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Cosyne 2011 Program
Thursday February 24
4:00pm Registration opens
5:30pm Welcome reception
6:20pm Opening remarks
Slide session: Visual microcircuitry from primates to flies
Session chair: Greg Horwitz
6:30 INVITED TALK: The retinal receptive field at the elementary resolution of single photoreceptors (EJ Chichilnisky)
7:15 INVITED TALK: Genetic approaches to dissecting visual circuitry in Drosophila (Tom Clandinin)
8:00 Poster session 1
Friday February 25
Slide session: Sensory codes
Session chair: Wyeth Bair
8:30 Drosophila projection neurons encode the acceleration of time-varying odor waveforms (Anmo Kim, Aurel Lazar, Yevgeniy B. Slutskiy)
8:45 Voltage-sensitive dye imaging reveals tonotopic organization of auditory cortex spontaneous activity (Brandon Farley, Arnaud Norena)
9.00 Hippocampal representation of auditory sequences and sequence novelty in mice (Joshua Sanders, Adam Kepecs)
9:15 INVITED TALK: Cortical circuits underlying auditory processing (Anthony Zador)
10:00 Contrast features: a mechanism for face detection in the macaque middle face patch (Shay Ohayon, Winrich Freiwald, Doris Tsao)
10:15 Coffee break
Slide session: Stimulus statistics and adaptation
Session chair: Tatyana Sharpee
10:45 Adaptation in visual cortex equalizes population responses (Andrea Benucci, Matteo Carandini)
11:00 Adaptation reduces sensitivity to save energy without information loss in the fly visual system (Nikon Rasumov, Michael Baker, Jeremy Niven, Simon Laughlin)
11:15 Nature and not nurture determines the nature of a neural node (Yoav Kfir, Elad Schneidman, Segev Ronen)
11:30 Mechanism and circuitry underlying retinal sensitization (David Kastner, Yusuf Ozuysal, Stephen Baccus)
11:45 Consequences of learning a sparse image code with spiking neurons and local learning rules (Joel Zylberberg, Michael DeWeese)
12:00 Lunch break
Slide session: Networks and dynamics
Session chair: Marlene Cohen
2:00 INVITED TALK: Intrinsic noise in the brain puts severe constraints on spike timing codes (Peter Latham)
2:45 Inhibitory synaptic plasticity generates global and detailed balance of excitation and inhibition (Tim Vogels, Henning Sprekeler, Friedemann Zenke, Claudia Clopath, Wulfram Gerstner)
3:00 Explaining tuning curves by estimating interactions between neurons (Ian Stevenson, Brian London, Emily Oby, Nicholas Sachs, Jacob Reimer, Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Lee Miller, Konrad Kording)
3:15 Off-line memory reprocessing in a recurrent neuronal network formed by unsupervised learning (Jenia Jitsev, Christoph von der Malsburg)
3:30 Coffee break
Slide session: Emotion and awareness
Session chair: Katherine Nagel
4:00 INVITED TALK: Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus (David Anderson)
4:45 Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from primary visual cortex in humans (Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Jeffrey Chung, Dawn Eliashiv, Ralph Adolphs, Adam Mamelak)
5:00 Dinner break
7:30 Poster session 2
Saturday February 26
Slide session: Long-range neural coordination
Session chair: Mark Histed
8:30 INVITED TALK: A new role for thalamus in cortical functioning (S. Murray Sherman)
9:15 Attention improves information transmission between V1 and MT in humans (Sameer Saproo, John Serences)
9:30 Intrinsic activity in the fly brain gates visual information during behavioral choices (Shiming Tang, Mikko Juusola)
9:45 Microstimulation of the caudate influences perceptual decisions (Long Ding, Joshua Gold)
10:00 Coffee break
Slide session: Connectivity and correlations
Session chair: Jonathan Pillow
10:30 INVITED TALK: An embedded subnetwork of highly active neurons in the neocortex (Alison Barth)
11:15 Correlations in the visual system of the fly and their impact on stimulus encoding (Franz Weber, Christian Machens, Alexander Borst)
11:30 Correlations: why size does not necessarily matter (Ruben Moreno-Bote, Alexandre Pouget)
11:45 Estimating shared firing rate fluctuations in neural populations (Byron Yu, Adam Kohn, Matthew A. Smith)
12:00 Correlated variability in laminar cortical circuits (Bryan Hansen, Mircea Chelaru, Valentin Dragoi)
12:15 Lunch break
Slide session: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity and modulation
Session chair: Loren Frank
2:15 INVITED TALK: Experience drives spatially patterned plasticity onto cortical dendrites (Roberto Malinow)
3:00 Volatility and stability in synaptic circuits of the neocortex (Yonatan Loewenstein, Simon Rumpel)
3:15 Dopaminergic regulation of Layer V neuron firing patterns by novel channel dynamics (Ian Ellwood, Vikaas Sohal)
3:30 Coffee break
Slide session: Uncertainty and statistical inference
Session chair: Ed Vul
4:00 Maximizing reward rate in multisensory integration (Jan Drugowitsch, Alexandre Pouget, Gregory DeAngelis, Dora Angelaki)
4:15 Noradrenaline in decision-making: pupil dilation reflects unexpected uncertainty (Kerstin Preuschoff, Bernard Marius 't Hart, Wolfgang Einhauser)
4:30 Decoding the Bayesian perception of speed in human visual cortex (Brett Vintch, Justin Gardner)
4:45 Sampling in the visual cortex: explaining (away) neural variability and spontaneous activity (Gergo Orban, Mate Lengyel)
5:00 Dinner break
7:30 Poster session 3
Sunday February 27
Slide session: Sensorimotor integration
Session chair: Mark Churchland
8:30 INVITED: Merging of self-motion and touch signals in active sensation (David Kleinfeld)
9:15 Bird song learning without reinforcement: the Hebbian self-organization of sensorimotor circuits (Surya Ganguli, Richard Hahnloser)
9:30 Development of whisking in the rat modeled as a dynamical system approaching a bifurcation point (Leor Gruendlinger, Ehud Ahissar, Misha Tsodyks)
9:45 Neural circuits can learn to act as optimal feedback controllers (Greg Wayne, Larry Abbott)
10:00 Coffee break
Slide session: Neuroscience of cognition
Session chair: Marshall Hussain Shuler
10:30 INVITED TALK: Timing expectations in the human brain (Anna Christina Nobre)
11:15 INVITED TALK: Quantity coding and computation in the animal and human brain (Stanislas Dehaene)
12:00 Lunch break
Slide session: Neuromodulation
Session chair: Adam Kepecs
2:00 INVITED TALK: Control of visual cortical signals by prefrontal dopamine (Tirin Moore)
2:45 Optogenetic control of basal forebrain: cholinergic modulation of cortical processing in awake mice (Lucas Pinto, Michael Goard, Yang Dan)
3:00 What is the role of orbitofrontal cortex in dopamine-dependent reinforcement learning? (Robert Wilson, Yuji Takahashi, Geoffrey Schoenbaum, Yael Niv)
3:15 Closing remarks, program ends
