Time Duration    Speaker

Title

23 July, Saturday        
Registration 4:00 PM      
Opening 5:30 PM 0:30 Hirsh Cohen  
  6:00 PM 0:55 Richard Andersen,
Caltech
Decoding cognitive variables with brain-machine
interfaces
Reception 7:15 PM      
Dinner      

             Avery House

         
24 July, Sunday        
Breakfast 8:15 AM      
  9:00 AM 0:55 Wendy Suzuki,
NYU
Associative Learning and Medial Temporal Lobe
  9:55 AM 0:30 Philip Low (Salk) A New Way To Look At Sleep
Break 10:25 AM   0:25    
  10:50 AM 0:30 Robert Shapley (NYU) A model of the V1 network, and cortical oscillations
  11:20 AM 0:30 David Cai (NYU) On the spatiotemporal dynamics of primary visual cortex
  11:50 AM 0:30 Tatyana Sharpee (UCSF) Adaptive decorrelation in the primary visual cortex
Lunch 12:20 PM   1:40    
  2:00 PM 0:30 Scott Makeig,
UCSD
Macroscopic brain dynamics supporting human cognition
  2:30 PM 0:30 Glenn Turner (Caltech) Odor Representations in the Mushroom Body of Drosophila
  3:00 PM 0:30 Naoshige Uchida (CSHL) Information processing in an olfactory decision task
Break 3:30 PM   0:25    
  3:55 PM 0:30 Karli Watson (Caltech) The Von Economo Cells: Anatomy of a neuron unique to
great apes and humans
  4:25 PM 0:30 Alexander Kraskov (Caltech)  Selectivity of LFPs in human MTL
  4:55 PM 0:55 Rodrigo Quian Quiroga,
University of Leicester, UK 
Encoding and decoding of visual inputs by single
cells in the human temporal lobe
Dinner 6:30 PM    

             Avery House

       
25 July, Monday        
  9:00 AM 0:55 Alumit Ishai,
ETH, Switzerland
Category Learning is Modulated by Visual Similarity
  9:55 AM 0:30 Xin Huang (Salk) Adaptive Surround Modulation in Cortical Area MT
Break 10:25 AM   0:25    
  10:50 AM 0:30 Steve Lisberger (UCSF) Neural correlates of motor noise
  11:20 AM 0:30 Bart Krekelberg (Salk) Contrast and the Neural Code for Speed in Macaque MT
  11:50 AM 0:30 Nava Rubin (NYU) The neural basis of perceptual bi-stability: behavior,
fMRI and modeling results
Lunch 12:20 PM   1:40 "Directors Meeting"  
  2:00 PM 0:55 Shihab Shamma,
University of Maryland
 
  2:55 PM 0:30 Brian Wright (UCSF) Information Processing and Encoding in a Sensorimotor
Area of Songbirds
Break 3:25 PM   0:25    
  3:50 PM 0:30 Christian Machens (CSHL) Short-term memory and decision making with continuous
attractor networks
  4:20 PM 0:30 Marina Brozovic (Caltech) The Role of Recurrent Connections in the Processing of
Reach Movements in the Parietal Cortex
  4:50 PM 0:20 Paul Miller (Brandeis) Comparison of temporally separated stimuli by integral
feedback control
Break 5:10 PM   0:25    
  5:35 PM 0:30 Quan Wen (CSHL) Axon and Dendrite Morphology: A cost-benefit analysis
  6:05 PM 0:20 Adam L Taylor (Brandeis) Visualizing an eight-dimensional conductance space
  6:25 PM 0:20 Ken Sugino (Brandeis) Molecular taxonomy of mouse forebrain neurons
Banquet 7:00 PM    

             The Athenaeum

         
26 July, Tuesday        
  9:00 AM 0:55 Tomaso Poggio,
MIT 
A theory of object recognition: computations
and circuits in the feed-forward path of the ventral
stream in visual cortex
  9:55 AM 0:30 Michael Eisele (Columbia) Several strategies for simple cells to learn orientation and
direction selectivity
Break 10:25 AM   0:25    
  10:50 AM 0:30 Ken Miller (Columbia) A model of visual and attentional activation in area LIP
  11:20 AM 0:30 Alex Koulakov (CSHL) Hysteretic models for neural integrators
  11:50 AM 0:30 Tim Vogels (Columbia) Signal Propagation in Large Networks of Integrate and
Fire Neurons
Lunch 12:20 PM   1:40    
  2:00 PM 0:30 Terry Sejnowski (Salk)
Ectopic Release at a Neuronal Synapse
  2:30 PM 0:30 Kanaka Rajan (Columbia) A Recurrent Model for Generating Complex Motor
Trajectories
  3:00 PM 0:30 Sen Cheng (UCSF) Dynamics of sensorimotor adaptation
Break 3:30 PM   0:25    
  3:55 PM 0:30 Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis) The development of visual cortical activity in normal and
lid sutured ferrets
  4:25 PM 0:30 Xiao-Jing Wang (Brandeis) An integrated microcircuit model of working memory and
decision making
  4:55 PM 0:55 Idan Segev,
Hebrew University, Israel
The ambitious Blue-Brain project: What can we
learn from it?
Dinner 6:30 PM    

             Avery House