Programme
 

SUNDAY 9

   

18:00

Registration and Welcome Reception

Top floor Babbage Building

18:30

   

19:00

Dinner

Top floor Babbage Building


MONDAY 10

   

8:30

Coffee

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

9:00

Opening

 

9:30

Edmund Rolls (UK)

Sparse distributed representations in perceptual and memory systems in the brain

10:00

Wulfram Gerstner (Switzerland)

Coding properties of spiking neurons: modeling reverse correlations

10:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

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)

11:30

Chris Harris (UK)

Temporal uncertainty in reading the neural code (multiplicative noise).

12:00

Guenther Palm (Germany)

Information and surprise in neural networks and sensory-motor systems

12:30

Lunch
 

Babbage Building, Top floor.
 

13:00

13:30

14:00

Frank Hoppensteadt (USA)

Phase locking in neural tissue and its possible role in neuronal coding

14:30

Kazuyuki Aihara (Japan)

Excitable Neurodynamics and possible Neural Coding with Spatio-Temporal Spikes

15:00

Eugene Izhikevich (USA)

Resonance and Selective Communication Via Bursts in Neurons Having Subthreshold Oscillations

15:30

Break + Group Photo

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

16:00

Roman Borisyuk (Russia, UK)

Information Coding in Neural Models of Spiking Elements with External Forcing

16:30

Y.Assai (Japan)

A coupled oscillator model of ordered and disordered inter-limb coordination (by Y. Asai, T. Nomura, and S. Sato )

17:00

   

17:30

Civic Reception 17:45

Participants walk to the GuildHall (12 min from Sherwell)

18:00

   

18:30

 

Participants walk to the Phoenix warf (12 min from GuildHall)

19:00

Dinner on the Boat

 
     


TUESDAY 11

   

8:30

Coffee

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

9:00 

Michael Levine (USA)

Firing coincidences between neighboring retinal ganglion cells: inside information or redundant reformatting?

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)

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?

10:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

11:00 

Barry J. Richmond (USA)

Decoding neuronal responses from single trials millisecond-by-millisecond.

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.)

12:00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Poster Presentations

3 min per participant - using OHPs only

Shigeru Shinomoto (Japan)

Cortical area dependence of neuronal spiking characteristics (by: Shigeru Shinomoto and Yutaka Sakai)

Yutaka Sakai (Japan)

Spike independency in feed-forward networks

Guido Bugmann (UK)

Modeling High CV Spike Trains as Low CV Burst Trains

Liz Stuart (UK)

Visualisation of Multi-dimensional Spike Trains (By: Stuart E., Walter M. and Borisyuk R.)

Laura Sacerdote (Italy)

Interspike Interval Statistics in the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Neuronal Model with the Signal Dependent Noise (by: Laura Sacerdote and Petr Lánský)

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.)

Robert Morse (UK)

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Cochlear Implant Coding (by: Morse R.P. and Stocks N.G.)

Yakov Kazanovich (Russia)

Object Selection by an Oscillatory Neural Network (by: Yakov Kazanovich and Roman Borisyuk)

Taishin Nomura (Japan)

Phase resetting and dynamic stability of human walking (by T. Yamasaki, T. Nomura, and S. Sato)

Javier Iglesias (Switzerland)

A Cooperative Computing Approach to Decipher Neural Coding (by: Iglesias J., Tetko I.V., Villa A.E.P.)

12:30

Posters + Buffet
 

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

Posters can be put up in the morning and can be displayed until Wednesday noon.
 

13:00

13:30

14:00 

Adi R. Bulsara (USA)

Noise-Induced Firing in Type I Neurons: A case for the Universality of Integrate-and-Fire Dynamics

14:30

Francesco Ventriglia (Italy)

Stochastic fluctuations of the synaptic function (by: Ventriglia F. and Di Maio V. )

15:00 

Roger Rodriguez (France)

Vesicular Mechanisms and Estimates of Firing Probability in a Network of Spiking Neurons (by: Roger RODRIGUEZ and Petr LANSKY)

15:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

16:00 

Florentin Wörgötter (UK)

Predictive Learning in Time-Continuous Systems: A theoretical approach towards classical conditioning (by: Florentin Wörgötter and Bernd Porr).

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)

17:00

Alexander K. Vidybida (Ukraine)

Inhibition as binding controller in a network of binding neurons.

17:30

 

Participants walk to Visit Marine Biological Association or Royal Corinthian Yacht Club (20 min from Sherwell)

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.

18:30

19:00

19:30

Bar

Royal Corinthian Yacht Club

20:00

Dinner

 
     


WEDNESDAY 12

   

8:30

Coffee

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

9:00

Adam Sillito (UK)

Spatial and temporal dynamics of neural coding in the central visual system.

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)

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)

10:30 

Andre Longtin (Canada)

Biophysical Modeling of Correlated Firing and Gain Control in the Electrosensory System.

11:00

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

11:30

Karl Friston (UK)

Constraints on the form of neuronal codes: A dynamical perspective

12:00

Tatyana S. Turova (Sweden)

Study of synaptic plasticity via random graphs.

12:30 

Angelo Di Garbo (Italy)

Synchronization in Biophysical Neural Networks

13:00

Lunch

Top floor Babbage Building

13:30

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

14:30

Visit of the Eden Project.

15:00

15:30

16:00

16:30

17:00

17:30

18:00

Transfer to the Threnython Manor by bus

18:30

Bar

 

19:00

Conference Dinner

Return to Plymouth at approximately 22.30


THURSDAY 13

   

8:30

Coffee

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

9:00

John Rinzel (USA)

Cellular dynamics involved in sound localization.(by: J Rinzel, G Svirskis, V Kotak, D Sanes)

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)

10:00

Sue Denham (UK)

A model of temporal response properties in primary auditory cortex

10:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

11:00

Simon Thorpe (France)

Ultra-Rapid Visual categorisation using one Spike per neuron.

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)

12:00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Poster presentations

3 min per participant - using OHPs only

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))

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)

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)

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)

David P.M. Northmore (USA)

A model tectum: attention, synchrony and behavior (by: Northmore D. & Gallagher S.)

Alexander K. Vidybida (Ukraine)

Discriminating Ability Improvement in Sensory Systems due to Cooperativity

Andre Longtin (Canada)

Correlation Enhanced Information Transfer in Electroreceptors of Weakly Electric Fish (By: André Longtin, Maurice J. Chacron, Leonard Maler)

Petr Marsalek (USA)

Phase space analysis of the 2D nonlinear system (by: Marsalek Petr, Kubena Ales).

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)

Chris Cristodoulou (UK)

Learning Temporal Correlation between Input Neurones by using Dendritic Propagation Delays and Stochastic Synapses (by Christodoulou C. and Bugmann G.)

Robert M. French (Belgium)

Noise, Pseudopatterns, and Information Transfer in the Brain (By: Robert French and Nick Chatter)

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.

13:00

13:30

14:00

Tim C.Pearce (UK)

Why do Olfactory Neurons have Unspecific Receptive Fields (by: Manuel A. Sanchez-Montanes and Time C. Pearce)

14:30

Jean-Pierre Rospars (France) and Petr Lansky (Czech Republic)

Coding of Periodic Stimulation in Chemoreceptors (by: Petr Lansky and Jean-Pierre Rospars)

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.)

15:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

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 )

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.)

17:00

Jianfeng Feng (UK)

A Modelling study on the discrimination of visual motion patterns (by: Jianfeng Feng and Feng Liu)

17:30

   

18:00

 

Participants walk to the aquarium (16 min from Sherwell)

18:30

Visit of Aquarium and Dinner

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FRIDAY 14

   

8:30

Coffee

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

9:00 

Rasmus Petersen (Italy)

Population Coding of Stimulus Location in Rat Barrel Cortex (by: R.S. Petersen, S. Panzeri, M.E. Diamond)

9:30 

Lars Schwabe (Germany)

Efficient coding with rapid adaptation in the primary visual cortex.

10:00 

Nigel Stocks (UK)

Generic noise-enhanced coding in neural populations

10:30

Break

Foyer, Sherwell Centre

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

11:30 

Andre A. Fenton (Czech Republic)

The hippocampal place cell rate code signals "here" but not "there".

12:00 

Andrej Olypher (Russia)

On informational content of a momentary spiking activity of hippocampal place cells (by: Andrey Olypher, Petr Lansky, Andre Fenton)

12:30 

Distinguished speakers.

Summary

13:00

Lunch
 

Top floor Babbage Building

 

 

13:30

14:00

14:30

End