Abstracts

Abstracts for talks appear first; those for posters next. Within each section, the abstracts are ordered alphabetically by the presenting author’s last name. An index of all authors appears at the back.

 1. Anatomical and physiological constraints limit the applicability of a classical circuit model for V1 simple cells
 2. Understanding pitch perception as a multi-scale hierarchical generative process
 3. Directional selectivity in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons
 4. Stimulus contrast modulates lateral connectivity in visual cortex
 5. Gap junctions and emergent rhythms
 6. Explicit representation of the posterior and it’s evolution in time in a human estimation task
 7. Analysis of visual motion: evidence for post initiation processing in a simple perceptual task
 8. Analysis 2D pattern motion through the eyes of a fly
 9. Feature binding in the feedback layers of area V2
 10. When noisy means cardinal: visual biases for cardinal orientations revealed by degrading stimulus identity
 11. Attention resolves the effects of a computational bottleneck: modelling binding, precueing, and task-driven bias
 12. Understanding color categories, color constancy, color induction, and lightness perception from information theory
 13. How to maximize your reward rate
 14. Implicit jumps in perceptual processes cause expansion of perceived duration; pauses cause contraction
 15. Rephasing of CA3 gamma oscillations by mossy fiber input in vitro
 16. Encoding self-motion at individual central synapses
 17. Modelling spatiotemporal interactions in direction selective V1 neurons
 18. Investigating cortical spiking dynamics in vivo using simultaneous intracellular and multiunit recordings.
 19. Slow Rise Times of IPSPs Activated by Ivy Cells
 20. Characterizing neural dependencies with Poisson copula models
 21. Odor-quality perception and its representation in the olfactory bulb
 22. Adaptive Optimal Control Approaches to Sensorimotor Learning
 23. Binomial analysis accounting for functional differences between neocortical synaptic connections
 24. An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing
 25. Temporal edge detection in human auditory cortex
 26. What impairs information coding in the Basal Ganglia in Parkinson’s disease?
 27. Adaptive processing of interaural level differences
 28. Lighting up the world of neural signalling with photostimulation
 29. Postsynaptic activity-dependent modulation of unitary IPSPs by specific presynaptic cannabinoid receptors in rat neocortex
 30. Role of feedback connections: A Bayesian inference model
 31. Monte carlo map seeking circuits
 32. Resonance in subthalamo-cortical circuits in Parkinson’s disease
 33. The affect of facial expression on decision making
 34. Networks for integrating sensory evidence and value in the human brain
 35. Mixed Mode Oscillations and Canards in networks of piece-wise linear neural oscillations with gap junctions coupling
 36. Level response changes in IC: adaptation or instantaneous non-linearity?
 37. Neural-mass modelling of spontaneous brain function
 38. What can place and grid cells tell us about the metric structure of the cognitive map?
 39. Selectivity for grasp in local field potential and single neuron activity recorded simultaneously from M1 and F5 in the awake macaque monkey
 40. Modularisation through the lense of Shaping
 41. Clustered connections within the intrinsic circuitry of extrastriate area V5/MT in the rhesus macaque
 42. Chopper responses to amplitude-modulated tones: stochastic mode-locking theory and observed spiking patterns?
 43. Random networks exhibit instantaneous correlations of excitation and inhibition as observed in cortex
 44. Stimulus-specific adaptation occurs in neurons of the medial but not ventral auditory thalamus
 45. Simultaneous magnetoencephalography and subthalamic local field potential recordings in Parkinson patients
 46. Octopamine and state-dependent coding properties of optic-flow processing cells in the blowfly visual system
 47. The opposite of crowding revealed using classification images
 48. Neural correlates of visual afterimages
 49. Effects of Ih on electrophysiological and synaptic properties of interneurones of the CA2 region of the adult rat hippocampus
 50. 3D current flow in a large scale model of the cochlea and the effect of mutations on sound transduction
 51. Learning in the Context of Change-based Inference
 52. How do we perceive regularity in textures?
 53. Optimal control predicts human performance on objects with internal degrees of freedom
 54. A Model of a CA3 Hippocampal Neuron Incorporating Channelrhodopsin-2 Light Gated Ion Channels
 55. When is foveal ’crowding’ abnormal?
 56. Sensory coding by spatial patterns of cerebellar Purkinje cell complex spikes
 57. Phasical activation of serotonin dorsal raphe neurons by nociceptive stimuli
 58. Increased sensitivity to positive feedback in stochastic sequence learning in medicated patients with Parkinson’s disease
 59. A visual search asymmetry for bandlimited Gaussian curvature
 60. Spiking neural network simulation: hybrid system integration with the Parker-Sochacki method
 61. Dendrodendritic junctions and their effect on network rhythms.
 62. Interpreting Neural Dynamics in the Brain with Partial Directed Coherence
 63. The neural correlates of a three-element alignment task: visuospatial interpolation in the absence of explicit local orientation cues
 64. The influence of the reactivity of the electrode-brain interface in therapeutic deep brain stimulation