Programme
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SUNDAY 9 |
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18:00 |
Registration and Welcome Reception |
Top floor Babbage Building |
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18:30 |
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19:00 |
Dinner |
Top floor Babbage Building |
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MONDAY 10 |
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8:30 |
Coffee |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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9:00 |
Opening |
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9:30 |
Edmund Rolls (UK) |
Sparse distributed representations in perceptual and memory systems in the brain |
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10:00 |
Wulfram Gerstner (Switzerland) |
Coding properties of spiking neurons: modeling reverse correlations |
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10:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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11:00 |
Andre Kohn (Brazil) |
The encoding of input currents by Motoneurones in relation to Neuronal Modelling (by: M F Veira and A F Kohn) |
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11:30 |
Chris Harris (UK) |
Temporal uncertainty in reading the neural code (multiplicative noise). |
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12:00 |
Guenther Palm (Germany) |
Information and surprise in neural networks and sensory-motor systems |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
Babbage Building, Top floor. |
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13:00 |
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13:30 |
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14:00 |
Frank Hoppensteadt (USA) |
Phase locking in neural tissue and its possible role in neuronal coding |
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14:30 |
Kazuyuki Aihara (Japan) |
Excitable Neurodynamics and possible Neural Coding with Spatio-Temporal Spikes |
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15:00 |
Eugene Izhikevich (USA) |
Resonance and Selective Communication Via Bursts in Neurons Having Subthreshold Oscillations |
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15:30 |
Break + Group Photo |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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16:00 |
Roman Borisyuk (Russia, UK) |
Information Coding in Neural Models of Spiking Elements with External Forcing |
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16:30 |
Y.Assai (Japan) |
A coupled oscillator model of ordered and disordered inter-limb coordination (by Y. Asai, T. Nomura, and S. Sato ) |
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17:00 |
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17:30 |
Civic Reception 17:45 |
Participants walk to the GuildHall (12 min from Sherwell) |
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18:00 |
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18:30 |
Participants walk to the Phoenix warf (12 min from GuildHall) |
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19:00 |
Dinner on the Boat |
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TUESDAY 11 |
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8:30 |
Coffee |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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9:00 |
Michael Levine (USA) |
Firing coincidences between neighboring retinal ganglion cells: inside information or redundant reformatting? |
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9:30 |
Reinhard Eckhorn (Germany) |
Temporal, Spatial, and Intensity Information in Cat Visual Cortex Evoked by a Retina-Implant (by: M. Eger, R. Eckhorn, T. Schanze, M. Wilms) |
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10:00 |
Igor A. Shevelev (Russia) |
What are the Neuronal Mechanisms of Specific Neural Codes of the Second-Order Features in the Cat Striate Cortex? |
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10:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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11:00 |
Barry J. Richmond (USA) |
Decoding neuronal responses from single trials millisecond-by-millisecond. |
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11:30 |
Alessandro Villa (Switzerland) |
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Spike Occurrences in Freely Moving Rats Associated with the Perception of Human Vowels (by: Villa A.E.P, Eriksson J.L., Najem A., Iglesias J., Tetko I.V.) |
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12:00 |
Poster Presentations |
3 min per participant - using OHPs only |
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Shigeru Shinomoto (Japan) |
Cortical area dependence of neuronal spiking characteristics (by: Shigeru Shinomoto and Yutaka Sakai) |
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Yutaka Sakai (Japan) |
Spike independency in feed-forward networks |
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Guido Bugmann (UK) |
Modeling High CV Spike Trains as Low CV Burst Trains |
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Liz Stuart (UK) |
Visualisation of Multi-dimensional Spike Trains (By: Stuart E., Walter M. and Borisyuk R.) |
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Laura Sacerdote (Italy) |
Interspike Interval Statistics in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Neuronal Model with the Signal Dependent Noise (by: Laura Sacerdote and Petr Lánský) |
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Markus Eger (Germany) |
Three-Step-Approach for the Analysis of Information Transmission via Neural Systems with Multiple Inputs and Outputs (by: Eger M.and Eckhorn R.) |
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Robert Morse (UK) |
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Cochlear Implant Coding (by: Morse R.P. and Stocks N.G.) |
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Yakov Kazanovich (Russia) |
Object Selection by an Oscillatory Neural Network (by: Yakov Kazanovich and Roman Borisyuk) |
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Taishin Nomura (Japan) |
Phase resetting and dynamic stability of human walking (by T. Yamasaki, T. Nomura, and S. Sato) |
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Javier Iglesias (Switzerland) |
A Cooperative Computing Approach to Decipher Neural Coding (by: Iglesias J., Tetko I.V., Villa A.E.P.) |
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12:30 |
Posters + Buffet |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre Posters can be put up in the morning and can be displayed until Wednesday noon. |
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13:00 |
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13:30 |
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14:00 |
Adi R. Bulsara (USA) |
Noise-Induced Firing in Type I Neurons: A case for the Universality of Integrate-and-Fire Dynamics |
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14:30 |
Francesco Ventriglia (Italy) |
Stochastic fluctuations of the synaptic function (by: Ventriglia F. and Di Maio V. ) |
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15:00 |
Roger Rodriguez (France) |
Vesicular Mechanisms and Estimates of Firing Probability in a Network of Spiking Neurons (by: Roger RODRIGUEZ and Petr LANSKY) |
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15:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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16:00 |
Florentin Wörgötter (UK) |
Predictive Learning in Time-Continuous Systems: A theoretical approach towards classical conditioning (by: Florentin Wörgötter and Bernd Porr). |
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16:30 |
Mike Denham (UK) |
Synchrony generation in networks of spiking neurons with dynamic synapses and a dynamic learning rule. (By: Mike Denham and Sue Denham) |
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17:00 |
Alexander K. Vidybida (Ukraine) |
Inhibition as binding controller in a network of binding neurons. |
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17:30 |
Participants walk to Visit Marine Biological Association or Royal Corinthian Yacht Club (20 min from Sherwell) |
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18:00 |
Visit Marine Biological Association Visit of the former laboratory of Alan L Hodgkin In groups of 10. The participants waiting their turn can enjoy a drink at the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club nearby. |
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18:30 |
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19:00 |
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19:30 |
Bar |
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club |
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20:00 |
Dinner |
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WEDNESDAY 12 |
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8:30 |
Coffee |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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9:00 |
Adam Sillito (UK) |
Spatial and temporal dynamics of neural coding in the central visual system. |
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9:30 |
Ernst Niebur (USA) |
Attention Modulated Synchrony in Primate Cortex (by: E Niebur, A Roy, P N Steinmetz, S S Hsiao and K O Johnson) |
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10:00 |
Stefano Panzeri (UK) |
The role of correlated firing in coding information about single and separate objects in cat V1 (by S. Panzeri, G. Pola, H. Golledge, F. Zheng, M.J. Tovee, M.P Young) |
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10:30 |
Andre Longtin (Canada) |
Biophysical Modeling of Correlated Firing and Gain Control in the Electrosensory System. |
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11:00 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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11:30 |
Karl Friston (UK) |
Constraints on the form of neuronal codes: A dynamical perspective |
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12:00 |
Tatyana S. Turova (Sweden) |
Study of synaptic plasticity via random graphs. |
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12:30 |
Angelo Di Garbo (Italy) |
Synchronization in Biophysical Neural Networks |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
Top floor Babbage Building |
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13:30 |
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14:00 |
Transfer to the Eden project |
The bus departs at the bus stop opposite the public library, 50 m in direction of the town-centre from the Sherwel Conference Centre |
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14:30 |
Visit of the Eden Project. |
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15:00 |
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15:30 |
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16:00 |
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16:30 |
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17:00 |
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17:30 |
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18:00 |
Transfer to the Threnython Manor by bus |
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18:30 |
Bar |
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19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Return to Plymouth at approximately 22.30 |
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THURSDAY 13 |
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8:30 |
Coffee |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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9:00 |
John Rinzel (USA) |
Cellular dynamics involved in sound localization.(by: J Rinzel, G Svirskis, V Kotak, D Sanes) |
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9:30 |
Pau-Choo Chung (Taiwan) |
Modeling responses of midbrain auditory neurons to random FM sound using artificial neural network (by: Chung PC, Chang TR, Poon P) |
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10:00 |
Sue Denham (UK) |
A model of temporal response properties in primary auditory cortex |
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10:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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11:00 |
Simon Thorpe (France) |
Ultra-Rapid Visual categorisation using one Spike per neuron. |
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11:30 |
Elisabeth Thomas (Belgium) |
Category encoding with non-category specific neurons in the inferior temporal cortex (by: Elizabeth Thomas, Marc M Van Hulle and Rufin Vogels) |
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12:00 |
Poster presentations |
3 min per participant - using OHPs only |
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Kunichika Tsumoto (Japan) |
Bifurcations in synaptically coupled Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with a periodic alpha-function train (By: Kunichika Tsumoto (The University of Tokushima), Tetsuya Yoshinaga (The University of Tokushima), Kazuyuki Aihara (The University of Tokyo), Hiroshi Kawakami (The University of Tokushima)) |
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Brigitte Quenet (France) |
Generation of olfactory neural codes by a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurones (by: Brigitte Quenet, Sevan Sirapian, Rémi Dubois and Gérard Dreyfus) |
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Maciej T. Lazarewicz (USA) |
A new bursting model of CA3 pyramidal cell physiology suggests multiple locations for spike initiation. (by: Lazarewicz M.T., Migliore M., Ascoli G.A) |
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Hans E. Plesser (Norway) |
A Network Model for Studying the Consequences of Localized and Non-localized Inhibition of Thalamic Relay Cells (by: Hans E. Plesser and Gaute T. Einevoll) |
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David P.M. Northmore (USA) |
A model tectum: attention, synchrony and behavior (by: Northmore D. & Gallagher S.) |
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Alexander K. Vidybida (Ukraine) |
Discriminating Ability Improvement in Sensory Systems due to Cooperativity |
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Andre Longtin (Canada) |
Correlation Enhanced Information Transfer in Electroreceptors of Weakly Electric Fish (By: André Longtin, Maurice J. Chacron, Leonard Maler) |
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Petr Marsalek (USA) |
Phase space analysis of the 2D nonlinear system (by: Marsalek Petr, Kubena Ales). |
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Epifanio Bagarinao (Japan) |
Joint analysis of multichannel magnetoencephalogram data using multivariable autoregressive models (by E. Bagarinao, K. Yoshino, T. Nomura, S. Sato, and M. Tonoike) |
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Chris Cristodoulou (UK) |
Learning Temporal Correlation between Input Neurones by using Dendritic Propagation Delays and Stochastic Synapses (by Christodoulou C. and Bugmann G.) |
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Robert M. French (Belgium) |
Noise, Pseudopatterns, and Information Transfer in the Brain (By: Robert French and Nick Chatter) |
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12:30 |
Posters / Buffet |
In the Lobby of Sherwell Conference Centre. Posters can be put up in the morning and can be displayed until Friday noon. |
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13:00 |
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13:30 |
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14:00 |
Tim C.Pearce (UK) |
Why do Olfactory Neurons have Unspecific Receptive Fields (by: Manuel A. Sanchez-Montanes and Time C. Pearce) |
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14:30 |
Jean-Pierre Rospars (France) and Petr Lansky (Czech Republic) |
Coding of Periodic Stimulation in Chemoreceptors (by: Petr Lansky and Jean-Pierre Rospars) |
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15:00 |
Aniello Buonocore (Italy) |
The effect of alternating drifts on the input-output behaviour of model neurons (by:Buonocore A., Di Crescenzo A. and Di Nardo E.) |
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15:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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16:00 |
Virginia Giorno (Italy) |
Upward First Crossing Problems for Neuronal Modeling's Paradigm (by: A.Buonocore, V.Giorno , A.G.Nobile, L.M.Ricciardi ) |
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16:30 |
Maria Teresa Giraudo (Italy) |
Effects of Random Jumps on a Very Simple Neuronal Diffusion Model (by: Giraudo, M.T., Sacerdote, L. and Sirovich, R.) |
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17:00 |
Jianfeng Feng (UK) |
A Modelling study on the discrimination of visual motion patterns (by: Jianfeng Feng and Feng Liu) |
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17:30 |
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18:00 |
Participants walk to the aquarium (16 min from Sherwell) |
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18:30 |
Visit of Aquarium and Dinner |
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FRIDAY 14 |
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8:30 |
Coffee |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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9:00 |
Rasmus Petersen (Italy) |
Population Coding of Stimulus Location in Rat Barrel Cortex (by: R.S. Petersen, S. Panzeri, M.E. Diamond) |
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9:30 |
Lars Schwabe (Germany) |
Efficient coding with rapid adaptation in the primary visual cortex. |
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10:00 |
Nigel Stocks (UK) |
Generic noise-enhanced coding in neural populations |
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10:30 |
Break |
Foyer, Sherwell Centre |
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11:00 |
Jonghan Shin (Japan) |
A unifying theory on the relationship between spike trains and EEG based on the spectral noise shaping neural coding hypothesis |
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11:30 |
Andre A. Fenton (Czech Republic) |
The hippocampal place cell rate code signals "here" but not "there". |
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12:00 |
Andrej Olypher (Russia) |
On informational content of a momentary spiking activity of hippocampal place cells (by: Andrey Olypher, Petr Lansky, Andre Fenton) |
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12:30 |
Distinguished speakers. |
Summary |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
Top floor Babbage Building
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13:30 |
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14:00 |
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14:30 |
End |