Program Schedule

Monday, June 8 – Arrival Day

Tuesday, June 9 – Sensorimotor processing
Session #1
  • 08:30-08:40 - Welcome 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)
  • 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)
  • 12:30-13:00 - Short communications (2)
  • 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 : (Kyung-in Jang, DGIST, Daegu, South Korea)
  • 15:50-16:20 - 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)
  • 12:10-12:40 - Short communications (2)
  • 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 Meguerditichian, CNRS and Université Aix-Marseille, France)
  • 11:40-12:40 - Short communications (4)
  • 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)
  • 15:30-16:30 - Short communications (4)
  • 16:30-17:00 - Coffee break
Session #10
  • 17:00-17:30 - Concluding remarks, awards and thanks
  • 20:00 - Social Dinner and Awards ceremony

Friday, June 12 - Departure Day