Paint a Bigger Picture - Science meeting of the ARC CoE for Integrative Brain Function

The ARC Brain Function CoE will be holding their annual science meeting in conjunction with the 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Neuroscience Society, in Darling Harbour on Saturday 2 December 2017. This annual meeting is an opportunity to bring together key Centre researchers including Chief Investigatrs, International Partner Investigators, Advisory Board members, Fellows and Scholars, along with the general scientific community.

Plenary Speaker - Mathew Diamond, International School for Advanced Studies, Italy

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome – Paul Martin

9:10 – 10:30 Session 1 – Chaired by Ehsan Arabzadeh

9:10 – 10:05 The unfolding of a percept over time… and the unfolding of time within apercept – Mathew Diamond (SISSA, Italy)

10:05 – 10:30 How Transcortical Magnetic Stimulation changes orientation in your brain – Ulf Eysel (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

10:30 – 11:00 Morning tea

11:00 – 12:40 Session 2 – Chaired by Sam Merlin

11:00 – 11:25 Contextual sensitivity of neurons in superior colliculus of awake mice – Sam Solomon (University College London, UK)

11:25 – 11:50 Motion sensitivity of MT cells after chronic V1 lesions – Maureen Hagan (Monash University)

11:50 – 12:15 Motion perception in the common marmoset – Shaun Cloherty (Monash University)

12:15 – 12:40 Binocular integration in the marmoset lateral geniculate nucleus – Natalie Zeater (University of Sydney)

12:40 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 3:10 Session 3 – Chaired by Marta Garrido

1:30 – 1:55 Learning to go, learning to stop: Conditioned changes in excitation and inhibition in corticospinal pathways – Justin Harris (University of Sydney)

1:55 – 2:20 Neuromodulation by oxytocin in the basolateral amygdala complex enhances learning – Justine Fam (University of New South Wales)

2:20 – 2:45 Impaired regularity learning in healthy individuals with psychotic experiences is mediated by reduced top-down frontotemporal effective connectivity – Ilvana Dzafic (University of Queensland)

2:45 – 3:10 How prediction affects sensory representation in humans and rodents – Matthew Tang (University of Queensland)

3:10 – 3:40 Afternoon tea

3:40 – 5:00 Session 4 – Chaired by Roger Marek

3:40 – 4:05 Neural coding in the zebrafish brain – Geoff Goodhill (University of Queensland)

4:05 – 4:30 Ancient origin and conservation of an inter-hemispheric cortical connectome – Rodrigo Suarez (University of Queensland)

4:30 – 4:55 Theory and simulations of multiscale neural field dynamics – Paula Sanz-Leon (University of Sydney)

4:55 – 5:00 Meeting close – Gary Egan