recording and/or cellular imaging of cognition and synaptic function in rodents

Georg Keller
Dep. of Cellular and Systems Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute, Martinsried, Germany
"Visual processing in awake behaving mice"

Jérôme Epsztein
INMED-INSERM U901, Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, Marseille, France
"Whole-cell recordings of place cell activity in freely moving rats"