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Date Speaker and Title
28 Jul 2008
Paul Phillips
University of Washinton, USA

Subsecond dopamine release in terminal regions during classical conditioning

9 Jul 2008
Larry Yaeger
Indiana University, USA
Trends in the Evolution of Neural Complexity
2 Jul 2008
Thanos Siapas
Caltech, USA

Cortico-hippocampal network dynamics and memory formation

27 Jun 2008
Liam Paninski

Department of Statistics, Columbia University,USA

A new look at state-space models for neural data
18 Jun 2008
Nihat Ay

Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group, Max Planck Institute, Germany

Towards an integration of infomax concepts

4 Jun 2008

Michael Frank

Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, USA Neurogenocomputomics

30 May 2008

TIME: 14.00

Ron Meir

Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel

Optimal Real Time Dynamic State Estimation by Neural Networks Based on Spike Train Decoding

28 May 2008

Iain Murray

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Assesssing high-dimensional latent variable models

21 May 2008

Magnus Richardson

Warwick University, UK

Reduced neurone models: experiment and theory

14 May 2008

Thomas Mrsic-Flogel

Department of Physiology, UCL

Imaging functional organization and plasticity of mouse visual cortex

7 May 2008

Ad Aertsen

Neurobiology & Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany

Inference of hand movements from population activity in monkey and human sensorimotor cortex:

30 Apr 2008

Sam Roweis

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Making The Sky Searchable: Large Scale Astronomical Pattern Recognition

23 Apr 2008

Jesper Sjöström

Physiology Department, UCL, UK

Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity in Neocortical Layer-5 Pyramidal Neurons

16 Apr 2008

Matthew Botvinick

Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA

A computational substrate for goal-directed behavior

11 Apr 2008

TIME: 14.00

Ken Harris

Rutgers, USA

Axonal backpropagation in real neuronal networks

9 Apr 2008

Eero Simoncelli

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Neural Science, and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA

Re-Examining the Local Statistics of Images and Their Implications for Early Visual Processing

2 Apr 2008

Hans Op de Beeck

Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Katholik University of Leuven, Belguim

Cracking the code of visual objects in ventral visual cortex: From distributed feature-selective maps to category-selective modules

27 Mar 2008

Bert Kappen

Radboud UniversityNijmegen, the Netherlands

An efficient approach to stochastic optimal control

26 Mar 2008

Vijay Balasubramanian

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Towards a theory of the structural and functional organization of the retina

19 Mar 2008

Jochen Braun

Cognitive Biology, Magdeburg, Germany

Why does the phenomenal appearance of ambiguous patterns reverse spontaneously?

20 Feb 2008

Vladimir Kolmogorov

Adastral Park, UCL, UK

A faster algorithm for computing the principal sequence of partitions of a graph

13 Feb 2008

John Winn

Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Developing a general-purpose message-passing library

24 Jan 2008

TIME: 15.00

David Blei

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, USA

Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections

23 Jan 2008

Wulfram Gerstner

Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience, EPFL, Switzerland

Phenomenological models of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity

22 Jan 2008

TIME: 15.30

Hiroyuki Nakahara

Lab for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan

Dopamine neural response as context-dependent prediction error, and functional clusters underlying neural avalanches

18 Jan 2008

TIME: 14.00

Josh McDermott

Auditory and Perception Cognition Lab, University of Minnesota, USA

Sound Texture Perception Via Texture Synthesis

16 Jan 2008

Zhaoping Li

Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

Unique eye of origin attracts attention even when it escapes awareness --- evidence of the role of V1 in bottom-up saliency

12 Dec 2007

Klaas Stephan and Rosalyn Moran

Wellcome Trust Cente for Neuroimaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK

Towards neurocomputational models for investigating & diagnosing psychiatric diseases

7 Nov 2007

Rolf Würtz

Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Organic Computing for face and object recognition

31 Oct 2007

Alexander Roxin

Computational Neuroscience Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Linking neurobiological and behavioral models of 2-choice decision making

26 Sep 2007

Anders Lansner

School of Computer Science and Communication, Stockholm University, Sweden

Dynamic associative memory properties of a biophysically detailed neuronal network model of neocortical layers 2/3

11 Sep 2007

Emo Todorov

UCSD, USA

A new mathematical framework for optimal choice of actions

11 Sep 2007

Charles H Anderson

Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Neural Engineering: Modeling with Population Codes

11 Jul 2007

Holger  Krapp

Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK

Control of self-motion and gaze in flying insects

29 Jun 2007

TIME: 14.00

Jürgen Schmidhuber

Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Switzerland

How to Learn a Program?

27 Jun 2007

Francis Bach

Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France

Considering Cost Asymmetry in Learning Classifiers

25 Jun 2007

TIME: 14.00

P. Read Montague

Human Neuroimaging Lab and Computational Psychiatry Unit Baylor College of Medicine, USA

Economic Exchange Games as Probes for Psychopathology

19 Jun 2007

Nestor Parga

Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Predicting the receptive fields of V1 simple cells from the scale properties of natural scenes

13 Jun 2007

Neil Lawrence

School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

Probabilistic Inference for Modelling of Transcription Factor Activity

23 May 2007

James Griffin

Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK

Bayesian adaptive lassos with non-convex penalization

16 May 2007

Amos Storkey

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

Coupled HMMs for Primitive-Timing Representations of Handwriting

25 Apr 2007

David Saad

Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University, UK

Bayesian inference by message passing in dense and composite systems

18 Apr 2007

Andrew Blake

Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Video segmentation by fusion of colour, contrast and stereo

4 Apr 2007

Richard Aslin

Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA

Currently Visiting Professor at Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, UK

Language learning in human infants: Extraction of statistics and rules

2 Apr 2007

Surya Ganguli

Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, UCSF, USA

The Information Geometry of Survey Propagation

26 Mar 2007

Krishna Shenoy

Department of Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University. USA

Neural Basis of Reach Preparation

28 Mar 2007

Mathew Diamond

Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, SISSA, Italy

Decoding touch from spike trains in the rat whisker system

19 Mar 2007

Surya Ganguli

Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, UCSF, USA

Oscillations, Plasticity and Memory Formation in a Recurrent Spiking Network

7 Mar 2007

Simon Schultz

Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK

Synchronization and sensory coding

14 Feb 2007

Yee Whye Teh

Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK

Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process

24 Jan 2007

Simon Prince

Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

Latent Identity Variables - A Bayesian perspective on face recognition

17 Jan 2007

A Taylan Cemgil

Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

Generative models for acoustic processing

19 Dec 2006

Michael Shadlen

Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington, USA

A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound

13 Dec 2006

Walter Senn

Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland

Stochastic learning with discrete-valued synapses

22 Nov 2006

Odelia Schwartz

Computational Neurobiology Lab, The Salk Institute, USA

Natural image statistics and spatial context in visual processing

8 Nov 2006

 

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Christian Machens

Brody Lab for Computational Systems Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA

Reconstruction of network dynamics in the prefrontal cortex during a two-interval discrimination task

27 Oct 2006

TIME: 14.00

Shona Chattarji

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Silent synapses speak up in the amygdala: 'good plasticity' in a 'bad neighborhood'

4 Oct 2006

Tiande Shou

Vision Research Lab, Center for Brain Science Research, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, China

Visual cross-stream modulation of feedback projections from high-order areas to lower-order areas in the visual cortex of the cat

27 Sep 06

Peter Bossaerts

Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology

Risk Prediction and Risk Prediction Errors in the Human Brain

20 Sep 06

Sue Becker

Dept. of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Canada

Sequence learning and consolidation in a probabilistic model of hippocampal coding

13 Sep 06

Sheila Nirenberg

Department of Physiology, Cornell University, USA

Testing hypotheses about computations in the visual system using targeted cell class ablation

4 Sep 06

TIME: 15.00

Don Jewett

Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, USA

A bridge between single-unit-activity and subjective sensation by means of a new recording technique that detects overlapped oscillations from neuronal populations

13 Jul 06

Szabolcs Kali

Laboratory of Cerebral Cortex Research, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Inputs from different sources are processed in distinct ways in hippocampal neurons and networks

05 Jul 06

Laurenz Wiskott

Department of Biology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

The Discovery of Slowness

03 Jul 06

TIME: 15.00

Sam McClure

Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University, USA

Dopamine and norepinephrine interactions in decision-making

14 June 06

Sue Denham

Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth, UK

Auditory perceptual organisation: change detection and predictive modeling

06 June 06

Joseph Halpern

Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA

Causality, Responsibility, and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach

31 May 06

Julia Trommershäuseris

Department of Psychology, Giessen University, Germany

Effects of Sensory and Motor Uncertainty on Movement Planning under Risk

24 May 06

Kent Berridge

University of Michigan, USA

Dopamine in reward: Prediction error learning or incentive salience 'wanting'?

17 May 06

TIME: 14.30

 

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Li Zhaoping

Department of Psychology, UCL, UK

The More Briefly one Looks, the More Effectively one `Sees': Vision by V1

 

John Shawe-Taylor

Department of Computer Science, University of Southampton

Inferring Semantic Representations from Data

09 May 06

TIME: 15.00

Matthias Bethge

Max-Planck Institute, Germany

Linking receptive fields to perceptual inference in the early visual system

04 May 06

Barry Richmond

Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH/NIH/DHHS, USA

Deciding whether it is worth the effort

5 April 06

Carl van Vreeswijk

Paris University, France

Does dendritic shunting inhibition change the neuronal gain?

5 April 06

Carl van Vreeswijk

Paris University, France

Does dendritic shunting inhibition change the neuronal gain?

5 April 06

Carl van Vreeswijk

Paris University, France

Does dendritic shunting inhibition change the neuronal gain?

29 Mar 06

Daniel Durstewitz

Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of  Plymouth, UK

Neural Dynamics and biophysics of active information maintenance in cortical networks

22 Mar 06

Klaus Obermeyer

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berlin University of Technology,  Germany

Computational Approaches to Adaptation

17 Mar 06

TIME: 15.00

Partha Niyogi

Department of Computer Science & Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, USA

 A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms

17 Mar 06

TIME: 15.00

Partha Niyogi

Department of Computer Science & Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, USA

 A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms

14 Mar 06

Chris Williams

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh , UK

Predictive Search Distributions

22 Feb 06

Leonardo Chelazzi

Department of Neurological and Vision Sciences, University of Verona, Italy

Breaking down  the unity of perceptual objects: Neural correlates of feature-selective attention in primate area V4

21 Feb 06

Time: 14.00

Ina Wiener

Tel Aviv University, Israel

 The pharmacology, neural substrates, and neurodevelopmental origins of  disrupted and abnormally persistent latent inhibition: an animal model of positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia

15 Feb 06

James Cussens

Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

Bayesian model averaging with informative priors on model structure

8 Feb 06

Francesco Battaglia

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Flexible and predictive representation of space in the hippocampus:  evidences from place cells in feature-rich environment

1 Feb 06

Tony O'Hagan

Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, UK

 GPs I have known

30 Nov 05

Antonio Artes

Department of Signal Theory and Communications,

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Detection in Sensor Networks

23 Nov 05

Nicolas Brunel

CNRS, Paris, France

Optical Information Storage and the Distribution of Synaptic Weights: Experiment vs Theory

16 Nov 05

Neil Lawrence

Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK

High Dimensional Probabilistic Modelling Through Manifolds

9 Nov 05

Christoph von der Malsburg

Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, German

Object Recognition as Paradigm of Brain Organisation

19 Oct 05

Zhaoping Li

Department of Psychology, UCL, UK

A single stage V1 process, not a combination of separate feature maps, creates a bottom up visual saliency map for attentional control --- psychophysical evidences

12 Oct 05

Xiao-Jing Wang

Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, USA

Microcircuit Reverberation Underlying Working Memory, Decision Making and Selective Attention

5 Oct 05

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Peter Neri

School of Optometry, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Features Unbound: Spatial Resolution for Feature Binding is Impaired in Peripheral and Amblyopic Vision

4 Oct 05

Bruno Averbeck

Centre for Visual Science, University of Rochester, USA

Prefrontal Representation of Learning in a Sequential Decision Making Task

20 Sep 05

John Hertz

NORDITA, Copenhagen, Denmark

Self-Organization in Cortical Networks?

14 Sep 05

Charles Kemp

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA

Learning Relational Systems

8 Sep 05

Krishna Shenoy

Department of Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, USA

Neural Basis of Reach Preparation and Communication Prostheses

7 Sep 05

Stefano Panzeri

Laboratory of Neuroinformatics, University of Manchester, UK

The Role of Spike Timing in Cortical Coding of Somatosensory Stimuli

3 Aug 05

Sridhar Mahadevan

Autonomous Learning Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Learning Multi-Scale Presentations

20 Jul 05

Yonatan Loewenstein

Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA

Stochastic Choice and Operant Matching in a Neuronal Model

27 Jun 05

E. James Kehoe

School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Temporally-Specific Extinction and Real-Time Processes

17 Jun 05

Geoffrey E. Hinton

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets

10 Jun 05

Mriganka Sur

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA

Plasticity and Dynamics of Visual Cortex Networks

25 May 05

Sam Roweis

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Neighbourhood Components Analysis

20 May 05

Jack Cowan

Mathematics Department, Neurology Department, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, USA

Statistical Neural Field Theory

11 May 05

Alessandro Treves

Cognitive Neuroscience, SISSA, Trieste, Italy and

NTNU, Centre for the Biology of Memory, Trondheim, Norway

Prolegomena to Logo

5 May 05

Robert M Shapley

Centre for Neural Science, New York University, USA

Primary Visual Cortex: A New Look

4 May 05

Stefano Fusi

Computational Neuroscience, Institute of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland

Learning on Multiple Time Scales: Theory and In Vivo Experiments

20 Apr 05

Brad Wyble

Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, UK

The Hippocampus as a Link Between Memory and Behaviour: Theta Mechanisms

06 Apr 05

Eric Shea-Brown

Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA

From Spikes to Speed-Accuracy via the Locus Coeruleus

24 Mar 05

Jack Cowan

Mathematics Department, Neurology Department, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago, USA
Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: what visual migraines and hallucinations tell us about the brain

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