Brain, behaviour and evolution:
avian model systems
.

September 6-7th, 2002. Budapest, Hungary
The course is for undergraduate and doctorate students. The symposium is open for all.
Place: Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest.

   

Program
   

Course

September 6th
   
09.00 - 16.30 Introductory lectures on the avian nervous system and basic model systems (filial imprinting, taste aversion learning, song learning, spatial learning)
  Full program and syllabus is at: http://bio.univet.hu/SALVE/Symp/Symp_2002/
   

Symposium

September 7th
   
09.00 - 09.30 Prof. András Csillag: Nomenclature update based on the Nomenclature Forum, Durham, NC, 2002
09.30 - 10.30 Dr. Toshiya Matsushima: Neural codes of anticipation and their roles in the appetitive control of behaviors in domestic chicks
10.30 - 11.30 Prof. Michael Stewart: Cellular bases of learning and memory formation in birds and mammals: are the processes similar?
11.30 - 12.00 Dr. Lubor Kostal: Neurophysiological control of welfare related behaviours in domestic chicken.
cancelled Lunch break
12.00 - 12.30 Dr. Laszlo Zsolt Garamszegi: Coevolving avian eye size and brain size in relation to prey capture and nocturnality
withdrawn Aniko Schrott: Modular evolution of the avian brain
12.30 - 13.30 Prof. Kurt Kotrschal: Why "indivifdual variation" in behaviour is non-trivial: patterns, mechanisms and functions of personality.
   
September 16th prof. Johan Bolhuis Bird song, memory, and the brain
   
Info: for more information write to Péter Kabai at pkaba@univet.hu