Schedule
- Saturday Evening
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- 5:00 - 6:30
- Welcome/Happy Hour
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- 8:00 - 9:00
- The nature of memory
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Randy Gallistel (Rutgers)
- Sunday Morning
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- 8:00 - 8:50
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Local structural balance and functional
interaction of excitatory and inhibitory
synapses in hippocampal dendrites
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Guosong Liu (MIT)
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- 8:55 - 9:45
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Spike transfer and sensitivity control in
thalamic and cortical `hybrid networks'
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Thierry Bal (UNIC, CNRS)
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- 9:45 - 10:00
- Break
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- 10:00 - 10:50
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Directionally selective calcium signals in
dendrites of starburst amacrine cells
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Winfried Denk (Max-Planck Institute)
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- 10:55 - 11:20
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Bayesian computation in recurrent cortical circuits
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Rajesh Rao (University of Washington)
- Sunday Evening
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- 8:00 - 8:40
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Optimal olfactory discrimination in one
theta cycle
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Zach Mainen (Cold Spring Harbor)
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- 8:40 - 11:00
- Posters
- Monday Morning
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- 8:00 - 8:50
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Contextual influences on visual processing
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Tom Albright (Salk)
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- 8:55 - 9:45
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Combinatorial representation of color in
visual cortex
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Terry Sejnowski (Salk)
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- 9:45 - 10:00
- Break
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- 10:00 - 10:50
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Correlates of perceptual learning in
extrastriate visual cortex
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Gregor Rainer (Max Planck Institute)
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- 10:55 - 11:20
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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
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Jonathan Victor (Cornell University)
- Monday Evening
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- 8:00 - 11:00
- Posters
- Tuesday Morning
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- 8:00 - 8:50
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Songs, Sequences and Time: Neural
mechanisms of sequence generation in
the brain
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Michale Fee (Bell Labs Lucent Technology)
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- 8:55 - 9:45
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Engineering principles for detection and
control in the vibrissa sensorimotor
system
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David Kleinfeld (UCSD)
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- 9:45 - 10:00
- Break
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- 10:00 - 10:50
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Learning dynamics of reaching movements
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Reza Shadmehr (Johns Hopkins University)
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- 10:55 - 11:20
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Instructive signals in the cerebellum
during motor learning
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Jennifer Raymond (Stanford)
- Tuesday Evening
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- 8:00 - 8:50
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Reinforcement learning: implications for
synaptic plasticity
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Sebastian Seung (MIT)
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- 8:50 - 11:00
- Discussion/refreshments
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