Laurence Aitchison

Date	Presenter	Topic	Reading
12/07/2016	Elena Zamfir	Separate circuitries encode the hedonic and nutritional values of sugar	Tellez et al (2016)
05/07/2016	Hideaki Shimazaki	Higher-order interactions of neural populations
28/06/2016	Kiyohito Iigaya	Orbitofrontal Cortex Value Signals Depend on Fixation Location during Free Viewing	Vincent et al (2016)
14/06/2016	Federico Mancinelli	Neuronal remapping and circuit persistence in economic decisions	Xie et al (2016)
31/05/2016	Kevin Li	Complete Transfer of Perceptual Learning across Retinal Locations Enabled by Double Training	Xiao et al (2008)
24/05/2016	Carsen Stringer	Opening Holes in the Blanket of Inhibition: Localized Lateral Disinhibition by VIP Interneurons	Karnani et al (2016)
17/05/2016	Gaurav Venkataraman	Cell Types, Network Homeostasis, and Pathological Compensation from a Biologically Plausible Ion Channel Expression Model	O`Leary et al (2014)
03/05/2016	Eszter Vértes	Robust neuronal dynamics in premotor cortex during motor planning	Li et al (2016)
26/04/2016	Jozsef Fiser	Implications of hierarchical sampling-based probabilistic internal representations on cross-modal learning and top-down effects in the cortex
12/04/2016	Peter Latham	Sloppiness in Spontaneously Active Neuronal Networks	Panas et al (2015)
05/04/2016	Arne Meyer	Mapping Sub-Second Structure in Mouse Behavior	Wiltschko et al (2015)
22/01/2016	Mehdi Keramati	Optimal Behavioral Hierarchy	Solway et al (2015)
15/03/2016	Vincent Adam	Attentive Tracking of Sound Sources	Woods and McDermott (2016)
08/03/2016	Alex Antrobus	Efficient codes and balanced networks	Denève and Machens (2016)
23/02/2016	Angus Chadwick	An excitatory basis for divisive normalization in visual cortex	Sato et al (2016)
16/02/2016	Sanjeevan Ahilan	Flexible Shaping: How learning in small steps helps	Krueger and Dayan (2009)
09/02/2016	Gergo Bohner	A Quantitative Description of Dendritic Conductances and Its Application to Dendritic Excitation in Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons	Almog and Korngreen (2014)
02/02/2016	Joana Soldado Magraner	Origins of choice-related activity in mouse somatosensory cortex	Yang et al (2016)
26/01/2016	Kevin Lloyd	Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data	Schultz (2015)
19/01/2016	Maneesh Sahani	Competing Neural Ensembles in Motor Cortex Gate Goal-Directed Motor Output	Zagha et al (2015)
12/01/2016	Alireza Alemi	Optimizing information storage in recurrent neural networks using a three-threshold learning rule
15/12/2015	Carsen Stringer	Flexible Sensory Representations in Auditory Cortex Driven by Behavioral Relevance	Kato et al (2015)
08/12/2015	Elena Zamfir	Medial prefrontal cortical activity reflects dynamic re-evaluation during voluntary persistence	McGuire and Kable (2015)
01/12/2015	Eszter Vertes	Inferring learning rules from distributions of firing rates in cortical neurons	Lim et al (2015)
24/11/2015	Peter Dayan	Anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging context reflects choice difficulty, not foraging value	Shenhav et al (2014)
17/11/2015	Kyohito IIgaya	Task switching	Monsell (2003)
10/11/2015	Peter Latham	Modelling Odor Decoding in the Antennal Lobe by Combining Sequential Firing Rate Models with Bayesian Inference	Rivera et al (2015)
03/11/2015	Arne Meyer	Thalamic control of sensory selection in divided attention	Wimmer et al (2015)
27/10/2015	Federico Mancinelli	Dopamine Is Required for the Neural Representation and Control of Movement Vigor	Panigrahi et al (2015)
20/10/2015	Mehdi Keramati	Habitual control of goal selection in humans	Cushman and Morris (2015)
06/10/2015	Vincent Adam	A Bayesian observer model constrained by efficient coding can explain ‘anti-Bayesian’ percepts	Wei et al (2015)
07/07/2015	Rei Akaishi	Neural Mechanisms Credit Assignment with Hypothesis
23/06/2015	Gaurav Venkataraman	Sloppiness in Spontaneously Active Neuronal Networks	Panas et al (2015)
16/06/2015	Carsen Stringer	An acetylcholine-activated microcircuit drives temporal dynamics of cortical activity	Chen et al (2015)
09/06/2015	Elena Zamfir	Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers	Gua et al (2014)
02/06/2015	Eszter Vertes	Dynamic Control of Response Criterion in Premotor Cortex during Perceptual Detection under Temporal Uncertainty	Carnevale et al (2015)
26/05/2015	Peter Dayan	The Habenulo-Raphe Serotonergic Circuit Encodes an Aversive Expectation Value Essential for Adaptive Active Avoidance of Danger	Amo et al (2014)
19/05/2015	Kyohito IIgaya	Economic choices reveal probability distortion in macaque monkeys	Stauffer et al (2015)
12/05/2015	Peter Latham	Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex	Yamins et al (2014)
08/05/2015	Emily Mackevicius	Aligning auditory and motor representations of syllable onsets in songbird vocal learning
28/04/2015	Ben Dongsung Huh	A temporal basis for predicting the sensory consequences of motor commands in an electric fish	Kennedy et al (2014)
21/04/2015	Perdo Goncalves	Spatial Patterns of Persistent Neural Activity Vary with the Behavioral Context of Short-Term Memory	Daie (2015)
10/04/2015	Federico Mancinelli	Model-based choices involve prospective neural activity	Doll et al (2015)
03/04/2015	Mehdi Keramati	Dopamine reward prediction error responses reflect marginal utility	Stauffer et al (2014)
27/03/2015		The Stabilized Supralinear Network: A Unifying Circuit Motif Underlying Multi-Input Integration in Sensory Cortex	Rubin et al (2015)
27/02/2015	Joana Soldado Magraner	Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain	Finkelstein et al (2014)
20/02/2015	Gergo Bohner	Restoring the sense of touch with a prosthetic hand through a brain interface	Tabot et al (2014)
13/02/2015	Thomas Drsautels	Closed-loop decoder adaptation shapes neural plasticity for skillful neuroprosthetic control	Orsborne et al (2014)
06/02/2015	Arne Meyer	Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making	Park (2014)
30/01/2015	Kevin Lloyd	Opponent Actor Learning (OpAL): Modeling Interactive Effects of Striatal Dopamine on Reinforcement Learning and Choice Incentive	Collins and Frank (2014)
23/01/2015	Maneesh Sahani	Optimal control of transient dynamics in balanced networks	Wei et al (2013)
13/01/2015	Guillaume Hennequin	Optimal control of transient dynamics in balanced networks
06/01/2015	Adam Ponzi	Edge of chaos in the striatum, and for temporal expectation
16/12/2014	Carsen Stringer	A category-free neural population supports evolving demands during decision-making	Raposo et al (2014)
09/12/2014	Kristin Voelk	Late Emergence of the Vibrissa Direction Selectivity Map in the Rat Barrel Cortex	Kremer et al (2011)
02/12/2014	Vincent Adam	Partitioning neuronal variability	Goris et al (2014)
25/11/2014	Arne Meyer	Neural Correlates of Task Switching in Prefrontal Cortex and Primary Auditory Cortex in a Novel Stimulus Selection Task for Rodents	Rodgers and DeWeese (2014)
18/11/2014	Peter Latham	Sparseness and Expansion in Sensory Representations	Babadi and Sompolinsky (2014)
11/11/2014	Rainer Engelken	Chaos and Entropy Production in Spiking Networks
04/11/2014	Sarah Lewis	The Neural Marketplace
21/10/2014	James Fitzgerald	The importance of natural sensory statistics for visual motion estimation
14/10/2014	Ben Huh	Neural constraints on learning	Sadtler et al (2014)
09/30/2014		Postdoc Interview
09/09/2014	Peiran Gao	Multi-neuronal theory of dimensionality, dynamics and measurement
		Summer Break
22/07/2014	Pedro Goncalves	Equalizing excitation–inhibition ratios across visual cortical neurons	Xue, Atallah, Scanziani (2014)
15/07/2014	Laurence Aitchison	Spatiotemporal receptive fields of barrel cortex revealed by reverse correlation of synaptic input	Ramirez, et al. (2014)
08/07/2014	Mehdi Keramati	Behavioral and neurophysiological correlates of regret in rat decision-making on a neuroeconomic task	Steiner, Redish (2014)
01/07/2014	Federico Mancinelli	Role of Central Serotonin in Anticipation of Rewarding and Punishing Outcomes: Effects of Selective Amygdala or Orbitofrontal 5-HT Depletion	Rygula, Rafal, et al. (2013)
24/06/2014	Laetitial Jubin	A use for all those inhibitory neurons that are clogging up anatomy textbooks
17/06/2014	Charvy Narain	How to publish in Nature Neuroscience.	Hiroshi Yamada, et. al. (2013)
10/06/2014	Peter D	Executive control processes underlying multi-item working memory	AH Lara, JD Wallis (2013)
03/06/2014		Tri-Center Meeting
27/05/2014	Kyo	Thirst-dependent risk preferences in monkeys identify a primitive form of wealth.	Hiroshi Yamada, et. al. (2013)
06/05/2014	Thomas Desautels	Deficient GABAergic Gliotransmission May Cause Broader Sensory Tuning in Schizophrenia.	Osamu Hoshino (2014)
13/05/2014	Gergo Bohner	Connexin 30 sets synaptic strength by controlling astroglial synapse invasion.	Ulrike Pannasch, et. al. (2014)
06/05/2014	Thomas Desautels	Altering Spinal Cord Excitability Enables Voluntary Movements After Chronic Complete Paralysis in Humans.	Angeli, Edgerton, Gerasimenko, and Harkema (2014)
29/04/2014	Logan Grosenick	Rapid, synchronous 3D functional imaging and estimation of neural dynamics at cellular resolution.	Logan Grosenick
22/04/2014		Easter Week	Huyen Nguyen
15/04/2014	Huyen Nguyen	An overview of axon guidance.	Huyen Nguyen
08/04/2014	Kristin Voelk	Temporal structure of motor variability is dynamically regulated and predicts motor learning ability.	Howard G Wu, et. al. (2013)
04/04/2014	Vincent Adam	Learned spatiotemporal sequence recognition and prediction in primary visual cortex.	Jeffrey P Gavornik, Mark F Bear (2013)
28/03/2014	Catherine Wacongne	Predictive Coding in the auditory cortex, a joint modeling and imaging approach	Catherine Wacongne
21/03/2014		Student Interview Week
14/03/2014		Cosyne Wrap Up
07/03/2014		Cosyne 2014
28/02/2014		Cosyne 2014
21/02/2014	Maneesh Sahani	Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement.	Matthew T Kaufman, et. al. (2013)
14/02/2014	Marius Pachitariu	Optogenetic Activation of an Inhibitory Network Enhances Feedforward Functional Connectivity in Auditory Cortex.	Liberty S. Hamilton, et. al. (2013)
07/02/2014	Ritwik P Niyogi	Prolonged dopamine signalling in striatum signals proximity and value of distant rewards.	Howe MW, et. al. (2013)
31/01/2014	Srini Turaga	Practice Talk
24/01/2014	Peter Dayan	Retrospective Revaluation in Sequential Decision Making: A Tale of Two Systems.	Gershman SJ, Markman AB, Otto AR. (2012)
17/01/2014	Ben Huh	Context-dependent computation by recurrent dynamics in prefrontal cortex	Valerio Mante, et. al. (2013)
26/11/2013	Michael Hill	Methodological advances and their application in a human single unit recording and microstimulation study	Michael Hill
19/11/2013		SfN wrap up
05/11/2013	Henry Abarbanel	Cancelled	Henry Abarbanel
29/10/2013	Zhuoyi Song	Stochastic Adaptive Sampling of Fly Photoreceptors	Zhuoyi Song
22/10/2013	Agnieszka	Stimulus-dependent variability and noise correlations in cortical MT neurons	Adrián Ponce-Alvarez, et. al. (2013)
15/10/2013	Pedro	Temporal whitening by power-law adaptation in neocortical neurons	Christian Pozzorini, et. al. (2013)
08/10/2013	Nori Jacoby	Information, working memory and prediction (and music perception)	Nori Jacoby
01/10/2013	Evan Archer	Non-parametric Bayesian Method for Spike Entropy Estimation.	Evan Archer
24/09/2013	Laurence Aitchison	Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells	KiJung Yoon, et. al. (2013)
17/09/2013	Stephanie Palmer	Prediction in the brain: insights from the retina and natural movie statistics	Stephanie Palmer
30/07/2013	Kristin Voelk	Neural coding during active somatosensation revealed using illusory touch	Daniel H O'Connor, et.al. (2013)
23/07/2013	Vincent Adam	Reasoning, Learning, and Creativity: Frontal Lobe Function and Human Decision-Making	Anne Collins, Etienne Koechlin (2012)
16/07/2013	Biljana Petreska	Rats and Humans Can Optimally Accumulate Evidence for Decision-Making	Bingni W. Brunton, Matthew M. Botvinick and Carlos D. Brody (2013)
09/07/2013	Loic Matthey	The Sparseness of Mixed Selectivity Neurons Controls the Generalization-Discrimination Trade-Off	Barak, O., Rigotti, M., & Fusi, S. (2013)
02/07/2013	Maneesh Sahani	A functional and perceptual signature of the second visual area in primates	Jeremy Freeman, Corey M Ziemba, David J Heeger, Eero P Simoncelli & J Anthony Movshon (2013)
25/06/2013	Marius	The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks	Mattia Rigotti, Omri Barak, Melissa R. Warden, Xiao-Jing Wang, Nathaniel D. Daw, Earl K. Miller & Stefano Fusi (2013)
18/06/2013	Ritwik P Niyogi	Rational regulation of learning dynamics by pupil-linked arousal systems.	Nassar MR, Rumsey KM, Wilson RC, Parikh K, Heasly B, Gold JI. (2012)
03/06/2013	Tri-center meeting
21/05/2013	Peter Latham	The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number "e"	Xue-Xin Wei, Jason Prentice, and Vijay Balasubramanian
14/05/2013	Peter Dayan	Dynamic Estimation of Task-Relevant Variance in Movement under Risk	Michael S. Landy, Julia Trommershauser, and Nathaniel D. Daw (2012)
07/05/2013	Lars Buesing	Dynamical System Models for Characterizing Cortical Multi-Electrode Recordings
30/04/2013	Arthur Guez	Structure Learning in Human Sequential Decision-Making	Daniel Acuna, Paul Schrater (2010)
23/04/2013		Post-doc interviews
16/04/2013	Ben Huh	Chaos and reliability in balanced spiking networks with temporal drive	Lajoie, Lin, Shea-Brown (2013)
21/03/2013	@Imperial:	10am Room 3.03 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Cosyne attendees	Cosyne wrap-up	Cosyne 2013
19/02/2013	Srini Turaga	Differential connectivity and response dynamics of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in visual cortex.	Hofer and all (2011)
12/02/2013	Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska	Mechanisms of pattern decorrelation by recurrent neuronal circuits	Wiechert and all (2010)
05/02/2013	Sarah Jarvis	Principles Governing the Operation of Synaptic Inhibition in Dendrites	Gidon & Segev (2012)
08/01/2013	Stylianos Kampakis	Investigating the computational power of spiking neurons with non-standard behaviors
22/01/2013	Pedro Goncalvez	Slow dynamics and high variability in balanced cortical networks with clustered connections	Litwin-Kumar and Doiron (2012)
08/01/2013	Laurence Aitchison	Functional Properties of Cortical Feedback Projections to the Olfactory Bulb	Markopoulos and all (2012)
11/12/2012	Chris Burgess	Inhibitory interneurons in a cortical column form hot zones of inhibition. in layers 2 and 5A	Meyer and all (2011);
		Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex.	Haider and all (2012)
06/12/2012	@Imperial:	10am Room 3.03 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Loic Matthey	An ideal observer analysis of visual working memory	Sims and all (2012);
20/11/2012	Biljana Petreska	Discrete Neocortical Dynamics Predict Behavioral Categorization of Sounds	Bathellier and all (2012);
30/10/2012	Maneesh Sahani	More is not always better: adaptive gain control explains dissociation between perception and action	Simoncini and all (2012)
06/11/2012	Ritwik Niyogi	Activation of dorsal raphe serotonin neurons is necessary for waiting for delayed rewards.	Miyazaki and all (2012); Miyazaki and all (2011)
30/10/2012	NO dwellers	SfN wrapup	SfN meeting 2012
23/10/2012	David Pfau	Learning State Space Models for Neural Data via Nuclear Norm Minimization
09/10/2012	Marius Pachitariu	A Sparse Coding Model with Synaptically Local Plasticity and Spiking Neurons Can Account for the Diverse Shapes of V1 Simple Cell Receptive Fields	Zylberberg and all (2012)
02/10/2012	Arthur Guez	Inferring Visuomotor Priors for Sensorimotor Learning	Turnham and all (2011)
27/09/2012	@Imperial:	10am Room 4.01 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Peter Dayan	Statistical connectivity provides a sufficient foundation for specific functional connectivity in neocortical neural microcircuits	Hill and all (2012); Shepherd and all (2005)
18/09/2012	Zhaoping Li	Comparing State-of-the-Art Visual Features on Invariant Object Recognition Tasks	Pinto and all (2011)
11/09/2012	Lars Buesing	Spike Inference from Calcium Imaging Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods	Vogelstein and all (2009)
		A Bayesian approach for inferring neuronal connectivity from calcium fluorescent imaging data	Mishchenko and all (2011)
4/09/2012	Peter Latham	Retinal prosthetic strategy with the capacity to restore normal vision	Nirenberg & Pandarinath (2012)
24/07/2012	Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska	Fisher and Shannon Information in Finite Neural Populations	Yarrow and all (2012)
17/07/2012	Laurence Aitchison	Riken summer school 2012
10/07/2012	Ahmad Qamar	Optimal Integration of Ambiguity and Sensory Noise in Humans, Monkeys, and Neural Networks
03/07/2012	Loic Matthey	Nonlinear analysis of macaque V1 color tuning reveals cardinal directions for cortical color processin	Horwitz & Hass (2012)
19/06/2012	Chris Burgess	Feedforward origins of response variability underlying contrast invariant orientation tuning on cat visual cortex	Sadagopan & Ferster (2012)
12/06/2012	Simon Schultz	Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity	Ye Li and all (2012)
		Preferential electrical coupling regulates neocortical lineage-dependent microcircuit assembly	Yong-Chun Yu and all (2012)
29/05/2012	Maneesh Sahani	Collective dynamics in human and monkey sensorimotor cortex: predicting single neuron spikes	Truccolo and all (2010)
22/05/2012	Alex Lerchner	Columnar Interactions Determine Horizontal Propagation of Recurrent Network Activity in Neocortex	Wester & Contreras (2012)
15/05/2012	Daniel J Strouse	The Information Bottleneck Method	Tishby and all (2010)
			Slonim & Weiss (2002)
10/05/2012	@Imperial:	10am Room G38 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Marius Pachitariu	Activity recall in a visual cortical ensemble	Xu and all (2012)
01/05/2012	Biljana Petreska	A cortical motor nucleus drives the basal ganglia-recipient thalamus in singing birds	Goldberg & Fee (2012)
24/04/2012	Zeb Kurth-Nelson	A Memory Retrieval-Extinction Procedure to Prevent Drug Craving and Relapse	Xue and all (2012)
19/04/2012	Eftychios Pnevmatikakis	Fast methods for smoothing of high dimensional spatiotemporal neural data
17/04/2012	Andreas Thomik	The Geometric Structure of the Brain Fiber Pathway	van Weeden and all (2012)
03/04/2012	Laurence Aitchison	Compartmentalized dendritic plasticity and input feature storage in neurons	Losonczy and all (2008)
29/03/2012	Ritwik Niyogi	Calibrate your expectations: prediction errors, prediction errors and more prediction errors	Cohen and all (2012); Patel and all (Cosyne 2012)
22/03/2012	Arthur Guez	Grid Cells, Place Cells, and Geodesic Generalization for Spatial Reinforcement Learning	Gustafson & Daw (2011)
15/03/2012	@Imperial:	10am Room 3.01D Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
		Cosyne wrap-up	Cosyne 2012
16/02/2012	Michael Okun	Conditional modulation of spike-timing-dependent plasticity for olfactory learning	Cassenaer & Laurent (2012)
09/02/2012	Zhaoping Li	The Relation Between Color Discrimination and Color Constancy: When Is Optimal Adaptation Task Dependent?	Abrams et al (2007)
02/02/2012	Peter Dayan	Modulation of Frontostriatal Interaction Aligns with Reduced Primary Reward Processing under Serotonergic Drugs	Abler et al. (2012);
		When Desire Collides with Reason: Functional Interactions between Anteroventral Prefrontal Cortex and Nucleus Accumbens Underlie the Human Ability to Resist Impulsive Desire	Diekhof & Grube (2010)
26/01/2012	Demis Hassabis	Hippocampal "time cells" bridge the gap in memory for discontiguous events	MacDonald et al. (2011)
19/01/2012	@Imperial:	10am Room 1.47 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Lars Buesing	Neural correlates of reliability-based cue weighting during multisensory integration	Fetsch et al. (2012)
12/01/2012	Alexander Lerchner	Synaptic mechanisms underlying sparse coding of active touch	Crochet et al. (2011)
05/01/2012	Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska	Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks	Vogels, Sprekeler et al. (2011)
06/12/2011	Chris Burgess	Cosine directional tuning of theta cell burst frequencies: evidence for spatial coding by oscillatory interference	Welday et al. (2011)
22/11/2011	SfN attendants (Imperial & UCL)	SfN wrap-up
08/11/2011	Maneesh Sahani	Cone photoreceptor contributions to noise and correlations in the retinal output	Ala-Laurila et al. (2011)
		Coordinated dynamic encoding in the retina using opposing forms of plasticity	Kastner & Baccus (2011)
01/11/2011	Peter Dayan	Lateral habenula neurons signal errors in the prediction of reward information	Bromberg-Martin & Hikosaka 2011
25/10/2011	@Imperial:	Room 4.01 Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Rd, SW7 2BP
	Peter Latham	Grid cells generate an analog error-correcting code for singularly precise neural computation	Sreenivasan & Fiete (2011)
11/10/2011	Loic Matthey	The physics of optimal decision making: a formal analysis of models of performance in two-alternative forced-choice tasks	Bogacz et al. (2006)
04/10/2011	Laurence Aitchison	Contextual guidance of eye movements and attention in real-world scenes: The role of global features on object search	Torralba et al. (2006)
27/09/2011	Ritwik Niyogi	Cannabinoid receptor blockade reduces the opportunity cost at which rats maintain operant performance for rewarding brain stimulation.	Trujillo- Pisanty et al. (2011); Hernandez et al. (2010)
20/09/2011	Marius Pachitariu	Receptive fields from natural scene statistics: a unifying review	Turner, Berkes, Fiser and Sahani
13/09/2011	Jakob Macke	Identification of network-level coding units for real-time representation of episodic experiences in the hippocampus	Lin  et al. (2005)
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