<div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">this is a kind reminder that ESI Sync 2018 is approaching. The registration deadline is 15</span></span></span>^{<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">th</span></span></span>}<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> August and only a limited number of places are available. This year’s theme is "Integrative Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Crossroads to the Brain”</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">. The conference will begin in the morning of 30</span></span></span></span>^{<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">th</span></span></span>}<span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> August and end in the evening of 31</span></span></span></span>^{<span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size">st</span></span></span>}<span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> August 2018 </span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">, Germany.</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Our confirmed invited speakers are the following: </span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">David Melcher (University of Trento, Italy)  --  "</span></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Temporal rhythms of visual perception</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Dimitri Kullmann (UCL, UK) -- "</span></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Hippocampal gamma oscillations: dynamical properties and closed-loop manipulation</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Matteo Carandini (UCL, UK) -- "</span></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Local
and global neural correlates of vision, action, and reward</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Biyu He (NYU, US) -- ''</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Large-scale brain dynamics underlying visual perceptual awareness</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">''</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Tobias Donner</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> (UKE, Germany) -- tba</span></span></span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- "</span></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Optogenetic
interrogation of the attention network in primates</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Anitha Pasupathy</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> (University of Washington, US) -- "</span></span></span><i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Encoding
things and stuff: multiplexed form and texture signals in primate V4</span></span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Floris de Lange (Radboud University, Netherlands) -- "<i>How
do prior expectations influence sensory computations?</i>"</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">Hannah Monyer (Heidelberg University, Germany) -- ''</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" class="colour"><i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">GABAergic neurons – the cellular substrate for local and long-range synchrony</span></span></i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">'' </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"></span></span></span><br></li><li><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">James Bisley (UCLA, US) -- ''</span></span></span><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" class="colour"><i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">The complementary roles of areas LIP and FEF in guiding eye movements</span></span></i><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">''</span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"></span></span></span><br></li></ul><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">This year we have the pleasure to announce as our special guest the choreographer Ildikó Tóth!</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">In order to register, please fill out the registration form (that can be found at </span></span></span><a href="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/registration/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/registration/</span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> ) and email it to </span></span></span><a href="mailto:events@esi-frankfurt.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">events@esi-frankfurt.de</span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">.</span><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> 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 style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size">website</span></span></span></a><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"> for more details and updates on the programme.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" class="font"><span style="font-size: 14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><br></span><b><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Organising Committee:</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Wolf Singer</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Pascal Fries</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">André Castro</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Tommaso Tosato</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Ana Broggini</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Miriam Mueller</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent" class="highlight"><span style="font-family:Arial" class="font"><span style="font-size:14px" class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour">Renata Vajda</span></span></span></span><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div><br></div></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div>