Main Meeting Program, Cosyne 2009
- Download the 2009 program book (2.5MB PDF). The first part (without the abstracts) will be distributed at the meeting. Note: The DOI links in this file may not work until the end of the conference.
- The abstracts are archived at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Click on the title of an abstract to go there.
Thursday, 26 February
4:00pm Registration desk opens
6:00pm Welcome reception, including cocktails and buffet
7:25pm Introductory remarks, Matteo Carandini and Maneesh Sahani
7:30pm Keynote address, Internal representations of the olfactory world, Richard Axel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Columbia University
8:30pm Poster Session I
Friday, 27 February
7:30am Continental breakfast
8:30am Multiple-electrodes, brain rhythms, and cognition, Earl K. Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (invited)
9:15am Burst Spiking of Single Cortical Neuron Switches Global Brain State , C Li, MM Poo, Y Dan
9:30am Parvalbumin interneurons and oscillations enhance information processing in cortical microcircuits , V Sohal, F Zhang, O Yizhar, K Deisseroth
9:45am The asynchronous state in the cerebral cortex, A Renart,J de la Rocha, L Hollender, B Haider, A Duque, D McCormick, N Parga, A Reyes, KD Harris
10:00am Refreshment break
10:30am The neuroeconomics of simple goal-directed choices Antonio Rangel, California Institute of Technology (invited)
11:15am Neural activity in frontal eye field during flexible decision-making, V Ferrera, M Yanike, C Cassanello
11:30am An Infinite Mixture Model of Context-dependent Learning and Extinction, S Gershman, D Blei, Y Niv
11:45am An ideal-observer model for optimal inference in the presence of different types of uncertainty, R Wilson, M Nassar, J Gold
12:00pm Lunch break (and last chance to see Session I posters)
2:00pm Computational role of short-term synaptic plasticity in the neocortex , Misha Tsodyks, Weizmann Institute (invited)
2:45pm Reward enhances reactivation of experience in the hippocampus, A Singer, L Frank
3:00pm State-dependent cortical processing: Cholinergic modulation of visual responses , M Goard, Y Dan
3:15pm Refreshment break
3:45pm Half a wiring diagram is better than none, Cori Bargmann The Rockefeller University (invited)
4:30pm How neural systems adjust to different environments: an intriguing role for gap junction coupling , S Nirenberg, C Pandarinath, I Bomash, J Victor, W Tschetter
4:45pm Poster Spotlights
- Summation properties of frequency-dependent disynaptic inhibition between pyramidal cells, T. Berger, G. Silberberg, R. Perin de Campos, H. Markram
- Distinct adaptive modes for weak and strong signals in a retinal population, D. Kastner, S. Baccus
- Extracting MAX-pooling receptive fields with natural image fragments, M. Vidal-Naquet, S. Ullman, M. Tanifuji
- Visual response properties of V1 neurons projecting to V2 in macaque, Y. El-Shamayleh, R. Kumbhani, N. Dhruv, J. A. Movshon
- OFF direction-selective cells in the mouse retina, Y. Zhang, I. Kim, J. Sanes, M. Meister
5:00pm Dinner break
7:30pm Poster Session II
Saturday, 28 February
7:30am Continental breakfast
8:30am Bayesian reconstruction of perceptual experiences from human brain activity , Jack Gallant, Thomas Naselaris, Ryan Prenger, Kendrick Kay, UC Berkeley (invited)
9:15am Attention reduces trial-to-trial and correlated variability in V4 neurons, M Cohen, J Maunsell
9:30am Statistical decision theory and the allocation of cognitive resources in multiple object tracking , E Vul, M Frank, G Alvarez, J Tenenbaum
9:45am Unlimited-capacity, metabolically constrained visual short-term memory in multiple object tracking, WJ Ma, W Huang
10:00am Refreshment break
10:30am The fly lobula plate: a sensory network for ego-motion estimation based on optic flow , Axel Borst, Max-Planck-Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried (invited)
11:15am Efficient spike encoding for mapping visual receptive fields , G Pipa, Z Chen, S Neuenschwander, B Lima, E Brown
11:30am Inferring functional connectivity in an ensemble of retinal ganglion cells sharing a common input, M Vidne, J Kulkarni, Y Ahmadian, J Pillow, J Shlens, EJ Chichilnisky, E Simoncelli, L Paninski
11:45am Different strategies for coding What and When in the archer fish retina, G Vasserman, M Shamir, R Segev
12:00pm Lunch break (and last chance to see Session II posters)
2:00pm Learning, and learning to learn, with hierarchical Bayesian models , Joshua Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (invited)
2:45pm Matching spontaneous and evoked activity in V1: a hallmark of probabilistic inference, P Berkes, G Orban, M Lengyel, J Fiser
3:00pm A walk through the woods explains the space variant oblique effect, T Weisswange, C Rothkopf, J Triesch
3:15pm Refreshment break
3:45pm Interpreting primary motor cortex based on optimal feedback control , Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Kingston (invited)
4:30pm Representation of Motor Learning in the Smooth Eye Movement Region of the Frontal Eye Fields, J Li, S Lisberger
4:45pm Poster Spotlights
- Detection of extracellular potentials using a mechanical-based nanosensor, A. Sadek, R. Karabalin, J. Du, M. Roukes, C. Koch, G. Laurent, S. Masmanidis
- Motor planning in the rat superior colliculus, G. Felsen, Z. Mainen
- Localizing the origin of executive control over distributed processing to prefrontal cortex, M. Chafee, S. Jain, R. Blackman
- Using Brainbow and GRASP for detailed reconstruction of complete circuits with light microscopy, Y. Mishchenko
- Towards fast in vivo neuronal imaging using objective coupled planar illumination microscopy , D. Turaga, T. Holy
5:00pm Dinner break
7:30pm Poster Session III
Sunday, 1 March
7:30am Continental breakfast
8:30am The building blocks of cerebellum-dependent learning , Jennifer Raymond, Stanford University (invited)
9:15am Developing a working memory with reward-modulated STDP, C Savin, J Triesch
9:30am Robust learning of position invariant visual representations with OFF responses, H Sprekeler, W Gerstner
9:45am Sparse neural representations of odor and associative learning, I Ito, C Ong, B Raman, M Stopfer
10:00am Refreshment break
10:30am Synaptic mechanisms of whisker sensory perception, Carl Petersen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (invited)
11:15am Nonlinear receptive field mapping reveals two subpopulations of orientation selective neurons in V2., A Schmid, J Victor
11:30am Imperfect receptive fields can enhance performance of neural populations , Y Liu, T Sharpee
11:45pm Lunch break (hotel checkout, and last chance to see Session III posters)
2:00pm Cortical analysis of auditory scenes and speech, Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland (invited)
2:45pm Synaptic mechanisms underlying sustained responses in auditory cortical neurons., M Wehr, B Scholl
3:00pm Natural sound selectivity in the auditory forebrain is strongly shaped by the acoustic environment, N Amin, F Theunissen
3:15pm Connecting brain to mind through computation: The birth of computational psychiatry, P. Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (invited)
4:00pm Closing remarks, Matteo Carandini
Monday, 2 March - Tuesday, 3 March
