08:45-9:00 - Welcome by the directors: PF Ferrari, Luca Bonini and Aldo Genovesio
09:00-9:45 - Lars Chittka (Queen Mary University of London - London, UK)
: Learning and memory in insects
09:45-10:30 - Giorgio Vallortigara (Università di Trento - Rovereto, Italy)
: Building up a social brain: predisposed learning in filial imprinting
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-11:45 - Binyamin Hochner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem, Israel)
: Divergence and convergence evolution of learning and memory mechanisms in the octopus brain
11:45-12:30 - Beatrice De Gelder (Maastricht University - Maastricht, The Netherlands)
: A species specific body network to explain social behavior across species
12:30-14:15 - Lunch
14:15-15:00 - Marco Tamietto (Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Torino, Torino, Italia)
: Not blind to (e)motion: blindsight in men and monkeys
15:00-16:15 - Tadashi Isa (Department of Neuroscience, University of Kyoto, Japan)
: Sensorimotor and cognitive functions of blindsight macaques
16:15-16:45 - Coffee break
16:45-19:00 - Short communications
Sunday, September 11
Space and cognition
09:00-09:45 - Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot, Israel)
: Space coding in bats
09:45-10:30 - Sylvia Wirth (Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives - Lyon, France)
: From Space to schema in the macaque hippocampus
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-11:45 - Giandomenico Iannetti (Italian Institute of Technology - Rome, Italy)
: Peripersonal action fields across species
11:45-12:30 - Aldo Genovesio (Università la Sapienza - Rome, Italy)
: From Goal to action in prefrontal cortex
12:30-14:15 - Lunch
14:15-15:00 - Andreas Nieder (University of Tuebingen - Tuebingen, Germany)
: Brain for Numbers
15:00-15:45 - Hugo Merchant (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - Mexico City, Mexico)
: Representation of rhythmic timing on the neural population dynamics of the primate premotor cortex
15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
16:15-17:00 - Camillo Padoa-Schioppa (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO, USA)
: Neural mechanisms of economic decision
17:30-19:00 - poster session
Monday, September 12
8:45 - EXCURSION TO THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES
Tuesday, September 13
Social and affective neuroscience
9:00-9:45 - Rony Paz (Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot, Israel)
: Neural Basis of affective memory in primates
9:45-10:30 - Christian Keysers (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
: From emotional contagion to harm aversion – a cross species perspective
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-11:45 - Katalin Gothard (University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ, USA)
: The neurobiology of primate amygdala in social interactions
11:45-12:30 - Luca Bonini (University of Parma - Parma, Italy)
: Social remapping in a comparative perspective
12:30-14:45 - Lunch
14:45-15:00 - Pier Francesco Ferrari (Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives - CNRS - Lyon, France)
: Brain mechanisms of social behavior from infancy to adulthood in human and nonhuman primates
15:00-15:45 - Richard Mooney (Duke University School of Medicine - Durham, NC, USA)
: Neurobiology of Vocalization in mammals and birds
15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
16:15-17:00 - Gilles Laurent (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
: Why are comparative approaches needed in neuroscience?