<div>D<span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">ear all,</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">upon demand we decided to extend the registration deadline to the 22^nd August. The conference will begin in the morning of 30^th August and end in the evening of 31^st August 2018 at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt, Germany.</span></span></span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Our confirmed invited speakers are the following:</span></span></span></span><br></p></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">David Melcher (University of Trento, Italy)  --  "<i>Temporal rhythms of visual perception</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Dimitri Kullmann (UCL, UK) -- "<i>Hippocampal gamma oscillations: dynamical properties and closed-loop manipulation</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Matteo Carandini (UCL, UK) -- "<i>Local and global neural correlates of vision, action, and reward</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Biyu He (NYU, US) -- ''<i>Large-scale brain dynamics underlying visual perceptual awareness</i>''</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Tobias Donner (UKE, Germany) -- ''</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><i>Understanding Variability in Brain and Behavior</i></span><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">''</span></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- "<i>Optogenetic interrogation of the attention network in primates</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Anitha Pasupathy (University of Washington, US) -- "<i>Encoding things and stuff: multiplexed form and texture signals in primate V4</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Floris de Lange (Radboud University, Netherlands) -- "<i>How do prior expectations influence sensory computations?</i>"</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Hannah Monyer (Heidelberg University, Germany) -- ''</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">GABAergic
 neurons – the cellular substrate for local and long-range synchrony</span></span></span></i><span style="color:black" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">''</span></span></span></span><br></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">James Bisley (UCLA, US) -- ''</span></span></span><i><span style="color:black" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">The complementary roles
 of areas LIP and FEF in guiding eye movements</span></span></span></i><span style="color:black" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">''</span></span></span></span><br></li></ul><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">This year we have the pleasure to announce as our special guest the choreographer Ildikó Tóth!</span></span></span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">In order to register, please fill out the registration form (that can be found at </span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/registration/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/registration/</span></span></span></span></a><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size"> ) and email it to </span></span></span></span><a href="mailto:events@esi-frankfurt.de" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">events@esi-frankfurt.de</span></span></span></span></a><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">.</span></span></span></span><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">Please see our </span></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"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size">website</span></span></span></span></a><span class="size"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:"Arial", sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:10.5pt" class="size"> for more details and updates on the programme.</span></span></span></span><br></p></div><div><br>Organising Committee:</div><div><br></div><div>Wolf Singer<br></div><div>Pascal Fries<br></div><div>André Castro<br></div><div>Tommaso Tosato<br></div><div>Ana Broggini<br></div><div>Miriam Mueller<br></div><div>Nina Merkel<br></div><div>Renata Vajda<br></div><div><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>