Main Meeting Program, Cosyne 2010
A PDF version of the programme is available. This includes the text of abstracts.
- The abstracts will ultimately be archived at Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
If you are a presenter, you can find information here.
Thursday, 25 February
4:00pm - Registration desk opens
6:00pm - Welcome reception, including cocktails and buffet
7:25pm - Introductory remarks
7:30pm - Keynote address, Clay Reid (Harvard Medical School): Towards complete structural and functional imaging of cortical circuits
8:30pm Poster Session I.
Friday, 26 February
7:30am - Continental breakfast
Morning Session I Chair: Ila Fiete
8:30 am Non linear dendritic processing in cortical pyramidal neurons Jackie Schiller, Technion Medical School (invited)
9:15 am Input-dependent switching of inhibitory configurations in neural networks A. D. Reyes, New York University
9:30 am Neuronal biophysics modulate the ability of gamma oscillations to control response timing. A. Hasenstaub, S. Otte, E. M. Callaway, Crick-Jacobs Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
9:45 am Desynchronization of an electrically coupled interneuron network with excitatory synaptic input K. Vervaeke, A. Lorincz, P. Gleeson, M. Farinella, Z. Nusser, A. Silver, University College London
10:00am - Refreshment break
Morning Session II Chair: Peter Latham
10:30 am Beyond optimality to understanding individual brains: variability, homeostasis and compensation in neuronal circuits Eve Marder, Brandeis University (invited)
11:15 am Threshold modulation and homeostatic control of spike timing via circuit plasticity B. Doiron, Y. Zhao, T. Tzounopoulos, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
11:30 am Robust spatial working memory through inhibitory gamma synchrony D. Sridharan, S. Millner, J. Arthur, K. Boahen, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford University
11:45 am Influence of task-specific instructions on cross-modal sensory interactions R. Natarajan, R. Zemel, I. Murray, D. Hairston, University of Toronto
12:00pm - Lunch break (and last chance to see Session I posters)
Afternoon session I Chair: Jonathan Pillow
2:00 pm Adaptation and inference Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington (invited)
2:45 pm The same neurons form a visual place code and an auditory rate code in the primate SC J. Lee, J. Groh, Duke University
3:00 pm Visual influences on information representations in auditory cortex C. Kayser, N. Logothetis, S. Panzeri, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics
3:15pm - Refreshment break
Afternoon session II Chair: Angela Yu
3:45 pm Neuroethology of social attention Michael Platt, Duke University Medical Center (invited)
4:30 pm Implications of correlated neuronal noise in decision making circuits for physiology and behavior R. Haefner, S. Gerwinn, J. Macke, M. Bethge, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics
4:45pm - Poster Spotlights
- Attention modeled as a two-dimensional neural resource D. Ballard, University of Texas at Austin
- A common-input model of a complete network of ganglion cells in the primate retina. M. Vidne, Y. Ahmadian, J. Shlens, J. Pillow, J. Kulkarni, E. P. Simoncelli, E. Chichilnisky,L. Paninski, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
- Stability and competition in multi-spike models of spike-timing dependent plasticity B. Babadi, L. Abbott, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
- Preparatory tuning in premotor cortex relates most closely to the population movement epoch response M. M. Churchland, M. Kaufman, J. P. Cunningham, K. Shenoy, Stanford University
- Optimal neuronal tuning curves - an exact Bayesian study of dynamic adaptivity S. Yaeli, R. Meir, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion
5:00pm - Dinner break
7:30pm Poster Session II.
Saturday, 27 February
7:30am - Continental breakfast
Special symposium to honor Horace Barlow, Chair: Daniel Wolpert
Part I
8:30 am Efficiency, redundancy and sparse coding: Just a portion of Barlow’s legacy David Field, Cornell University (invited)
9:00 am Predictions of visual performance from the statistical properties of natural scenes Wilson Geisler, University of Texas, Austin (invited)
9:30 am Eyes 3, 4 and 5 would be most mystifying structures if one did not know that flies flew Simon Laughlin, University of Cambridge (invited)
10:00 am Refreshment break
Part II
10:30 am A generative model of the covariance structure of images Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto (invited)
11:00 am Evidence for a neural model to evaluate symmetry in V1 Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge (invited)
12:00 pm Lunch break (and last chance to see Session II posters)
Afternoon session I Chair: Pamela Reinagel
2:00 pm Timing in the auditory cortex Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (invited)
2:45 pm Differential sensitivity of different sensory cortices to behaviorally relevant timing differences Y. Yang, A. Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
3:00 pm The Poisson clicks task: long time constant of neural integration of discrete packets of evidence B. Brunton, C. D. Brody, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
3:15pm - Refreshment break
Afternoon session II Chair: Konrad Körding
3:45 pm Action video games as exemplary learning tools Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester (invited)
4:30 pm Pupillometric evidence for a role of locus coeruleus in dynamic belief updating M. Nassar, R. C. Wilson, R. Kalwani, B. Heasly, J. Gold, University of Pennsylvania
4:45 pm Poster Spotlights
- Dynamical control of eye movements in an active visual search task: theory and experiments H. He, J. Schilz, A. J. Yu, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
- Role of anterior cingulate cortex in patch-leaving foraging decisions B. Hayden, M. Platt, Duke University
- Ensemble activity underlying movement preparation in prearcuate cortex . Kalmar, J. Reppas, S. Ryu, K. Shenoy, W. Newsome, Stanford University
- Temporal precision of the olfactory system R. Shusterman, M. Smear, T. Bozza, D. Rinberg, Janelia Farm, HHMI
- A normalization model of multi-sensory integration T. Ohshiro, D. Angelaki, G. DeAngelis, University of Rochester
5:00pm - Dinner break
7:30pm Poster Session III.
Sunday, 28 February
7:30am - Continental breakfast
Morning Session I Chair: Nicole Rust
8:30 am Detection and estimation of defocus in natural images J. Burge, W. Geisler, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas, Austin
8:45 am Invariant contrast coding in photoreceptors U. Friederich, D. Coca, S. Billings, M. Juusola, University of Sheffield
9:00 am Spike-triggered covariance and synthetic image replay reveal nonlinearities in V1 color processing G. Horwitz, University of Washington
9:15 am Metamers of the ventral stream J. Freeman, E. P. Simoncelli, Center for Neural Science, NYU
9:30 am The control of visual information by prefrontal dopamine Tirin Moore, Stanford University (invited)
10:15am - Refreshment break
Morning Session II Chair: Dora Angelaki
10:45 am High frequency entrainment of thalamic neurons by basal ganglia output in the singing bird J. H. Goldberg, M. Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 am Beside the point: Motor adaptation without feedback error correction in task-irrelevant conditions S. Schaefer, I. Shelly, K. Thoroughman, Department of Physical Therapy, Washington U.
11:15 am Conscious or not? How neuroscience is building a bridge to understanding recovery following severe brain injury Nicholas Schiff, Weill Cornell Medical College (invited)
12:00 pm Lunch break (hotel checkout, and last chance to see Session III posters)
Afternoon session I Chair: Vivek Jayaraman
2:00 pm Hippocampal processes underlying episodic memory John Lisman, Brandeis University (invited)
2:45 pm Coordinated hippocampal firing across related spatial locations develops with experience A. Singer, M. Karlsson, A. Nathe, M. Carr, L. Frank, Keck Center and Department of Physiology UCSF
3:00 pm Temporal transformations in olfactory encoding promote rapid detection of natural odor fluctuations K. Nagel, R. Wilson, Harvard Medical School
3:15 pm Experimental evolution to probe gene networks underlying cognition in Drosophila Josh Dubnau, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (invited)
4:00pm - Closing remarks
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