Connectionists: free places at the Brain Dynamics and Decision Making Conference, Ascona, May 27-31, Switzerland

[Walter Senn]

Dear Scientist

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There are still free places at the *International conference on 'Brain 
Dynamics and Decision Making'*. The meeting will be held on *27-31 May 
2012* in the *Monte Verità Conference Centre*located in *Ascona, 
Switzerland, *situated in a quiet and beautiful historical park and 
providing a venue for world-famous seminars and conferences.

*Conference subject *

*The overarching subject of the conference is "decision making*" and how 
it is achieved through and influenced by mechanisms on various levels in 
the brain. The meeting brings together *top international scientists* 
working in the related research fields. Decision making is a highly 
relevant subject that is currently a prominent research topic worldwide. 
The conference strengthens the exchange with the leading scientists from 
abroad and to foster further interactions between different disciplines 
such as *cellular neurobiology, theoretical neuroscience, neuroeconomics 
and behavioural economics*.  It is orientated towards five main topics: 
i) novel /in vivo /tools for studies in behaving rodents, ii) bridging 
rodent and human studies, iii) role of uncertainty and risk, iv) linking 
theoretical concepts at cellular and brain area levels and v) Molecular 
and circuit dysfunction in addiction.

*Speakers *

We aim to bring together leading international scientists from diverse 
disciplines such as molecular and cellular neurobiology, theoretical 
neuroscience and neuro-economics, to provide a forum for discussion on 
brain dynamics during decision making across the various scales. The 
conference's invited speakers group includes: Carlos *Brody* (Princeton, 
USA), Christian *Büchel* (Hamburg,DE), Ernst *Fehr* (Zürich, CH), Karl 
*Friston* (London, UK), Fritjof *Helmchen* (Zürich, CH), Daniel *Huber* 
(Ashburn, USA),  Alla *Karpova* (Ashburn, USA), Matthew *Larkum* 
  (Berlin, DE), Christian *Lüscher* (Geneva, CH), Zach *Mainen *(Lisbon, 
PO), Bijan *Pesaran*, (New York, USA), Carl *Petersen* (Lausanne, CH), 
Markus *Rudin*  (Zürich, CH), Christian *Ruff *(London, UK), Matthew 
*Rushworth* (Oxford, UK), Walter *Senn* (Bern, CH), Michael *Shadlen* 
(Seattle, USA), Klaas Enno *Stephan* (Zürich, CH), David *Tank* 
(Princeton, USA), Philippe *Tobler* (Zürich, CH), Xiao-Jing *Wang* (New 
Haven, USA), Bruno *Weber* (Zürich, CH) and Anthony *Zador* (Cold Spring 
Harbour, USA).

*Thematic sessions *

Following thematic sessions will have a place during the conference:

. Novel in vivo tools for studies in behaving rodents
.Bridging rodent and human studies
. Role of uncertainty and risk in decision-making
. Linking theoretical concepts at cellular and brain area levels
. Molecular and circuit dysfunctions in addiction

*Registration *

The registration deadline extended to *May 10^th 2012 *. To register to 
the meeting, please visit  the following *website 
<http://www.hifo.uzh.ch/events/upcoming/braindynamics-ascona12.html>* to 
find further information.

http://www.hifo.uzh.ch/events/upcoming/braindynamics-ascona12.html

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