08:00 Neurodata Without Borders Data Standard and DANDI Archive for Neurophysiology Data Tutorial

09:45 Learn to Use the International Brain Laboratory (IBL) Brainwide Map Dataset

11:00 Mind Matching (Neuromatch)

12:30 Get some SLEAP: Automating behavior quantification using deep learning Talmo Pereira
Cosyne 2024 Tutorial sponsored by the Simons Foundation

14:00 Registration opens

16:30 Welcome reception

19:00 Opening remarks

Session 1

Session chairs: Bing Brunton, Chandramouli Chandrasekaran

19:30 (Invited) Lars Chittka - The Mind of a Bee

20:30 Poster Session 1

Session 2: Reward and reinforcement learning

Session chair: Hannah Choi

09:00 (Invited) Alex Pouget - Neural compositionality at last!

09:40 Dopamine neurons encode a multidimensional probabilistic map of future reward. Margarida Sousa, Pawel Bujalski, Bruno Cruz, Kenway Louie, Daniel McNamee, Joe Paton
09:55 Two types of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons drive reinforcement learning. Zhixiao Su, Kanghoon Jung, Kenta Hagihara, Jeremiah Cohen
10:10 A cerebellar granule cell-climbing fiber computation to learn to predict reward. Martha Garcia Garcia, Mark Wagner, Akash Kapoor, Oluwatobi Akinwale, Lina Takemaru, Tony Hyun Kim, Casey Paton, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Mark Schnitzer, Liqun Luo

10:30 Coffee break

Session 3: Learning

Session chair: Alex Cayco Gajic

11:00 (Invited) Blaise Aguera y Arcas - What is intelligence?

11:40 Estrogenic control of reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning. Carla Golden, Daljit Kaur, Andrew Mah, Audrey Martin, Diana Levy, Takashi Yamaguchi, Dayu Lin, Chiye Aoki, Christine Constantinople
11:55 Predictive auxiliary objectives in deep RL mimic learning in the brain. Ching Fang, Kimberly Stachenfeld
12:10 A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback. Christopher Zimmerman, Alejandro Pan-Vazquez, Bichan Wu, Emma Keppler, Eartha Guthman, Robert Fetcho, Scott Bolkan, Brenna McMannon, Junuk Lee, Austin Hoag, Laura Lynch, Sanjeev Janarthanan, Juan Lopez Luna, Adrian Bondy, Annegret Falkner, Samuel Wang, Ilana Witten

12:30 Poster Session 2 (Deli Lunch provided)

13:00 Spike sorting: The Game! Adam Charles (Foyer C)

Session 4: Sensorimotor dynamics

Session chair: Chunyu A Duan

16:00 (Invited) Claire Wyart - Uncovering structure and individuality in motor patterns deployed by larval zebrafish during navigation

16:40 A complete sensorimotor pathway underlying altitude control in flight. Anne Erickson, Jaison Omoto, S. David Stupski, Floris van Breugel, Michael Dickinson
16:55 Predictive representations for rapid learning of complex tasks via composition of behavioral primitives. Pablo Tano, Alex Pouget
17:10 Mechanisms for working memory and evidence accumulation during olfactory navigation. Aaron Lanz, Nicholas Kathman, Katherine Nagel
17:25 Representational similarity modulates neural and behavioral signatures of novelty. Sophia Becker, Wulfram Gerstner, Alireza Modirshanechi

17:40 Coffee break

Session 5: Structure of neural activity

Session chair: Alex Williams

18:00 (Invited) Silvia Arber - Brainstem circuits regulating body movements

18:40 Beyond Geometry: Comparing the Temporal Structure of Neural Computation with Dynamical Similarity Analysis. Mitchell Ostrow, Adam Eisen, Leo Kozachkov, Ila Fiete
18:55 A Biologically Inspired Neural Attention Model for the Analysis of Sequential Spiking Patterns. Nicolas Skatchkovsky, Alexander Egea Weiss, Sadra Sadeh, Maria Florencia Iacaruso
19:10 Graded representation of economic value across regions and projections of the frontal cortex. Antara Majumdar, Caitlin Ashcroft, Matthias Fritsche, Lauren Strickland, Lukas Bijoch, Adam Packer, Simon Butt, Armin Lak

19:30 Panel discussion. Paul Middlebrooks (Moderator), Tony Zador, Alex Pouget, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Kim Stachenfeld, Jonathan Pillow, Eva Dyer

20:30 Simons Social (Restaurant at the Lisbon Congress Center)

Session 6: Decision-making

Session chair: Chethan Pandarinath

09:00 (Invited) Rajesh PN Rao - A Sensory-Motor Theory of the Neocortex based on Active Predictive Coding

09:40 Transitions in dynamical regime and neural mode underlie perceptual decision-making. Thomas Luo, Timothy Kim, Diksha Gupta, Adrian Bondy, Charles Kopec, Verity Elliott, Brian DePasquale, Carlos Brody
09:55 Understanding atypical decision making behavior with recurrent neural networks. Jin Zida, Li Ji-An, Marcelo Mattar
10:10 Mechanisms of brain-wide inter-area communication. Ulises Pereira, Sean Froudist-Walsh, Xiao-Jing Wang

10:30 Coffee break

Session 7: Movement and motor control

Session chair: Juan Gallego

11:00 (Invited) David Sussillo - Flexible Multitask Computation in Recurrent Networks Utilizes Shared Dynamical Motifs

11:40 Probing Movement Preparation Dynamics Using BCI-based Causal Perturbations. Asma Motiwala, Emily Oby, Erinn Grigsby, Juliana Couras, Alan Degenhart, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu
11:55 A combinatorial code of action and context for motor memory. Jae-Hyun Kim, Kayvon Daie, Nuo Li
12:10 Self-supervised behavior modeling with dense keypoint tracking. Ying Yu, Jingyuan Li, Kun Su, Anna Bowen, Carlos Campos

12:30 Poster Session 3 (Deli lunch provided)

13:00 Mini Chess Tournament Adam Charles (Foyer C)

Session 8: Sensing and learning

Session chair: Emily Mackevicius

16:00 (Invited) Elizabeth Hong - Odor relationships in the natural world as an organizational axis of the fly olfactory code

16:40 Weight transfer in the reinforcement learning model of songbird learning. Khue Tran, Alexei Koulakov
16:55 Decoding Decision-Making in Fruit Flies: Examining Perseverance with a High-Throughput 2AFC Assay and a Computational Model of Mushroom Body Circuitry. Rishika Mohanta, Aparna Dev, Glenn Turner
17:10 Distance scaling and coherent motion allow NNs to match behavioral performance in electrolocation. Denis Turcu, Abigail Zadina, Nathaniel B. Sawtell, Larry F Abbott
17:25 Long timescales needed for memory tasks arise from distinct mechanisms shaped by learning curricula. Roxana Zeraati, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Emmanouil Giannakakis, Tim Schafer, Georg Martius, Anna Levina

17:40 Coffee break

Session 9: Neural circuits

Session chair: Santiago Jaramillo

18:00 (Invited) Kafui Dzirasa - Decoding emotional brain states

18:40 Deep neural networks reveal context-sensitive speech encoding in single neurons of human cortex. Shailee Jain, Matthew K. Leonard, Edward F. Chang
18:55 Neocortical long-range inhibitory neurons coordinate state-dependent network synchronization and promote sleep. Jacob Ratliff, Renata Batista-Brito, Geoffrey Terral, Julie Mota, Charu Ramakrishnan, Leif E Fenno, Karl Deisseroth, Thomas Kilduff
19:10 Back to the present: self-supervised learning in neocortical microcircuits. Kevin Kermani Nejad, Paul Anastasiades, Loreen Hertag, Rui Ponte Costa

Session 10: Neural coding and representations

Session chair: Erin Rich

09:00 (Invited) Mac Shine - The Role of the Thalamus in Complex Adaptive Dynamic Behaviour

09:40 Comparing the geometry of static and dynamic coding across the auditory pathway. Othman Lahrach, Sophie Bagure, Brice Bathellier, Srdjan Ostojic
09:55 Representational geometry of hierarchical category structures in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nga Yu Lo, Roozbeh Kiani, SueYeon Chung
10:10 Rapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex. Yuelin Shi, Dasheng Bi, Janis Hesse, Frank Lanfranchi, Shi Chen, Doris Tsao

10:25 Coffee break

Session 11

Session chair: Luke Sjulson

11:00 (Invited) Laura Busse - Neuronal circuit dynamics in the visual thalamocortical system

11:40 Emergence of state modulation in a developing cortical circuit. Jure Majnik, Sofia Zangila, Rosa Cossart, Jean-Claude Platel

11:55 (Invited, DEI talk) Kay Tye - Evolving a Toxic Hierarchy into a Sustainable Ecosystem

12:25 Closing remarks

12:30 DEI Lunch (Opera Gale)