12th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

University of California, Los Angeles
Fowler Museum of Cultural History

In 1994, the Institute for Neural Computation at UCSD hosted the first Joint Symposium on Neural Computation with Caltech. This symposium brought together students and faculty for a day of short presentations. This annual meeting now rotates between institutions in Southern California and this year will be hosted by UCLA. The Symposium is open to the public.

PROGRAM

8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Welcome Address – Dario Ringach, UCLA
Session 1 - Chair: Bartlett Mel
9:05 am	Dean Buonomano, UCLA Encoding Time: Temporal Objects and Temporal Arithmetic
9:35 am	Massimo Scanziani, UCSD Control of Somatosensory Integration by Thalamo-cortical Feed-forward Inhibition
10:05 am	Gilles Laurent, Caltech Network Connectivity and Sparseness
10:35 am	Coffee Break
Session 2 - Chair: Dean Buonomano
10:55 am	Bartlett Mel, USC A Common Mechanism, but Disparate Roles for Divisive Inhibition in the Dendrites of Visual Cortical Neurons
11:25 am	Frances Chance, UCI Mechanisms of Normalization in Primary Visual Cortex
11:55 am	Judith Hirsch, USC Common Patterns of Organization for the Synaptic Inputs that Build Receptive Fields in the Visual Thalamus and Cortex
Lunch Break
12:25 pm	Lunch Break
Poster Session
1:25 pm	Poster Session - See Listing Below
Session 3 - Chair: Frances Chance
2:25 pm	Bruno Olshausen, UC Davis What Is the Other 85% of V1 Doing?
2:55 pm	David Kleinfeld, UCSD Combining Touch and Motion Neuronal Signals to Compute Contact in Face Centered Coordinates
3:25 pm	Ron Frostig, UCI Imaging Adult Cortical Plasticity: Moving Out of the Box
3:55 pm	Coffee Break
Session 4 - Chair: Dario Ringach
4:15 pm	Shinsuke Shimojo, Caltech Towards General Principles of Crossmodal Integration
4:45 pm	Miguel Eckstein, UCSB Visual Attention and Optimal Decision Making
5:15 pm	Russ Poldrack, UCLA Modeling Prediction Error During Classification Learning
5:45 pm	Arne Ekstrom, UCLA Neuron Activity in the Human Hippocampus During Virtual Navigation
Awards
6:15 pm	Best-poster awards and concluding remarks - Dario Ringach, UCLA
6:25 pm	Adjourn and Dinner
Posters (alphabetical by lead author, click for abstract)
Distance-Dependence of Nonlinear Spatial Summation in Basal Dendrites of Neocortical Pyramidal Cells Bardia F. Behabadi and Bartlett W. Mel
Toward a System-level Model of Episodic Memory Alan Bond
V1 Maps from Sparse Neurons with Intrinsic Plasticity Nicholas Butko and Jochen Triesch
Attention deployment in novel environments - from amnesia to memory and back Ran Carmi and Laurent Itti
A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Object Segmentation and Recognition Huei-Ju Chen, Kuang-Chih Lee, Erik Murphy-Chutorian, and Jochen Triesch
Functional consequences of network structure transformations in temporal lobe epilepsy J. Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, V. Santhakumar, R.J. Morgan, R. Huerta, L. Tsimring, and I. Soltesz
Temporal Coherence - A Generic Coding Principle for Multiple Cortical Areas Wolfgang Einhäuser, Jörg Hipp, Reto Wyss, Paul F.M.J. Verschure, and Peter König
Learning Radon-Nykodim Derivatives for Unsupervised, Real-time Object Detection Ian Fasel and Javier R. Movellan
Model of Extracellular Potential Describes Waveforms of Single Units Recorded in Vivo Carl Gold, Darrell Henze, Gyorgy Buzaki, and Christof Koch
Brightness as a function of pulse width during retinal electrical stimulation Scott H. Greenwald, Alan Horsager, and Ione Fine
Towards Finding Perceptually Similar Faces Alex Holub, Mark Everingham, Andrew Zisserman, and Pietro Perona
The Perceptual Effect of Retinal Electrical Stimulation using Pulse Trains Alan Horsager, Scott H Greenwald, and Ione Fine
A Reinforcement Learning Model Explains the Stagewise Development of Gaze Following Hector Jasso, Jochen Triesch, and Christof Teuscher
Spontaneous Facial Actions in Video - Systems for Automatic Coding Gwen Littlewort, Claudia Lainscsek, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Ian Fasel, and Javier Movellan
Against Image-Based Theories of Shape Recognition Hongjing Lu and Zili Liu
Force Field Learning in Joint Space with a 7-DOF Exoskeleton Michael Mistry, Peyman Mohajerian, and Stefan Schaal
Efficient Multiple Object Detection in Cluttered Scenes Erik Murphy-Chutorian and Jochen Triesch
Plasticity in the barn owl auditory localization system: A spiking neuronal mode Shreesh P. Mysore and Steven R. Quartz
Firing rate of V1 neurons predicts perception of ambiguous three-dimensional objects Zoltan Nadasdy, Melissa Saenz, Bijan Pesaran, Christof Koch and Richard A. Andersen
A probabilistic approach to color constancy using articulation, brightness, and gamut cues Eric T. Ortega and Bartlett W. Mel
Plasticity in Auditory-Visual Integration Orna Rosenthal, Payum Abdarbashi and Ladan Shams
Gamma frequency firing predominates in threshold behavior of the stochastic Hodgkin–Huxley equations Peter Rowat
Tsallis Information in EEGs Predicts Alzheimer's Disease Robert Sneedon
The Irregular Firing of Cortical Interneurons in vitro is due to fast K+- Current Kinetics Klaus M. Stiefel, Bernhard Englitz, and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Modeling Feature Sharing between Object Detection and Top-down Attention Dirk Walther, Thomas Serre, Tomaso Poggio, and Christof Koch
The principle of temporal stability in the context of behavior Reto Wyss and Christof Koch
Combining Cues for Boundary Detection Using the “Mixture of Specialists” Model Chunhong Zhou and Bartlett W. Mel