The Brain Conference 2023

When walking into a new restaurant, we know what to do. We might find a table and wait to be served. We know that the starter will come before the main. When the bill arrives, we know it is the food we are paying for. This is because our brains contain an internal relational model – a representation of the relationships between objects and events that allows old information to be applied flexibly in new situations to generate appropriate behaviour.

This systematic organisation of knowledge has been studied in Psychology since Piaget’s Schemata and Tolman’s cognitive maps, but we are only now beginning to understand how it is represented in the brain.

This Brain Conference will bring together researchers at the cutting edge of this question. They will span representations of objects and their relations, but also schematic representations that structure complex behaviours. Moreover, they will reveal early insights into how such representations can be learnt from memories or, in humans, even built directly from the language. This conference aims to draw attention to this new field of neuroscience that underlies the rich and flexible inferences that characterise real-world behaviour.

Organised by FENS in collaboration with the Lundbeck Foundation, awarder of The Brain Prize,  these bi-annual conferences bring together outstanding researchers in key areas of contemporary neuroscience to discuss current concepts and define challenges for future research.

20 Free Seats

As part of the collaboration between FENS and the Lundbeck Foundation, the Foundation offers 20 free seats for the Brain Conferences for young scientists.

To be considered for a free seat for the conference the applicant must be based in Denmark, be below 40, bring an abstract and participate in the entire meeting.
 

To apply for a free seat please contact Helene Mathiasen at hm@lundbeckfonden.com with the following info:

• Name
• Age
• Affiliation
• Abstract title

The free seat includes registration fee, conference materials, lunches and dinner (also Gala dinner the last evening) but not travel expenses and accommodation.

Deadline for applying for a free seat is June 14th, 2023
You can also apply for a free seat between June 14^th and September 3^rd, but then you will not be eligible for a short talk.

For enquiries and press registration, please contact The Brain Conferences: brain(at)fens.org

Co-Chairs

• Timothy Behrens

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

• Alla Karpova

HHMI Janelia Research Campus, USA