Program
Registration desk opens at 8:30 am
Final Program
Sept. 16, 2019
8:00 Registration opens
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks and Welcome Address: Ernst Pöppel
Session 1: Visual perception
Chair: Ernst Pöppel
9:30 – 10:15 Semir Zeki – The parallel feed-forward inputs to the visual areas of the brain and their significance
10:15 – 11:00 J. Anthony Movshon – Brain mechanisms of visual form perception
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Lynne Kiorpes – Development of global visual perception in macaque monkeys
12:00 – 12:45 Pieter R. Roelfsema – The visual brain’s cognitive blackboard
Lunch Break
Session 2: Insights from whole-brain Imaging
Chair: Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
14:00 – 14:45 Seiji Ogawa – Two features of BOLD MRI
14:45 – 15:30 Brian A. Wandell – Neural circuitry for vision and reading
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:30 Wim Vanduffel – Mesoscale functional magnetic resonance imaging at 3T in awake behaving monkeys
16:30 – 17:15 Gustavo Deco – Awakening: predicting external stimulation to force transitions between different brain states
17:15 – 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 17:45 Special addresses: Boris Palmer, Mayor of Tübingen and Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen
17:45 – 18:30 Nikos K. Logothetis – What is the brain state?
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