Workshop Program
MONDAY 26.05.2025
16:00 – 17:30 Registration
17:30-18:00 Concert
18:00 – 22:00 Opening remarks and welcome reception
TUESDAY 27.05.2025 Chaired by Justyna Hinchcliffe
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:50 Michael Mendl “Judgement bias as an indicator of affective valence: origins, progress and challenges”
09:50 – 10:10 Agata Cieslik–Starkiewicz “Investigating the role of cognitive bias in individual susceptibility to transition from controlled use to uncontrolled alcohol abuse in rats”
10:10 – 10:30 Michal Piksa “The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break and poster session
11:00 – 11:50 Jonas Everaert “Resolving ambiguity in depression: The role of Interpretation bias and inflexible belief updating in the lab and everyday daily life”
11:50 – 12:40 Megan Jackson “ When the glass is empty: a species-specific approach for understanding apathy syndrome”
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:30 Nashat Abumaria “Regulation of behavioral switch when facing prolonged uncontrollability or repeated failure”
14:30 – 15:20 Sakumi Iki “From Scratching to Pessimism: Exploring Emotion-Cognition Links in Nonhuman Primates”
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break and poster session
15:50 – 16:40 Adam Brosnan “MCage-Ultra: Automation, Psychedelics, and the Dynamics of Power in Mouse Social Hierarchies”
16:40 – 17:00 Katarzyna Szczepańska “When the whole is greater than the sum of its parts: the role of simultaneous modulation of histamine H3 and sigma-1 receptors in the treatment of neuropathic pain”
18:00 – Dinner
WEDNESDAY 28.05.2025 Chaired by Megan Jackson
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:50 Beata Godlewska “Bridging Psychological and Pharmacological Approaches in Depression Treatment: Insights from Emotional Processing and Neuroimaging Research”
09:50 – 10:10 Elizabeth S. Paul “Judgement Biase Tests and Sentience”
10:10 – 10:30 Magdalena Kolasa “Unique strain-specific characteristics of Wistar Kyoto rats are reflected at both behavioral and biochemical levels”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break and poster session
11:00 – 11:50 David Slattery “Cognitive flexibility in neurodevelopmental and Alzheimer's disease mouse models”
11:50 – 12:40 Justyna Hinchcliffe “Squeak to me: what affective biases and ultrasonic vocalisations can tell us about the emotional state of laboratory rats?”
12:40 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:30 Shimpei Ishiyama “Ticklishness Across Species: Sensory, Emotional, Evolutionary, and Sexual Dimensions”
14:30 – 15:20 Łukasz Gawęda “Information processing biases in psychosis - what we know, what we should know”
15:20 – 15:50 Coffee break and poster session
15:50 – 16:10 Nick Cherbanich “Sex-specific effects of Enrichment and Prediction Error on Rat Affect”
16:10 – 16:30 Magdalena Białoń “Cognitive consequences of neuropathic pain: investigating cannabidiol in a spared nerve injury mouse model”
16:30 – 17:20 Emma Robinson “Turning the glass from half empty to half full: investigating neuropsychological mechanisms and rapid-acting antidepressants”
18:00 – Dinner
THURSDAY 29.05.2025
07:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
9:30 – 18:00 Full-day tour, including sightseeing in Kraków and its surroundings.
19:00 – open Dinner
FRIDAY 30.05.2025
07:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 12:00 Departure
Supported by the program „Doskonała nauka II” of Poland's Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
