Program

Plenary Lecture:
. Alicia Izquierdo ( (UCLA, USA)
Frontocortical circuits in reward learning and value-based decision making
Session 1: Cortico-Thalamic circuits for adaptive behaviour
. Helen Barbas (Boston University, USA)
Circuits for content, context, and affect synthesis through thalamus
. Michael Halassa (MIT, USA)
Thalamocortical interactions in cognitive control and flexibility.
. Naoya Takahashi (Bordeaux University/CNRS, France)
Thalamocortical pathway for goal-directed action initiation
. Clément Léna (Paris University/CNRS, France)
Revisiting the roles of the cerebellum: lessons from motor and emotional systems
Lunch + Poster Session
Session 2: Cortico-Hippocampal circuits for adaptive behaviour
. Seongmin Park ((Lyon University/CNRS, France)
Structural abstraction and behavioral flexibility
. Michaël Zugaro (Paris University/CNRS, France)
Hippocampo-cortical dynamics underlying memory formation and consolidation
. Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Neural codes for natural behaviors in flying bats
Plenary Lecture:
. Yaniv Assaf (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
The evolution of the connectome
Wine and cheese + Poster Session

Session 3: Cortico-Limbic circuits for adaptive behaviour
. Lesley Fellows (McGill University, Canada)
Critical prefrontal contributions to goal-directed behaviour in humans
. Anna Beyeler (Bordeaux University/INSERM, France)
Neural coding of anxiety and emotional valence in circuits of the insular cortex
. Rony Paz (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Neural representations of valence in the primate brain
. Gabrielle Girardeau (Paris University/INSERM, France)
Neural mechanisms for memory and emotional processing during sleep
Plenary Lecture:
. Emiliano Bruner (Burgos University, Spain)
Prehistory and neuroscience
Lunch + Poster session
Session 4: Cortico-Basal Ganglia circuits for adaptive behaviour
. Long Ding (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Basal ganglia contributions to perceptual decision making in monkeys
. Genevra Hart (UNSW, Australia)
Dorsomedial striatal dopamine release signals the goal-directed action-outcome relationship
. Nicolas Mallet (Bordeaux University/CNRS, France)
Spatiotemporal dynamics and dependence on cortico-basal ganglia circuits for fine movement execution in rodents
. Mathias Pessiglione (Paris University/INSERM, France)
A functional partition of the medial prefrontal cortex for the guidance of adaptive behavior
Gala dinner

Session 5: Cortical circuits for adaptive behaviour
. Céline Amiez (Lyon University/CNRS, France)
Sulcal variability identifies differential evolution of frontal cortical regions in primates
. Karine Guillem (Bordeaux University/CNRS, France)
Aberrant neuronal and gamma activities in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in nicotine withdrawal-induced attentional deficits
. Stefan Everling Western University, Canada)
Vocalization-related activity in the anterior cingulate cortex
. Julie Duque (UCL, Belgium)
Corticospinal correlates of processes underlying Action preparation
Plenary Lectures :
. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten (Bordeaux University/CNRS, France)
Non-human primate neuroimaging: the next frontier
. Suzanne Haber (Rochester University, USA)
Circuits underlying behavioral flexibility, psychiatric disease and neuromodulation: From primate anatomy to human neuroimaging
Final discussion for the future:
Yaniv Assaf, Emiliano Bruner, Suzanne Haber, Alicia Izquierdo and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
From 1pm: Lunch

No session in the afternoon