Trieste Encounters in Cognitive Sciences (TEX) 2025

Jun 25, 2025, 9:15 AM → Jun 27, 2025, 4:00 PM Europe/Rome

Big meeting room, 7th floor (SISSA)

Domenica Bueti (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste), Mathew Diamond (School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste), A. Aybüke Durmaz, Maxim Zewe

 

The Trieste Encounters in Cognitive Sciences (TEX) is a yearly summer initiative by SISSA aiming at bringing together scientists from all over the world at all levels of their careers to enjoy science, but also sunshine, food & wine.

This year’s edition focuses on  “The When and the How of Decisions”, which is intended to provide a latticework background for the most fundamental of behavioral processes: collecting information about the world, deciding what to do, and when to do it. To this purpose we gather scientists who are studying decision making & time perception in the brain from different perspectives and using distinct methodological approaches (from animal electrophysiology to human neuroimaging, from computational modelling to psychophysics).

TEX 2025 will host 9 invited speakers who will give talks on the established concepts and body of evidence in their own field, and there is also room for students and post-docs talks.

You can apply by clicking on Registration on the left; and you can contribute an abstract for a short talk by clicking on Call for Abstracts, again on the left.  

TEX2025 will take place between Wednesday June 25 and Friday June 27, 2025. It will be held at SISSA main campus, via Bonomea 265, Trieste. Information on how to reach us can be found here. TEX2025 will feature Xiao-Jing Wang (New York University), Virginie van Wassenhove (University Paris-Saclay),  Rava Azeredo da Silveira (University of Basel),  Yonatan Loewenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Martin Wiener (George Mason University), Michael Sokoletsky (Weizmann Institute), Philippa A. Johnson (Leiden University), David Kastner (University of California, San Francisco), Alessandro Toso (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf).

The meeting will be held in person, and it will be also accessible online through a zoom link.

https://sissa-it.zoom.us/j/82646269872?pwd=289t9FY4Z38RJB2CqRIPYUAbTRwzjI.1

We look forward to meeting you in Trieste next summer!

SISSA

Wed, June 25

9:15 AM → 9:45 AM Welcome and Introduction

Convener: Mathew Diamond (School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste)

9:45 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Guest Talk: Representing Durations… From Sensory Data to Magnitude?

Convener: Virginie van Wassenhove

11:15 AM → 12:00 PM Guest Talk: Decision, Memory, and Cognitive Representations

Convener: Rava Azeredo da Silveira

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 2:45 PM Guest Talk: Inherent Coupling of Perceptual Judgments to Actions in the Mouse Cortex

Convener: Michael Sokoletsky

2:45 PM → 3:30 PM Guest Talk: Engagement states in decision-making

Convener: Philippa A. Johnson

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Contributed Talk: Perceptual Compression of Evidence in Intuitive Model Selection

Convener: Francesco Guido Rinaldi (SISSA)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Contributed Talk: Project 1917: Predictive processing of movie watching

Convener: Tiziano Causin (SISSA & CIMeC)

Thu, June 26

9:15 AM → 10:00 AM Guest Talk: From the concept of “cognitive-type” local circuit to the whole-brain mechanism of decision-making

Convener: Xiao-Jing Wang

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Guest Talk: Competing neural races in human frontal cortex shape decision confidence

Convener: Alessandro Toso

11:15 AM → 12:00 PM Guest Talk: Differential Utilization of a Hippocampal Learning Strategy as a Source of Individual Variability and Psychiatric Risk Gene Phenotype

Convener: David Kastner

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Contributed Talk: Temporal Sequences in Working Memory

Convener: Yunyun Shen

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Contributed Talk: Integration of Sensory Evidence With Reward History in Sequential Decision Making in Humans and Rats

Convener: Monica Paoletti (Neural Computation Lab, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy and SENSEx Lab, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Contributed Talk: Perceptual decision making of nonequilibrium fluctuations

Convener: Aybüke Durmaz (SISSA)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Social Dinner

Fri, June 27

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 11:15 AM Guest Talk: Towards Choice Engineering

Convener: Yonatan Loewenstein

11:15 AM → 12:00 PM Guest Talk: Motion in Mind: How Timing and Decision Making Are Linked by Body Movements.

Convener: Martin Wiener

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Contributed Talk: Visual-premotor connections in the processing of visual duration

Convener: Francesca Bellotti (SISSA)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Contributed Talk: Rat classification of visual temporal frequency is affected by the intensity of task-irrelevant auditory stimuli

Convener: Mattia Zanzi (SISSA)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Contributed Talk: Defining a functional hierarchy of millisecond time: from visual stimulus processing to duration perception

Convener: Gianfranco Fortunato (SISSA)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break