COFEES
– COrtical FEEdback Spring School 06.03.2017-09.03.2017, Jena, Germany REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN; PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
IS AVAILABLE ONLINE The dominant view on the
cortical neural processing for a very long time was that the incoming sensory
information is passed to higher order processing units within a strongly
hierarchical cascade. Such systems are typically dominated by the feedforward or
bottom-up connections and complemented by heavy lateral connections between
units of the similar hierarchical levels. However, the importance of cortical
feedback connections, rooting in higher-level areas and targeting lower-level
ones is demonstrated by extensive works in anatomy, neurophysiology and
specifically in brain imaging in the last two decades. It is generally accepted
that these feedback connections convey several modulatory effects, higher-order
representations and also have strong cognitive influences on the earlier
processing units. Top-down effect include, among others, the influence of
spatial and temporal contexts, of attention, predictions and expectations,
learning and memory, as well as task and motor behavior related changes on the lower-level
processing stages. In the last decades feedback mechanisms became a widely
studied phenomenon in systemic and cognitive neurosciences as well as in
cognitive and experimental psychology. The aim
of COFEES
is to bring together eminent researchers from the USA, the UK, and Europe with
students of a broad range of disciplines to teach and discuss current views on feed-back related mechanisms.
The speakers are experts in clinical, computational, single-cell, EEG/MEG/ERP and
neuroimaging studies. We expect that COFEES will give a unique opportunity to present, discuss, and integrate
cutting-edge research on this important phenomenon of the CNS. 1
intensive week of training with16 speakers from7 countries for40
students as a maximum The Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
organizes a Spring School aimed at
PhD students and post-docs at the early stages in their careers. Places are
limited to ensure good interaction in classes. COFEES will take place at
the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany between 06-09 March 2017. It will
consist of an intensive week of lectures with two keynotes, a student-oriented
poster session and a round-table discussion. Lecturers are renowned researchers
from the most active research groups in their fields. A list of invited lecturers
and the program of the summer school are available on summer school website: http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/COFEES.html In
addition to the academic content, COFEES provides a networking opportunity
for students to interact with their peers, and to make contacts among those who
will be the active researchers of their own generation. § Important Dates:Registration
is open from now.Registration
deadline: 31 DEC 2016.Summer
school: Monday 06 Marc - Thursday 09 March 2017 § Registration fee:
100 Euro.It
includes all sessions and materials, accommodation (5 nights), lunches, refreshments and
coffee, finger-foods and wine during poster session and round table discussion,
Spring School Dinner. § Confirmed Speakers: Keynote speakers:Sabine Kastner (Princeton, NJ, USA)Pascal Fries (ESI, Frankfurt, D) Board:Moshe Bar (Bar Ilan Univ, Ramat-Gan, Il)Mark Greenlee (Univ. Regensburg, Regensburg, D)Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)Gyula Kovács (FSU, Jena, D)Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM, Lyon, Fr)Daniel Marguiles (Max Plack
Inst. Leipzig, D)Lars Muckli (Univ. Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)Uta Noppeney (Univ. Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)Brigitte Roeder (Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg, D)Pieter Roelfsema (Ned. Inst. Neurosci, Amsterdam, NL)Philipp Sterzer (Charite, Berlin, D)Zoltan Vidnyánszky (Hung. Acad. Sci. Budapest, H)Michael Wibral (Univ. Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D)István Winkler, (Hung. Acad. Sci, Budapest, H)
Gyula Kovács
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Institute of PsychologyFriedrich-Schiller-University of Jena Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, GermanyTel: 03641945936http://www.cogsci.uni-jena.de/