Scientific Program
| Monday (6 October 2025) | |
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| 8:30 – 9:15 | Registration & Coffee |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Welcome address |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Language at a glance: How do our brains order syntactic and semantic computations when no temporal order is imposed from the input? Liina Pylkkänen, New York |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Timescale-invariant processing of durational information in speech Mara Wolter, Tübingen |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Primate ACC encodes natural vocal turn taking in a "cocktail party" Arthur Lefevre, Lyon |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Neural variability in the medial prefrontal cortex contributes to efficient adaptive behavior Etienne Koechlin, Paris |
| 11:50 – 13:00 | Posters |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | The retinal connectome from Eyewire II: Towards understanding cell types and circuits with a large-scale EM dataset Simone Ebert & Jan Lause, Tübingen |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | The impact of motor behaviour and internal states on subcortical visual processing Sylvia Schröder, Sussex |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Break |
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Where next after a decade of ANN models of primate vision? From object categorisation to LLM embeddings and on to self-supervised gaze prediction. Tim Kietzmann, Osnabrück |
| 16:20 – 16:50 | Predictive computations in the human brain Floris de Lange, Nijmegen |
| 16:50 – 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Working Dinner |
| Tuesday (7 October 2025) | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Roles for visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning Marlene Cohen, Chicago |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Building an idea from its parts Christopher Summerfield, Oxford |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Modular and distributed computations of decisions and actions Valerio Mante, Zürich |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Sensorimotor transformation of number in the primate parietal cortex Laura Seidler, Tübingen |
| 11:50 – 13:00 | Posters |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Dynamical constraints on neural population activity Emily Oby, Kingston |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Neuroendocrine and circadian effects of light in humans: Mechanisms and translation Manuel Spitschan, Tübingen |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Break |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Engrams as substrates for long-term information storage Tomás Ryan, Dublin |
| 16:20 – 16:50 | Infants sleep to form lasting memory Marion Inostroza, Tübingen |