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IGSN / SFB 874 Conference

Sensory Encoding And The Emergence Of Memory

26th - 27th of April 2022, Veranstaltungszentrum, Ruhr Universität Bochum

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April 26th
14:00

Welcome - opening of the conference
Denise Manahan-Vaughan Director IGSN / Speaker SFB 874

Session 1
14:10
Factors influencing brain function: evolutionary, attention and stress perspectives
 
14:15

Jens Prüssner
Neuropsychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Factors determining the stress response in humans and its contribution to health and disease
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14:50

Simon Hanslmayr
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
The utility of neural synchronization and synaptic plasticity for human episodic memory formation
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15:25

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (1)

 
16:15

Jan Theeuwes
Institute Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
What to expect when you are not expecting it: How implicit regularities drive attentional selection
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16:50

Individual meetings with RUB scientists

April 27th - Morning
Session 2
9:15
Microcircuit control of sensory information processing and behavior
 
9:20

Sage Boettcher
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Memory in action: Action plans are encoded early into working memory
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9:55

David Burr
Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Pharmacology and Child Health, University of Florence, Italy
Predictive perception: serial dependence, optimality and neural oscillations
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10:30

Coffee break / Poster Session / Brainstorming Session (2)

 
11:25

Jennifer Raymond
Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
Learning and meta-learning rules in the cerebellum
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12:00

Lunch break

April 27th - Afternoon
Session 3
13:10
Neuromodulation of sensory processing and cognition
 
13:15

Daniel Senkowski
Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité - Universitätsmedizin; Berlin, Germany
Neural signatures of crossmodal illusions and multisensory integration
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13:50

Coffee break / Brainstorming Session (3)

 
14:40

Oxana Eschenko
Department Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
The locus coeruleus saliency signaling affects sensory perception by increasing arousal
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15:15

Friedhelm Hummel
Clinical Neuroengineering, Brain Mind Institute, Institute of Technology EPFL, Geneva, Switzerland
Non-invasive brain stimulation to enhance motor skill acquisition in healthy older and stroke patients

 
16:00
Farewell — End of conference