Program

The meeting will be a small-scale informal setting.  Each day will feature a number of talks by senior and junior researchers followed by discussion panels. Poster sessions will allow younger and older researchers to present their work, and will allow for further discussion time. 

Posters :

< list of posters and abstracts >

Schedule

Wednesday   11/10/2023

 

8h30 - 9h00

Acceuil/badge - COFFEE

 

9h00- 9h15 BIENVENUE

 

Session 1 - Cingulate Cortex: ACC vs MCC - Chair Mark Laubach

9h15 - 9h45 Nicola Palomero-Gallagher "Comparative analysis of the cyto- and receptor architecture of human and macaque MCC"

9h45-10h15 Jill McGaughy "Lesions to the sub-regions of the cingulate cortex in rats produce dissociable effects on attention "

10h15-10h30 Romy Frömer - Flash - "Neural underpinnings of the evaluation of control to determine how much mental effort is worth investing"


COFFEE break


11h00-11h30 Matthew Apps "The Dynamics of Motivation: Computational Mechanisms Switching Effort from Cost to Benefit in Medial Frontal Cortex"

11h30-11h45 Harrison Ritz  - Flash - "Computational and neural evidence for independent cognitive control over target enhancement and distractor suppression"

11h45-12h00 Jo L. Cutler  - Flash - "Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces prosocial behaviours and effort sensitivity"

12h00-12h45 Discussion

 

LUNCH + POSTERS

 

Session 2 Extended network for cognitive control - Chair Hanneke Den Ouden

14h30-15h00 Philippe Domenech -   "Anterior insula lesion disrupts adaptation to negative outcomes"

15h00-15h30 Shauna Parkes - "A hippocampo-cortical pathway detects changes in the validity of an action as a predictor of reward "

15h30-15h45 Paul Muhle-Karbe  - Flash - Goals distort the representation of space


COFFEE

 

16h15-16h45 Ilya Monosov - "Neurobiology of curiosity"

16h45-17h15 Julien Bastin - "Functional dissociations between the ventromedial prefrontal vs. anterior insular cortices during value-based learning and choice processes demonstrated in intracerebral signals"

17h15-17h30 Ignacio Obeso - Flash - "Neural signatures behind habitual inhibition and its modulation by emotions"

17h15-18h00 Discussion



Thursday 12/10/2023


8h30 COFFEE

 

Session 3 - Role of neuromodulation in motivational and cognitive controls - Chair Shauna Parkes

9h15 - 9h45 Eliana Vassena - "A computational account of catecholaminergic regulation supporting motivated behaviour"

9h45-10h15 Markus Ullsperger - "The role of acetylcholine in performance monitoring and adaptive control "

10h15-10h30 Nima Khalighinejad - Flash - "Identifying and disrupting a neural circuit for changes in motivation in monkeys"


COFFEE

 

11h00-11h30 Mark Walton - “Tracking dopamine signals at different timescales during adaptive decision making  "

11h30-11h45 Martin Paré  - Flash - "Effects of catecholamine boost or depletion on cognition and motivation"

11h45-12h00 Simon J. Little  - Flash - "Uncovering the neural circuits of motivation and cognitive control in Parkinson's disease"

12h00-12h45 Discussion

 

LUNCH + POSTERS

 

Session 4 - Dynamics of motivational and cognitve control - Chair Veit Stuphorn

14h30-15h00 Mark Laubach - "Effects of learning on choice-related signals in the rat medial frontal cortex"

15h00-15h30 Clay Holroyd -  "The controllosphere: A Control-theoretic account of cognitive effort and its neural origins"

15h30-15h45 Kirsch Franziska  - Flash - Temporal EEG dynamics of foraging decisions in humans"


COFFEE


16h15-16h45 Jeffrey Schall - "Recent findings comparing dorsomedial frontal with dorsal and ventral cingulate cortex"

16h45-17h15 Suliann Ben Hamed - "Dynamics of attentional control at multiple time scales, from several cycles per second to a few cycles per hour"

17h15-17h30 Javier Masis  - Flash - "Learning expectations shape initial cognitive control allocation"

17h30-18h15 Discussion


GALA DINER



Friday   13/10/2023 


 

9h00 -11h00 COFFEE & POSTERs


Session 5 - Motivation and cognitive control in free and open environment  - Chair Nils Kolling

11h00-11h30 Jacqueline Scholl - "Emotional states and traits shape foraging under threat"

11h30- 12h00 Alizee Lopez Persem - "Motivational cognitive and neural mechanisms in creativity"

12h00-12h15 Jean-Claude Dreher - Flash - "Neurocomputational mechanisms involved in adaptation to fluctuating intentions of others"

12h15-12h30 Laura Bustamante  - Flash - "Quantifying individual differences in cognitive and physical effort cost with the Effort Foraging Task; applications in large online, clinical depression, and transcranial direct stimulation studies".

 

LUNCH & Posters

  

14h00-14h30 Alexander Gail - "Neural dynamics of action planning and choice during free behavior"

14h30-14h45 Gerit Pfuhl  - Flash - "Is it effortful to be rational?"

14h45-15h00 Georgia E. Hadjis  - Flash - "Pain affects cognitive task performance based on task value"

15h00-15h45 Discussion

  

15h45-16h00 Final CONCLUSION & Au Revoir