MEETING SCHEDULE 

 

TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

May 14 – 17, 2008 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008

 

CELEST Workshop on

“Dynamics of Cortical-Hippocampal Interactions 

for Memory Guided Behavior”

 

Workshop Chair: Michael Hasselmo

Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University

 

8:00am – 9:00am

Registration

 

8:50am – 8:55am

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Conference Welcome and Introduction

 

8:55am – 9:00am

Michael Hasselmo

(Boston University)

Workshop Introduction

 

9:00am – 9:45am

Trygve Solstad

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Spatial representations in hippocampus and entorhinal cortex

 

9:45am – 9:55am

Q&A

 

9:55am – 10:40am

Neil Burgess

(University College London)

Predictions of an interference model of grid cell firing

 

10:40am – 10:50am

Q&A

 

10:50am – 11:20am

Coffee Break

 

11:20am – 12:05pm

Michael Hasselmo

(Boston University)

Oscillations, grid cells and episodic memory

 

12:05pm – 12:15pm

Q&A

 

12:15pm – 1:30pm

Lunch

 

1:30pm – 2:15pm

David Touretzky

(Carnegie-Mellon University)

A spin-glass model of path integration in grid cells

 

2:15pm – 2:25pm

Q&A

 

2:25pm – 3:10pm

Howard Eichenbaum

(Boston University)

Grid cells and place cells: Different roles in memory?

 

3:10pm – 3:20pm

Q&A

 

3:20pm – 4:05pm

David Redish

(University of Minnesota)

Transiently prospective neural firing in CA3 at decision points

 

4:05pm – 4:15pm

Q&A

 

4:15pm – 4:45pm

General discussion with all speakers and wrap-up

 

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008

Invited and Contributed Speakers and Poster Session 

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

VISION, ATTENTION, RECOGNITION, AND DECISION MAKING

 

8:30am – 9:15am

Greg DeAngelis

(University of Rochester)

Roles of visual area MT in depth perception

 

9:15am – 10:00am

John Reynolds

(Salk Institute)

Mapping the microcircuitry of attention: Attentional modulation varies across cell classes in visual area V4

 

10:00am – 10:45am

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Cortical dynamics of attentive object recognition, scene understanding, and decision making

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

SENSORY-MOTOR CONTROL, PLANNING, AND ROBOTICS

 

11:15am – 12:00pm

Javier Movellan

(University of California at San Diego)

Developing social robots: A paradigm for the scientific study of human behavior

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

Cynthia Breazeal

(MIT Media Lab)

Computational models of embodied cognition to support human-robot teamwork

 

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Ranu Jung

(Arizona State University)

Neurotechnology for making neural circuits functional


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Discussion of the day’s invited talks

 

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Plenary Speaker

Gail Carpenter

(Boston University)

Large-scale neural systems for vision and cognition

 

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

5:00pm – 5:30pm

Coffee Break

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session I

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008

Invited and Contributed Speakers and Conference Reception

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

COGNITION AND EMOTION

 

8:30am – 9:15am

Daniel Salzman

(Columbia University)

Learning about rewards and punishments in the amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex

 

9:15am – 10:00am

Joy Hirsch

(Columbia University)

Functional specificity and cortical mechanisms that regulate emotion and cognition: What the human face tells the human brain

 

10:00am – 10:45am

Peter Dayan

(University College London)

The misbehavior of value

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

COGNITION AND MEMORY

 

11:15am – 12:00pm

Charan Ranganath

(University of California at Davis)

Relational binding in human memory

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

Gordon Logan

(Vanderbilt University)

The mysterious story of cognitive control

 

12:45pm – 1:00pm

Discussion of the day’s invited talks

 

1:00pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

 

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Plenary Speaker

Gyorgy Buzsaki

(Rutgers University)

Segregation of cell assembly sequences by oscillatory synchrony

 

3:15pm – 6:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Conference Reception

 


SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008

 

CELEST Workshop on “Computing with Neural Interfaces”,

Contributed Talks, and Poster Session

Workshop Co-Chairs: Heather Ames and Max Versace

Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

8:20am – 8:30am

Heather Ames and Max Versace

(Boston University)

Introductory Remarks

 

8:30am – 9:15am

Theodore Berger  

(University of Southern California)

Bi-directional communication with the brain through biomimetic microelectronics

 

9:15am – 10:00am

John Wyatt

(Boston Retinal Implant Project)

Steps in the development of a retinal Implant

 

10:00am – 10:30am

Coffee Break

 

10:30am – 11:15am

Donald Eddington

(Harvard University)

Cochlear implants

 

11:15am – 12:00pm

Phil Kennedy

(Neural Signals)

Speech prosthesis: An analysis of single unit recordings from human cortex

 

12:00pm – 1:15pm

Lunch

 

1:15pm – 2:00pm

John Donoghue

(Brown University)

Neural ensemble activity as a direct control signal in humans

 

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Krishna Shenoy

(Stanford University)

Toward high-performance communication prostheses

 

2:45pm – 3:00pm

Discussion with all workshop speakers

 

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

5:00pm – 5:30pm

Coffee Break

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session II

 

 

POSTER SESSION I: Thursday, May 15, 2008

All posters will be displayed for the full day

 

 

POSTER SESSION II: Saturday, May 17, 2008

All posters will be displayed for the full day