Alberini, Cristina (NYU) Molecular mechanisms of Long-term memory

Arruda-Carvalho, Maithe (University of Toronto Scarborough) Understanding how the maturation of sensitive brain circuits underlies the emergence of complex behaviour and sensitivity to stress in mice

Atlas, Lauren (NIH) Influence of expectations and learning on pain and emotion

Aton, Sara (University of Michigan) Understanding effects of sensory experience and sleep on neural circuits, and mechanisms underlying nervous system plasticity and memory formation

Baker, Kathryn (UNSW Sydney) Neural mechanisms of fear and extinction memories in adolescence

Barnes, Carol (University of Arizona) Hippocampus and spatial learning/memory

Barth, Alison (Carnegie Mellon) Neural circuits of learning and memory

Berryhill, Marian (University of Nevada) Neural correlates of human visual working memory and attention

Blackwell, Kim (George Mason University) Signaling pathways involved in long term memory

Bloodgood, Brenda (UCSD) How neuronal computations change following an animal’s interactions with the environment

Boettiger, Charlotte (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Characterizing the neurobiology of neurocognitive abnormalities associated with addiction

Brown, Robyn (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health) Neurobiological basis of addiction and pathological over-eating

Buffalo, Beth (U. Washington) Neural mechanisms of learning and memory

Burwell, Rebecca (Brown University) Structure and function of the cortical regions that surround the hippocampus

Cacucci, Francesca (UCL) The neural basis of spatial cognition, learning and memory

Cai, Denise (Mount Sinai) Cellular and circuit mechanisms for how memories change across time and experience; development of open-source tools and neurotechnology

Calakos, Nicole (Duke University) Synaptic plasticity mechanisms for adaptive & maladaptive behavior involving the basal ganglia

Caras, Melissa (University of Maryland College Park) Neural basis of auditory plasticity and perceptual learning

Carcea, Ioana (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Neural substrates for social learning, the representation of social contexts and maternal behaviors

Charpentier, Caroline (Caltech) Neuro-computational mechanisms of social learning and decision-making

Chaudhri, Nadia (Concordia University) The neural basis of addiction and learning

Chen, Yao (Washington University, St Louis) Spatial and temporal dynamics of biological signals

Chrastil, Elizabeth (Univ. California Santa Barbara) Brain mechanisms underlying spatial knowledge and navigation in humans

Clemens, Kelly (University of New South Wales) Behavioural neurobiology of nicotine addiction

Clopath, Claudia (Imperial College) Computational approaches to learning and memory

Collins, Anne (UC Berkeley) Human learning, decision-making and executive functions

Coulson, Elizabeth (University of Queensland) Loss of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in Alzheimer’s disease and role of neurotrophins in the normal and pathological function of these neurons

Cowell, Rosie (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Neural mechanisms of memory and vision; computational modelling, fMRI, behavioral studies

Crook, Robyn (San Francisco State University) Somatosensation, nociceptive plasticity underlying adaptive behavior, and neural circuits generating pain-like behaviors in invertebrates

Crook, Sharon (Arizona State) Dynamics of neurons and neural networks

Cummings, Kirstie (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Cortical microcircuits underlying memory storage and expression

Davachi, Lila (NYU) Neural mechanisms of episodic memory

Davachi, Lila (Columbia University) Cognitive neuroscience of episodic memory, consolidation, event segmentation

de Hoz, Livia (Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin) Role of subcortico-cortical loops in statistical learning.

De Rubeis, Silvia (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)  Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders

deBettencourt, Megan (University of Chicago) Cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory

DeNardo, Laura (UCLA) Cortical circuits underlying adaptive behaviors

Deng, Xinyi (Beijing University of Techology) Statistical methods to analyze neural spiking activity

Desrochers, Theresa  (Brown University) Neural basis of behavioral sequence learning and control in cortical and striatal circuits through integrated studies in humans and animals

Du Lac, Sascha (Hopkins) Neural mechanisms of learning

Dudek, Serena (NIH) Synaptic plasticity and development

Dus, Monica (University of Michigan) Neuroepigenetics of feeding circuits in Drosophila

Ehrlich, Ingrid (University of Tuebingen) Cellular and synaptic basis of fear conditioning and extinction.

Farris, Shannon (Virginia Tech) Molecular basis of learning and memory

Fioravante, Diasynou (University of California, Davis) Neurophysiology of small neural networks for learning and memory

Flagel, Shelly (University of Michigan) Neural circuitry underlying individual differences in reward learning and addiction liability

Fonken, Yvonne (University of Oxford) Auditory- and visual prediction and hippocampal contributions to memory-driven expectations

Friedman, Allyson (Hunter College, CUNY) Factors that alter neural circuit responses to influence stress susceptibility

Fyhn, Marianne (University of Oslo) Mechanisms underlying of the brain’s ability to change and learn from experiences

Gall, Christine (UC Irvine) Neuroplasticity and neuronal survival

Galliano, Elisa (King’s College London/ Harvard University) Development, plasticity and learning in olfactory circuits

Garvert, Mona (Oxford) Learning, memory and decision making in the human brain

Giocomo, Lisa (Stanford University) Neural representations of spatial memory and navigation

Girardeau, Gabrielle (Inserm-Sorbonne Université) Hippocampus and amygdala activity, sleep, memory

Gjorgjieva, Julijana (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Principles of neural coding and how synaptic plasticity shapes neural circuits

Gore, Felicity (Stanford) Neural circuits mediating motivated behavior

Goshen, Inbal (The Hebrew University) Hippocampal neurons and glia in recent and remote memory

Griffith, Leslie (Brandeis University) Cellular, genetic, biochemical and physiological processes that contribute to sleep and learning in Drosophila

Hakimi, Shabnam (Duke University) Cognitive neuroscience of motivated learning and decision making with a focus on self regulation and behavior change

Harris, Kristen (U. Texas) Structural basis of learning and memory

Hellgren Kotaleski, Jeanette  (KTH) Modeling neural mechanisms underlying information processing

Hermundstad, Ann (Janelia Research Campus) Normative approaches to understand internal representations that link sensation and action

Heron, Rosalind (University of Glasgow) Neuronal function in relation to learning and memory, the regulation of fat metabolism, and recovery from peripheral nerve damage

Hoffman, Kari (Vanderbilt University) Neural mechanisms underlying perception and memory formation

Holly, Elizabeth (University of Pennsylvania) Effects of stress on goal-directed behavior and decision-making and underlying neural circuits/systems

Igloi, Kinga (University of Geneva) Human Cognition- learning and memory

Insanally, Michele (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) Neural circuits for perceptual flexibility

Iordanova, Mihaela (Concordia University) Behavioural and neural mechanisms of associative learning

Izquierdo, Alicia (UCLA) Neurobiological mechanisms of reward learning

Jafarpour, Anna (University of Washington) Neural circuits for perception and memory of lifelike sequences of events using intracranial EEG and computational techniques

Janak, Patricia (Johns Hopkins) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of associative learning

Jeffery, Kate (UCL) Neural mechanisms of learning & memory and navigation

Josselyn, Sheena (University of Toronto) Understanding how the brain encodes, stores, manipulates and extract information from memories

Kastanenka, Ksenia (Harvard Medical School) Role neural activity plays in onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease

Kaun, Karla  (Brown University) Mechanisms of memory, reward and addiction in the fruit fly

Keck, Tara (UCL) Imaging plasticity and adaptation of circuits in vivo

Keleman, Krystyna (Janelia Research Campus)  Fly courtship & memory; neural circuits & plasticity

Kidd, Celeste (Univ. of Rochester) Attention, curiosity, and learning using a combination of computational and behavioral methods

Kourtzi, Zoe (Univ. of Cambridge) Learning and brain plasticity across the lifespan

Kuhlman, Sandra (Carnegie Mellon) Modification of sensory-motor circuits during learning

Kwag, Jeehyun (Korea University, Seoul) Computational roles of inhibition in hippocampal learning and memory

Lerner, Talia (Northwestern) Neuromodulatory circuits regulating reward learning and motivation

Lin, Yingxi (MIT) Neural plasticity, circuits and memory

Makin, Tamar (UCL)  Brain plasticity and the neural basis of perception and action

Martin, Kelsey (UCLA) Molecular and cell biological mechanisms underlying long-lasting memory, with a focus on changes in gene expression that mediate experience-dependent changes in neural circuitry

Miller, Courtney (Scripps Research Institute) Therapeutic development of novel treatments for memory disorders

Milton, Amy (Univ. of Cambridge) Behavioural neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and mental health disorders

Moita, Marta (Champalimaud, Portugal) Neural mechanisms of behavioral plasticity and memory

Monteggia, Lisa (UT Southwestern) Synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders and treatments

Monyer, Hannah (University of Heidelberg) Neuronal synchrony and plasticity

Moser, May-Britt (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU) Memory and navigation. Entorhinal cortex and hippocampus

Murray, Jennifer (University of Guelph) Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying interoceptive and motivational processing in addiction

Nedivi, Elly (MIT) Structural Plasticity of adult sensory circuits

Nisky, Ilana (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) Computational models and behavioral experiments of perception, action, and motor adaptation and learning, complex skill aquisition, haptics, robotics in medicine

Noppeney, Uta (University of Birmingham) Multisensory perception and learning

Olson, Ingrid (Temple University) Episodic memory, semantic memory, social cognition, diffusion imaging, connectivity