Cosyne 2020 Main Meeting Program
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Thursday February 27, 2020
8.00a Neurodata without Borders Tutorial
12.00n Normative approaches to understanding neural coding and behavior (Cosyne 2020 Tutorial session sponsored by the Simons Foundation)
4.00p Registration opens
4.45p Welcome reception
6.15p Opening remarks
Session 1
6.30p Matt Botvinick, Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications invited
7.30p Flexible neuronal dynamics during categorization task switching in artificial and biological neural networks. Krithika Mohan, Oliver Zhu, David Freedman
7.45p Dissecting modularity and redundancy in multi-regional circuits by population recording and modeling. Byungwoo Kang, Guang Chen*, Nuo Li, Shaul Druckmann**
8.00p Poster Session 1
Friday February 28, 2020
Session 2
8.30a Mehrdad Jazayeri, Computation-through-dynamics for the temporal control of behavior (invited)
9.15a Flexible neural control of motor units revealed via latent factor models. Najja Marshall, Joshua Glaser, Sean Perkins, Larry Abbott, John Cunningham, Mark Churchland
9.30a Evidence of a memory trace in motor cortex after short‐term learning. Darby Losey, Jay Hennig, Emily Oby, Matt Golub, Patrick Sadtler, Kristin Quick, Stephen Ryu, Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu, Steven Chase
9.45a Separation of preparatory neural states when learning multiple arm-movement dynamics. Xulu Sun, Daniel O'Shea, Matt Golub, Eric Trautmann, Stephen Ryu, Krishna Shenoy
10.00a Coffee break
Session 3
10.30a Linda Wilbrecht, The role of the striatal indirect pathway/D2R+ spiny projection neurons in choice and rejection (invited)
11.15a Long-range inhibition mediates decision making in the superior colliculus. Jaclyn Essig, Josh Hunt, Gidon Felsen
11.30a Spontaneous activity and multi-sensory integration in the developing higher-order cortex. Marina Wosniack, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Paloma Maldonado, Nawal Zabouri, Christian Lohmann, Julijana Gjorgjieva
11.45a Learning rate adjustments in a volatile environment by mouse medial prefrontal cortex. Huriye Atilgan, Cayla Murphy, Hongli Wang, Alex Kwan
12.00n Lunch break
12.30p Workshop Growing Up in Science Wei Ji Ma
Session 4
2.00p John Cunningham, Automating parameter inference in theoretical neuroscience (invited)
2.45p Sequential Component Analysis (SCA). Virginia Rutten, Alberto Bernacchia, Guillaume Hennequin
3.00p Nonlinear computations in semi-balanced networks. Cody Baker, Vicky Zhu, Robert Rosenbaum
3.15p Gradient-based learning with Hebbian plasticity in structured and deep neural networks. Dina Obeid, Cengiz Pehlevan
3.30p Coffee break
Session 5
4.15p Marta Zlatic, Circuits for learning, predicting, and deciding in Drosophila. (invited)
5.00p Neural mechanism for illusory motion perception from stationary patterns. Margarida Agrochao, Ryosuke Tanaka, Damon Clark, Emilio Salazar-Gatzimas
5.15p Sensory control of neuromodulation enables flexible selection of behavioral states. Ni Ji, Gurrein Madan, Guadalupe Fabre, Alyssa Dayan, Casey Baker, Ijeoma Nwabudike, Steven Flavell
5.30p Dinner break
8.00p Poster Session 2
Saturday February 29, 2020
Session 6
8.30a Hendrikje Nienborg, Evidence for task agnostic feedback in visual cortex (invited)
9.15a Dissecting feedforward and feedback interactions between populations of neurons. Evren Gokcen, Joao Semedo, Amin Zandvakili, Christian Machens, Adam Kohn, Byron Yu
9.30a Tracking information flow in subnetworks of mouse visual cortex. Xiaoxuan Jia, Joshua Siegle, Shawn Olsen
9.45a Assembly Structure Expands the Dimension of Shared Variability in Cortical Networks. Danielle Rager, Sanjeev Khanna, Matthew Smith, Brent Doiron
10.00a Coffee break
Session 7
10.30a Megan Carey, The complex behaviors of the 'simple' cerebellar circuit (invited)
11.15p Isolating a locus for reach adaptation in the cerebellar cortex. Dylan Calame, Matt Becker, Abigail Person
11.30p Identical encoding of flexible and automatic motor sequences in the dorsal lateral striatum. Kevin Mizes, Bence Ölveczky
11.45p Exploring the hidden state of Coma. Sima Mofakham, Adam Fry, Josue Nassar, Joseph Adachi, Charles Mikell
12.00n 'Lunch break/Meet the PI Lunch
Session 8
2.00p Sam Gershman, The architecture of exploration (invited)
2.45p Wei Ji Ma, Human planning in large state spaces (invited)
3.30p Coffee break
Session 9
4.15p Gul Dolen, Parallel social information processing circuits are differentially impacted in autism (invited)
5.00p Deep neural network modeling of visuomotor transformations during social interaction. Adam Calhoun, Benjamin Cowley, Jonathan Pillow, Mala Murthy
5.00p Multi-region network models of brain-wide interactions during adaptive and maladaptive state transition. Matthew Perich, Aaron Andalman, Eugene Carter, Kanaka Rajan, Karl Deisseroth
5.30p Dinner break
8.30p Poster Session 3
Sunday March 01, 2020
Session 10
8.30a Lisa Giocomo, Multiple maps for navigation (invited)
9.15a Accurate angular integration with only a handful of neurons. Marcella Noorman, Vivek Jayaraman, Sandro Romani, Ann Hermundstad
9.30a Preexisting hippocampal network dynamics constrain optogenetically induced place fields. Sam McKenzie, György Buzsáki, Roman Huszar, Daniel English, Kanghwan Kim, Euisik Yoon
9.45a A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex. Pinglei Bao, Liang She, Mason McGill, Doris Tsao
10.00a Coffee break
Session 11
10.30a Rainer Friedrich, Connectivity and computation in olfaction (invited)
11.15a A map for odors and place in posterior piriform cortex. Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccolo Bonnachi, Zachary Mainen
11.30a Rapid representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Carl Schoonover, Andrew Fink, Richard Axel
11.45a Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals the coding logic of olfactory perception. Edmund Chong, Monica Moroni, Christopher Wilson, Shy Shoham, Stefano Panzeri, Dmitry Rinberg
12.30n Lunch break
Session 12
2.00p OFC to auditory cortex projection modulates task state updating during flexible sensorimotor decisions. Yanhe Liu, Ninglong Xu
2.15p The role of frontal cortex in multisensory decision-making. Philip Coen, Miles Wells, Peter Zatka-Haas, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth Harris
2.30p Task representation in evoked and spontaneous activity in the visual cortex. Márton Hajnal, Gergo Orban, Peyman Golshani, Duy T. Tran, Michael C. Einstein, Pierre-Olivier Polack
2.45p Chris Harvey, Cortical networks for flexible decisions during spatial navigation (invited)
3.30p Closing remarks
