Subcortical Sensory Circuits: visual, auditory, somatosensory, and beyond

About the Meeting

Subcortical circuits play a crucial role in perception and the execution of a wide variety of essential behaviours. The number of laboratories focusing on subcortical areas has increased steadily, establishing these regions as key model systems for understanding how defined circuits and computations integrate sensory signals with context and internal state to drive and modulate some of life’s core behaviours. In this meeting we aim to bring together leading scientists whose research interrogates subcortical circuits from these different viewpoints using a variety of approaches. The program is complemented by a session focusing on modelling-based perspectives and approaches to catalyse discussions between experimental and computational researchers on how established models from other circuits and systems can be adapted to subcortical structures. 

Topics

• Motor Circuits - from colliculus to spinal cord

• Visual Circuits - of thalamus and colliculus

• Auditory Circuits - in mice, gerbils and bats

• State Modulation - social, feeding, decision making

• Computational Views - social and brain networks, cortical to subcortical

• Multisensory Integration - from odor to magnetoreception

This is the third edition of the Subcortical Sensory Circuits Meeting (previously organised as an EMBO Workshop) - 2023 edition, 2025 edition