Venue: Centre Broca
About the symposium
Human abilities such as guessing, imagining or being creative can lead after distortions to aberrant perceptions (hallucinations) and beliefs (delusions) characteristics of some psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or psychosis. Such abilities are all based on the capacity to form associations between different stimuli, from perceptual learning to higher-order conditioning, which is central to guide adaptive behaviour in humans and animals.
The proposed symposium “Imagination 2” is a follow-up of our successful symposium “Imagination” held in Bordeaux in December 2023. It will draw together 9 researchers. Some of them will present in a first session the concept of higher-order mental processes as well as their ontogenetic and phylogenetic evidences (Avargues-Weber, Ducourneau, Honey, Seth) while, in a second session, others researchers will provide evidence in animal models of the neurobiological basis of higher-order conditioning and mental sensory representations (Talaron, Barrera-Conde, Busquets-Garcia, Holmes and Johansen).
Scientific committee
- Guillaume Ferreira (NutriNeuro)
- Giovanni Marsicano (Neurocentre Magendie)
- Etienne Coutureau (INCIA)
- Mélie Talaron (INCIA)
More details soon