Wednesday, November 26, 2025
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Check in - Check in at the entrance desk | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Opening remarks - Clément Léna & Steering Committee | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Theme 1: Timescale : behavior vs. neural network - Chairs: Thomas Bienvenu, Julien Courtin, Cyril Dejean, Fréréric Lanore, Fabien Wagner | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | › Facial expressions reveal the brain's multi-timescale computations - Fanny Cazettes, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone | |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | › Learning with internal states and internal models - Sami El-Boustani, University of Geneva | |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | › Providing artificial tactile feedback at different latencies in a brain-machine interface - Alexandre Tolboom, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 - 17:00 | Theme 1: Timescale : behavior vs. neural network - Chairs: Thomas Bienvenu, Julien Courtin, Cyril Dejean, Fréréric Lanore, Fabien Wagner | (+) |
| 15:45 - 16:10 | › Neuromodulation of neuronal circuits - From behavioral states to neuronal ensembles - Nikolaos Karalis, Paris Brain Institute | |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | › Reactivation of Spatially Tuned Neuronal Ensembles in the Retrosplenial Cortex during Sleep - Aurélie Brécier, CRNL, Lyon | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Theme 1 Roundtable - All speakers | |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | Sponsors - A session designed for sponsor to present their companies/products | |
| 17:25 - 20:00 | Posters & wine & cheese - Get together around the posters | |
| 17:25 - 20:00 | Poster session |
Thursday, November 27, 2025
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Theme 2: Natural behavior : eco-etho-logical approaches vs. neural control - Chairs: Etienne Coutureau, Xavier Hinaut, Arthur Leblois, Céline Nicolas | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | › Bridging reinforcement learning theory with birdsong learning. - Richard Hahnloser, Institute of Neuroinformatics - University of Zurich - ETH Zurich | |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | › From instability to efficiency: locomotor strategies in developing Danionella cerebrum - Monica Coraggioso, Sorbonne University | |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | › Data-driven dynamical systems reconstruction reveals the principles of learning to walk on complex surfaces - Heike Stein, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Theme 2: Natural behavior : eco-etho-logical approaches vs. neural control - Chairs: Etienne Coutureau, Xavier Hinaut, Arthur Leblois, Céline Nicolas | (+) |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | › Primate ACC encodes natural vocal turn taking in a "cocktail party" - Arthur Lefevre, Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod - Centre de neuroscience cognitive - UMR5229, UCSD | |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | › From agents, to actions, to interactions, to societies: imaging the primate social brain - Julia Sliwa, Institut du Cerveau = Paris Brain Institute | |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Theme 2 Roundtable - All speakers | |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Posters & Lunch - Lunch around the posters | |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Theme 3: General principles of active sensing - Chairs: Mario Carta, Andreas Firck, Lisa Roux, Naoya Takahashi | (+) |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | › Correcting for Self: How Head Movements Impact Visual Circuits Activity - Guy Bouvier, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay | |
| 14:25 - 14:50 | › Sniffing out attention: how respiration shapes olfactory perception and attention - Emmanuelle Courtiol, Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center | |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | › Whisker-based spatial cognition in mice - Camille Mazo, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience / Institut interdisciplinaire de neurosciences [Bordeaux] | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45 - 17:00 | Theme 3: General principles of active sensing - Chairs: Mario Carta, Andreas Firck, Lisa Roux, Naoya Takahashi | (+) |
| 15:45 - 16:10 | › Understanding perception as a movie rather than a snapshot - Mathew E. Diamond, International School for Advanced Studies | |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | › Predictive processing of tactile sensory information in mice engaged in a whisker-guided locomotion task - Max Chalabi, Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | Theme 3 Roundtable - All speakers | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Neuralnet General Assembly - the GDR committee annual meeting | |
| 19:45 - 23:30 | Gala Dinner - Gala Dinner downtown at the Tchanqué rooftop restaurant |
Friday, November 28, 2025
| Time | Event | (+) |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | Theme 4: Systematic approach: modular vs. distributed coding - Chairs: Amélie Aussel, Gregory Barrière, Thomas Boraud, Karine Guillem | (+) |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | › Rhythms of Memory: Cross-Network Dynamics from Rodents to Humans - David Dupret, University of Oxford | |
| 09:25 - 09:50 | › From Modules to Manifolds: Mapping Distributed Language Networks in the Human Brain - Stephanie Forkel, Radboud University Nijmegen | |
| 09:50 - 10:15 | › A Prefrontal Cortex Map based on Single Neuron Activity - Pierre Le Merre, Team Forgetting Processes and Cortical Dynamics (CRNL-FORGETTING), Department of Neurosciences, Karolinska Institutet | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Theme 4: Systematic approach: modular vs. distributed coding | (+) |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | › Neuro-musculoskeletal modeling reveals muscle-level neural dynamics of adaptive learning in sensorimotor cortex - Mackenzie W Mathis, Département de Mathématiques - EPFL | |
| 11:10 - 12:00 | › Multilayer Coordination as a Substrate for Motor Cortical Multiplexing - Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, University of Aix-Marseille | |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Theme 4 Roundtable - All speakers | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Concluding remarks - Clément Léna & Steering Committee |