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INS 2024
Constance (Konstanz), Germany
June 24-28, 2024

Photo of Participants

(Local Organizer and INS Chair).

The local organizer was Dorothea Weniger and the symposium hotel was
the The Steigenberger Hotel. The Symposium previously met in Konstanz
in 1973 [program here].

Registered Participants

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TOPICS

• Topic 1: Elucidation or obfuscation: Analysis of neural signals in high dimensional state space.
  TOPIC SUMMARY
  (Monday PM and Tuesday AM).
  (Organizers: Shadlen, Pasternak & Gregoriou) (5 speaker topic)
  
  • Mark Churchland (Columbia University, USA): From Spikes to Factors: Understanding Large-scale Neural Computations.
  • Tatiana Engel (Princeton University, USA): Dispelling manifold deception by grounding in neural circuits.
  • Adam Kohn (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA) Understanding inter-areal interactions through analysis of neuronal population responses.
  • Adrienne Fairhall (University of Washington, USA): Struggles in State Space.
  • Mike Shadlen (Columbia University, USA): This Hitchhiker's Guide to Neuronal State Space: A Primer and Cautionary Tale.

• Topic 2: Vision beyond external reality.
  TOPIC SUMMARY
  (Tuesday PM and Wednesday AM)
  (Organizers: Bartolomeo, Oudiette & Behrmann) (6 speaker topic)
  • Olivier Collignon (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium): Neuroscience of sensory deprivation.
  • Olaf Blanke (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland): Multisensory visual and sensorimotor hallucinations.
  • Laurent Cohen (Paris Brain Institute, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France): Ticker-tape synesthesia.
  • Rebecca Keogh (Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia): Objective evaluation of imagery vividness.
  • Alfredo Spagna (Columbia University, USA): Neuroscience of visual mental imagery.
  • Thomas Andrillon (Paris Brain Institute, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France): Imagery and dreams.

• Topic 3: Connectomics or computations: Which is the better way to understand brain function?
  TOPIC SUMMARY
  (Wednesday PM and Thursday AM)
  (Organizers: Van Swinderen, Mattingley & Thorpe) (6 speaker topic)
  • Daniel Berger (Harvard University): A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution.
  • Nuno da Costa (Allen Institute): A fine structural analysis of cortical microcircuits.
  • Carlotta Martelli (University of Mainz): Non genetic variation in brain wiring: developmental origins and functional implications.
  • Marta Sales Pardo (Universitat Rovira I Virgili): Computational approaches to compare whole brains.
  • Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universität Graz): Neural network design through the lens of the genetic code.
  • Simon Thorpe (Centre de Recherche Cerveau & Cognition Toulouse, France): Neural computation without connectivity constraints?

• Topic 4: Multi-componential nature of the human communication system.
  (Friday AM and Friday PM).
  (Organizers: Hagoort, Toni, Karnath & Mattingley) (5 speaker topic)
  • Katrin Amunts (Director, Vogt Institute of Brain Research, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany)
  • Andrea Martin (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
  • Peter Hagoort (Radboud University and Director, Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen, Netherlands)
  • Ivan Toni (Radboud University, Donders Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands)

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