SPeakers


Keynote Speaker


Professor John Krakauer, John Hopkins University

Title: Representation and the Cognitive Motor Interface


For more information about John and his presentation, please visit the Keynote Speaker tab.


Invited Speakers

Professor Birte Forstmann, University of Amsterdam

Title: Multi-study fMRI outlooks on subcortical BOLD responses in the stop-signal paradigm


Professor Michael Frank, Brown University

Title: Adaptive Gating to Optimise Working Memory Chunking in Frontostriatal Neural Networks


Professor Jacquie Gottlieb, Columbia University

Title: Allocating attention for information gain: the roles of knowledge, information value and cognitive costs


Professor Ole Jensen, University of Birmingham

Title: Gating by alpha band inhibition revised: a case for an indirect control mechanism and involvement of the basal ganglia


Symposia Speakers


The (Oscillatory) Control of Attention, Memory and Perception 

Professor Heleen Slagter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Title: Working memory in action

Professor Tom Verguts, Ghent University

Title: Cognitive control and neural synchronization

Alexandra Woolgar, University of Cambridge

Title: Parietal alpha stimulation causally enhances attentional information coding in evoked and oscillatory activity

Professor Clare Press, University College London

Title: Different types of surprise: How to direct perception to optimise learning

Professor Steve Fleming, University College London

Title: Explaining how under confidence is maintained in the face of reality 


Parallel mechanisms between motor and cognitive control

Dr. Sam McDougle, Yale University

Title: Structured Visuomotor Representations and Cognitive-motor Information Flow

Professor Julie Duque, Louvain University

Title: Studying urgency and arousal during decision making in humans

Professor Richard Ivry, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Slotting the Cerebellum in the Cognitive Control Network

Dr. Katja Kornysheva, University of Birmingham

Title: Dissecting the neural control of dextrous actions


The Control of Social Cognition and Behaviour

Dr. Steve Chang, Yale University 

Title: Frequency Modules in the Social Brain

Dr. Patricia Lockwood, University of Birmingham

Title: Prosocial Learning and Motivation across the Lifespan

Dr. Lusha Zhu, Peking University

Title: A computational shortcut to coordination: common knowledge and neural alignment


Across species mechanisms of control

Dr. Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, UCSF 

Title: Retrospective learning in the brain

Professor Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford

Title: Anterior lateral prefrontal cortex and prospective metacognition

Dr. Carolina Rezaval, University of Birmingham

Title: Is love blind? Mating proximity gates threat perception


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