BCN Integrative Theme / Symposium: Timed Behavior

Theme

How timing, at both short and long time frames, determines the behavior of organisms.

Date

Friday, April 20, 2007

Location

A. Deusinglaan 2, lecture hall/room 39 (ground floor)

Programme

Morning session: Short-Term and Brain Timing
10:00 Van Rijn (RUG): Timing in a Cognitive Architecture
10:45 Michon (UL): Local Times: Encoding, Affordance and Rationality
11:30 Coffee
11:45Sillar (St. Andrews, UK): Neuronal and network oscillations driving vertebrate motor behaviour on multiple time domains
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon session: Long-Term Timing
13:30 Merrow (RUG): Daily rhythms in molecules in a cell: how can they be such good timers?
14:15 Daan (RUG): Annual Timing
15:00 Coffee
15:15 Gerkema (RUG): Half the world is ultradian
16:00 Beersma (RUG): The Circle of Time

Organisation

Martha Merrow & Hedderik van Rijn