The 52nd NIPS International Symposium

“Frontiers in Primate Systems Neuroscience”





November 30, 2022 - December 2, 2022



Venue: ZOOM

Organizer: Masaki Isoda (NIPS)

Registration deadline: November 18, 2022

(Limited to the first 400 participants)

Day 1

Sensory integration and action

Day 2

Motivation, learning and decision-making

Day 3

Social cognition

This three-day event highlights recent advances in systems neuroscience using nonhuman primates as experimental animals. The featured topics include sensory integration and action (Session 1, Nov 30), motivation, learning, and decision-making (Session 2, Dec 1), and social cognition (Session 3, Dec 2). Invited speakers will provide cutting-edge findings and important perspectives on brain functions, which will lead to novel discoveries.

Invited speakers

Kathleen Cullen

Johns Hopkins University


Masaki Tanaka

Hokkaido University

Reza Shadmehr

Johns Hopkins University

Jeffrey Schall

York University

Tadashi Isa

Kyoto University

Ilya Monosov

Washington University School of Medicine


Okihide Hikosaka

National Institute of Health


Jacqueline Gottlieb

Columbia University

Gouki Okazawa

Institute of Neuroscience Chinese Academy of Sciences

Takanori Uka

University of Yamanashi

David Pitcher

University of York


Jerome Sallet

INSERM/University of Oxford

Taihei Ninomiya

National Institute for Physiological Sciences

Olga Dal Monte

University of Turin

Luca Bonini

University of Parma


Please register here

Contact: 52nd-sympo@nips.ac.jp

ID & PW for ZOOM will be sent to the registered participants about 1 week before the symposium.