Monday 12 February 2018
3.00pm Registration desk opens, Room 203 William James Building
4.00pm Welcome to visitors and overview, Room 203 William James Building
4.30pm Afternoon tea, Room 203 William James
5.30pm Public Lecture
Flicker: Your Brain on Movies, Jeff Zacks, Washington University in St Louis, USA
St David St Lecture Theatre
7.00pm Informal Nibbles and Drinks, Emerson’s Brewery, Cash bar
Tuesday 13 February
9.00am Welcome, Room 103 William James Building
9.15am Event Cognition: Psychology, Neurophysiology, and Just a Bit of Computation, Jeff Zacks, Washington University in Saint Louis, US.
10.15am Morning tea, Room 203
10.45am Events in Early Nervous System Evolution and the Origin of Event-Based Neural Computation, Joseph Cahill-Lane, University of Otago, New Zealand
11.30am An STDP rule combined with BCM-like fast homeostasis accounts for LTP and concurrent LTD in the dentate gyrus, Cliff Abraham, University of Otago, New Zealand
12.15pm Lunch, self-catered
1.30pm The role of errors in predictive coding in schizophrenic disorders, Andreas Falgatter, University of Tübingen, Germany
2.15pm Learning from Multiple Video Streams without Annotations, Hendrik Lensch, University of Tübingen, Germany
3.00pm Afternoon tea, Room 203 William James
3.30pm A neural network model of event representations: sensorimotor sequencing, place coding, self-organisation and Bayesian inference, Martin Takac, Comenius University, Slovakia
4.15pm Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis: How the Brain Simulates Experience, Donna Rose Addis, University of Auckland, New Zealand
5.15pm Speakers and poster presenters leave for Conference Dinner at Orokonui Eco-Sanctuary
9.00pm Return from Orokonui Eco-Sanctuary
Wednesday 14 February
9.00am Welcome Back, Room 103 William James Building
9.05am Baby X: A virtual framework for embodied cognition, Mark Sagar, University of Auckland, New Zealand
10.00am Morning tea, Room 203 William James
10.30am A model of Spike-based inference and Decision-making in the First Nervous Systems Predicts Functional Architecture in Brains of Modern Vertebrate, Mike Paulin, University of Otago, New Zealand
11.15am Communication between the ACC and VTA during decision-making, Thom Elston, University of Otago, New Zealand
12.00pm Altered temporal coding of event memory consolidation in a model of schizophrenia risk, David Bilkey, University of Otago, New Zealand
12.45pm Lunch and Poster Session, Room 203
2.00pm Posterior middle temporal gyrus - a cortical hub of knowledge about tools and their usage? Marc Himmelbach, University of Tübingen, Germany
2.45pm The dynamics of human action: Perception of kinematics and body shape, Nikolaus Troje, Queen’s University, Canada
3.30pm Afternoon tea, Room 203
4.00pm Predictive Event Segmentations:a Key Towards the Formation of Behaviorally-Useful Hierarchical Cognition? Martin Butz, University of Tübingen, Germany
4.45pm Linguistic Representations of Events, and their Relevance to Cognitive Models, Alistair Knott, University of Otago, New Zealand
