Birds, Brains, Ideas – a Biopsychology Workshop

June 7, 2023, IB 4/115

9:00-9:05: Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-University Bochum): Welcome Address

9:05 – 9:45: Sven Kroener (The University of Texas at Dallas): Vagus Nerve Stimulation Facilitates Extinction from Drug Seeking

9:45 – 10:25: Vern Bingman (Bowling Green State University) Re-Imagining the Functional Profile of the Avian Hippocampus: Spatial Perception and Value Maps

10:25 – 10:40: Coffee Break

10:40 – 11:20: Ed Wasserman (The University of Iowa): The Pigeon as an Associative Machine

11:20 – 12:00: Leyre Castro (The University of Iowa): Selective Attention in Pigeons’ Visual Category Learning

12:00 – 12:40: Lunch

12:40 – 13:20: Christina Herold (Düsseldorf University): Conserved Features of Neural Circuits in the Avian Brain

13:20 – 14:00: Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-University Bochum): Bochum Biopsychology – A Narrative Overview

14:00-14:30: coffee break in IB 6/127

14:30 – 17:00: Visiting the Biopsychology Lab