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Thursday, 15 January 2015
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| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
WELCOME ADDRESS / INAUGURAL SESSION / about the topic ...
(Director, IISER Pune, Presidents of INSA and Leopoldina, Friederici and Shashidhara) |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
INDIAN KEYNOTE TALK (incl. Q and A session)
Partha Majumdar
Genes, Languages and Peoples of India
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| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 1: Basic principles of learning (common to visual, olfactory and language learning)
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| 11:30 - 12:15 |
Upinder Bhalla
Odour sequences and odour tracking
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| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Brigitte Roeder
The role of experience in brain development
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| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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Session 2: Sequence learning in birds, rats and humans
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| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Sachin Deshmukh
Space, Semantics, Sequences and Memory in the Hippocampus
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| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Raghav Rajan
Stereotypy and variability: the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of motor sequence learning and production -insights from the zebra finch
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| 15:30 - 16:15 |
Jutta L Mueller
Neurophysiological evidence for complex auditory sequence learning in early human development
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| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 3: Sequence learning in apes vs. humans
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| 16:45 - 17:30 |
Nandini Chatterjee Singh
Sound sequence learning - Implications for reading acquisition
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| 17:30 - 18:15 |
Christoper Petkov
Sequence Processing and the Primate Brain: Perspectives from fMRI, EEG and neurophysiology
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| 18:15 - 18:45 |
Wrap-up Day 1
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Friday, 16 January 2015
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| 9:30 - 10:30 |
GERMAN KEYNOTE TALK (incl. Q and A session)
Angela Friederici
Language as a uniquely human trait
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 4: Language-related genes
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| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Christiane Schreiweis
Is faster better? The role of Foxp2 in procedural learning
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| 11:45 - 12:30 |
Sonja Vernes
Deciphering neurogenetic mechanisms of vocal communication
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| 12:30 - 14:30 |
Poster Session and Lunch |
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Session 5: The effect of experience on brain structure
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| 14:30 - 15:15 |
Shona Chattarji
To be or not to be afraid
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| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Martin Korte
Keeping the delicate Balance between Change and Stability: Cellular correlates of learning, forgetting and memory
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| 16:00 - 16:45 |
Nishikant K Subhedar
Addiction initiated neuroplasticity - a model for studying how experiences shape the brain
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| 16:45 - 17:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Concluding Remarks
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