Date	Presenter	Topic	Reading
06/12/2013	@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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