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"

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"

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"

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"

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

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"

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"

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

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"

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"