Meeting Reports: 2025 NeuroPSI – Chen Institute Joint Conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond
Meeting Reports
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Jul 24, 2025
NeuroPSI is the joint Neuroscience Institute of the CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, the leading sciencefocused University in France. The 25 teams / 250 people of the institute aim to understand the organization and operation of the neural circuits that control behavior using multidisciplinary and multi-scale approaches.
This year we had the privilege to attend the third annual NeuroPSI- Chen Institute Joint Conference on Brain, Behaviour, and Beyond. The event was hosted by the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI) and generously funded by the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI). The conference’s topics spanned complex social behavior, its brain substrates and communication processes ranging from animals to machines. The breadth of ideas and data presented was inspiring. The event was attended by both young scientists and leading researchers from different countries sharing their innovative work. The symposia featured international speakers, as well as short selected talks and poster sessions allowing early-career researchers the space for networking and exchanging ideas.
Day 1: Social Cognition and Adaptive Behavior
The first day included six plenary talks and three short talks, divided into two sessions, as well as a poster session during the break between them. Social cognition and adaptive behavior were discussed in the context of redent models, human studies and human-robot interaction. The psychiatric and neurological research that was presented proposed therapeutic possibilities.
Day 2: Communication and Language
The second day included six plenary talks and three short talks, divided into two sessions, as well as a poster session during the break between them. The topic of communication and language was presented through a wide lens of animal models: from Primates and pinnipeds, through songbirds to fruit flies. AI language models and their connection to cerebral processes were, of course, also discussed.
NeuroPSI is the joint Neuroscience Institute of the CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay, the leading sciencefocused University in France. The 25 teams / 250 people of the institute aim to understand the organization and operation of the neural circuits that control behavior using multidisciplinary and multi-scale approaches.
This year we had the privilege to attend the third annual NeuroPSI- Chen Institute Joint Conference on Brain, Behaviour, and Beyond. The event was hosted by the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI) and generously funded by the Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI). The conference’s topics spanned complex social behavior, its brain substrates and communication processes ranging from animals to machines. The breadth of ideas and data presented was inspiring. The event was attended by both young scientists and leading researchers from different countries sharing their innovative work. The symposia featured international speakers, as well as short selected talks and poster sessions allowing early-career researchers the space for networking and exchanging ideas.
Day 1: Social Cognition and Adaptive Behavior
The first day included six plenary talks and three short talks, divided into two sessions, as well as a poster session during the break between them. Social cognition and adaptive behavior were discussed in the context of redent models, human studies and human-robot interaction. The psychiatric and neurological research that was presented proposed therapeutic possibilities.
Day 2: Communication and Language
The second day included six plenary talks and three short talks, divided into two sessions, as well as a poster session during the break between them. The topic of communication and language was presented through a wide lens of animal models: from Primates and pinnipeds, through songbirds to fruit flies. AI language models and their connection to cerebral processes were, of course, also discussed.
© 2025 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute
© 2025 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute
© 2025 Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute