Workshops, Cosyne 2009
March 2-3, 2009
Snow Bird, Utah
Workshop program booklet (PDF)
Day 1 - March 2
- Neural variability and movement variability (Mark Churchland)
- Eye movements and visual perception (Dario Ringach)
- Stochastic methods for the analyses of spike train and field potential data (David Nguyen, Uri Eden)
- The consequences of brain rhythms in the organization of neuronal computation (Kai Miller, Thilo Womelsdorf)
- The computational role of dopamine (Bruno B. Averbeck, Michael J. Frank)
- Calculations for communication: neural coding of songs in the bird brain (Sarah Woolley)
Day 2 - March 3
- Dimensionality reduction for multi-channel neural recordings (Byron Yu, John Cunningham)
- Common computational principles of attention and decision making; can they account for unexpected observations in parietal cortex? (Anne K. Churchland, Jochen Ditterich, Justin L. Gardner)
- Olfactory coding: Many roles of neural plasticity in shaping odor codes (Maxim Bazhenov, Mark Stopfer)
- Modulation of cortical responses by behavior and brain state (Robert C. Froemke, Michael DeWeese)
- The role(s) of inhibition and excitatory/inhibitory balance in sensory processing (Dan Butts)
- The role of spatial context in biological and computational vision (Odelia Schwartz & Ruben Coen Cagli)
- Prefrontal contributions to visual perception (Hakwan Lau)
