Please find below a message from Jerome Sallet concerning a conference to be held in Oxford immediately prior to HBM. Best wishes, Laurence Hunt =========================================== Dear colleague, We would like to draw your attention to a symposium we are organizing on the Neural Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control. The symposium "Motivational and Cognitive Control" is to be held in Oxford (UK), in St John's College on the 2nd-4th June 2010 (just before the Human Brain Mapping meeting in Barcelona). The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers from a wide range of research backgrounds to facilitate communication between different subfields and foster collaborations between these researchers. The meeting will be characterized by a small-scale, informal setting. 200 participants will be present, representing a mixture of very high-profile speakers, all of whom are pioneers in their respective fields, and young up-and-coming researchers. Reflecting the wide range of fields involved, we aim to bring together experimental psychologists, neurologists, neuroanatomists, neurobiologists, and computational neuroscientists, who will focus both on their latest research results as well as on their research techniques. Previous meetings have proven that this formula of integration fosters exciting interdisciplinary ideas and new collaborations. Day one of the conference will survey the broader research context, focusing on topics with are very relevant to the discussion but that are traditionally neglected in meetings on brain function, such as zoology, economics, neuroanatomy and developmental science. The afternoon will draw in research on humans. Day two of the conference will discuss on cutting-edge research on motivational and cognitive control in humans and animals. The morning will focus on research in animals with a specific emphasis on the role dopamine function in decision making. The afternoon session will dove-tail with this, by discussing research on healthy humans and patient populations. Day three will consider the computational approaches to understanding neural processes related to motivational and cognitive control. Each day will feature a number of talks by senior researchers, a poster session to allow younger researchers (M.Sc. students, Ph.D. students, Post-docs) to present their work, and discussion time for all participants. Day one will be followed by a reception; day two will be followed by a conference dinner for all participants. More information as well as registration information can be found at http://www.rbmars.dds.nl/MFC2010/index.htm We hope we'll see you at what we are sure will be an exciting meeting. Sincerely, Rogier Mars, Jerome Sallet, Matthew Rushworth, Nick Yeung -- __________________________________________________ Jerome SALLET Decision and Action Laboratory Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford South Parks Road, OX1 3UD,UK Tel (office): (0044) 1865 271 315 Tel (elsewhere) : (0044) 7 530 060 839 http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/rushworth/default.htm Motivational and Cognitive Control Conference, 2nd-4th June 2010, Oxford http://www.rbmars.dds.nl/MFC2010/index.htm