The aim of the OIST Workshop on Cognitive Neurobiology is to bring
together scientists who are trying to understand the neurobiological
origins of cognitive functions in order to exchange recent
experimental findings and ideas about future research directions.

The workshop will consist of lectures by leading neuroscientists and
poster presentations by young researchers working on primate models.
Please follow the instruction below to apply for poster presentations.

Invited Lectures

Session 1: Perception and Information Coding
Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Barry Richmond (National Institute of Health)
Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University)

Session 2: Action and Cognition
Eb Fetz (University of Washington)
Andy Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh)

Session 3: Reward and Decision Making
Gary Aston-Jones (Medical University of South Carolina)
Okihide Hikosaka (National Instutes of Health)
Daeyeol Lee (Yale University)
Emmanuel Procyk (Inserm)

Session 4: New Technologies
Winfried Denk (Max Planck Institute)
Chiristoph Kayser/Christopher Petkov (Max Planck Institute)
Kazuto Kobayashi (Fukushima Medical University)

Session 5: Reproduction, Development and Social Brain
Naotaka Fujii (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Asif Ghazanfar (Princeton University)
Tadashi Isa (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)

Call for Poster Presentations

We will invite 20 young researchers for poster presentations at the
workshop. Please send the following information to the secretariat
by e-mail (owcn@oist.jp) by JANUARY 5th, 2007.

1. Name
2. Degree (e.g., Ph.D.)
3. Date of birth
4. Gender
5. Nationality
6. Position (e.g., postdoctoral fellow)
7. Affiliation
8. Postal address
9. Phone
10. Fax
11. E-mail
12. Web page URL (if any)
13. Poster title
14. List of authors
15. Abstract (up to 500 words)
16. Need for travel support (yes/no)

Accepted presenters will be notified by January 15th. Food and
lodging will be provided during the workshop. Travel support will
also be available to the presenters who require it.

A limited number of discussants without financial support may also
be accepted. Please send the items 1 to 12 above along with a CV
to the secretariat by January 5th, 2007.

The workshop will be held at the Seaside House of Okinawa Institute
of Science and Technology, a new graduate institute being built in
Japan's southernmost island prefecture. We expect future-oriented
discussions in a relaxed, semi-tropical atmosphere and hope to
incorporate the ideas exchanged there into the plans for a new brain
research center at OIST.

Co-organizers:
Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
Naotaka Fujii (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Tadashi Isa (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
Daeyeol Lee (Yale University)
Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute)
Barry Richmond (National Institute of Health)
Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge)
Keiji Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)

Sponsor:
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
http://www.oist.jp

Secretariat:
OIST Workshop on Cognitive Neurobiology
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
12-22 Suzaki, Uruma
Okinawa 904-2234, Japan
Phone: +81-98-921-3933 Fax: +81-98-921-3873
E-mail: owcn@oist.jp
Web page: http://www.irp.oist.jp/owcn