Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology
Annual Summer Meeting 2005
California Institute of Technology, July 23-26, 2005
24 July, Sunday
8:15 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Wendy Suzuki (NYU)
Associative Learning and Medial Temporal Lobe
9:55 AM Philip Low (Salk)
A New Way To Look At Sleep
10:25 AM Break
10:50 AM Robert Shapley (NYU)
A model of the V1 network, and cortical oscillations
11:20 AM David Cai (NYU)
On the spatiotemporal dynamics of primary visual cortex
11:50 AM Tatyana Sharpee (UCSF)
Adaptive decorrelation in the primary visual cortex
12:20 PM Lunch
2:00 PM 0:30 Scott Makeig (UCSD)
Macroscopic brain dynamics supporting human cognition
2:30 PM Glenn Turner (Caltech)
Sparse Olfactory Representations in the Drosophila Mushroom Body
3:00 PM Naoshige Uchida (CSHL)
Information processing in an olfactory decision task
3:30 PM Break
3:55 PM Karli Watson (Caltech)
The Von Economo Cells: Anatomy of a neuron unique to great apes and humans
4:25 PM Alexander Kraskov (Caltech)
Selectivity of LFPs in human MTL
4:55 PM Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (University of Leicester, UK)
Encoding and decoding of visual inputs by single cells in the human temporal lobe
6:30 PM Dinner, Avery House
25 July, Monday
9:00 AM Alumit Ishai (ETH, Switzerland)
Category Learning is Modulated by Visual Similarity
9:55 AM Xin Huang (Salk)
Adaptive Surround Modulation in Cortical Area MT
10:25 AM Break
10:50 AM Steve Lisberger (UCSF)
The Origins of Motor Noise
11:20 AM Bart Krekelberg (Salk)
Contrast and the Neural Code for Speed in Macaque MT
11:50 AM Nava Rubin (NYU)
The neural basis of perceptual bi-stability: behavior, fMRI and modeling results
12:20 PM Lunch; "Directors Meeting"
2:00 PM Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland)
2:55 PM 0:30 Brian Wright (UCSF)
Information Processing and Encoding in a Sensorimotor Area of Songbirds
3:25 PM Break
3:50 PM Christian Machens (CSHL)
Short-term memory and decision making with continuous attractor networks
4:20 PM Marina Brozovic (Caltech)
The Role of Recurrent Connections in the Processing of Reach Movements in the Parietal Cortex
4:50 PM Paul Miller (Brandeis)
Sequential Discrimination by Integral Feedback Control
5:10 PM Break
5:35 PM Quan Wen (CSHL)
Axon and Dendrite Morphology: A cost-benefit analysis
6:05 PM Adam L Taylor (Brandeis)
Visualizing an eight-dimensional conductance space
6:25 PM Ken Sugino (Brandeis)
Molecular taxonomy of mouse forebrain neurons
7:00 PM Banquet, The Athenaeum
26 July, Tuesday
9:00 AM Tomaso Poggio (MIT)
A theory of object recognition: computations and circuits in the feed-forward path of the ventral stream in visual cortex
9:55 AM Michael Eisele (Columbia)
Several strategies for simple cells to learn orientation and direction selectivity
10:25 AM Break
10:50 AM Ken Miller (Columbia)
A model of visual and attentional activation in area LIP
11:20 AM Alex Koulakov (CSHL)
Hysteretic models for neural integrators
11:50 AM Tim Vogels (Columbia)
Signal Propagation in Large Networks of Integrate and Fire Neurons
12:20 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Terry Sejnowski (Salk)
Ectopic Release at a Neuronal Synapse
2:30 PM Kanaka Rajan (Columbia)
A Recurrent Model for Generating Complex Motor Trajectories
3:00 PM Sen Cheng (UCSF)
Dynamics of sensorimotor adaptation
3:30 PM Break
3:55 PM Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis)
The development of visual cortical activity in normal and lid sutured ferrets
4:25 PM Xiao-Jing Wang (Brandeis)
An integrated microcircuit model of working memory and decision making
4:55 PM Idan Segev (Hebrew University, Israel)
The ambitious Blue-Brain project: What can we learn from it?
6:30 PM Dinner, Avery House
Meeting concludes
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