Plasticity, Learning and the Sensory brain

Program

09:00 Welcome and introduction

09:15 Christian Lorenzi (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Electrical hearing"

09:40 Maria Concetta Morrone (University of Pisa): "Plasticity during development in humans"

10:05 Holly Bridge (University of Oxford): "Investigating the neurochemistry of residual vision in hemianopia and the potential for rehabilitation"

10:30 Norberto Grzywacz (Loyola University, Chicago): "Is the Spatial Regularity of Retinal Mosaics Maintained by Plastic Self- Organization?"

11:30 Paola Binda (University of Pisa): "Perception through the eye-pupil"

11:55 Betina Ip (University of Oxford): "Combining hemodynamics and neurochemistry to study the visual system"

12:20 Antoni Valero-Cabré (ICM, Paris): "Exploring human brain plasticity and elasticity with non-invasive transcranial stimulation: Excitability, Oscillations and beyond"

12:45 Izel Sari (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Interaction of visual and motor plasticity in adults"

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Takeo Watanabe (Brown University): "Plasticity and stability in perceptual learning"

14:55 Yuka Sasaki (Brown University): "Visual perceptual learning and sleep"

15:20 Danilo Menicucci (University of Pisa): "The effect of short-term monocular deprivation on NREM sleep"

15:35 Monica Gori (IIT, Genova): "The role of vision on perceptual space representation"

16:00 Peter Neri (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Deciphering the syntax of cuttlefish skin pattern Sepia officinalis using artificial intelligence"

16:45 David Burr (University of Florence): "Mechanisms of Serial Dependence"

17:10 Tarryn Balsdon (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "The accumulation of evidence for perceptual decisions and confidence"

17:25 Jackson Graves (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Learning to access ambiguity in auditory stimuli"

17:40 Yves Boubenec (LSP, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Task-independent encoding of behavioral categories in ferret premotor cortex"

17:55 Alex Cayco Gajic (GNT, DEC, ENS, Paris): "Demixing neural representations that change over trials with sliceTCA"

 

A 1-day conference on Plasticity and Learning organized by Claudia Lunghi (LSP).

Participation is free, but because of the limited amount of seats, registration is compulsory.

You can register here