Cosyne 2005 Workshops
March 21-22, 2005
Snowbird, Utah
Workshop Title
Computational Perspectives on Neural Oscillations
Organizer(s)
Adam Kepecs and Zach Mainen
Abstract
Oscillatory activity is a basic feature of neuronal wetware. Both the active properties of neuronal membranes as well as recurrent synaptic connections tend to support the generation of oscillatory activity. Indeed, neural oscillations are ubiquitous from the ganglia of early invertebrates to the human brain. The potential functional roles of oscillations are diverse but contentious. For example, the hippocampal theta rhythm has been implicated in sequence encoding and temporal compression. In the visual system gamma has been argued to underlie the object segmentation and feature binding. In the parietal and motor system coherent beta/gamma oscillations were related to intentions. Does the brain take advantage of oscillations for computations? If so, are there key principles for oscillatory computations common to different brain areas?
This workshop will bring together investigators working in different areas to discuss emerging ideas and approaches in neural oscillations from a computational perspective.
