IGSN Speakers - 2021

Genevieve Albouy
Department of Health and Kinesiology, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA and Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Modulating the neurophysiological processes underlying motor sequence learning

Caswell Barry
Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCL, London, UK
Homeostasis and visually driven transitions in populations of hippocampal place cells

Mathilde Bonnefond
Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM UMRS 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
Role of alpha oscillations in anticipating and processing visual stimuli

Sebastien Bouret
CNRS - French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
Neural basis of motivation in monkeys: complementary roles of dopamine and noradrenaline

Michael Brecht
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Large Brains & Bodies

Laura Busse
Division of Neurobiology, Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Germany
Visual processing of feedforward and feedback signals in mouse thalamus

Santiago Canals
Neuroscience Institute (Spanish Research Council CSIC - UMH), Alicante, Spain
Binding cell assemblies into systems level memory engrams

Yale Cohen
Hearing Sciences Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Decisions and Circuits in Auditory Perception

Michela Deleidi
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Tübingen within the Helmholtz Association, Tübingen, Germany
Dissecting genetic brain disease: from 2D to 3D iPSC organoids

Christian Doeller
Department of Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Structuring experience in cognitive spaces

Russell Epstein
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Cognitive maps in the human brain: How are they organized? How are they anchored to the perceptual world?

Guillén Fernández
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Are there alternative routes into long-term memory?

Francesca Ferri
Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Multisensory integration across the schizophrenia continuum

Lisa Genzel
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Learning large spatial environments: the HexMaze for mice and rats

Mina Gouti
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany
Building the human neuromuscular system from pluripotent stem cells to study development and disease

Michael Hornberger
Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Cognitive maps in neurodegeneration

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte
Cognitive Imaging, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA
Testing deep neural network models of human vision with brain and behavioral data

Attila Losonczy
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Microcircuit amplification of spatial memories in the hippocampus

Tarja Malm
Molecular Neurobiology, A.I.Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Immunocompetent organoids as a tool for studying the brain

Tobias Meilinger
Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Of cognitive maps and graphs

Andreas Nieder
Institute of Neurobiology, Dept. of Biology, University of Tübingen, Germany
Number neurons for quantity categorization across vertebrate species

Francesco Pavani
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
Measuring and training spatial hearing in cochlear implant users: a novel approach based on virtual reality

Jefferson Roy
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Prefrontal cortex activity during flexible categorization

Monika Schönauer
Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology, University of Freiburg, Germany
Imaging memory consolidation in wakefulness and sleep

Hugo Spiers
Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK
Using cognitive maps for spatial navigation

Christopher Steele
Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Towards a quantified understanding of the neural bases of motor sequence learning

Willem B. Verwey
Department of Learning, Data-Analytics and Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
Motor sequence learning in the brain: Insights from a discrete sequencing task