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  
  
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