Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Neuronal Mechanisms of High-Level Cognition
Discussion Leader: Erin Rich (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
General Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
Sabine Kastner (Princeton University, United States)
"Attention Control in the Primate Brain"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
Timothy Behrens (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Representing the Future"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
High-Level Sensory Cognition
Discussion Leader: Jude Mitchell (University of Rochester, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Arash Afraz (National Institute of Health, United States)
"Navigating the Perceptual Space with Neural Perturbations"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Anne-Marie Oswald (University of Chicago, United States)
"Synaptic Correlates of Olfactory Discrimination Behavior"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Robbe Goris (The University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Inference and Introspection in the Primate Visual System"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Robert Gaunt (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Artificial Tactile Perception in Brain-Computer Interfaces"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizer: Theresa Desrochers (Brown University, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Social and Affective Neuroscience
Discussion Leader: Steve Chang (Yale University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Regina Lapate (University of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
"Time and Emotion Integration in the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Keren Haroush (Stanford University, United States)
"How Neural Circuits Distill Past Experiences to Shape Decision Making"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm
Matthew Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
"Internal Cognitive States Embedded in Neuronal Populations"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Brain Dynamics Underlying Maps and Memories
Discussion Leader: David Badre (Brown University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
David Foster (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Surprising New Evidence for how Hippocampal Replays are Generated"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Jai Yu (University of Chicago, United States)
"Experience Shapes Spatial Learning"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Andrew Wikenheiser (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"Spatial Representations in Frontal Cortex During Naturalistic Foraging"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Elizabeth Johnson (Northwestern University, United States)
"Plastic Fantastic: How human Brain Development Shapes Information Encoding"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Computational Approaches to Cognition
Discussion Leader: Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
David Freedman (University of Chicago, United States)
"Recruitment of Visuo-Spatial Brain Networks for Abstract Cognition"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:30 pm
Gaia Tavoni (Washington University in St. Louis, United States)
"Human Inference Reflects a Normative Balance of Complexity and Accuracy"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:05 pm
Luca Mazzucato (University of Oregon, United States)
"Neural Mechanisms of Optimal Performance"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Neuronal Mechanisms of Reward-Guided Learning
Discussion Leader: Josh Berke (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Catherine Hartley (New York University, United States)
"Interactive Development of Reinforcement Learning and Episodic Memory"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"The Implications of Retrospective Causal Learning"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
William Stauffer (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Single-Unit Activity in Prefrontal Cortex Reflects Complex Thought Processes"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Christine Constantinople (New York University, United States)
"Neural Mechanisms of Inference"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Working Memory and Executive Function
Discussion Leader: Edward Vogel (University of Chicago, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Tim Buschman (Princeton University, United States)
"The Geometry of Cognitive Control"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
John Murray (Dartmouth College, United States)
"Contingency Representations for Working Memory"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Motor Cognition
Discussion Leader: John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Shreya Saxena (Yale University, United States)
"Data and Goal-Driven Frameworks for Probing the Cognitive Processes Underlying Motor Control"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:10 am
Alaa Ahmed (University of Colorado Boulder, United States)
"Movement Vigor as a Window into Decision Making"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Emily Oby (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
"Structure and Flexibility in Motor Cortex Population Activity"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Jordan Taylor (Princeton University, United States)
"The Formation, Consolidation and Representation of Novel Action-Outcome Mappings"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Animal Models of Language and Communication
Discussion Leader: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:55 pm
Cory Miller (University of California San Diego, United States)
"Allocentric Representations of Social Space in Hippocampus: Solving the Cocktail Party Problem"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:20 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
Chris Petkov (University of Iowa, Newcastle University, United States)
"Memory Sequences and Prediction: Insights from Primate Neural Systems"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure