Neuroscience is making substantial progress towards understanding the neural basis of complex, high-level behaviours. This school is meant to attract bright, motivated PhD students and post-docs interested in learning advanced techniques for exploring the relationship between brain and behaviour, as well as current state-of-the-art knowledge on the topic. Our school brings together researchers using diverse approaches, including imaging, pharmacology, computational modelling and neurophysiology. Each day of the course will begin with lectures by faculty with time for discussion. Afternoons will be open, allowing students to interact with faculty and discuss papers in more detail as well as working on projects related to the day’s lectures. There will be additional faculty lectures in the late afternoon, followed by dinner and evening poster sessions, in which students can present and discuss their work with the faculty. Overall the course will provide a relaxed but focused overview of systems neuroscience topics and techniques.

Neuroimaging and dopamine pharmacology of behaviour; computational models of decision making; prefrontal and parietal correlates of higher-cognitive processes; basal ganglia contributions to cognition and motor control; cortical and neuromodulatory mechanisms of learning and memory.

The Summer School venue is Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), just a few minutes walk from the Old city gate of Pile. Address of the CAAS is don Frane Bulica 4, Dubrovnik. You can find more info as well as the map on their web site.