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on title for abstract] |
| 8:00
am Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:45
Opening Remarks - Mel |
| Session
I. Cells and Synapses - Bower |
| 9:00 |
Olivier
Coenen, San Diego Children's Hospital Research Center
A Hypothesis for Parallel
Fiber Coding in a Cerebellar Model of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement |
| 9:15 |
Roland
Suri, The Salk Institute
Modeling Functions of Striatal
Dopamine Modulation in Learning and Planning |
| 9:30 |
Ralf
Wessel, UC San Diego
Biophysics of Visual Motion
Analysis in Avian Tectum |
| 9:45 |
Panayiota
Poirazi, USC
Sublinear vs. Superlinear
Synaptic Integration? Tales of a Duplicitous Active Current
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| Session
II. Sensory-Motor Learning - Schaal |
| 10:00 |
Auke
Ijspeert, USC
Locomotion and Visually-Guided
Behavior in Salamander: An Artificial Evolution and Neuromechanical
Study |
| 10:15 |
Thomas
DeMarse, Caltech
The Animat Project: Interfacing
Neuronal Cultures to a Computer Generated Virtual World
|
| 10:30 |
Richard
Belew, UC San Diego
Evolving Behavior in Developing
Robot Bodies Controlled by Quasi-Hebbian Neural Networks
|
| 10:45 |
Aude
Billard, USC
A Biologically inspired Connectionist
Model for Learning Motor Skills by Imitation |
| 11:00
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 |
KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Gerald E. Loeb, USC
Dialogs with the Nervous System |
| 12:00
Lunch and Posters |
| Session
IV. Vision - Hoffmann |
| 2:00 |
Martina
Wicklein, The Salk Institute
Perception of Looming in
the Humminbird Hawkmoth Manduca Sexta (Sphingidae, Lepidoptera)
|
| 2:15 |
Gary
Holt, USC
Unsupervised Learning of the
Non-Classical Surround |
| 2:30 |
Eric
Ortega, USC
Smart Center-Surround Receptive
Fields: What Bayes May Say About the Neural Substrate for
Color Constancy |
| 2:45 |
Junmei
Zhu, USC
Fast Dynamic Link Matching by
Communicating Synapeses |
| 3:00 |
David
Eagleman, The Salk Insitute
The Timing of Perception:
How Far in the Past do we Live, and Why? |
| 3:15
Coffee Break |
| Session
III. Concepts and Memory - Mel |
| 3:30 |
Jonathan
Nelson, UC San Diego
Concept Induction in the Presence
of Uncertainty |
| 3:45 |
Peter
Latham, UCLA
Attractor Networks in Systems
with Underlying Random Connectivity |
| Session
V. Faces - Sejnowski |
| 4:00 |
Tim
Marks, UC San Diego
Face Processing in Williams
Syndrome: Using ICA to Discriminate Functionally Distinct
Independent Components of ERPs in Face Recognition |
| 4:15 |
Ian
Fasel, UC San Diego
Automatic Detection of Facial
Landmarks: An Exhaustive Comparision of Methods |
| 4:30 |
Boris
Shpungin, UC San Diego
A System for Robustly Tracking
Faces in Real-Time |
| 4:45
Closing Remarks - Sejnowski |
| Adjourn
for Dinner |
