Unless stated otherwise, seminars are at 11:15 a.m in the 7th floor conference room (room 719) of the Kolb Annex of the NY State Psychiatric Institute (at the corner of 168th St. and Haven Ave. - view map).
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Friday, 9 Sep 2016 Aude Oliva MIT Mapping the spatio-temporal dynamics of perception in the human brain |
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Friday, 23 Sep 2016 Claudia Clopath Imperial College London Emergence of functional microcircuits |
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Friday, 30 Sep 2016 Uri Hasson Princeton Hierarchical process memory: memory as an integral component of information processing |
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Friday, 7 Oct 2016 Lisa Giocomo Stanford Identifying the algorithms for calculating spatial maps |
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Friday, 14 Oct 2016 Timothy Lillicrap Google DeepMind Augmenting deep networks with reinforcement learning and memory |
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Friday, 21 Oct 2016 Carlos Brody Princeton Flexible sensorimotor routing in the rat |
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Friday, 28 Oct 2016 Jeffrey Magee Janelia A fundamental cortical microcircuit computation |
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Friday, 04 Nov 2016 Jonathan Pillow Princeton Single-trial dynamics of neural activity in parietal cortex during decision-making |
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Friday, 18 Nov 2016 Elad Schneidman Weizmann Institute Learning a thesaurus for a neural population code and a neural metric for stimulus space |
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Friday, 2 Dec 2016 John Krakauer Johns Hopkins University Thinking about the components of motor skill |
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Friday, 9 Dec 2016 Adam Kepecs Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Decision confidence: statistical principles and neural coding |
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Friday, 16 Dec 2016 Riccardo Zecchina Politecnico di Torino The propensity of neural network architectures to learn and generalize |
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Friday, 15 Jan 2016 Mala Murthy Princeton Neural mechanisms for dynamic acoustic communication in flies |
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Friday, 29 Jan 2016 David McCormick Yale Neural mechanisms of optimal performance |
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Friday, 12 Feb 2016 Byron Yu Carnegie Mellon Internal models for interpreting neural population activity during sensorimotor control |
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Friday, 19 Feb 2016 Srini Turaga Janelia Computational methods to enable anatomic reconstruction of neural circuits |
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Friday, 4 Mar 2016 Zach Mainen Champalimaud Serotonin in prediction and control |
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Friday, 11 Mar 2016 Angela Yu UCSD Predicting the unpredictable: Wisdom or folly? |
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Friday, 18 Mar 2016 Kwabena Boahen (seminar moved to BCMC workshop) Stanford |
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Friday, 25 Mar 2016 Ann Hermundstadt Penn Patterns in nature shape human visual perception |
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Friday, 1 Apr 2016 Rony Paz Weizmann A geometric framework for rule-learning in primate neurons |
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Friday, 8 Apr 2016 Venkatesh Murthy Harvard Stimulus segregation and categorization in olfaction |
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Friday, 15 Apr 2016 Christian Machens Champalimaud Learning to represent signals spike by spike |
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Friday, 22 Apr 2016 Alex Reyes NYU Scaling of synaptic strength with network size: Effects on excitatory/inhibitory balance and network dynamics |
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Friday, 29 Apr 2016 Yoshua Bengio Montreal Bridging the gap between deep learning and neuroscience |
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Friday, 6 May 2016 Kanaka Rajan Princeton Recurrent network models of sequence generation and short-term memory |
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Friday, 13 May 2016 (seminar time changed to 12:15pm) Athena Akrami Princeton Context dependent parametric working memory - trial history vs. incoming sensory input |
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Friday, 18 Sep 2015 Ilya Sutskever Recent results on sequence learning with neural networks |
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Friday, 25 Sep 2015 Karel Svoboda Janelia Probing neuronal dynamics in premotor cortex during motor planning |
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Friday, 2 Oct 2015 Barani Raman WUSTL Relating neural dynamics with olfactory coding and behavior |
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Friday, 9 Oct 2015 Tim Vogels Oxford Memories and antimemories |
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Friday, 23 Oct 2015 Bingni Brunton UW Extracting spatio-temporal coherent patterns in large-scale recordings using dynamic mode decomposition |
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Friday, 30 Oct 2015 Konrad Kording Northwestern Cracking the neural code: A cryptography approach to mind reading |
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Friday, 6 Nov 2015 Andreas Herz BCCN Munich Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation |
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Friday, 13 Nov 2015 Helen Mayberg Emory Up from stuck: Reconsidering primary mechanisms of deep brain stimulation for depression |
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Friday, 20 Nov 2015 Dean Buonomano UCLA Teaching in vitro and artificial neural networks to tell time and discriminate spatiotemporal patterns |
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Friday, 4 Dec 2015 Shaul Druckmann Janelia Relating circuit dynamics to computation: Dimension-specific computation in cortical dynamics |
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Wednesday, 9 Dec 2015 Ken Harris UCL Organization of neuronal population activity in sensory cortex |
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Friday, 11 Dec 2015 Adrienne Fairhall UW Synchrony and variability in birdsong |
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Friday, 13 Feb 2015 Marc Howard Boston University A scale-invariant representation of time, space and number |
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Friday, 20 Feb 2015 Surya Ganguli Stanford University Towards a theory of single trial neural data analysis |
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Friday, 27 Feb 2015 James Haxby Dartmouth University A common model of representational spaces in human cortex |
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Friday, 13 Mar 2015 Michael Graziano Princeton University Consciousness and the Social Brain |
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Friday, 20 Mar 2015 Dima Rinberg NYU Concentration invariant odor identity coding |
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Friday, 27 Mar 2015 Il Memming Park Stony Brook University Dynamic correlations between visual and decision areas during perceptual decision-making |
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Friday, 3 Apr 2015 Pieter Abbeel UC Berkeley Machine learning and optimization for robotics |
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Friday, 10 Apr 2015 Lee Miller Northwestern University Development of an afferent neural interface designed to mimic natural proprioception |
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Friday, 17 Apr 2015 Markus Meister Caltech Neural computations in the retina: from photons to behavior |
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Friday, 24 Apr 2015 Alex Roxin Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona Synchrony and firing rate in neuronal networks: An exact meanfield approach |
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Friday, 1 May 2015 Thomas Serre Brown University Towards a system-level theory of computation in the visual cortex |
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Friday, 8 May 2015 Conor Liston Cornell University Cancelled |
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Friday,15 May 2015 James DiCarlo MIT Neural mechanisms underlying visual object recognition |
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Friday, 22 May 2015 Florian Engert Harvard University Modular neural circuit architecture for optic flow processing in the larval zebrafish |
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Friday, 26 Sept 2014 Lila Davachi NYU Life of a memory: associative memory formation and consolidation |
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Friday, 3 Oct 2014 Odelia Schwartz Albert Einstein College of Medicine Flexible Gating of Contextual Influences in Natural Vision |
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Friday, 10 Oct 2014 Bijan Pesaran NYU A role for coherent activity in decision making and movement coordination |
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Friday, 24 Oct 2014 Vlad Itskov Pennsylvania State University Topological analysis reveals intrinsic structure in neural correlations. |
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Friday, 31 Oct 2014 Ethan Bromberg-Martin Columbia University TBD |
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Friday, 7 Nov 2014 Gabriel Kreiman Harvard University TBD |
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Friday, 21 Nov 2014 Israel Nelken Hebrew University of Jerusalem TBD |
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Friday, 5 Dec 2014 Jose Carmena UC Berkeley Large-scale neural circuit dynamics during neuroprosthetic learning |
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Monday, 15 Dec 2014 Herbert Jaeger Jacobs University TBD |
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Friday 10 Jan, 2014 Mark Goldman UC Davis Microcircuits for short-term memory storage and neural integration. |
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Friday 17 Jan, 2014 Emilio Salinas Wake Forest University Modeling urgent choices: how perception modulates ongoing motor plans. |
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Friday 31 Jan, 2014 Michele Rucci Boston University Seeing with jittering eyes. |
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Friday 21 Feb, 2014 Nicho Hastopoulos University of Chicago Spatio-temporal patterning in motor cortex. |
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Friday 7 March, 2014 Don Katz Brandeis Cortical ensemble dynamics of naturalistic deision-making. |
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Friday 14 March, 2014 Manuel Schottdorf MPI Gottingen Orientation preference in V1 - how much choice do neurons have? |
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Friday 21 March, 2014 Michael Mauk The University of Texas at Austin The enemy of my enemy: contributions of inhibition of inhibition in cerebellar learning. |
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Friday 28 March, 2014 Michael Stryker UCSF A neural circuit that controls plasticity and the gain of sensory responses in mouse visual cortex. |
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Friday 4 April, 2014 Naoshige Uchida Harvard University Arithmetic of dopamine reward prediction errors. |
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Friday 11 April, 2014 Josh Tenenbaum MIT The origins of common sense: Modeling human intelligence with probabilistic programs and program induction. |
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Friday 18 April, 2014 Lai-Sang Young NYU Emergent dynamics in a model of visual cortex. |
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Friday 25 April, 2014 Paul Glimcher NYU Cortical normalization and the neurobiology of choice. |
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Friday 2 May, 2014 Nicolas Brunel University of Chicago Inferring learning rules from distributions of rates. |
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Friday 9 May, 2014 Glenn Turner Cold Spring Harbor Olfactory signaling in mushroom body output neurons - neural coding as a circuit converges. |
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Friday 16 May, 2014 Stephanie Palmer University of Chicago A new database for natural motion and how it can inform us about prediction in the brain. |
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Friday 23 May, 2014 Ariel Amir Harvard Aging and memory effects in glasses. |
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Friday 30 May, 2014 John Duncan University of Cambridge A core brain system in assembly of cognitive episodes. |
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Friday 6 June, 2014 Michale Fee MIT Neural clocks and noisemakers: Mechanisms underlying the temporal structure of complex learned behaviors. |
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Friday 13 Sept, 2013 Vijay Balasubramanian University of Pennsylvania The Sense of Place: Grid Cells in the Brain and the Transcendental Number e |
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Friday 20 Sept, 2013 Vladimir Vapnik NEC Labs Teacher-Student Learning Model |
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Friday 27 Sept, 2013 Jennifer Raymond Stanford University Neural Error Signals in the Cerebellum |
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Friday 4 Oct, 2013 Mitya Chklovskii Janelia Farms Understanding Neural Computation Using Insights from Connectomics and Theory |
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Friday 11 Oct, 2013 Yann LeCun NYU Learning Representations of the Perceptual World |
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Friday 25 Oct, 2013 Ralf Haefner Brandeis University Noise Correlations, Choice Probabilities and Psychophysical Kernels: What They Tell Us about Sensory Decoding and Probabilistic Inference in the Brain |
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Friday 1 Nov, 2013 Leslie Valiant Harvard University A Computational Theory of Cortex and Hippocampus |
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Friday 15 Nov, 2013 Edward Farhi MIT Quantum Mechanics as a Computational Resource |
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Friday 22 Nov, 2013 Mike Shadlen Columbia University Consciousness as a Decision to Engage |
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Friday 6 Dec, 2013 Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin - Madison From Phenomenology to Mechanisms, and Back: An Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness |
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Friday 13 Dec, 2013 Eero Simoncelli NYU Embedding of Prior Probabilities in Sensory Systems |
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Friday 11 Jan, 2013 Alexei Koulakov Cold Spring Harbor Lab Deciphering the olfactory code |
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Friday 18 Jan, 2013 Yali Amit University of Chicago A simple network model for a variety of delay match to sample tasks |
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Friday 25 Jan, 2013 Alessandro Treves International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) A phase transition into higher cognition |
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Friday 1 Feb, 2013 Ila Fiete University of Texas, Austin Evidence of a new (exponentially strong) class of population codes in the brain |
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Friday 8 Mar, 2013 Randall O'Reilly University of Colorado, Boulder How adaptive control emerges from multiple intracting brain systems |
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Friday 15 Mar, 2013 Misha Ahrens Janelia Farm Functional circuit discovery via whole-brain imaging at cellular resolution using light-sheet microscopy |
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Friday 22 Mar, 2013 Carl Petersen Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Synaptic mechanisms of sensory perception |
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Friday 29 Mar, 2013 Nicole Rust University of Pennsylvania The neural mechanisms involved in finding objects and switching between targets |
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Friday 5 April, 2013 Jonathan Pillow Uniersity of Texas, Austin Beyond Barlow: a Bayesian theory of efficient neural coding |
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Friday 12 April, 2013 Bence Ölveczky Harvard University Functional modularity in motor skill learning |
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Friday 19 April, 2013 Kresimir Josic University of Houston Measuring and interpreting correlated neuronal responses |
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Friday 26 April, 2013 Stephen Scott Queen's University Putting sensory back into motor control |
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Friday 3 May, 2013 Eva Pastalkova HHMI Janelia Farm Internally generated hippocampal activity and episodic memory |
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Friday 10 May, 2013 Nathaniel Daw New York University Computational mechanisms for learning from reward: Beyond reinforcement |
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Friday 17 May, 2013 Christian Machens Champalimaud Foundation Efficient coding and balanced networks: a unification |
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Friday 24 May, 2013 Jonathan D. Victor Weill Cornell Medical College How high-order image statistics shape cortical visual processing |
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Friday 31 May, 2013 Michael Kahana University of Pennsylvania The neurophysiology of human spatial navigation and episodic memory |
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Friday 7 June, 2013 Maneesh Sahani Gatsby Foundation Inferring latent dynamical state from ensemble neuronal activity |
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Friday 14 June, 2013 Michael Yartsev Princeton University Neural representation of two- and three- dimensional space in the hippocampal formation of behaving bats |
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Friday 28 Sept, 2012 - 12:00PM Patrick Roberts Oregon Health & Science University Simulating symptomatic treatments for neurological and psychiatric disease to improve drug development and discovery |
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Friday 5 Oct, 2012 Arianna Maffei SUNY Stony Brook Experience-dependent plasticity of thalamocortical and cortico-cortical circuits |
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Friday 19 Oct, 2012 Francesco Battaglia University of Amsterdam Behavioral strategy dependent, NMDA receptor modulated changes in hippocampal dynamics and spatial representations |
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Friday 26 Oct, 2012 John Cunningham Washington University, St Louis From single neuron statistics to neural population analyses |
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Friday 2 Nov, 2012 Guilio Tononi University of Wisconsin, Madison Canceled due to storm. |
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Friday 9 Nov, 2012 Tatyana Sharpee The Salk Institute for Biological Studies Minimal models of neural responses to natural stimuli |
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Friday 16 Nov, 2012 Fred Wolf Max Planck Institute, Göttingen Deterministic chaos in balanced state networks |
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Friday 30 Nov, 2012 Daeyol Lee Yale Reinforcement, punishment, and basal ganglia |
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Friday 7 Dec, 2012 Robert Gütig Max Planck Institute, Göttingen Self-supervised neuronal processing of sensory streams |
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Friday 14 Dec, 2012 Mark D'Esposito UC Berkeley TBA |
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Friday 13 Jan, 2012 Arno Klein Columbia University Brain Labelling |
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Friday 20 Jan, 2012 Matthew Harrison Brown University Learning the Network Structure of Cortical Microcircuits |
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Friday 17 Feb, 2012 Haim Sompolinsky Hebrew University Sensory Selectivity in Random Cortical Circuits |
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Friday 9 Mar, 2012 Anne Churchland Cold Spring Harbor Putting the pieces together: integrating information across time and sensory modalities for decision-making |
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Friday 16 Mar, 2012 Wei Ji Ma Baylor College of Medicine Probabilistic inference in visual cognition |
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Friday 23 Mar, 2012 John Wixted UC San Diego A cellular and systems consolidation theory of forgetting |
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Friday 6 Apr, 2012 Loren Frank UCSF Awake replay in the hippocampus: Is it memory? |
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Friday 13 Apr, 2012 Maurizio Mattia ISS Heterogeneous attractor cortical modules for motor planning in premotor cortex and other |
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Friday, 20 Apr, 2012 Mikhail Rabinovich UCSD Cognitive information flow dynamics |
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Friday 27 Apr, 2012 Howard Eichenbaum Boston University The hippocampus in space and time |
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Friday 11 May, 2012 Joshua Gold University of Pennsylvania Rational regulation of learning by pupil-linked arousal systems |
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Friday 18 May, 2012 Jack Gallant UC Berkeley System identification of visual and cognitive systems |
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Friday 25 May, 2012 Winrich Freiwald Rockefeller University Taking apart the neural machinery of face processing |
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Friday 1 June, 2012 Brent Doiron University of Pittsburgh Neural variability and its modulators |
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Monday 19 Sep, 2011 - 12:30PM Emo Todorov University of Washington Optimal control in biology and engineering |
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Friday 23 Sep, 2011 Paul Miller Brandeis University Memory, associations and solving cognitive tasks by plasticity in randomly connected neural circuits |
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Monday 26 Sep, 2011 - 12:30PM Shaul Druckmann Janelia Farm Overcomplete representations and neuronal circuit dynamics |
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Friday 30 Sep, 2011 Dean Buonomano UCLA Short-term Synaptic Plasticity, Neural Dynamics, and Telling Time |
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Friday 7 Oct, 2011 Pentti Kanerva Stanford University Computing with Large Neural Circuits |
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Friday 14 Oct, 2011 Ofer Tchernichovski City College Vocal exploration and syntax learning in songbirds |
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Friday 28 Oct, 2011 Jens Kremkow SUNY Optometry The role of excitation-inhibition correlation in cortical information processing; Adaptive sampling of visual stimuli in thalamic and cortical neurons |
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Friday 4 Nov, 2011 Richard Hahnloser ETH Zurich Neural coding in the auditory forebrain of songbirds |
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Friday 18 Nov, 2011 Michael Graupner NYU Synaptic input correlations during spontaneous activity evoked in vitro in the auditory cortex |
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Friday 2 Dec, 2011 Shimon Marom Technion Interpretations of response fluctuations in neurons, networks and simple behavior |
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Friday 9 Dec, 2011
Bill Bialek Princeton University Birds, brains, and B-cells |
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Friday 14 Jan, 2010 Randy Bruno Columbia University Wakefulness abolishes cortical up-down states |
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Friday 28 Jan, 2010 Edward Wallace University University of Chicago Noise-driven synchrony in spiking neural networks: avalanches and quasi-cycles |
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Friday 4 Feb, 2011 Bill Newsome Stanford University Linking action to reward: a dynamical systems approach to prefrontal cortex activity |
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Friday 11 Feb, 2011 Daniel S Fisher Stanford University Can Evolutionary Dynamics Be Understood Quantitatively? |
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Friday 18 Feb, 2011 Jozsef Fiser Brandeis University Statistically optimal inference and learning in the cortex: behavioral and neural evidence and a computational framework |
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Friday 11 Mar, 2011 Asohan Amarasingham CCNY An Analysis of Connectivity in a Neuronal Population |
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Friday 18 Mar, 2011 Ruben Moreno Bote University of Rochester Weak synchrony in networks with finite input information |
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Friday 25 Mar, 2011 Robert Shapley NYU The Rise and Fall of the Receptive Field Hypothesis in V1 Cortex |
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Friday 1 Apr, 2011 Alain Destexhe UNIC-CNRS Extracting signatures of neuronal activity from local field potentials |
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Friday 15 Apr, 2011 Michael Spratling King's College London A Predictive Coding Model of V1 Response Properties, Gain Modulation, and Visual Attention |
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Friday 22 Apr, 2011 Thierry Emonet Yale University A bacterium's perspective on chemosensing and exploration |
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Friday 29 Apr, 2011 Sheila Nirenberg Cornell University Testing hypotheses about coding and computation in the visual system... and something new about retinal prosthetics |
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Friday 6 May, 2011 Robert Froemke NYU Long-term modification of cortical synapses improves sensory perception |
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Thursday 12 May, 2011, 2:00PM Byron Yu Carnegie Mellon University Extracting shared firing rate fluctuations from neural populations |
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Friday 13 May, 2011 Geoff Hinton University of Toronto How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of images |
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Friday 27 May, 2011 Michael Frank Brown University Mechanisms of hierarchical reinforcement learning and action selection in corticostriatal circuits |
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Friday 3 June, 2011 Adrien Peyrache Rutgers University Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampal-neocortical network: implication of sleep in memory formation and learning |
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Friday 10 June, 2011 Romain Brette Ecole Normale Supérieure Dynamics of neural excitability |
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Friday 17 June, 2011 Tiago Maia Columbia University Neuromodulators, the brain, and behavior: Computational and empirical investigations |
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Friday 24 June, 2011 Tatiana Engel Yale University Flexible decision making and learning in networks with a working memory circuit |
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Wednesday 15 Sep, 2010 Gustavo Deco Pompeu Fabra University How Local Network Oscillations lead to Functional Networks during Rest |
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Friday 24 Sep, 2010 Michiel Remme NYU The Role of Ongoing Dendritic Oscillations in Single-Neuron Dynamics |
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Friday 1 Oct, 2010 Yoram Burak Harvard Visual inference amid eye movements |
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Friday 8 Oct, 2010 John Hopfield Princeton What is Thinking? The dynamics of mental exploration |
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Friday 15 Oct, 2010 Tony Zador Cold Spring Harbor Timing in the auditory cortex |
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Friday 22 Oct, 2010 James DiCarlo MIT Untangling object recognition: The convergence of systems neuroscience and computer vision. |
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Friday 29 Oct, 2010 Steve Grossberg Boston University The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: From Grid Cells to Navigation |
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Thursday 4 Nov, 2010 - 12:00PM Wulfram Gerstner EPFL From Hebb to STDP to neuromodulation - Modeling reward-modulated synaptic plasticity |
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Friday 5 Nov, 2010 Carlos Brody Princeton Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat |
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Friday 19 Nov, 2010 Emery Brown Harvard-MIT Characterizing General Anesthesia-Induced Loss of Consciousness |
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Friday 3 Dec, 2010 Yuriy Mishchenko Columbia University Bayesian inference of neural connectivity from calcium imaging data in the presence of hidden inputs |
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Friday 10 Dec, 2010 Simona Cocco & Remi Monasson Princeton University Two inverse approaches to infer functional interactions from the spiking activity of a neural population |
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Friday 8 Jan, 2010 Dezhe Jin Penn State Neural basis of song syntax in songbirds |
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Friday 15 Jan, 2010 Nate Sawtell Columbia University Mechanisms for sensory prediction in a cerebellum-like circuit |
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Friday 22 Jan, 2010 Suzana Herculano-Houzel Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro How the cortex gets its folds: connectivity-driven white matter scaling and folding in primate brains |
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Friday 29 Jan, 2010 Matthias Kaschube Princeton High-precision cross-scale analysis of cortical development and tissue morphogenesis |
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Friday 12 Feb, 2010 Glen Prusky Cornell Stimulating Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Vision Over the Lifespan |
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Friday 5 Mar, 2010 Paul Tiesinga UNC Chapel Hill The role of interneuron diversity in the cortical circuit for attention |
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Friday 12 Mar, 2010 Bruno Olshausen UC Berkeley Hierarchical models of vision via factorization of sparse components |
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Friday 19 Mar, 2010 Ed Ott University of Maryland Emergent Behavior in Large Systems of Coupled Plase Oscillators |
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Friday 26 Mar, 2010 Nancy Kopell Boston University Rhythms, cell assemblies and binding in the nervous system: From physiology to function |
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Friday 2 Apr, 2010 Jay McClelland Stanford Dynamics of decision making: Theory, Physiology, and Behavior |
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Friday 9 Apr, 2010 Jose-Manuel Alonso SUNY State College of Optometry Functional circuits in primary visual cortex |
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Friday 16 Apr, 2010 Nicolas Brunel Universite Rene Descartes Spike-timing and firing-rate dependent plasticity as calcium-induced transitions in a bistable synaptic model |
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Friday 23 Apr, 2010 David McCormick Yale The Neocortex Operates in a Sparse and Reliable Regime |
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Friday 30 Apr, 2010 Reza Shadmehr Johns Hopkins Internal models in motor control |
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Friday 7 May, 2010 Eero Simoncelli NYU Bayesian perception and representation of visual motion |
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Friday 14 May, 2010 Michael Kahana U. Penn Context and episodic memory |
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Friday 21 May, 2010 Jaime de la Rocha Alfonso Renart Rutgers |
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Friday 28 May, 2010 Terry Sejnowski Salk A New View of the Neuropil |
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Friday 9 July, 2010 Michael DeWeese UC Berkeley Minimum Probability Flow: a novel machine learning technique for parameter estimation |
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Friday 23 July, 2010 Zhe Chen Harvard-MIT Precise Mapping of Visual Receptive Fields by Tomographic Reconstruction |
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Thursday 29 July, 2010 Biswa Sengupta Cambridge University |
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Friday 18 Sep, 2009 Aurel Lazar Columbia University Population encoding with Hodgkin-Huxley neurons |
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Friday 25 Sep, 2009 Vladimir Vapnik NEC Labs A New Learning Paradigm: Learning Using Privileged Information |
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Friday 2 Oct, 2009 Barak Pearlmutter NUI Maynooth |
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Friday 23 Oct, 2009 Kresimir Josic University of Houston Correlation transfer and coding in neuronal populations |
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Friday 30 Oct, 2009 Partha Mitra Cold Spring Harbor Darwin In The Lab: Experimental Evolution Studies in Finches and Fruit Flies |
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Friday 6 Nov, 2009 David Terman Ohio State Some mathematical modeling issues associated with Parkinson's disease |
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Friday 13 Nov, 2009 Eve Marder Brandeis Beyond Optimality: Parameter Variance in Healthy Brains |
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Friday 4 Dec, 2009 Tony Movshon NYU Feedforward systems for encoding and decoding visual information |
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Friday 11 Dec, 2009 Armen Stepanyants Northeastern University Statistical theory of excitatory synaptic plasticity |
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Friday 9 Jan, 2009 Philip Sabes UCSF- Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience |
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Friday 16 Jan, 2009 Fritz Sommer Berkeley Functional roles of network dynamics in the peripheral visual system |
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Friday 23 Jan, 2009 Chris Eliasmith U. Waterloo How to build a brain |
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Friday 30 Jan, 2009 Maxim Volgushev U. Connecticut |
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Friday 6 Feb, 2009 Glen Prusky Weill Cornell Medical College Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Vision Over the Lifespan |
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Friday 20 Feb, 2009 Stefan Rotter Freiburg University Correlations in Cortical Networks |
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Friday 6 Mar, 2009 Sophie Deneve Ecole Normale Superieure Bayesian inference in neural dynamics |
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Friday 20 Mar, 2009 David Heeger New York University The Normalization Model of Attention |
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Friday 3 Apr, 2009 Anita Disney New York University |
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Friday 10 Apr, 2009 Michael Hasselmo Boston University Grid cells and oscillations in entorhinal cortex |
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Friday 17 Apr, 2009 Pietro Mazzoni Columbia University How To Generalize Less During Visuomotor Adaptation |
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Friday 24 Apr, 2009 Diego Contreras UPenn |
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Friday 1 May, 2009 Andre Longtin University of Ottawa Driven recurrent sensory networks and plasticity |
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Friday 8 May, 2009 Adi Rangan New York University |
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Friday 15 May, 2009 Bill Bialek Princeton University Efficient representation in genetic networks |
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Friday 22 May, 2009 Maria Geffen Rockefeller University Encoding of natural signals in the olfactory and auditory systems |
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Friday 29 May, 2009 Lisa Manning Princeton University Analyzing transient amplification in material flows: non-normal operators and non-steady states |
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Friday 19 June, 2009 Patrick Drew University of California, San Diego Plumbing the Cortex: Imaging Microvascular Dynamics in the Awake Rodent Brain |
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Friday 26 June, 2009 Mark Churchland Stanford University Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon |
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Friday 9 Aug, 2009 David Nguyen MIT Towards the decoding of ripple oscillations based on instantaneous frequency measures |
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Friday 12 Sep, 2008 Alex Roxin Columbia U Linking behavioral and neuronal models of two-choice decision making |
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Friday 19 Sep, 2008 Rafael Yuste Columbia U Dendritic Spines and Linear Networks |
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Friday 26 Sep, 2008 Gwendal Le Masson French Institute of Health and Medical Research Spinal cord plasticity in the context of chronic pain : an experimental and theoretical study |
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Friday 3 Oct, 2008 David Field Cornell U Information, invariance and the space of natural scenes |
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Friday 10 Oct, 2008 Marcelo Magnasco Rockefeller U |
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Friday 24 Oct, 2008 Rebecca Saxe MIT Mens Rea: neural mechanisms of belief attribution for moral judgment |
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Friday 31 Oct, 2008 Henry Abarbanel UCSD Dissecting and Modeling Neurobiological Networks: Dynamical Electrophysiology |
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Friday 7 Nov, 2008 Bill Geisler UTexas Austin Natural Systems Analysis |
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Friday 14 Nov, 2008 Ilya Nemenman Los Alamos National Laboratory Nonlinearity, Memory, and Phase Transitions in Learning |
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Friday 5 Dec, 2008 Mikhail Rabinovich UCSD-Institute for Nonlinear Science Transient versus attractors in the brain |
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Friday 12 Dec, 2008 Sergei Gepshtein Salk Institute for Biological Studies Gabor's Uncertainty Principle and Vision |
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Friday 30 May, 2008 Kurt Thouroughman Washington U Neural Computation and Human Motor Behavior |
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Friday 16 May, 2008 Takao Hensch Harvard University GABA circuit control of visual cortical plasticity |
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Friday 9 May, 2008 Tai Sing Lee CMU Neural encoding of 3D scene statistics for perceptual inference |
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Friday 2 May, 2008 Alex Reyes NYU Circuitry underlying neuronal firing in the auditory cortex |
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Friday 25 April, 2008 Brent Doiron Univ of Pittsburgh Microcircuits and Macrodynamics in cortical processing |
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Friday 18 April, 2008 Stephanie Palmer Princeton Predictive Information in the Retina |
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Friday 11 April, 2008 Patric Kanold Univ. of Maryland Early circuits that regulate cortical development and plasticity |
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Friday 4 April, 2008 Ifat Levy NYU Neural correlates of decision-making under risk and ambiguity |
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Friday 28 March, 2008 Bard Ermentrout Univ. of Pittsburgh Reading the thoughts of a mollusk: The neural origins of seashell structure and pattern |
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Friday 14 March, 2008 Matthew Botvinick Princeton University A Computational Substrate for Goal Directed Behavior |
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Friday 7 March, 2008 Xiao-Jing Wang Yale University Neural Circuit Computation of Decision Making |
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Friday 22 Feb, 2008 Konrad Koerding Northwestern University Movement Adaptation: Multiple Timescales and Causes of Motor Errors |
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Friday 15 Feb, 2008 Yael Niv Princeton University Opportunity Costs and response rates: How dopamine helps us choose how hard to work. |
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Friday 18 Jan, 2008 Uri Rokni Harvard Why Activities of Single Neurons in the Song Motor System do not Reflect the Song Structure |
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Friday 11 Jan, 2008 Boris Gutkin Group for Neural Theory, ENS-Paris and College de France. A Neurodynamics framework for understanding nicotine addiction |
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Friday 14 Dec, 2007 Adam Kohn Albert Einstein College of Medicine Adaptation in the cortical visual hierarchy |
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Friday 7 Dec, 2007 Philip Holmes Princeton University Collective Neuronal Dynamics and Drift-Diffusion Models for Decision Making |
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Friday 30 Nov, 2007 Bartlett Mel University Southern California Some new (and Surprising) Roles for NMDA Channels in Single Neuron Computation |
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Friday 16 Nov, 2007 Odelia Schwartz Albert Einstein College of Medicine Natural Image Statistics and Contextual Visual Processing |
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Friday 9 Nov, 2007 Nathaniel Daw New York University Semi-Rational Models of Decision Making: Exploration and Credit Assignment |
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Friday 26 Oct, 2007 Laurenz Wiskott Humboldt U.-Berlin Slow Feature Analysis For Modeling Complex Cells in V1 and its Relationship to Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity |
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Friday 19 Oct, 2007 Harel Shouval UT-Houston Learning to represent interval timing |
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Friday 12 Oct, 2007 Jonathan Victor Cornell U. Estimation of information from neural data: why it is challenging, and why many approaches are useful |
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Friday 28 Sep, 2007 Daniel A. Butts Cornell U. Timing precision in the visual system: how and why |
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Friday 21 Sep, 2007 Nestor Parga Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Predicting the receptive fields of V1 simple cells from the scale properties of natural scenes. |
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Friday 14 Sep, 2007 Don Katz Brandeis University "Single-neuron and network dynamics of taste perception" |
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Friday 1 July, 2007 Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute Short-term synaptic plasticity for short-term memory |
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Friday 15 June, 2007 Fred Reike University of Washington Mechansims generating correlated activity in retinal ganglion cells |
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Friday 1 June, 2007 Michael Lewicki Carnegie Mellon University Information theoretic models of auditory coding |
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Friday 5 May, 2007 David Blake Medical College of Georgia Cortical implant studies of machine learning in sensory discrimination |
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Friday 27 April, 2007 Jaime dela Rocha NYU Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate |
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Friday 20 April, 2007 Geoffrey E. Hinton U. of Toronto How to learn many layers of cortical representation without any supervision. |
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Friday 6 April, 2007 Kamal Sen BU Neural Discrimination of Complex Natural Sounds in Songbirds. |
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Friday 30 March, 2007 Sebastian Seung MIT Operant Matching: A Unifying Principle for Neuroeconomics. |
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Friday 23 March, 2007 Olivia White MIT TBA. |
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Friday 16 March, 2007 Nicole Rust MIT The mechanisms underlying motion pattern invariance in area MT |
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Friday 2 March, 2007 Angel Peterchev Columbia University Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: A Non-Invasive Tool for Probing and Modulating Brain Function. |
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Friday 23 Feburary, 2007 Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute of Science Context-dependent learning in the visual system |
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Friday 16 Feburary, 2007 Gordon Pipa Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Neuronal Self Organization in Theory and Experiment: Behaviorally Relevant Cell Assemblies and Plasticity in the Liquid State Machine |
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Friday 9 Feburary, 2007 Dean Buonomano UCLA Temporal processing and neural dynamics in cortical networks |
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Friday 2 Feburary, 2007 John Rinzel NYU Biophysics of timing computations in auditory brain stem. |
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Friday 26 January, 2007 Tim Vogels Brandeis/Columbia University Signal Processing in Neural Networks. |
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Friday 15 December, 2006 Mark Goldman Wellesley College Dissecting the mechanisms underlying persistent neural activity in a neural integrator. |
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Tuesday 12 December, 2006 Yang Dan U.C Berkeley Coding of natural stimuli in the visual cortex. |
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Tuesday 14 November, 2006 John Krakauer Columbia U. Adaptation to visuomotor rotation: savings and interference. |
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Friday 10 November, 2006 Bijan Pesaran NYU. Cortical networks for movement planning and execution. |
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Friday 3 November, 2006 Matthias Wittlinger U. Ulm. Path Integration in the Desert Ant Cataglyphis Fortis-odometry and slope detection. |
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Friday 13 October, 2006 Vijay Balasubramanian U. Penn. Natural scene statistics and the organization of the retina. |
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Friday 29 September, 2006 Gayle Wittenberg Princeton University Mapping neural activity patterns onto changes in synapse strength. |
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Friday 15 September, 2006 David Brainard U. Penn. Color from a single cone? A Bayesian model of the appearance of very small spots. |
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Monday 9 January 2006 Carl van Vreeswijk CNRS, Université René Descartes Shunting inhibition in a spatially extended model neuron |
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Friday 13 January 2006 Roger Traub SUNY Downstate Critical role of electrical coupling in thalamocortical circuits: very fast oscillations (>70 Hz), gamma (30-70 Hz), spindles |
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Tuesday 24 January 2006, 2pm Matthias Kaschube Berstein Center for Computational Neuroscience & MPI for Dynamics and Self-Oranization, Göttingen A selection principle for the pattern of orientation columns in the visual cortex |
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Friday 27 January 2006 Adrienne Fairhall U. Washington Probing the biophysics of neural computation |
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Friday 10 February 2006 Konrad Körding MIT Human Movement as an Optimal Decision Process |
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Friday 24 February 2006 Todd Troyer Univ. of Maryland Temporal variability and the structure of the vocal pattern generator in zebra finches |
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Friday 10 March 2006 Alfonso Renart Rutgers Optimal Transmission of Population Codes in Feed-forward Networks |
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Monday 20 March 2006 Theo Geisel MPI for Dynamics and Self-Oranization, Göttingen Universal scaling laws of human travel -- how dollars help improve epidemic forecasts |
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Friday 24 March 2006 Roger Ratcliff Ohio State The Effects of Aging on Performance on Two Choice RT Tasks |
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Friday 7 April 2006 Duncan Watts Columbia Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age |
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Friday 21 April 2006 Lance Optican NIE Visual working memory: New evidence and new theory of how we remember what we just saw |
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Friday 28 April 2006 Risto Miikkulainen The University of Texas at Austin Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex |
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Friday 5 May 2006 Guoqiang Bi University of Pittsburgh Persistent reverberatory activity in small neuronal circuits: dynamics, synaptic mechanisms and plasticity |
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Friday 19 May 2006 Tatyana Sharpee UCSF From noise to natural signals: Adaptation and optimality of neural representations |
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Thursday 25 May 2006 4pm Duane Nykamp University of Minnesota Inferring causal subnetworks within neuronal networks |
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Friday 26 May 2006 10:30am Christian Machens Cold Spring Harbor Flexible control of neural networks: combining short-term memory and decision-making |
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Tuesday 30 May 2006 12pm Ila Fiete UC Santa Barbara A theory for reinforcement learning in spiking neural networks, with an application to song learning in songbirds |
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Tuesday June 6 2006 12pm Alexei Koulakov Cold Spring Harbor Activity and chemoaffinity in the development of neural maps |
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Tuesday June 13 2006 12pm Eric Shea-Brown NYU Dynamics of integration and correlation in timing and decisions |
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Friday 16 June 2006 Sheila Nirenberg Weill Medical College, Cornell University Testing hypotheses about neural computations using targeted cell class ablation |
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Monday 19 June 2006 Matteo Carandini Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco Dynamics of population activity in primary visual cortex |
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Tuesday 20 June 2006, 12 pm Ethan Goldberg NYU Fast-spiking GABAergic neocortical interneurons: Molecular contributions to cellular function |
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Wednesday 28 June 2006, 2 pm Riccardo Zecchina ICTP, Italy Learning by message passing in networks of discrete synapses |
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Monday 19 September, 2005 Nicholas Brunel CNRS, Paris Optimal information storage and the distribution of synaptic weights: experiment vs. theory. |
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Friday 14 October 2005 Mitya Chklovskii Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Random and specific features of cortical microcircuits |
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Friday 21 October 2005 Michael Berry Princeton University Detection and Prediction of Temporal Patterns by the Retina |
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Friday 28 October 2005 Nestor Parga Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Response properties of Neurons in the High Conductance State |
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Friday 4 November 2005 Elad Schneidman Princeton University Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population code |
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Friday 18 November 2005 Fred Wolf Max Planck Institute, Göttingen The first micro-seconds in the life of a cortical action potential |
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Wednesday 23 November 2005 Paul Ganter Centre for the Biology of Memory, Trondheim, Norway The diversity of hippocampal interneurones - just difficult to describe or functionally relevant? |
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Friday 2 December 2005 Emilio Salinas Wake-Forest University How behavioral constraints may affect optimal sensory representations |
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Friday 16 December 2005 David Cai NYU Spatiotemporal Dyanmics of Primary Visual Cortex |
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Friday 10 June 2005 John Beggs Dept. of Physics , Indiana University Neuronal avalanches may optimize information transmission and storage |
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Friday 3 June 2005 Bill Bialek Dept. of Physics, Princeton University Do real neurons provide an efficient representation of predictive information? |
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Friday 27 May 2005 Mike Weliky Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, University of Rochester Development of visual cortical circuit dynamics: Impact upon the emergence of sensory coding |
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Friday 6 May 2005 Carlos Brody Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Working memory and decision making in a simple model of two-stimulus-interval discrimination. |
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Friday 29 April 2005 Alex Koulakov Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Modeling retinocollicular development guided by molecular gradients: Neural development as an optimization process |
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15 April 2005 Harvey Swadlow University of Connecticut The impact of a thalamocortical impulse on awake sensory neocortex |
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Friday 8 April 2005 Alex Pouget University of Rochester Bayesian Inference in Cortical Circuits |