NCCD 2007 Schedule


Saturday, September 15

Evening
6:30 - 8:00 Reception
8:00 - 10:00 Dinner

Sunday, September 16

Morning
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

Afternoon
3:30 - 5:30 Posters

Evening
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

Monday, September 17

Morning
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

Afternoon
3:30 - 5:30 Posters

Evening
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

Tuesday, September 18

Morning
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

Afternoon
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

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