International Graduate School of Neuroscience

DAAD Alumni Spring School on Mechanisms of Cognition, Learning and Memory

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - Friday, April 8, 2011

• Lynn Nadel
• Dept. of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• Hippocampus, Context and Memory

• Julietta U. Frey
• Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg
• Spaced-associativity – a concept of learning and memory formation

• Denise Manahan-Vaughan
• Dept. of Neurophysiology, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Exploring the relationship between hippocampal synaptic plasticity and learning

• Laura Colgin
• Center for Learning and Memory, ut Austin, Texas, USA
• Gamma oscillations in the hippocampal network

• Kate Jeffery
• Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL London, UK
• Building a cognitive map

• Jeffrey Taube
• Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA
• Learning and memory in the head direction cell circuitry

• John F. Disterhoft
• Dept. of Physiology, Northwestern University Chicago, USA
• Mechanisms of associative learning in young and aging brain

• Magdalena Sauvage
• Mercator Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Uncovering the neural substrates of memory function: a translational approach

• Noah W. Gray
• Senior Editor Biology, NATURE, New York, USA
• The scientific journal is dead. Long live the scientific journal

• Raymond Kesner
• Dept. of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
• A new process approach of memory "based on a sub regional analysis of the hippocampus

• Sen Cheng
• Mercator Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Origin and transformation of spatial representations

• Neil Burgess
• Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
• Neural mechanisms of spatial cognition

• Ulf T. Eysel
• Dept. of Experimental Neurophysiology, Ruhr University Bochum
• Cortical plasticity in lesion models

• Hubert Dinse
• Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr University Bochum
• Learning through mere exposure – effects and efficacy of repetitive stimulation

• Carmen Sandi
• Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH
• Stress and cognitive function

• Marian Tsanov
• Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin
• Information processing in hippocampo-diencephalic circuitry

• Hardy Hagena
• Dept. of Neurophysiology, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Room for more discoveries - spatial memory in area CA3

• Beatrice Pöschel
• Centre for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Hamburg
• Oscillatory activity and synchronization within the prefrontal-hippocampal circuit of the neonatal rat in vivo

• Christian Bellebaum
• Dept. of Neuropsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum
• Neural mechanisms of active vs. observational feedback-learning

• Igor Riecansky
• Brain Research Lab, University of Vienna
• Dynamics of human brain activity related to visual short-term memory

• Patrick Ragert
• MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
• Functional and structural plasticity in the human sensorimotor system

• Nathalie Rochefort
• Laboratory of Neuroscience, Techn. University of Munich
• Exploring the mouse visual cortex in vivo with two-photon calcium imaging

• Deepak Dash
• Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska University Stockholm
• Working memory training-effects on reasoning abilities and fronto-parietal networks