Program Schedule

Monday, June 8 – Arrival Day

Tuesday, June 9 – Sensorimotor processing
Session #1
  • 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)
    1. 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
  • 20:00 - Social Dinner and Awards ceremony

Friday, June 12 - Departure Day