Overview of the selected symposia:
Predicting human actions: specialized and general mechanisms
Organiser: Harold Bekkering
- Marcel Brass (Ghent University ) – The clever Chameleon: evidence for anticipated action
- Janny C. Stapel (Uppsala University) – The role of action experience for action prediction development
- Harold Bekkering (Radboud University) – Predictions at the bowling lane: evidence from behavioral and MEG experiments
- Florian Hintz (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) – The nature and limits of mechanisms in anticipatory language processing
Towards a cognitive account of human creativity
Organiser: Bernard Hommel
- Simone Ritter (Radboud University) – Understanding and Improving the Selection of Creative Ideas
- Eric F. Rietzschel (University of Groningen) – The Creative Paradox of Autonomy and Constraints: Task Structure and Individual Differences
- Matthijs Baas (Universiteit van Amsterdam) – Mad Genius Revisited: Risk of Psychopathology, Biobehavioral Approach-Avoidance, and Creativity
- Bernhard Hommel (University of Leiden) – Enhancing Creativity
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Organisers: H. Steven Scholte & Marcel van Gerven
- Serge Dumoulin (Utrecht University) – Population receptive field reconstruction in visual cortex.
- Tomas Knapen (Vrije Universiteit) – The influence of feature-based attention on visual processing in the human brain.
- Marcel van Gerven (Radboud University) – Probing cortical representations with deep learning
- H. Steven Scholte (Universiteit van Amsterdam) – Not all stimuli are processed equally. Different optimal architectures for processing simple and complex stimuli
Neural Network Profiles and Dynamics Begin to Shed Light on Neurocognitive Aging
Organiser: Richard Ridderinkhof
- Linda Geerligs (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) – Does the control of emotion require intact cognitive control? Examples from aging research
- Carien van Reekum (University of Reading) – Stress effects on (de)activation during emotional inhibition in healthy aging
- Nicole Oei (Universiteit van Amsterdam) – Frontostriatal anatomical connections predict age- and difficulty-related reinforcement learning
- Irene van de Vijver (Radboud Universiteit) – Functional networks and connectivity dynamics in the aging brain
Opportunities and Applications of Ultra High-Field MRI in Cognitive Neuroscience
Organiser : Max Keuken
- Wietske van der Zwaag (Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging) – Ultra high-field MRI: opportunity or challenge?
- Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford University) – Studying experience-dependent plasticity with high field MRI
- Michelle Moerel (University of Minnesota) – Processing of natural sound aspects in the human auditory cortex
- Ben Harvey (University of Coimbra) – Imaging representations of quantity in human association cortex
Knowledge representation and concept learning
Organiser: David Neville
- Ruud Berkers (Radboud University) – The neural dynamics of linguistic conceptual knowledge accumulation and updating
- Rene Zeelenbeg (EUR) – The role of the motor system in memory for objects and words
- Martijn Meeter (Vrije Universiteit) – How your implicit memory is like your explicit one: Effects of time and context
- David Neville (Radboud University) – Modeling knowledge formation with deep learning networks
The Brain in Contol
Organiser: Henk Van Steenbergen
- Hanneke den Ouden (Radboud University) – Cruise control or in control? Neuropharmacology of biased learning and decision-making
- Henk van Steenbergen (Leiden University) – The role of outcome encoding and reward processing in action control
- Davide Rigoni (Ghent University) – Is intentional inhibition based on ideomotor processes? Evidence from the readiness potential
- Rogier Mars (University of Oxford) – Networks of control: Comparing frontal cortex connectivity between humans and macaques