MEETING SCHEDULE 

 

THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

May 27–30, 2009 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2009

CELEST Workshop on

“Object and Spatial Learning, Recognition, and Attention:

From Circuits to Consciousness”

 

Workshop Chair: Stephen Grossberg

Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

 

8:00am – 8:45am

Registration

 

8:45am – 8:50am

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Conference Welcome and Introduction

 

8:50am – 9:35am

Ed Connor

(Johns Hopkins University)

Neural representation of object shape in ventral pathway visual cortex

 

9:35am – 9:45am

Q&A

 

9:45am – 10:30am

Carl Olson

(Carnegie Mellon University)

What neurons in monkey inferotemporal cortex tell us about human perception

 

10:30am – 10:40am

Q&A

 

10:40am – 11:00am

Coffee Break

 

11:00am – 11:45am

James DiCarlo

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Untangling object recognition: How does the ventral visual stream achieve invariant object representation?

 

11:45am – 11:55am

Q&A

 

11:55am – 12:40pm

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Neural dynamics of attentive object and scene learning and recognition

 

12:40pm – 12:50pm

Q&A

 

12:50pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

 

2:15pm – 3:00pm

Nancy Kanwisher

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Feedback of visual object information to foveal retinotopic cortex

 

3:00pm – 3:10pm

Q&A

 

3:10pm – 3:55pm

Aude Oliva

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Remembering thousands of images with high fidelity

 

3:55pm – 4:05pm

Q&A

 

4:05pm – 4:50pm

Keiji Tanaka

(RIKEN Brain Science Institute)

Representation of object categories in activity patterns of inferotemporal cell population

 

4:50pm – 5:00pm

Q&A

 

5:00pm – 5:15pm

General discussion with all speakers and wrap-up

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2009

Invited and Contributed Speakers and Poster Session 

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

VISION, ATTENTION, DECISION, AND ACTION

8:30am – 9:15am

Marisa Carrasco

(New York University)

How attention affects perception

 

9:15am – 10:00am

David Knill

(University of Rochester)

Adaptive Bayesian priors for depth perception

 

10:00am – 10:45am

Richard Krauzlis

(The Salk Institute)

The soft underbelly of vision and action: The role of the brainstem in defining what’s behaviorally relevant

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

11:15am – 12:00pm

Alexandre Pouget

(University of Rochester)

Generalized probabilistic population codes

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

Paul Cisek

(University of Montreal)

The blurry borders between deciding and doing

 

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

2:00pm – 2:45pm

Mary Hayhoe

(University of Texas)

Adaptive gaze control in natural environments


2:45pm - 3:00pm

Discussion of the invited talks

 

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Plenary Speaker

Stan Williams

(Hewlett-Packard)

The memristor: An inorganic synapse for neural computation

 

4:00pm – 5:00pm

15-minute contributed talks

 

5:00pm – 5:30pm

Coffee Break

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session I

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 29, 2009

Invited and Contributed Speakers and Conference Reception

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

AUDITION, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE

8:30am – 9:15am

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

(Boston University)

How learning influences everyday communication

 

9:15am – 10:00am

Robert Remez

(Columbia University)

Specificity and versatility in the perceptual organization of speech: Findings and implications

 

10:00am – 10:45am

William Marslen-Wilson

(MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

Neurobiological foundations for human language: General and specific constraints

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIZATION

11:15am – 12:00pm

John Gabrieli

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Development of learning systems in the human brain

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

David Van Essen

(Washington University)

Functional specialization of cerebral cortex in humans and nonhuman primates

 

12:45pm – 1:00pm

Discussion of the invited talks

 

1:00pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

 

2:15pm – 3:15pm

Plenary Speaker

Wolfram Schultz

(University of Cambridge)

Efficient reward processing through subjective, predictive, and adaptive coding

 

3:15pm – 6:00pm

15-minute contributed talks

 

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Conference Reception

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009

CELEST Workshop on

“Neural Basis of Mental Disorders”

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

Ralph Hoffman

(Yale University)

Steps towards developing an artificial patient with schizophrenia

 

9:15am – 9:25am

Q&A

 

9:25am – 10:10am

David Plaut

(Carnegie-Mellon University)

Surface dyslexia and semantic dementia: Beyond single-case studies in cognitive neuropsychology

 

10:10am – 10:20am

Q&A

 

10:20am – 10:40am

Coffee Break

 

10:40am – 11:25am

Ann Graybiel

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Learning and memory mechanisms of the basal ganglia

 

11:25am – 11:35am

Q&A

 

11:35am – 12:20pm

Terje Sagvolden

(University of Oslo)

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder as RED – A reinforcement/extinction disorder

 

12:20pm – 12:30pm

Q&A

 

12:30pm – 1:45pm

Lunch

 

1:45pm – 2:30pm

Roger Traub

(IBM Watson Research Center)

Fast and very fast (>75 Hz) oscillations in neuropsychiatric disease

 

2:30pm – 2:40pm

Q&A

 

2:40pm – 3:00pm

Discussion with all workshop speakers

 

3:00pm – 5:00pm

15-minute contributed talks

 

5:00pm – 5:30pm

Coffee Break

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session II