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9th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

Caltech, Pasadena
Beckman Institute Auditorium



May 18, 2002

PROGRAM

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8:00 am    Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50    Welcome -
SESSION 1 - Systems, Learning, and Behavior
Terry Sejnowski, Chair
9:00 Michael Dickinson (UC Berkeley) - "Sensory-Motor Resonance and the Genesis of Search Behavior in Flies"
9:20 Virginia de Sa (UCSD) - "Auditory-visual Interaction for Learning"
9:40 Marty Sereno (UCSD) - "Mapping of Contralateral Space in Retinotopic Coordinates by a Parietal Cortical Area in Humans"
10:00 Spotlights A
10:20    Break
Session 2 - Informatin Processing
10:40 Sheila Nirenberg (UCLA) - "Decoding retinal ganglion cell activity-how much should we worry about synchronous spikes?"
11:00 Irving Biederman (USC) - "A Neurocomputational Hypothesis of Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure"
11:20 Robert Hecht-Nielsen (UCSD) - "Neuroscience and AI: The End of the Beginning"
11:40 Charles Anderson (Washington University) - "Neural Engineering: Computation, Representation, and Dynamics in Neurobiological Systems"
12:00 Spotlights B
12:20    Lunch & Posters
Session 3 - Recognition and Attention
2:00 Gilles Laurent (Caltech) - "Brain Oscillations and Sparsening of Representations"
2:20 Bosco Tjan (USC) - "Adaptive Object Representation with Hierarchically-distributed Memory Sites"
2:40 Gwen Littlewort (UCSD) - "Real Time, Fully Automatic Coding of Facial Expressions from Video"
3:00 Rich Krauzlis (Salk) - "Neural Correlates of Pursuit and Saccade Eye Movement Choices in the Primate Superior Colliculus"
3:20    Break
Session 4 - Shape and Motion
3:40 Alan Yuille (UCLA) - "The KGBR Viewpoint-Lighting Ambiguity"
4:00 George Sperling (UCI) - "A Neural Network Theory of Binocular Combination"
4:20 David Eagleman (UCSD) - "A new Illusion Called the Temporal Neighborhood Effect: The Perceived Brightness of a Flash Can Be Modified by Emporal Properties of its Neighbors"
4:40 Chunghong Zhou (USC) - "Combining Multiple Cues for Contour Integration in Neural Scenes"
5:00    BBQ Dinner   

Spotlights A
| top | Ildiko Aradi & Soltesz (UCI) - "Modulation of Network Behavior by Changes in Variance interneuronal properties"

Pierre Baldi (UCI) - "Generalized IOHMMs and Recurrent Neural Network Architectures"

Kwok-leung Chan
(Salk) - "Handling Missing Data with Variational Bayesian Estimation of ICA"

John Hershey (UCSD) - "Audio-Visual Sound Separation Via Hidden Markov Models"

Malcolm MacIver (Caltech) - "Optimality in Movement and Sensing in Weakly Electric Fish"

Emanuel Todorov (USC) - "Optimal Feedback Control as a Theory of Motor Coordination"

Dirk Walther (Caltech) - "Modeling of Attentional Modulation Effects in Object Recognition"
Spotlights B
| top | Daesu Chung (USC) - "Object recognition in early visual system"

Ian Fasel (UCSD) - "Real Time Object Detection as a Random Walk Process"

Fred Hamker (Caltech) - "How Does Attention Facilitate Object Recognition?"

Alex Holub (Caltech) - "How to design an Antennal Lobe: Exploration of Digital Local Circuits for Input Decorrelation"

Eugene Izhikevich - "The Relationship Between Spike-Timing-Dependant Plasticity (STDP) and Sliding Threshold (BCM) Synaptic Modification"

Thomas Nowotny (UCSD) - "Sequence Learning Through Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity"

Silivo Savarese (Caltech) - "Shape Perception of Mirror Surfaces from Monocular Images"

Chia-Huei Tseng (UCI) - "Long-lasting Sensitization to Color Induced by a Search Task"
Posters
| top | Ildiko Aradi; "Postsynaptic Effects of GABAergic Synaptic Diversity: Regulation of Neuronal Excitabiligy by Changes in IPSC Variance"

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins "Deriving Actions and Behaviors from Human Motion Data"

K. Chen "Persistently modified h-channels after complex febrile seizures convert the seizure-induced enhancement of inhibition to hyperexcitability"

Carl Gold (ps) "Model Selection for Support Vector Machine"

Alex Holcombe "Spatiotemporal Conditions for the Perception of Occlusion Transparency"

Scott Makeig
"Brain Sychronization Events Follow Cognitive Challenges"

Chunhui Mo "A Synaptic Learning Rule for Local Synaptic Interactions Between Excitation and Shunting Inhibition"

Nathan Mundhenk "Towards a Simpler Model of Contour Integration in Early Visual Processing Using a Composite of Methods"

Joseph Murray "Recognizing Rotated and Occluded Shapes Using Binary-Activated Neural Networks and Sparse Feature Representations"

Vidhya Navalpakkam
"A Biiologically Inspired Scene Based Question Answering Agent"

Jen Ng "Towards Visually-Guided Neuromorphic Robots: Beobots"

Duane Nykamp "Spike Correlation Measures that Eliminate Stimulus Effects in Responce to White Noise"

Eric Ortega "Bayesian Approach to Color Constancy"

Robert Sneddon "Neural Representation are Invariant"

Dong Song "Parametric and Non-Parametric Models of Short-Term Plasticity"

Zhou Wang "Central Synapses Transform Temporal Information Carried by an Afferent Train"

Junmei Zhu "Learning Control Units for Invariant Recognition"



 

 

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