6:30 - 8:00 | Reception |
8:00 - 10:00 | Dinner |
10:00 - 10:45 | Spikes, synapses, learning and memory in simple networks |
Surya Ganguli, University of California at San Francisco | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Modeling behavioural reaction time (RT) data and neural firing rates |
Roger Ratcliff, Ohio State University | |
11:15 - 11:45 | Break |
11:45 - 12:30 | Bayes' optimal inference, decision making, and learning with Probabilistic Population Codes |
Jeff Beck, University of Rochester | |
12:30 - 1:00 | Data limitations on information estimates in large populations |
Bruno Averbeck, University College London | |
1:15 - 2:30 | Lunch |
3:30 - 5:30 | Posters |
5:30 - 6:15 | Statistical models for spike trains: some thoughts on the current situation |
Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University | |
6:15 - 6:45 | Break |
6:45 - 7:15 | Detecting the existence of higher-order correlations in massively parallel spike trains |
Benjamin Staude, RIKEN Brain Science Institute | |
7:15 - 7:45 | Extracting functional connectivity from simultaneous Ca2+ imaging of large numbers of neurons |
Alex Roxin, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona | |
8:00 - 10:00 | Dinner |
10:00 - 10:45 | Stimulus and distance dependence of neuronal correlation in macaque primary visual cortex |
Matt Smith, Carnegie Mellon University | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Superposition of information in large ensembles of neurons in primary visual cortex |
Stefan Haeusler, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria | |
11:15 - 11:45 | Break |
11:45 - 12:30 | Mechanisms and neuropharmacology of visual attention in primate V1 |
Alex Thiele, University of Newcastle upon Tyne | |
12:30 - 1:00 | Population codes, correlations and coding uncertainty |
Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine | |
1:15 - 2:30 | Lunch |
3:30 - 5:30 | Posters |
5:30 - 6:15 | Ruling out and ruling in neural codes |
Sheila Nirenberg, Weill Medical College, Cornell University | |
6:15 - 6:45 | Break |
6:45 - 7:15 | Spatial organization of large-scale concerted activity in primate retina |
Jon Shlens, Salk Institute | |
7:15 - 7:45 | Multiplexing of visual information by spike rate and latency encoding in retinal ganglion cells |
Jutta Kretzberg, University of Oldenburg | |
8:00 - 10:00 | Dinner |
10:00 - 10:45 | Extracting dynamical structure embedded in premotor cortical activity |
Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University | |
10:45 - 11:15 | Decoding neural signals for the control of movement |
Sara Solla, Northwestern University | |
11:15 - 11:45 | Break |
11:45 - 12:30 | How do neurons work together? Insights from auditory cortex. |
Ken Harris, Rutgers University | |
12:30 - 1:00 | Low-dimensional network models for recordings from the prefrontal cortex |
Christian Machens, University of Munich | |
1:15 - 2:30 | Lunch |
2:30 - 3:15 | The role of oscillations in the Hippocampal formation |
John O'Keefe, University College London | |
3:15 - 3:45 | Break |
3:45 - 4:15 | Decoupling through synchrony in hippocampal networks |
Thanos Siapas, California Institute of Technology | |
4:15 - 4:45 | Coordinated reactivation of hippocampal cell assemblies during learning |
Loren Frank, University of California at San Francisco |