09.30 :: S. Shushruth, The varieties of abstraction in the primate brain

Section I: Abstraction of sensory information

10.00 - 10.30 :: David Freedman, Mechanisms of abstract categorical decisions across sensory, cognitive and motor networks

10.35 - 11.05 :: Aldo Genovesio, From specificity to abstraction in the spatial and timing domains

~Coffee Break 11.05 - 11.20~

11.20 - 11.50 :: Stefano Fusi, The geometry of abstraction in human and non-human primates

Section II: Abstraction of value

11.55 - 12.25 :: Diana Burk, How symbolic reinforcers become motivating through abstraction of value

~Lunch Break 12.30 - 15.30~

15.30 - 16.00 :: Erin Rich, Abstraction of reward context facilitates relative reward coding in anterior cingulate cortex

16.05 - 16.35 :: Anne Collins, Abstraction in human reinforcement learning

~Coffee Break 16.35 - 16.50~

Section III: Abstraction of rules and behavioral flexibility

16.50 - 17.20 :: Matthew Rushworth, Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex

17.25 - 17.55 :: Elizabeth Buffalo, Abstract representations in the monkey hippocampus

18.00 - 18.30 :: Xiao-Jing Wang, Structured knowledge emerges in trained recurrent neural networks

~Panel Discussion 18.30 - 19.00~