This one-day symposium is dedicated to the replay phenomena in the brain (in the hippocampus, but not exclusively) and how they are related to behavior, especially behavior affected by emotional valence.

Final program:

9h30 - Introduction

Morning session (chair: B. Girard)
9h45 - K. Benchenane - Reactivation and emotional valence
10h15 - S. Trouche - Hippocampal neuronal ensembles and spatio-contextual memories

10h45 - coffee break

11h15 - G. Girardeau - Neural mechanisms for memory consolidation during sleep
11h45 - F. Ólafsdóttir - Role of hippocampal replay in memory and planning

12h15 - lunch

Afternoon session (chair: M. Khamassi)
14h - G. Pezzulo - The hippocampal formation as a generative model
14h30 - M. Khamassi - Hippocampal replay and preplay through the lenses of model-based reinforcement learning

15h - coffee break

15h30 - M. Zugaro - Hippocampo-Cortical Dynamics Underlying Memory Formation and Consolidation
16h - F. Stella - A random walk between sleep reactivations and experience

16h30 - Round table discussion

17h30 - End of the meeting

Confirmed Speakers:

• Karim Benchenane (Brain Plasticity Unit, CNRS & ESPCI-ParisTech)
• Gabrielle Girardeau (Institut du Fer à Moulin, INSERM & Sorbonne Université, France)
  Neural mechanisms for memory consolidation during sleep
• Mehdi Khamassi (ISIR, CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France): 
  Hippocampal replay and preplay through the lenses of model-based reinforcement learning
• Freyja Ólafsdóttir (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, the Netherlands):
  Role of hippocampal replay in memory and planning
• Giovanni Pezzulo (National Research Council, Rome, Italy): 
  The hippocampal formation as a generative model
• Federico Stella (Donders Institute, Neuroinformatics Department, Radboud University, the Netherlands)
  A random walk between sleep reactivations and experience
• Stéphanie Trouche (Institute for Functional Genomics, CNRS & INSERM & Univ. Montpellier, France)
  Hippocampal neuronal ensembles and spatio-contextual memories
• Michael Zugaro (CIRB, Collège de France, CNRS & INSERM & Université PSL):
  Hippocampo-Cortical Dynamics Underlying Memory Formation and Consolidation

It will be held in Paris, the 12th of November 2019, on the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus of Sorbonne Université.

Abstract submissions, to be presented as posters, are welcomed!

Registration is free but mandatory.

The conference will be held in the Jussieu campus of Sorbonne Université (4 place jussieu, JUSSIEU metro station).

The talks will be given in room 106 (1st floor), in the 44-45 building (accesss from the 44 entrance, see purple star on the map), the posters presentations and coffee/lunch breaks will be in the neighboring room 102.

The event is organized by Benoît Girard, Mehdi Khamassi and Karim Benchenane, and funded by the RHiPAR project of the 80|PRIME CNRS program.