Morning

08h30  Registration

09h30  Session Cross-modal plasticity (chair Olivier Collignon)

1. ‣Anne-Lise Giraud - Recovery of hearing after cochlear implantation
   

2. ‣Olivier Collignon - Cross-modal plasticity: Recycling the intrisic functional organization of the brain?
   

3. ‣Stefania Mattioni - How input modality and visual experience affect the neural encoding of categorical knowledge
   

11h00  Coffee break and poster session

11h30  Session Critical neuroplasticity periods (chair Annemie Van Der Linden)

1. ‣Alain Prochiantz - Non-cell autonomous Otx2 transcription factor regulates cerebral cortex plasticity throughout life
   

2. ‣Julie Hamaide - Practice makes perfect: Monitoring neuroplastic changes in the juvenile zebra finch brain during the critical period for song learning using in vivo MRI
   

3. ‣Lut Arckens - Reprogramming sensory cortex to compensate for vision loss in the mouse
   

13h00  Walking lunch and guided poster tour

Afternoon

14h30  Session Neurophysiology of motor learning and post-traumatic cerebral plasticity (chair Stephan Swinnen)

1. ‣Heidi Johansen - Berg - Imaging and stimulation recovery and plasticity in the human motor system
   

2. ‣Brad King - Modulating motor learning-related neuroplasticity in healthy older adults
   

3. ‣Lisa Pauwels - Challenge to promote change: The neurochemical basis of the contextual interference effect in young and older adults
   

16h00  Coffee break and poster session

16h30  Session Sleep and brain plasticity mechanisms: Ongoing challenges (chair Philippe Peigneux)

1. ‣Niels Rattenborg - A bird’s-eye view of sleep-dependent memory consolidation
   

2. ‣Charline Urbain - The roles of slow sleep oscillations and associated brain connectivity mechanisms in memory consolidation
   

3. ‣Philippe Peigneux - From hypnopedia to targeted memory reactivation: What can our brain process during sleep?