Sloan-Swartz Centers 2012 Annual Meeting

Invited speaker 1 – Introduction: Terry Sejnowski
Charles Schroeder – (Nathan S. Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY)

“Neuronal ensemble dynamics underlying attentional selection”

Session 1 – NYU – Chair: Richard Andersen

Robert Shapley (30 min)
“The laminar distribution of gamma-band and spike activity in V1 cortex: theoretical implications”

I-Chun Lin (15 min)
“Integrate-and-fire vs Poisson models of LGN input to V1 Cortex: noisier inputs reduce orientation selectivity”

Adi Rangan (30 min)
“Emergent dynamics in a network model of the visual cortex”

Gemma Huguet (15 min)
“A model for dynamical switching in tristable perception for visual plaids”

Howard Poizner (30 min)
“Oscillation-based neural maps for space in humans”

Session 2 – Yale – Chair: Dinu Albeanu

Thierry Emonet (30 min)
“Olfactory receptor neurons encode odor-specific dynamics independently of intensity”

Rishidev Chaudhuri (30 min)
“The timescales of large-scale brain circuit dynamics”

Alberto Bernacchia (15 min)
“Decision-making with extreme time constants”

Steve Zucker (15 min)
“Modeling Surface Inferences in Visual Cortex”

Poster session and reception - SDSC Foyer and Synthesis Center

End of Wednesday's program

Invited speaker 2 – Introduction: Ken Miller
Astrid Prinz (Emory, Atlanta, GA)
“Homeostasis in a pattern-generating circuit”

Session 3 – Caltech – Chair: Ken Miller

EunJung Hwang (30 min)
“Learning mechanisms underlying volitional control of neural activity in BMIs”

James Bonaiuto (15 min)
“Modeling the BOLD correlates of competitive neural dynamics”

Arnulf Graf (15 min)
“Inferring eye position and eye movement from populations of LIP neurons”

Session 4 – Princeton – Chair: Haim Sompolinsky

Bill Bialek (30 min)
“Inverse problems for networks: some analytic progress”

Kanaka Rajan (15 min)
“Maximally informative stimulus energies in the analysis of neural responses to natural signals”

Charles Kopec (15 min)
“A unifying framework for choice behavior in temporal processing tasks”

Bernstein

Garrett Thomas Greene (15 min)
“Retinal Contributions to Invariance Learning”

Invited speaker 3 – Introduction: XJ Wang
Carl Peterson  (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
“Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception”

Session 5 – Brandeis – Chair: XJ Wang

Paul Miller (30 min)
“Structural and functional plasticity combine to enhance performance in initially random networks trained to solve cognitive tasks”

Don Katz (30 min)
“Nonlinear transitions in taste responses reflect the sudden appearance of behavior-related coding.”

Ralf Haefner (15 min)
“Decision making and attention in a sampling-based neural representation”

Timothy O'Leary (15 min)
“Neuronal homeostasis: inside the black box”

Session 6 – Columbia – Chair: Paul Miller

Stefano Fusi (30 min)
“The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks”

Ken Miller (30 min)
“The stabilized supralinear network: A simple circuit motif that explains multi-input integration in sensory cortex”

Yashar Ahmadian (15 min)
“Interplay of random and structured connectivity in the dynamics of neural networks”

Pablo Jercog (15 min)
“Increase in efficiency and accuracy of the hippocampal spatial representation over time”

After dinner talk – EJ Chichilnisky

End of Thursday's program

Invited speaker 4 – Introduction: Terry Sejnowski
John Doyle (Caltech, Pasadena, CA)
“Universal laws and architectures”

Session 7 – CSHL – Chair: Terry Sejnowski

Dinu Albeanu (30 min)
“Gain control in the olfactory bulb: dual roles of the short axon (SA) cells”

Balazs Hangya (15 min)
“Behavioral correlates of identified nucleus basalis neurons in a sustained attention task”

Yi Wei (15 min)
“Long-term memory stabilized by noise”

Session 8 – Harvard – Chair: Bill Bialek

Florian Engert (30 min)
“Motor learning in larval zebrafish”

Cengiz Pehlevan (15 min)
“Selective neuronal responses in random balanced networks”

Baktash Babadi (15 min)
“Sparse expansive representations in sensory systems”

Julijana Gjorgjieva (15 min)
“Parallel pathways for information processing in the retina”

SueYeon Chung (15 min)
“Quadratic networks for invariant perceptual discrimination”

Invited speaker 5 – Introduction: Bob Shapley
Sascha du Lac (Salk Institute)

“Computational neuroscience meets cell biological reality in oculomotor circuits”

Session 9 – UCSF – Chair: Bob Shapley

Philip Sabes (30 min)
“A learning-based approach to artificial sensory feedback”

Michael Stryker (20 min)
“Active vision modulates responses and plasticity in mouse visual cortex”

Jonathan Charlesworth (20 min)
“Principles of trial-and-error learning in adult birdsong“

Kris Chaisanguanthum (20 min)
“On the Origins of Motor Noise“

Session 10 – UCSD/Salk – Chair: Terry Sejnowski

Scott Makeig (30 min)
“Towards human functional electrophysiological brain imaging”

Zeynep Akalin Acar (15 min)
“Forward and inverse problem solutions for EEG and ECoG data”

Jude Mitchell (15 min)
“A spiking network model of attention-dependent reductions of noise correlation in macaque V4”

Bernstein

Christoph Kirst  (15 min)
“Self-organized information routing in oscillatory networks of networks”

Ulrich Froriep  (15 min)
“Shifts of theta and gamma oscillations in the epileptic hippocampus”

Farewell – Terry Sejnowski

End of program