GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
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Neural Coding Workshop

11 - 13 June 2008

By invitation only

Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

Please see map at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/images/map_arounducl_l.jpg

Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation


PROGRAMME  

[45 minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]

Wednesday 11 June

10.00 – 10.10

Tea, coffee and Welcome ( Peter Dayan, Bruno Avebeck)

10.10 – 11.10

Barry Richmond - Latency: an obvious aspect of temporal coding

11.10 – 12.10

Alex Pouget - Neuronal variability: noise or incompetence?

12.10 – 13.20

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

13.20 – 14.20

Stefano Panzeri - Low frequency Local Field Potentials and spikes in visual cortex convey largely complementary information

14.20 – 15.20

Jeff Beck - Correlations and Coincidences: What's the difference, when does it matter, and how can we tell?

15.20 – 15.50

Tea and Coffee

15.50 – 16.50

Peter Latham - Correlations in strongly coupled networks

16.50 – 17.50

Jonathan Pillow - Understanding the sensory role of correlated spiking activity using a generalized linear model

 

 

Thursday 12 June

 

10.30 – 11.30

Simon Schultz - Two-photon imaging of a spatial pattern population code in the cerebellum

11.30 – 12.00

Tea and Coffee

12.00 – 13.00

A B Bonds - Synchrony in large groups encodes contours

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

14.00 – 15.00

Pascal Fries - The gamma cycle

15.00 – 16.00

Mark Laubach - Dynamic modulation of the striatum following changes in stimulus-reward association

   
FOLLOWED BY: Institute of Movement Neuroscience Public Lectures - Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
16.30 - 17.30 Hagai Bergman - Asymmetric Encoding of Value in the Basal Ganglia

17.30 - 18..30

Barry Richmond - Roles of temporal and frontal cortices in predicting behavioral outcome values associated with visual stimuli

   

19.30 finish

Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London, WC1 4BL

 

 

Friday 13 June

 

10.00 – 11.00

Hagai Bergman - Computational Physiology of the Basal ganglia and their Disorders: From Theory to Crosscorrelation Studies and Back

11.00 – 11.30

Tea and Coffee

11.30 – 12.30

Bruno Averbeck - Comparison of network entropy between healthy and 6-OHDA lesioned rats

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

13.30 – 14.30

Miles Whittington - Multiple rhythm generating microcircuits in neocortex: A possible role in controlling interlaminar temporal interactions

14.30 – 15.30

Stuart Baker - Beta-band Oscillations: a Feedback System for Sensorimotor Integration?

15.30

FINISH

   
FOLLOWED BY: Institute of Movement Neuroscience Public Lectures - Gilliatt Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square House, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
16.00 - 17.00 Alex Pouget - Bayesian decision making with probabilistic population codes
17.00 - 18.00 Pascal Fries - Selective attention through selective neuronal synchronization

 

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