Sloan/Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology
Annual Summer Meeting 2001
Organized by Allison Doupe and Ken Miller, UCSF
July 15th - 18th, 2001
At Lake Tahoe, NV
Plumpjack's Squaw Valley Inn
Session 1: Higher Cortical Function
Chair: Tom Albright, Salk Insitute
Charles Stevens, Salk Institute
Predicting functional properties of visual cortex from an evolutionary scaling law
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J. Andrew Hendrie
Population models for coding orientation in the visual cortex, and the effect of stimulus size
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Shinsuke Shimojo, CalTech
Integration beyond sensory modalities
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Shau-Ming Wu, Cal Tech
Cortical representation of auditory space
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Mark Kvale, UCSF
Statistical properties of natural acoustic environments
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Mike Kahana, Brandeis
The role of brain oscillations in human spatial and verbal cognition: Evidence from intracranial recordings
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Session 2: Plasticity and spike timing/ Biophysical and Circuit Models I
Chair: Ken Miller, UCSF
Moo-ming Poo, Invited speaker, UC- Berkeley
Modulation of synaptic efficacy and neuronal excitability by correlated activity
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P J. Sjostrom, Brandeis
Cooperativity and frequency dependence of spike timing-dependent plasticity in visual cortical layer-5 pairs
A. J. Doupe, UCSF
Developmentally restricted synaptic plasticity in a songbird nucleus required for song learning
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P. Drew, Brandeis
Modeling temporal combination selective neurons in the songbird
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Alfonso Renart, Brandeis
Homogenization by homeostatic synaptic plasticity in a recurrent cortical network model of continuous bump attractors
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Astrid Prinz, Brandeis
Coupling a model neuron to a rhythmic biological circuit with the dynamic clamp
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Frances Chance, Brandeis
Synaptic input variance controls the gain not the variability of cortical neuronal responses
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Session 3: Biophysical and Circuit Models II
Chair: Charles Stevens, Salk Institute
Toni Guillamon, New York University
Estimation of synaptic conductances in conductance-based models
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Mary B. Kennedy, CalTech
Modeling of a glutamatergic synapse in Mcell
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Peter Thomas, Salk Institute
Information processing in the single cell
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Adam Kepecs, Brandeis
Biophysical basis for differentiate-and-burst neurons
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Tim Lewis, NYU
Dynamics of neurons coupled by inhibitory synapses and gap junctions
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Anders Lansner, Invited speaker, Royal Institute of Technology, Copenhagen
Large-scale models of spinal and brainstem locomotor circuits
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Session 4: Primary Visual Cortex
Chair: Robert Shapley, NYU
Yang Dan, Invited speaker, UC-Berkeley
Stimulus-timing-dependent plasticity in the visual cortex
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Ken Miller, UCSF
Opponent Inhibition: A developmental model of layer 4 of the neocortical circuit
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Mike Shelley, NYU
High conductance state in a model of visual cortex
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Louis Tao, NYU
Simple and complex cells in a large-scale neuronal network model of primary visual cortex
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M. P. Stryker, UCSF
Brain maps and receptive fields.
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Session 5: Higher Cortical Function II
Chair: Tony Movshon, New York University
Ted Adelson, Invited Seaker, MIT
Perceptual Organization in Motion and Lightness Perception
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L. C. Osborne
Time course of information about motion direction in visual area MT in primates.
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Tony Movshon, New York University
Local And Global Operations Performed By Neurons In Macaque Area MT
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B. D. Wright, UCSF
Discovering features of natural stimuli relevant to songbird auditory neurons
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Richard Andersen, Cal Tech
Theoretical And Experimental Research For The Development Of A Neural Prosthesis For Paralyzed Patients
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Session 6: Modulation, Optimization, and Control of Neuronal Function
Chair: Eve Marder, Brandeis
Peter Dayan, Invited speaker, University College, London
Computational Neuromodulation
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Tony Bell, Salk Institute
The Self-organising Kinetic Automaton
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Xiao-Jing Wang, Brandeis
Perceptual Decision-Making by Slow Reverberation in a Local Cortical Network
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Alex Koulakov, Salk Institute
On the Nature of Logarithmic Retino-Cortical Mapping
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Alex Bäcker, CalTech
Learning Pattern Recognition In The Olfactory System
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Eve Marder, Brandeis
Neuronal Network Stability Built on Mechanisms of Intrinsic and Synaptic Plasticity
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Session 7: Higher Cortical Function/New approaches to data acquisition and analysis
Chair: John Reynolds, Salk Institute
John Reynolds, Salk Institute
Visual Salience, Competition, Neuronal Response Synchrony and Selective Attention
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Paul Tiesinga, Salk Institute
Synchronization as a mechanism for attentional gain
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Bijan Pesaran, Cal Tech
Spectral Properties Of Neuronal Spiking Activity
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Ofer Mazor, CalTech
Automated model-based spike-sorting: a method for classification with confidence intervals
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V. K. Kalatsky, UCSF
Rapid acquisition of intrinsic signal cortical maps using periodic stimulation.
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Odelia Schwartz, New York University
Characterizing neural gain control using spike-triggered covariance
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