Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: INMHA

A new grouping of neuroscience researchers is coming together in Canada with world-class expertise in sensory, motor and cognitive systems and developing techniques of quantitative behavioural assessment for studying human and non-human primates across the lifespan as well as patient groups between the ages of 6 months to 90+ years. The Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet: http://www.cap-net.ca/) is a research consortium that was founded initially by members of the York University Centre for Vision Research (Toronto), the University of Western Ontario Centre for Brain and Mind (London) and the Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen's University (Kingston). The group has now expanded to include neuroscientists from McGill University and Université de Montréal that have similar research interests. CAPnet's research goal is to understand how the brain uses sensory information to construct an internal perceptual representation of the world, and guide purposeful movements, both in health and sickness. CAPnet now includes all of the main Canadian research groups conducting behavioural neurophysiology experiments with non-human primates. Funds are being requested to hold a meeting for all CAPnet members to plan for future translational research. We propose to hold this meeting as a Satellite Meeting to the joint Canadian Association of Neuroscience (CAN)/Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CCNP) Meeting that will take place on May 15th -18th, 2010 in Ottawa, ON.