Schedule



Saturday Evening

  • 8:00 - 9:00
    • From neurons to social interaction: experiments on humanoid robot platforms
    Rodney Brooks (MIT)


    Sunday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • The role of noise in contrast invariance of simple cell responses in cat visual cortex
    David Ferster (Northwestern)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • Population coding in the LGN
    Yang Dan (Berkeley)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Using response models to evaluate timing information in V1
    Matt Weiner (NIH)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Population coding in the retina
    Sheila Nirenberg (UCLA)


    Sunday Evening

  • 7:00 - 10:00
    • Posters

    Monday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex
    Ernst Niebur (Johns Hopkins University)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • Discrimination of individual mating songs as a first step towards sexual selection
    Christian Machens (Humboldt University Berlin)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Modulation of neuronal spiking and synaptic transmission by correlated activity
    Mu-ming Poo (Berkeley)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Reliability of subthreshold responses to auditory stimuli in rat cortex
    Mike DeWeese (Cold Spring Harbor)


    Monday Evening

  • 7:00 - 7:50
    • Neural encoding of trajectory and space
    Matt Wilson (MIT)

  • 8:00 - 10:00
    • Posters

    Tuesday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Toward prosthetic systems controlled by parietal cortex
    Krishna Shenoy (Caltech)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • What does it exactly mean to "read a temporal code"?
    Partha Mitra (Bell Labs)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Useful effects from lousy signals: how to build a clinically successful neural prosthesis
    Matt Weiner (NIH)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Population coding in the retina
    Jerry Loeb (USC)


    Tuesday Evening

  • 7:00 - 11:00
    • Post-meeting discussion


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