08:30 - 08:40 - Welcome by Pier Francesco Ferrari and Luca Bonini
08:40 - 09:20 - Context-dependent sensorimotor dynamics in freely moving macaques: from wakefulness to sleep
: (Luca Bonini, Università di Parma, Italy)
09:20 - 10:00 - Cerebro-cerebellar communication during waking and sleep
: (Andrew Jackson, Newcastle University, UK)
10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee break
Session #2
11:10 - 11:50 - Representations of active vision in marmoset monkeys
: (Cory Miller, UCSD, San Diego, USA)
11:50 - 12:30 - Locomotion enhances environmental representation by boosting visuo-frontal communication
: (Valentin Dragoi, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA)
12:30 - 12:45 - Short communications - Cortical signatures of yawning in freely moving monkeys: voluntary modulation of automatic behavior
: (Elena Ferretti, Università di Parma, Italy)
12:45 - 13:00 - Brain-machine interface control during unconstrained navigation in head-restrained macaques
: (Alessia Sepe, KU Leuven, Belgium)
13:00 - 14:30 - Lunch
Session #3
14:30 - 15:10 - From reaching to social foraging in free movement: decision making in primate frontoparietal cortex
: (Alexander Gail, German Primate Center, Sensorimotor Group, Göttingen, Germany)
15:10 - 15:50 - A stealthy neural recorder for non-human primates
: (Janghwan Jekal, DGIST, Daegu, South Korea)
15:50 - 16:10 - SiNAPS: High-density CMOS neural probes for large-scale in vivo electrophysiology
: (Fabio Boi, Corticale S.R.L., Genova, Italy)
16:10 - 16:30 - Coffee break
Session #4
16:30 - 19:00 - Poster session
Wednesday, June 10 – Cognitive processes and social interaction I
Session #5
08:40 - 09:20 - Searching for a neural architecture of natural behaviors
: (Paul Cisek, Department of Neuroscience, University of Montréal, Canada)
09:20 - 10:00 - Social context coded in frontal cortex neurons of freely moving macaques
: (Pier Francesco Ferrari, Institut des Sciences Cognitives 'Marc Jeannerod', CNRS, Lyon, France)
10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee break
Session #6
11:10 - A role of the periaqueductal gray in the production of facial expressions; (Katalin Gothard, University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ, USA)
11:10 - 11:40 - Neuropsysiology of acoustic communication: studying the brain in naturalistic contexts
: (Arthur Lefevre, Institut des Sciences Cognitives 'Marc Jeannerod', CNRS, Lyon, France)
11:40 - 12:10 - Motivation and engagement – chemogenetics in the primate midcingulate cortex
: (Emmanuel Procyk, INSERM, Lyon, France)
12:10 - 12:25 - Short communications - ECoG recordings reveal functionally distinct communication routes between temporal and parietal cortex during processing of social and non-social visual stimuli in common marmosets
: (Silvia Spadacenta, Hertie-Institut, Tübingen, Germany)
12:40 Short communications - When families meet: twitter waves as a collective vocal behavior underlying multi groups encounters in marmosets
: (Pia Giraudet, Institut des Sciences Cognitives 'Marc Jeannerod', CNRS, Lyon, France)
14:15 - Lunch
Visit to winery
14:15 - Visit to FLORIO wineries for a Marsala wine tasting
Thursday, June 11 – Cognitive processes and social interaction II
Session #7
08:40 - 09:20 - Freedom of assembly: dynamics of memory representations in macaques
: (Kari Hoffmann, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)
09:20 - 10:00 - From path integration to vision: evolutionary reconfiguration of hippocampal circuits in primates
: (Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Robarts Research Institute, London, ON, Canada)
10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee break
Session #8
10:30 - 11:10 - Behavioral and neural mechanisms of cooperative decision-making in marmosets
: (Steve WC Chang, Yale University, CT, USA)
11:10 - 11:40 - Neuroethology of sociality and gestural communication in baboons: searching for the origins of hemispheric specialization for language
: (Adrien Meguerditchian, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille, France)
11:40 - 12:00 - Short communications - Peripersonal neurons of ventral premotor cortex in freely moving monkeys
: (Davide Albertini, Università di Parma, Italy)
12:00 - 12:20 - Short communications - Reliable encoding of postural and visual features in high-level sensory and motor regions of freely moving monkeys
: (Shubankar Saha, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
12:20 - 12:40 - Short communications - Body-centered coding of head direction across natural behaviors in primate premotor neurons
: (Ebrahim Ismaiel, Università di Parma, Italy)
12:40 - 14:20 - Lunch
Session #9
14:20 - 15:00 - Social and nonsocial signals in mSTS in freely-behaving macaques
: (Michael Platt, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
15:00 - 15:30 - Primate social cognition through the lens of MRI
: (Jerome Sallet, INSERM, Lyon, France)
15:30 - 15:45 - Short communications - From controlling to rewiring cortical representations
: (Anna Mitola)
15:45 - 16:00 - Short communications - Cortical correlation structures as window into sensory perception and neuroplasticity
: (Ariana Andrei, Houston Methodist Research Institute/ Weill Cornell Medicine, Huston, USA)
16:00 - 16:15 - A systematic review of macaque brain stimulation: trends and future directions
: (Sjoerd Murris, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
16:15 - 17:00 - Coffee break
Session #10
17:00 - 17:30 - Concluding remarks, awards and thanks