Date & Time :

June 5th (Wednesday), 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Place :

Room #113, Building #3, Komaba I campus, The University of Tokyo

http://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng_site/info/about/visitors/maps-directions/campusmap.html

Schedule :

3:30 pm -

Opening remarks

Talk 1 (15 + 5 min):

Consolidation timing of reinforcement-based learning in birdsong

Ryosuke O. Tachibana

(Center for Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

Talk 2 (15 + 5 min)

Integration of song and dance in java sparrows

Chihiro Mori

(Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

Talk 3 (15 + 5 min):

Social influence on VTA/SNc auditory activity in zebra finches

Shin Yanagihara

(Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan)

--- short break ---

4:45 pm -

Talk 4 (25 + 5 min):

Effects of vocal motor skill practice on brain circuit organization and hormone responsiveness

Mariana D. Rocha

(Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Munich, Germany)

Talk 5 (25 + 5 min):

Methodological advances towards multi scale connectomics of the songbird brain

Daniel N. Düring

(Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)

General discussion

Closing remarks

6:00 pm - Apero (snacks and beer!)