Cosyne 2008 Workshops
March 4, 2008
Snow Bird, Utah
Recent advances in activity-dependent plasticity
Organizer(s)
Paul Munro (University of Pittsburgh): pwm@pitt.edu
Abstract
Hebb's publication of his Neurophysiological Postulate over 50 years ago profoundly altered our view of learning and memory, and has been the inspiration for dozens of mathematical models (e.g., Hopfield, 1977; Bienenstock, et al, 1982; Song et al, 2000) and hundreds of experiments (e.g., LTP, LTD, STDP). The primary goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together top theoretical researchers with some of the leading experimentalists in the area of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. If accepted, this will be the fifth in a series of workshops on this topic. The other four were held at NIPS (1999, 2001), CNS (2003) and Cosyne (2006).
Morning Schedule with approximate times
| 8:00 Paul Munro | Welcome and Introduction |
| 8:20 Daniel Ben Dayan Rubin | Long memory lifetimes require complex synapses and limited sparseness |
| 9:00 Claudia Clopath | Voltage model of STDP leads to BCM and ABS |
| 9:40 Julie Haas | Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity of Inhibitory Cortical Synapses |
| 10:20 Discussion |
Afternoon Schedule with approximate times
| 4:30 Joshua Young | STDP and the didactic reorganization of cortical response properties |
| 5:10 Yoonsuck Choe | Delay compensation through facilitating synapses and STDP: A Neural Basis for Orientation Flash-Lag Effect |
| 5:50 Mayank Mehta | Properties of STDP from Natural Spike Patterns |
| 6:30 Rob Froemke | Spike-timing-dependent plasticity and neuromodulation in the adult cortex |
| 7:10 Discussion |
