10:00 – 10:30 Coffee
10:30 – 10:45 Anatomical and physiological constraints limit the applicability of a classical circuit model for V1 simple cells
Wyeth Bair, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
10:45 – 11:00 Understanding pitch perception as a multi-scale hierarchical generative process
Emili Balaguer, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth
11:00 – 11:15 Directional selectivity in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons
Tiago Branco, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL
11:15 – 11:30 Stimulus contrast modulates lateral connectivity in visual cortex
Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL
11:30 – 11:45 Gap junctions and emergent rhythms
S. Coombes, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
11:45 – 12:00 Explicit representation of the posterior and it’s evolution in time in a human estimation task
A. Aldo Faisal, CBL, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (not provided)
13:00 – 15:30 Posters
15:30 – 16:00 Tea
16:00 – 16:15 Analysis of visual motion: evidence for post initiation processing in a simple perceptual task
Arbora Resulaj, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
16:15 – 16:30 Analysis 2D pattern motion through the eyes of a fly
Aman B. Saleem, Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College London
16:30 – 16:45 Feature binding in the feedback layers of area V2
S. Shipp, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL
16:45 – 17:00 When noisy means cardinal: visual biases for cardinal orientations revealed by degrading stimulus identity
A. Tomassini, Deptartment of Optmometry and Visual Science, City University
17:00 – 17:15 Attention resolves the effects of a computational bottleneck: modelling binding, precueing, and task-driven bias
Louise Whiteley, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
17:15 – 17:30 Understanding color categories, color constancy, color induction, and lightness perception from information theory
Li Zhaoping, Computer Science, UCL
17:30 – 18:30 Drinks