Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Time Event (+)
09:10 - 12:45 Cingulate cortex: MCC vs ACC - Chair Mark Laubach  
09:15 - 09:45 Comparative analysis of the cyto- and receptor architecture of human and macaque MCC - Nicola Palomero-Gallagher  
09:45 - 10:15 Lesions to the sub-regions of the cingulate cortex in rats produce dissociable effects on attention - Jill McGaughy  
10:15 - 10:30 Neural underpinnings of the evaluation of control to determine how much mental effort is worth investing - Flash- Romy Frömer  
10:30 - 11:30 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 The Dynamics of Motivation: Computational Mechanisms Switching Effort from Cost to Benefit in Medial Frontal Cortex - Matthew Apps  
11:30 - 11:45 Computational and neural evidence for independent cognitive control over target enhancement and distractor suppression - Flash - Harrison Ritz  
11:45 - 12:00 Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces prosocial behaviours and effort sensitivity - flash - Jo L. Cutler  
12:00 - 12:45 round table - Discussion  
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:25 - 18:15 Extended Network of Cognitive control - Chair Hanneke Den Ouden  
14:30 - 15:00 Anterior insula lesion disrupts adaptation to negative outcomes - Phillipe Domenech  
15:00 - 15:30 A hippocampo-cortical pathway detects changes in the validity of an action as a predictor of reward - Shauna Parks  
15:30 - 15:45 Goals distort the representation of space - flash - Paul Muhle-Karbe  
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 16:45 Neurobiology of curiosity - Ilya Monosov  
16:45 - 17:15 Functional dissociations between the ventromedial prefrontal vs. anterior insular cortices during value-based learning and choice processes demonstrated in intracerebral signals - Julien Bastin  
17:15 - 17:30 Neural signatures behind habitual inhibition and its modulation by emotions - flash - Ignacio Obeso  
17:30 - 18:15 round table - discussion  

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Time Event (+)
09:10 - 12:45 Roles of neuromodulatory systems in motivational and cognitive control - Chair Shauna Parkes  
09:15 - 09:45 A computational account of catecholaminergic regulation supporting motivated behaviour - Eliana Vassena  
09:45 - 10:15 The role of acetylcholine in performance monitoring and adaptive control - Markus Ullsperger  
10:15 - 10:30 Identifying and disrupting a neural circuit for changes in motivation in monkeys - flash - Nima Khalighinejad  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:30 Tracking dopamine signals at different timescales during adaptive decision making - Mark Walton  
11:30 - 11:45 Effects of catecholamine boost or depletion on cognition and motivation - flash - Martin Paré  
11:45 - 12:00 Uncovering the neural circuits of motivation and cognitive control in Parkinson's disease - flash - Simon J. Little  
12:00 - 12:45 round table - discussion  
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch  
14:25 - 18:15 Dynamics of Motivational and Cognitive Control - Chair Veit Stuphorn  
14:30 - 15:00 Effects of learning on choice-related signals in the rat medial frontal cortex - Mark Laubach  
15:00 - 15:30 The controllosphere: A Control-theoretic account of cognitive effort and its neural origins - Clay Holroyd  
15:30 - 15:45 Temporal EEG dynamics of foraging decisions in humans - flash - Kirsch Franziska  
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 16:45 Recent findings comparing dorsomedial frontal with dorsal and ventral cingulate cortex - Jeff Schall  
16:45 - 17:15 Dynamics of attentional control at multiple time scales, from several cycles per second to a few cycles per hour - Suliann Ben Hamed  
17:15 - 17:30 Learning expectations shape initial cognitive control allocation - flash - Javier Masis  
17:30 - 18:15 round table - discussion  

Friday, October 13, 2023

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 11:00 POSTER  
11:00 - 12:15 Motivation and cognitive control in free and open environment - Chair Nils Kolling  
11:00 - 11:30 Emotional states and traits shape foraging under threat - Jacqueline Scholl  
11:30 - 12:00 Motivational cognitive and neural mechanisms in creativity - Alizée Lopez-Persem  
12:00 - 12:15 Neurocomputational mechanisms involved in adaptation to fluctuating intentions of others - flash - Jean-Claude Dreher  
12:15 - 12:30 Laura Bustamante - Quantifying individual differences in cognitive and physical effort cost with the Effort Foraging Task; applications in large online, clinical depression, and transcranial direct stimulation studies. - flash - Laura Bustamante  
14:00 - 14:30 Neural dynamics of action planning and choice during free behavior - Alexander Gail  
14:30 - 14:45 Is it effortful to be rational? - flash - Gerit Pfuhl  
14:45 - 15:00 Pain affects cognitive task performance based on task value - flash - Georgia E. Hadjis  
15:00 - 15:45 round table - discussion  
15:45 - 16:00 concluding remarks