GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
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Pain and Learning

13 - 15 November 2006

By invitation only

Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

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Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation


PROGRAMME
[45 minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]
   

Sunday 12 November

 

18.00 20.00

Welcome Drinks (4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square)

 

 

Monday 13 November

B10, Basement, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square

09.30 – 10.00

Tea, coffee and Welcome (Peter Dayan, Ben Seymour & Martin Koltzenburg)

Neuroscience

 

10.00 – 10.30

Martin Koltzenburg (UCL) - Introduction to the anatomy and physiology of pain pathways

10.30 – 11.30

Steve Hunt (UCL) - Pain, Opiates and Addiction

Social Psychology

 

11.30 – 11.40

Ray Dolan (UCL) - Brief introduction to human cognitive and behavioural neuroscience

11.40 – 12.40

Liz Phelps (NYU) - Social Learning of Fear

Learning Theory

 

12.40 – 13.40

Mark Bouton ( Vermont ) - Context, fear learning, and fear extinction

13.40 – 14.30

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

Ecology

FIL Seminar Room, 4 th Floor, 12 Queen Square

14.30 – 15.30

Victoria Braithwaite ( Edinburgh ) - Pain and aversive states in fish, role of aversive and predatory stimuli and evolutionary considerations

15.30 – 16.00

Tea and coffee

Computer Science

 

16.00 – 17.00

Rosalind Picard (MIT) - Affective Computing and Adverse Emotions

 

 

Tuesday 14 November

B10, Basement, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square

Neuroscience

 

09.00 10.00

Jürgen Sandkühler ( Vienna ) Learning and Memory in Pain Pathways

Psychology

 

10.00 11.00

Irene Tracey ( Oxford ) - Cognitive mechanisms of pain

11.00 – 11.30

Tea and Coffee

Neuroscience

 

11.30 -12.30

Frederico Graeff ( Sao Paulo ) - Serotonin and anxiety

Aversive learning

Including theoretical aspects

12.30 12.45

Peter Dayan (UCL) - Introduction to theoretical and computational neuroscience

12.45 – 13.30

Ben Seymour (UCL) - Motivational and representational theories of pain and aversive learning

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

Neuroscience

 

14.30 – 15.30

Shunsuke Kobayashi ( Cambridge / Tokyo ) - Neural mechanisms of goal-directed behavior in obtaining appetitive outcomes and avoiding aversive outcomes

15.30 – 16.00

Tea and Coffee

Aversive Learning

 

16.00 – 17.00

Tad Blair (UCLA) - Computing prediction errors in the fear conditioning circuit

Economics

 

17.00 – 18.00

Urs Fischbacher ( Zurich ) - Altruistic Punishment

19.30 – finish

Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London , WC1 4BL

 

 

Wednesday 15 November

B10, Basement, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square

Psychology

 

09.00 – 10.00

Donald Price ( Florida ) - Psychological modulation of pain and brain processing of pain

10.0011.00

Bridget Lumb ( Bristol ) - Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending control

11.00 – 11.30

Tea and Coffee

Ecology

 

11.30 – 12.30

Bob Elwood ( Queens , Belfast ) - Pain and stress in crustaceans

12.30 – 13.30

General discussion (available)

13.30 – 14.30

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

 

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