8th Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex Workshop
NIH Building 45 Natcher Room A/B: 45 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD 20892
Registration fee: $260 USD / ~$370 CAD Link: bit.ly/CPPC2024. (Poster deadline April 18th)
Trainees are eligible for travel awards: email CV and poster abstract to james.hyman@unlv.edu. Send by Dec 1st. Awardees will be notified by Mar 1st and will receive a registration refund and a stipend.
Rooms 
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Questions or problems: Contact: nandakumar-narayanan@uiowa.edu
Itinerary:
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024
8:30-10:30 Talks: How do neuromodulators influence prefrontal networks? Bita Moghaddam / Amy Arnsten / Jill McGaughy / Nelson Totah
10:30-11:00 Coffee / fruit / bagels
11:00-12:30 Debate: Dopamine: RPE or ? (Jeremy Seamans / Kumar Narayanan / Erin Calipari)
12:30-2:30 Lunch on your own
2:30-4:00 Poster Session A (4x6 max size; up to 20)
4:00-5:00 Data workshop: Deep dynamical systems reconstruction for inferring computational system dynamics from neural data (Daniel Durstewitz)
Thursday, May 16th, 2024
8:30-10:30 Talks: What can neural dynamics teach us about prefrontal function? (Camilo Libedinsky / Joana Soldado Magraner / Chand Chandrasekaran / Sabine Kastner)
10:30-11:00 Coffee / fruit / bagels
11:00-12:30 Debate: Do circuit cracking techniques work in prefrontal cortex with its distributed codes and neurodynamics? (Joni Wallis / Erin Rich / Nikki Crowley)
12:30-1:30 Lunch on your own
1:30-3:00 Poster Session B (4x6 max size; up to 20)
3:00-5:00 Lighting session: How do prefrontal regions interact with hippocampus? (Shantanu Jadhav / Tim Allen / Vikaas Sohal / Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi)
Dinner Uncle Julio’s Bethesda: 4870 Bethesda Ave 20814
Friday May 17th, 2024
8:30-10:00 Debate: Why is there a cost of mental effort? (Rachel Cole / Amitai Shenhav / Ross Otto)
10:00-10:30 Coffee / fruit / bagels
10:30-12:30 Lightning session: How do we translate our knowledge of prefrontal dynamics to help humans? (Alik Widge / Sameer Sheth / Ueli Rutishauser / Suzanne Haber)
Previous Workshops
2022, 7th Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Open Discussions, Oxford, UK
2016, 5th Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Open Discussions, Lyon, France
2015, 4th Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Open Discussions, Washington D.C, USA
2014, 3rd Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Whistler, BC, Canada
2012, 2nd Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions, Heidelberg, Germany
2010, 1st Workshop on Computational Properties of Prefrontal Cortex, Whistler, BC, Canada