16th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

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. Since then, this Symposium has rotated between San Diego, Caltech, UCI, UCLA and USC.

Program schedule, poster presentations (with links to abstracts) are below.

8:30 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
Session 1: Hippocampus
9:00 am	Thanos Siapis, Caltech The Organization of Hippocampal Theta Oscillations
9:25 am	Tad Blair, UCLA Phase Coding in the Hippocampal Memory System: Synthesizing Spatial Representations from Theta Oscillations
9:50 am	Ivan Soltesz, UCI Epileptogenesis in Carbon and Silicon Brains
10:15 am	Coffee Break
Session 2: Sensory Coding
10:45 am	Fritz Sommer, UCB On the Functional Roles of Gamma Oscillations in Retina and Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
11:10 am	Norberto Grzywacz, USC General Nonlinear Models Predictive of Responses of Cortical Cells to Natural Images
11:35 am	Horace Barlow, Cambridge University Selectivity, Symmetry, and Invariance in the Function of the Cerebral Cortex
Lunch Break
12:15 pm	Lunch Break & Poster Session (See Listing Below)
Session 3: Networks and Mechanisms
2:30 pm	Frances Chance, UCI Gain Modulation by Subtractive and Divisive Mechanisms
2:55 pm	Dario Ringach, UCLA Implications of Normalization for Population Coding
3:20 pm	Tansu Celikel, USC Network Mechanisms of Spike Timing
3:45 pm	Coffee Break
Session 4: Visual Behavior
4:15 pm	Rich Krauzlis, Salk Inactivation of the Primate Superior Colliculus Causes Visual Neglect
4:40 pm	James Bisley, UCLA Guidance of Eye Movements by the Parietal Priority Map
Session 5: Special Topics
5:00 pm	Terry Sejnowski, UCSD Ectopic Release: Truth and consequences
Posters (alphabetical by lead author, click for abstract [pdf])
Graph Coloring Predicts the Dynamics of Neuronal Networks Collins Assisi & Maxim Bazhenov Controlling Response Gain and Input Gain with Noisy Synaptic Input Aslı Ayaz & Frances Chance Spatial Organization of Spontaneous Activities in the Human Visual Cortex Pinglei Bao & Bosco S. Tjan Numerical Preference in a Model of Salamander Visual Salience Jeffrey R. Begley & Michael A. Arbib Do Salamanders Control Locomotion in a Midline-base Reference Frame? Jeffrey R. Begley & Michael A. Arbib Proximal-distal interactions in pyramidal neuron basal dendrites Bardia F. Behabadi, Alon Polsky, Jackie Schiller, and Bartlett W. Mel Heteroclinic Channels in Random Networks Christian Bick An Ecological Basis for the Oblique Effect Michael Falconbridge & Donald I. A. MacLeod Mutlicompartment Model of Synaptic Plasticity E. Paxon Frady Cell Type Specific Contributions of Inhibitory Neuron to Sensory Representations Chao Huang, Andrey Resnik and Tansu Celikel Location of Modulatory Inputs Affects the "Scaling Competence" of the NMDA Channel Monika Jadi and Bartlett Mel Quantifying the Feature Properties in a Nested Self-organizing Map Rishabh Jain, Bardia Behabadi, Chaithanya Ramachandra, Albert Laia, Bartlett Mel Analog VLSI Simple Model Neuron with Wide Ranging Complex Dynamics Moonjung Kyung, Eric Weiss, Venkat Rangan, and Gert Cauwenberghs Embedding Multiple Trajectories in Recurrent Neural Networks in a Self-organizing Manner Jian K. Liu, Dean V. Buonomano Functional Connectivity and Graph Analysis of fMRI with Graphical Gaussian Models Vicente L. Malave Feedback Connections Stabilize Spike Propagation in Cortical Neural Networks Samat Moldakarimov, Maxim Bazhenov, and Terrence J. Sejnowski Representation of Vibrissal Self-Movement in the VPM Thalamic Nucleus Jeff Moore and David Kleinfeld A Configurable Simulation Environment for the Efficient Simulation of Large-Scale Spiking Neural Networks on Graphics Processors Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran, Nikil Dutt, Jeffrey L Krichmar, Alex Nicolau, Alex Veidenbaum Crowding in Peripheral Vision: An Explanation from Cortical Geometry and Natural Image Statistics Anirvan S. Nandy & Bosco S. Tjan Dissociating the Effect of Reward and Salience on Saccadic Decisions Vidhya Navalpakkam, Christof Koch, Antonio Rangel, Pietro Perona Structural Mechanisms for Persistent Activity and Autonomous Transitions in Spatial Networks Elan Liss Ohayon, W. McIntyre Burnham, Hon. C. Kwan, Terrence J. Sejnowski, Maxim Bazhenov Optimal "Multiplicative" Interactions between Local and Long-range Contour Cues: Where Natural Image Statistics Meets Single Neuron Computation Chaithanya Ramachandra, Bardia Behabadi, Rishabh Jain, Bartlett Mel A Very General Linear-Nonlinear Model for the Spatio-temporal Characterization of Visual Cells from Natural Images Joaquın Rapela, Gidon Felsen, Jon Touryan, Jerry M. Mendel, Norberto M. Grzywacz Hardware Implementation of a 32-In 32-Out Nonlinear Model of Hippocampal Circuitry for Cortical Implants V. Srinivasan, J. LaCoss, J.D. Wills, J.J. Granacki, D. Song, T. W. Berger Neural Circuit Models to Study the Role of the Spinal Cord in Control of Arm Movement George A Tsianos, Giby Raphael and Gerald E Loeb Unequal Partitioning of AMPA and NMDA Conductances Leads to Robust Temporal Order Sensitivity Wei, Y. & Mel, B. W.

 

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