<div><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Dear all,</span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">we are pleased to announce the </span></span></span><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">2018
 edition of the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESI SyNC) on the 
topic of “Integrative Mechanisms of Cognitive Neuroscience" organized by
 the </span></span></span><a href="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/esi-frankfurt/" target="_blank" title="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/esi-frankfurt/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society</span></span></span></a><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The conference will begin in the morning of 30 August and end in the evening of 31 August 2018.</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Our confirmed invited speakers are the following: </span></span></span><br></div><ul><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">David Melcher (University of Trento, Italy)  --  "</span></span></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Temporal rhythms of visual perception</span></span></span></i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Dimitri Kullmann (UCL, UK) -- "</span></span></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Hippocampal gamma oscillations: dynamical properties and closed-loop manipulation</span></span></span></i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Matteo Carandini (UCL, UK) -- "</span></span></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Local
and global neural correlates of vision, action, and reward</span></span></span></i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Biyu He (NYU, US) -- tba</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Melanie Wilke (DPZ, Germany) -- tba</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- "</span></span></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Optogenetic
interrogation of the attention network in primates</span></span></span></i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Anitha Pasupathy</span></span></span></span><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> (University of Washington, US) -- "</span></span></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Encoding
things and stuff: multiplexed form and texture signals in primate V4</span></span></span></i><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Floris de Lange (Radboud University, Netherlands) -- "How
do prior expectations influence sensory computations?"</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Hannah Monyer (Heidelberg University, Germany) -- tba</span></span></span><br></li><li><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">James Bisley (UCLA, US) -- tba</span></span></span><br></li></ul><div><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">This year we have the pleasure to announce as our special guest the choreographer Ildikó Tóth!</span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">The registration deadline: 15 August 2018. Please see our </span></span></span><a href="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/esisync/esisync-home/" target="_blank" title="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/esisync/esisync-home/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">website</span></span></span></a><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="font" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> for more details and updates on the programme.</span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><br></span><b><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Organising Committee:</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Wolf Singer</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Pascal Fries</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">André Castro</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Tommaso Tosato</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Ana Broggini</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Miriam Mueller</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:transparent"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial"><span class="size" style="font-size:14px"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Renata Vajda</span></span></span></span><br></div><table class="content_box"><tbody><tr><td><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0cm 0cm .0001pt;"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div>