The following people have all accepted to give presentations at the meeting:
- Alan Baddeley (York, UK)
- Emmanuel Barbeau (Cerco, Toulouse, FR)
- Nicky Clayton (Dept Psychology, Cambridge, UK)
- Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL, Lausanne, CH)
- Martin Giurfa (CRCA, Toulouse, FR)
- Nancy Kanwisher (MIT, Boston, USA)
- Timothée Masquelier (Institut de la vision, Paris, FR)
- Chris Moulin (LEAD, Dijon, FR)
- Olivier Pascalis (LNC, Grenoble, FR)
- Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Centre for Systems Neuroscience, Leicester, UK)
- Claire Rampon (CRCA, Toulouse, FR)
- Leila Reddy (Cerco, Toulouse, FR)
- Max Riesenhuber (Georgetown University, USA)
- Edmund Rolls (Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK)
- Daniel Schacter (Harvard, Cambridge, USA)
- Simon Thorpe (CerCo, Toulouse, FR)
- Lolly Tyler (Cambridge University, UK)
- Rufin Vogels (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Leuven, BE)
The meeting will be organised around five thematic sessions, covering various aspects of memory and perception, as well as computational and theoretical points of view. Each session will involve 3 or 4 speakers giving their personal perspective on a range of questions, followed by a round table discussion involving other specialists, as well as contributions from the audience.
The themes will include:
- the brain mechanisms underlying very long-term sensory memories
- the nature of codage at the neuronal level, and the possibility that the brain may contain highly selective "grandmother cells"
- the functions of different brain areas such as the neocortex and hippocampus
- the limits of feed-forward processing architectures and convolutional neural networks
- the evolution of memory systems in different animal species, and its development across the life span
- the mechanisms underlying episodic memory formation
- the differences between memory and perception in humans and other animals
