38^th International Symposium of the GRSNC

The neuroscience of decision-making

May 2-3, 2016

Université de Montréal

WEBSITE: http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/38s/

PROGRAM: http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/38s/prog_e.html

REGISTRATION: http://appl.grsnc.umontreal.ca/en/symposium/38s/registration.cfm

POSTER: http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/38s/38s_poster.pdf

We are pleased to announce the 38^th symposium of the Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC) which is entitled "The neurosciences of decision-making".

This symposium will be held on May 2-3, 2016 at the Université de Montréal, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant, room B-2245 and the organizers are Drs Paul Cisek (UdeM), Alain Dagher (McGill), Lesley Fellows (McGill), John Kalaska (UdeM) et Peter Shizgal (Concordia).

Research on the neural bases of decision-making has experienced a rapid growth in the last 20 years. It addresses a great diversity of questions, ranging from how animals weigh the costs and benefits of different actions to what goes wrong when humans exhibit maladaptive behavior, such as in addiction. In this symposium, we will discuss cutting-edge research on this topic, reviewing the progress that has been made and addressing the central open questions facing this rapidly developing field. In planning the sessions, we have paid particular attention to issues that stretch from the most basic neuroscience all the way to clinical applications. We will highlight converging evidence from the full range of neuroscientific methods applied in this field, considered within a diversity of conceptual frameworks. There will be four sessions of presentations by invited speakers from around the world as well as two contributed poster sessions.

The presentations are regrouped in four sessions:

• Brain representations of value: Common or multiple (Chairperson: Peter Shizgal)
• Encoding and learning values: Neural and computational mechanisms (Chairperson: Alain Dagher)
• Decision in the wild (Chairperson: John Kalaska)
• Diseases and deviances (Chairperson: Lesley Fellows)

Lecturers: Joshua D. Berke, Thomas Boraud, Paul Cisek, Alain Dagher, Peter Dayan, Nathaniel Daw, Lesley Fellows, J. Randall Flanagan, Michael J. Frank, Karl Friston, Hugh Garavan, Paul W. Glimcher, Joseph Kable, Elizabeth A. Murray, Michael L. Platt, David Redish, Michael N. Shadlen, Peter Shizgal, Daphna Shohamy and Jonathan D. Wallis.

Submissions are invited for poster presentations. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2016

We would appreciate if you could forward this message to colleagues and students.

Manon Dumas for the organizing committee

Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central (GRSNC)

Université de Montréal

Département de neurosciences

Pavillon Paul-G.-Desmarais, bureau 4115

Courriel: m.dumas@umontreal.ca

Téléphone: (514) 343-6366

Télécopieur: (514) 343-6113