Schedule:| Date | Presenter | Topic | Reading |
| | | |
| 9 Sept '08 | Alex
Lerchner | Decoupling through synchrony in neuronal circuits with
propagation delays | Lubenov and Siapas, Neuron '08 |
| 16 Sept '08 | David Barrett | Optimal information storage in noisy synapses under resource constraints | Varshney, Sjostrom, Chklovskii, 2006 |
| 23 Sept '08 | Peter Dayan | Reinforcement learning from a neuroscience perspective | |
| 30 Sept '08 | cancelled | | |
| 7 Oct '08 | Phillipp
Hehrmann | Synaptic depression may underly ITD stimulus adaptation in the
inferior colliculus, Hehrmann et al. | |
| 14 Oct '08 | Reza Maozzezi | | |
| 21 Oct '08 | | | |
| | | |
| past presentations: | | |
| 30 Oct. '07 | group
meeting | to decide on topics / papers / presenters | |
| 6 Nov. '07 | no meeting (SfN) | | |
| 13 Nov. '07 | Amit Miller | Motor learning with unstable neural representations. By Rokni, Richardson, Bizzi, Seung. | Rokni et al, Neuron '07
supplementary material |
| 20 Nov. '07 | SfN attendees | SfN review
Alex: 931.11/VV5
Misha: 383.18/XX23, 303.21/XX26
Jonathan: Haslinger and Shalizi [poster PDF] | |
| 27 Nov. '07 | Misha
Ahrens | Exact quantification of free behaviour of simple
organisms | [Stephens, Bialek:
C. Elegans]
[Cowan and Fortune:
electric fish]
[Reiser and
Dickinson: Drosophyla]
|
| 4 Dec. '07 | no meeting (NIPS) | | |
| 11 Dec. '07 | Yasser Roudi | Trade-Off between Object Selectivity and Tolerance in Monkey
Inferotemporal Cortex. By Davide Zoccolan, Minjoon Kouh, Tomaso
Poggio, and James J. DiCarlo | Zoccolan et al., J Neurosci 2007 |
| 18 Dec. '07 | Deb Ray | Matching Behaviour and the Representation of Value in the Parietal
Cortex. Sugrue, Corrardo, Newsome. Science 2004> | Surgrue, Corrado, Newsome, Science '04 |
| | | |
| 15 Jan. '08 | Adam
Sanborn | Edge co-occurrence in natural images predicts contour
grouping performance. Geisler, Perry, Super and Gallogly | Geisler et
al., Vision Research, 2001 |
| 22 Jan. '08 | Kai Krueger | MOSAIC model for sensorimotor learning and control, by Haruno, Wolpert and Kawato | Haruno et al., 2001 |
| 29 Jan. '08 | Mani
Ahmadi | Adaptive temporal integration of motion in direction
selective neurons in macaque visual cortex. Bair W, Movshon JA (2004),
Journal of Neuroscience 247305--7323 | Bair and Movshon '04 |
| 5 Feb. '08 | No JC - Columbia meeting | | |
| 12 Feb. '08 | Alex
Lerchner | Action selection and refinement in subcortical
loops through basal ganglia and cerebellum. Houk, JC, Bastianen C,
Fansler D, Fishbach A, Fraser D, Reber PJ, Roy SA, Simo LS
(2007). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society- B 362:
September issue. | Houk et
al. 2007 |
| 19 Feb. '08 | No JC - PhD interviews | | |
| 26 Feb. '08 | Cosyne preview | | |
| 4 March '08 | Cosyne - no meeting | | |
| 11 March '08 | Cosyne review | Cosyne review | |
| 18 March '08 | 1 PM: Joshua Young | Cortical reorganisation (see email) | Young et al. '07 |
| 25 March '08 | Vinayak
Rao | Persistent Activity in Neural Networks with Dynamic
Synapses | Main paper: Barak
& Tsodyks, PLoS Comp. Biol., 2007
See also: Mongillo et al., Science,
2008 |
| 1 April '08 | Phillipp
Hehrmann | Somatotopic representation of action words in human
motor and premotor cortex | Hauk,
Johnsrude and Pulvermueller, Neuron '04 |
| 8 April '08 | Zhaoping
Li | Theoretical Understanding of the early visual processes by
data compression and data selection | Link
to Zhaoping's paper, Network 2006 |
| 15 April
'08 | Peter Dayan | Hierarchical
reinforcement learning | Botvinick, TICS, in press
Botvinick, Niv, Barto |
| 22 April '08: different venue (see above) | Reza Maozzezi | Adaptive coding of visual information in neural populations | Gutnisky and Dragoi, Nature '08 |
| 29 April '08 | Bahador Bahrami | Noise-dependent interhemispheric integration of motion | abstract |
| 6 May '08 | Pietro Berkes | Xu Miao, Rajesh P.N. Rao (2007) Learning Lie groups of visual
invariance. Neural Computation 19(10), 2665-2693. | Miao and Rao, 2007 |
| 13 May '08 | Peter
Latham | Instantaneous correlation of excitation and inhibition
during ongoing and sensory-evoked activities. | Okun and Lampl, Nature Neuroscience,
2008 |
| 20 May '08 | Ulrik Beierholm | Learning stochastic reward distributions in a speeded pointing task | Seydell, McCann, Trommershauser, Knill, J. Neurosci. '08 |
| 27 May '08 | Jonathan Pillow | The role of correlations in direction and contrast coding in the primary visual cortex | Montani, Kohn, Smith, Schultz, J.Neurosci, 2007 Also see the erratum. |
| 3 June '08 | no jc - NIPS | | |
| 10 June '08 | no jc | | |
| 17 June '08 | Richard Turner | A theory of cortical responses | Karl Friston, Philos. Trans. R. Roc. Lond. 2005 |
| 24 June '08 | Maneesh Sahani | Decision-making with multiple alternatives | Churchland, Kiani, Shadlen, Nature Neuroscience '08 |
| 1 July '08 | Misha Ahrens | The hemo-neural hypothesis | Chris Moore and Rosa Cao, 2007, J. Neurophysiol. |
| 8 July '08 | no jc - local systems meeting | | |
| 15 July '08 | Adam
Sanborn | Characterizing observer states using external noise
and observer models: Assessing internal representations with external
noise | Lu and Dosher, Psych
Review, 2008 |
| 22 July '08 | Ross Williamson | Level dependence of contextual modulation in auditory cortex | Scholl, Gao, Wehr, J Neurophys '08. |
| 29 July '08 | Kai
Krueger | Reconciling Reinforcement Learning Models with
behavioural Extinction and Renewal: Implications for Addiction,
Relapse and Problem Gambling | Redish, Jensen, Johnson, and Kurth-Nelson,
Psych Review '08 |
| 2 Sept '08 | Mani Ahmadi | Retinal ganglion cells can rapidly change polarity from Off to On | Geffen et al '08 |