Program

Please find below the schedule of each talk. You may find more information about each speaker and their talk in the Speakers tab or by clicking on their name in the program.

Day 1 – Monday – June 16th

Time Event Speaker(s)
09:20 Registration
09:50 Welcome address
10:00 Session: Comparative decision across agents Chair: Fadila Hadj-Bouziane
10:10 The prefrontal operculum: a critical functional hub for the emergence of speech? Céline Amiez
10:40 Catching cognition in the act - new ways to track naturalistic decision making across species Martha N. Havenith & Marieke Schölvinck
11:10 The coordination between decisions and movements during interactive behavior: insights from human and non-human primates David Thura
11:40 Coffee break + Posters
12:00 Replay in artificial and biological intelligence: learning, planning, and map construction. Jacob Bakermans
12:30 The metacognitive control of decisions predicts whether and how mice override their default policy Kristen Barc
12:45 Discussion
13:15 Lunch + Posters
15:00 Session: Causal Manipulations in Decision Making Chair: Mathias Pessiglione
15:10 Dopamine transmission in the anterior insula shapes the neural coding of anxiety Anna Beyeler
15:40 Motivational control is implemented by a cingulo-prefrontal network Charlie Wilson
16:10 Pharmacological modulation of reinforcement learning and decision making Gerhard Jocham
16:40 Coffee break + Posters
17:00 Improving decision making through ultrasound-induced neuroplasticity Elsa Fouragnan
17:30 A computational account of persecutory delusion using ketamine as a model of psychosis Etienne Pigeon
17:45 Discussion
18:15 Welcome cocktail (Palais Hirsh)

Day 2 – Tuesday – June 17th

Time Event Speaker(s)
09:00 Session: Social Cognition and Decision Making Across Species Chair: Jérôme Sallet
09:10 Social basis functions Marco Wittmann
09:40 On the effects and usages of facial signals in situations requiring trust Astrid Hophensitz
10:10 From agents, to actions, to interactions, to societies: imaging the primate social brain Julia Sliwa
10:40 Coffee break + Posters
11:00 The Lasting Impact of Psychosocial Deprivation on Adolescent Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex Development Pier Francesco Ferrari
11:30 Developmental differences in social information use under uncertainty Lieke Hofmans
11:45 Discussion
12:15 Lunch + Posters
14:00 Session: Temporal Dynamics of Decision Making Chair: Romain Ligneul
14:10 Spontaneous anterior insula fluctuations bias preference-based decisions Julien Bastin
14:40 Cognitive Sequences: Parallel Cross-Species Dynamics in Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Theresa Desrochers
15:10 Time is precious: Normative and neural principles of time investments across species Torben Ott
15:40 Coffee break + Posters
16:00 The neurophysiology of decision-making: multiple interacting decision systems separated computationally David Redish
16:30 A grid-like representation for subjective value-based decision-making Erie Boorman
17:00 Discussion
17:30 Student session (Palais Hirsh)
19:00 Gala Dinner (Cintra)

Day 3 – Wednesday – June 18th

Time Event Speaker(s)
09:00 Session: Naturalistic & Context-Dependent Decision Making Chair: Guillaume Sescousse
09:10 Emotions in self-organized behaviour Jacqueline Scholl
09:40 Mood as a vehicle of reinforcement learning Eran Eldar
10:10 The role of subjective valuation in creative thinking: behavioral, neural, and causal evidence Alizée Lopez-Persem
10:40 Coffee break + Posters
11:00 Dopaminergic Control of Social Specialization in Mouse Microsocieties Philippe Faure
11:30 Two-dimensional Reward Evaluation and Its Link to Anticipatory Anhedonia Ryan Yan
11:45 Discussion
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Session: Brain–Body Interaction and Decision Making Chair: Leonie Koban
13:20 Bridging Brain and Body: Computational and Pharmacological Insights into Interoception Micah Allen
13:50 More than just a gut feeling: Does the gut microbiome influence decision making - first evidence from a synbiotic intervention study Hilke Plassmann
14:20 Body-Brain Interaction Regulating Human Choice Soyoung Park
14:50 Coffee break + Posters
15:10 Decisions and bodily signals Catherine Tallon-Baudry
15:40 The effect of vagal signal amplification with transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on perceptual decisions under threat Lina Skora
15:55 Discussion
16:25 End