Detailed Program

 

-------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 20 (Thursday) ------------------------------------------------

10:00 – 10:15        Megnyitó / Opening Ceremony

• Active Sensing, Neuronal Oscillations and Perceptual Selection
  Charles E. Schroeder (Cognitive Neuroscience & Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA)

11:00 – 11:15        Kávészünet / Coffee break

• Prediction-based auditory responses to omissions of self-generated sounds
  Iria San Miguel (Institute for Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Germany)
• Predictive models in auditory stream segregation
  István Winkler (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
• Resolving inconsistencies between different cases for predictive modeling in audition
  Erich Schröger (Institute for Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Germany)
• Phase entrainment of human delta oscillations can mediate the effects of expectation on reaction speed
  Gábor Stefanics (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
  Deviant visual features or deviant events? 1+1>2
  István Czigler (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

13:15 –                  Szendvicsebéd / Lunch

 

 

• Speech perception in newborns: experiments with optical topography
  Judit Gervain (CNRS - Université Paris-Descartes)
• Perceptual capabilities underlying music perception in newborns
  Gábor Háden (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
• Mismatch negativity modulations reflect infants' processing of speech stress patterns
  Anett Ragó (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
• Audiovisual speech perception and the effects of word learning on visual perception in human infants
  Gergely Csibra (Cognitive Development Center, Central European University)

17:30 – 17:45        Kávészünet / Coffee break

• Seeing with and without classical photoreceptors
  Botond Roska (Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
  Basel, Switzerland)

 

----------------------------------------------------JANUARY 21 (Friday)-----------------------------------------------

• Plasticity of dendritic h channels in health and disease
  Daniel Johnston (Center for Learning and Memory, The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

9:45 – 10:00          Kávészünet / Coffee break

• Biophysical diversity and firing dynamics of neurons in the extended amygdala
  Attila Szűcs (BioCircuits Institute, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California and Balaton Limnological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tihany, Hungary)

• Changes in the structure of cellular activity during transitions of hippocampal activity patterns in vitro
  Attila Gulyás (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
• The role of newly discovered subcortical pathways in shaping hippocampal activity
  Viktor Varga (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
  Budapest, Hungary)
• Synaptic mechanisms of cortical slow oscillations
  Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
• Laminar analysis of slow wave activity in humans
  István Ulbert (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

12:00 –            Szendvicsebéd / Lunch

 

• Seizure-induced endogenous anticonvulsive mechanisms
  Günther Sperk (Department of Pharmacology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria)

• Helping NPY system to control seizures: Ligand-receptor combination gene therapy
  Merab Kokaia (Division of Neurology, Lund University Hospital, Sweden)
• Functional reorganization of temporal lobe structures in epilepsy
  Christophe Bernard (INSERM U751, Faculté de Médecine Timone Marseille, France)
  
• Interictal activity in the epileptic human hippocampal formation
  Luca Wittner (Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
• Adaptive changes of the hippocampal network in epilepsy
  Zsófia Maglóczky (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)

17:00 – 17:15        Kávészünet / Coffee break

• NMDA receptors: molecular operation, pharmacology and synaptic modulation
  Pierre Paoletti (Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)

19:00 –                  Fogadás / Reception

 

---------------------------------------------------- JANUARY 22 (Saturday) -----------------------------------------------

• Mechanisms of GABAergic synapse formation and plasticity
  Jean-Marc Fritschy (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

10:15 – 10:30        Kávészünet / Coffee break

• Phylogenetic library for endogenous opioid peptides: an update
  Sandor Benyhe (Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary)
• Central action of the cannabinoid antagonist SR-141,716 involves region dependent activation of brain opioid receptors
  Eszter Páldy (Institute of Pharmacology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany)
• Anandamide attenuates neuropathic pain symptoms by spinal TRPV1 and CB1 receptor activation
  Katarzina Starowicz (Department of Pain Pharmacology, Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland)
• Genetic animal models for schizophrenia
  Andreas Zimmer (Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany)

12:45 –                  Szendvicsebéd / Lunch