MCC 2023

International conference on Motivational and Cognitive Control  

in LYON, France - 11th to 13th of october, 2023


[ Current number of registrations : 131 - 68 posters]

The symposium «Motivational and Cognitive Control» (MCC) is to be held in Lyon on the 11th to 13th of October 2023. This will be the 8th in a series of highly successful meetings that began with a conference in Jena organized by Michael Coles and Wolfgang Miltner in 2000 and continued with meetings in Dortmund (2003), Amsterdam (2005), Oxford (2010), Paris (2013), St Andrews (2016) and Berlin (2019). 

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a 3 days symposium on behaviour, brain and computations

Confirmed speakers

Ilya Monosov

(Washington University, 

Saint Louis)


Lesions to the sub-regions of the cingulate cortex in rats produce dissociable effects on attention

Jill McGaughy

(University of New Hampshire, Durham)

Eliana Vassena

(Radboud University, Nimejen) 


Philippe Domenech

(St Anne Hospital/ICM, Paris)

Alizee Lopez-Persem

(ICM, Paris)

Jacqueline Scholl

(CRNL, Lyon)

Nicola Palomero-Gallagher

(Julich Research Center Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf)

Markus Ullsperger

(Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg)

Matthew Apps

(Birmingham University)

Julien Bastin

(GIN, Grenoble)

Alexander Gail

(Georg-August University, Göttingen)

Suliann Ben Hamed 

(ISC-MJ, Lyon)



Mark Walton

(University of Oxford)

Shauna Parkes

(INCIA, Bordeaux)

Clay Holroyd

(Ghent University)

Mark Laubach 

(American University, Washington DC)

Jeffrey Schall

(York University, Toronto)

Jo Cutler

(Univ of Birmingham)


Harrisson Ritz

(Princeton University)



Ignacio Obeso

(Complutense University of Madrid)



Paul Muhle-Karbe

(Univ of Birmingham)


Nima Khalighinejad

(Univ of Oxford)



Simon Little

(Univ of California, San Francisco)



Martin Paré

(Queen's University, Kingston)


Franziska Kirsch 

(Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg)


Javier Masis

(Princeton University)

Jean-Claude Dreher

(ISC-MJ, Lyon)



Laura Bustamante

(Washington University in St. Louis)


Georgia Hadjis

(Univ of Toronto)


Gerit Pfuhl

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)


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