Cosyne 2008 Workshops
March 3-4, 2008
Snow Bird, Utah
Workshop Title
Neurophysiology in awake, behaving rodents
Organizer(s)
Mark Laubach (Yale): mark.laubach@yale.edu
Marshall Shuler (Johns Hopkins): shuler@jhmi.edu
Abstract
The goal of this workshop is to clarify issues that are specific to studies of neural activity in rodents, to discuss how data sets are collected with state-of-the-art methods, to discuss how these techniques can be combined with manipulative approaches (e.g., genetic and pharmacological methods), and to attempt to clarify how our studies relate to computational and theoretical studies, including how we can effectively share our methods and data.
Our speakers will cover topics related to cognitive processing (morning session) and sensory processing (evening session). Each talk will be 20 min, followed by a 10 min discussion period. There will be general discussion for 30 min (or longer) at the end of each session.
Speakers
Schedule
Cognitive systems (Morning session)
Introductory remarks by the organizers
Mark Laubach (Yale) Dynamic encoding of stimulus value by the dorsomedial striatum
Carlos Brody (Princeton) Flexible sensorimotor mapping: the ProAnti task.
David Foster (Johns Hopkins) The role of hippocampal replay in navigational learning
Don Katz (Brandeis) Cognitive and neural taste dynamics?
Zach Mainen (Cold Spring Harbor and Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência) Reaction times, psychometric curves, and decision making
General Discussion
Sensory systems (Evening session)
Introductory remarks by the organizers
Marshall Shuler (Johns Hopkins) Reward timing in the primary visual cortex
Mark Andermann (Harvard) Towards functional and anatomical mapping of supragranular neurons in behaving mouse V1
Daniel O'Connor (Janelia Farms) Somatosensory decision-making in the head-fixed mouse
Chris Moore (MIT) Does rodent somatosensory cortex presuppose an embodied natural scene?
Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor) Task-dependent suppression of sound-evoked responses in auditory cortex
General Discussion
