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8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

The Salk Institute
La Jolla, California



May 19, 2001

PROGRAM

Past Programs Program Committee
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8:00 am    Registration and Coffee
8:50    Welcome - Terrence Sejnowski
NETWORK DYNAMICS: Chair - Terrence Sejnowski
9:00 Giles Laurent, Caltech
Network Dynamics and Olfactory Codes
9:20 Henry Abarbanel, UCSD
Winnerless Competition as a Model for Olfactory Sensory Proceessing
9:40 David Kleinfeld, UCSD
Dynamics of the Rat Vibrissa Sensorimotor Network
10:00 Spotlights
Susanne Schreiber (Salk), Influence of Channel Noise and Metabolic Cost on Neural Information Transmission
Rasche Christoph (Caltech), Exclusive Analog Processing of Neuronal Computation: A Hypothesis
Olivier Coenen (Salk), Cerebellar Glomeruli: Does Limited Extracellular Calcium Direct a New Kind of Plasticity?
Valentin Zhigulin (Caltech), Competitive Networks with Dynamical Synapses as a Model of Olfactory Encoding
Alexei Koulakov (Salk), A Robust Model for Neural Integrator
Robert Hecht-Nielsen (UCSD) A Theory of Thalamocortex
Virginia de Sa (UCSF), Sensory Interaction for Learning
Auke Ijspeert (USC), Visuomotor Coordination in Salamander: Neuromechanical Simulation of Approach Behavior
10:20    Break
BRAIN DYNAMICS: Chair - Bartlett Mel
10:40 John Reynolds, Systems Neurobiology Laboratory,
Salk Institute
Visual Salience, Competition, Neuronal Response Synchrony and Selective Attention
11:00 Scott Makeig, UCSD/Salk Institute
Inside-Out/Outside-In: EEG, Brain Dynamics and Cognition
11:20 Stefan Schaal, USC
Identifying Units of Movement from a Theoretical, Behavioral, and fMRI Perspective
11:40 Spotlights
Jeng-Ren Duann (Salk), Measuring Variability of Hemodynamics Responses in Event-Related BOLD Data Using ICA
David Eagleman (Salk), Demonstration that Parts of a Natural Image Displaced in Time Can be Perceptually Synchronized
Alex Holcombe (UCSD), Rapid Image Alternation Reveals a Novel Transparency Mechanism in the Visual System
Michael Mangini (USC), Using Reverse Correlation to Infer the Representations Distinguishing Facial Gender, Affect, and Individuals, for Normal Observers and a Prosopagnosic
Kristin Branson (USCD), Do Expression and Identity Recognition Use Different Representations?
Arnaud Delorme (Salk), Face Identification Using One Spike Per Neuron
Chunhong Zhou (USC), Automatic Extraction of Line-Draws from Complex Scenes
Javier Movellan (UCSD), On the Relationship Between Diffusion Networks, Products of Experts, and Factor Analyzers
12:00    Lunch and Posters (Salk Ballroom)
VISION DYNAMICS: Chair - Pietro Perona
2:00 Dario Ringach, UCLA
Two-dimensional Structure and Symmetry of Simple-cell Receptive Fields in Macaque V1
2:20 Bartlett Mel, USC
Useful Dynamics for Contour and Surface Processing in Visual Cortex
2:40 Terrence Sejnowski, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSD/Salk Institute
Color Coding in Visual Cortex
3:00 Michael Arbib, USC
Modeling the Mirror System
3:20    Break
RECOGNITION DYNAMICS: Chair - Michael Arbib
3:40 George Sperling, UCI
What Motion Standstill Tells Us About Pattern Perception
4:00 Gary Cottrell, UCSD
Visual Expertise is a General Skill
4:20 Pietro Perona, Caltech
Holistic Phenomena in Recognition
4:40 Irv Biederman, USC
The Neural Basis of Object Constancy
5:00    Wine and Cheese Reception

POSTERS

Bautista, Javier: Dynamic routing of visual information in the ventral pathway

Bond, Alan: A System Model of the Primate Neocortex

Bota, Mihail: A Probabilistic Framework for Evaluation of Neural Homologies

Braathen, Bjorn: 3-D head pose estimation from video by nonlinear stochastic particle filtering

Branson, Kristin: Do Expression and Identity Recognition Use Different Representations

Chan, Kwokleung: Comparison of Machine Learning and Traditional Classifiers in Glaucoma Diagnosis

Christoph, Rasche: Exclusive analog processing of neuronal computation: a hypothesis

Coenen, Olivier: Cerebellar Glomeruli: Does Limited Extracellular Calcium Direct a New Kind of Plasticity?

Cook, Matthew: A Neural Network Programming Language

de Sa, Virginia: Sensory interaction for learning

Delorme, Arnaud: Face identification using one spike per neuron

Duann, Jeng-Ren: Measuring variability of hemodynamics responses in event-related BOLD data using ICA

Eagleman, David: THE FLASH LAG ILLUSION IS A CONSEQUENCE OF ADAPTIVE SPATIAL FILTERING

Eagleman, David: DEMONSTRATION THAT PARTS OF A NATURAL IMAGE DISPLACED IN TIME CAN BE PERCEPTUALLY SYNCHRONIZED

Fasel, Ian: Smile and Wave: A Comparison of Gabor Filter Banks for Automatic Facial Expression Recognition

Fasel, Ian: Is More Better? A Comparison of High Dimensional Representations for Face Detection

Gardner, Christopher: Neural Systems Underlying the Organizatio of American Sign Language

Gholmieh, Ghassan: Modeling the Nonlinear Dynamics of Short Term Synaptic Plasticity

Gorodnitsky, Irina: Modeling Non-linear Dynamical Structure in Low-dimensional EEG Data

Hamker, Fred: Distributed competition in directed visual attention

Hecht-Nielsen, Robert: A Theory of Thalamocortex

Hershey, John: Fast face tracking

Holcombe, Alex: Rapid image alternation reveals a novel transparency mechanism in the visual system

Ijspeert, Auke: Visuomotor coordination in salamander: neuromechanical simulation of approach behavior

Joyce, Carrie: Tracking Eye Fixations Using Electro-Ocular and Electroencephalographic Recordings and a Training Model

Klein, Michael: A Neural Model of Morpheme Representation

Koulakov, Alexei: A robust model for neural integrator

Lainscsek, Claudia: Reconstructing Dynamical Systems from Amplitude Measures of Spiky Time-Series

Littlewort, Gwen: Are Your Eyes Smiling? Detecting genuine smiles with support vector machines and Gabor wavelets

Mangini, Michael: Using Reverse Correlation to Infer the Representations Distinguishing Facial Gender, Affect, and Individuals, for Normal Observers and a Prosopagnosic.

Mo, Chunhui: COMPARTMENT SIMULATION OF CORTICAL NEURONS THAT ARE SELECTIVE TO NORMAL AND REVERSE PHI-MOTION

Movellan, Javier: On the Relationship Between Diffusion Networks, Products of Experts, and Factor Analyzers

Murray, Joseph: An Improved FOCUSS-Based Dictionary Learning Algorithm

Nederhouser, Marissa: Is Object Recognition Invariant to Direction of Illumination and Direction of Contrast?

Nelson, Jonathan: Inference by means of uncertainty

Ortega, Eric: Smart Center-Surround Receptive Fields: What Bayes May Say About the Neural Substrate for Color Constancy

Passarotti, Alessandra: How do the ventral and dorsal processing streams develop? A fMRI study on face and spatial processing in children, teenagers and adults

Rodriguez, Antonio: EEG SIGNATURES FOR RIGID MOTION PERCEPTION

Schreiber, Susanne: Influence of channel noise and metabolic cost on neural information transmission

Smith, Evan: Computer Recognition of Facial Actions: An study of co-articulation effects and changes in illumination conditions

Sneddon, Robert: Neural Computation as an Extension of Information Theory

Tsuchiya, Naotsugu: Attentional Modulatioin on Component Motion Processing

Wagenaar, Daniel A: A toolset for realtime analysis of network dynamics in dense cultures of cortical neurons

Westerfield, Marissa: Independent component analysis reveals EEG sources of the visual spatial P300

Yu, Hsin-Hao: Intermediate-level Shape Processing and Object Recognition

Zhigulin, Valentin: Competitive Networks with Dynamical Synapses as a Model of Olfactory Encoding

Zhou, Chunhong: Automatic Extraction of line-draws from complex

 

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