Schedule



Saturday Evening

  • 5:00 - 6:30
    • Welcome/Happy Hour

  • 8:00 - 9:00
    • The nature of memory
    Randy Gallistel (Rutgers)


    Sunday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Local structural balance and functional interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synapses in hippocampal dendrites
    Guosong Liu (MIT)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • Spike transfer and sensitivity control in thalamic and cortical `hybrid networks'
    Thierry Bal (UNIC, CNRS)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells
    Winfried Denk (Max-Planck Institute)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Bayesian computation in recurrent cortical circuits
    Rajesh Rao (University of Washington)


    Sunday Evening

  • 8:00 - 8:40
    • Optimal olfactory discrimination in one theta cycle
    Zach Mainen (Cold Spring Harbor)

  • 8:40 - 11:00
    • Posters


    Monday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Contextual influences on visual processing
    Tom Albright (Salk)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • Combinatorial representation of color in visual cortex
    Terry Sejnowski (Salk)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Correlates of perceptual learning in extrastriate visual cortex
    Gregor Rainer (Max Planck Institute)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Interpreting the notion of simultaneous confinement in space and spatial frequency in terms of confinement, not variance, yields a rich class of intrinsically two-dimensional patterns
    Jonathan Victor (Cornell University)


    Monday Evening

  • 8:00 - 11:00
    • Posters

    Tuesday Morning

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Songs, Sequences and Time: Neural mechanisms of sequence generation in the brain
    Michale Fee (Bell Labs Lucent Technology)

  • 8:55 - 9:45
    • Engineering principles for detection and control in the vibrissa sensorimotor system
    David Kleinfeld (UCSD)

  • 9:45 - 10:00
    • Break

  • 10:00 - 10:50
    • Learning dynamics of reaching movements
    Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)

  • 10:55 - 11:20
    • Instructive signals in the cerebellum during motor learning
    Jennifer Raymond (Stanford)


    Tuesday Evening

  • 8:00 - 8:50
    • Reinforcement learning: implications for synaptic plasticity
    Sebastian Seung (MIT)

  • 8:50 - 11:00
    • Discussion/refreshments


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