Perception and attention mechanisms in the primate brain: An integrated, multi-component perspective November 26, 2019 Organized by Lars Muckli (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow), Elisa Santandrea (University of Verona) and Alain Destexhe (CNRS) More information

  Leonardo Chelazzi (Dept. Neuroscience - University of Verona) - Compiling attentional priority from multiple sources of control: Goal, salience, reward, and prediction

  Emiliano Macaluso (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center) - Contribution of endogenous and stimulus-driven signaling to visuo-spatial orienting: fMRI in humans

  Einat Rashal (Ghent University – Dept. of Experimental Psychology) - Markers of attentional selection in the human EGG

 

Roles and Mechanisms of Cortico-cortical Feedback November 6-7, 2019 Organized by Alain Destexhe (CNRS) and Timo van Kerkoerle (NeuroSpin) More information

Ad Aertsen (Neurobiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Bernstein Center Freiburg University of Freiburg, Germany) - Mechanisms underlying the generation of spatiotemporal sequences in spiking neuronal networks

 Grace Lindsay (University College London) - Understanding the feedback needed for top-down attention

Lars Muckli (Research Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) - Feedback of predictions in different layers of visual cortex

​ Pieter R. Roelfsema (Dept. Vision & Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) - Feedforward and feedback processing during figure-ground perception

​ Sacha van Albada (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Jülich Research Centre) - How the connectivity of macaque vision-related cortex shapes its resting-state dynamics

 

Network science for cortical circuits: specificity versus regularity

December 4-5, 2019

Organized by Alain Destexhe (CNRS) and Idan Segev (HUJI)

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  Rodrigo Perin (Laboratory of Neural Microcircuity – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) - From microcircuit constraints to network structure

  Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) - Topological insights into cortical microcircuits