FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL
SYSTEMS (ICCNS)
May
11 14, 2011
WEDNESDAY,
MAY 11, 2011
Workshop on
NEURAL
DYNAMICS OF LEARNING, RECOGNITION,
AND
COGNITION
Workshop Chair:
Stephen Grossberg
8:0am – 8:50am
Registration
8:50am 9:00am
Stephen
Grossberg
(
Conference
and Workshop Welcome and Introduction
9:00am 9:45am
Daphne Bavelier
(
Action video games as exemplary
learning tools
9:45am 9:55am
Q&A
9:55am 10:40am
Marvin
Chun
(
Competitive interactions in
memory encoding and retrieval
10:40am 10:50am
Q&A
10:50am 11:20am
Coffee Break
11:20am 12:05pm
James DiCarlo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Untangling object recognition:
A direct comparison of the V4 and IT neuronal population
12:05pm 12:15pm
Q&A
12:15pm 1:00pm
Stephen
Grossberg
(
Neural
dynamics of invariant object recognition, sequential memory, and action
1:00pm 1:10pm
Q&A
1:10pm 2:30pm
Lunch
PLENARY LECTURE
2:30pm 3:30pm
Okihide Hikosaka (with S.
Yamamoto, M. Yasuda, and I.E. Monosov)
(National Institutes of Health)
Long-term
reward experience influences basal ganglia neuronal activity and oculomotor behavior
3:30pm 3:45pm
Q&A
PLENARY
LECTURE
3:45pm 4:45pm
Herbert
Terrace
(
Some missing links in the
evolution of language
4:45pm 5:00pm
Q&A
5:00pm 5:30pm
Discussion
with all speakers
THURSDAY,
MAY 12, 2011
Invited and
Contributed Speakers and Poster Session
8:0am – 8:30am
Registration
Session Chair: David
Somers
8:30am 9:15am
Takao Hensch
(
Shaping neural circuits by early experience
9:15am 10:00am
Steven
Zucker
(
Learning long-range
horizontal connections in visual cortex
10:00am 10:45am
Edward Adelson
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The
perception of materials and surfaces
10:45am 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am
12:00pm
Ning Qian
(
Low- and high-level contributions to face perception:
An adaptation study
12:00pm 12:45pm
David
Sheinberg
(
Effects
of visual experience on temporal cortical activity
12:45pm 1:00pm
Discussion of invited
talks
1:00pm 2:15pm
Lunch
PLENARY
LECTURE
Session Chair: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
2:15pm 3:15pm
Nancy Kopell
(
Multiple brain rhythms:
Temporal structure and its functional implications
3:15pm 3:30pm
Q&A
AUDITION, SPEECH, AND LANGUSGE
Session Chair: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
3:30pm 3:45pm
Sohrob
Kazerounian and Stephen Grossberg
(
A
massively parallel neural architecture for learning to categorize and predict
context-sensitive sequences: From list chunking to resonant speech perception
3:45pm 4:00pm
Ricky D. Sachdeva, Seppo P. Ahlfors, and David W.
Gow Jr.
(
Mechanisms
supporting categorical perception in speech: Kalman-filter based Granger analysis
of multimodal imaging data
4:00pm 4:15pm
Thomas
Hannagan and Jonathan Grainger
(Laboratoire de Psychologie
Cognitive, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University)
From
learning objects to learning letters: Transfer of invariance in a computational
model of the ventral visual system
4:15pm 4:30pm
Leonid
Perlovsky
(
Mirror
neurons and joint acquisition of language and cognition
4:30pm 4:45pm
Jeffrey
Markowitz and Timothy Gardner
(
Testing
the long-term stability of a neural code in songbirds
4:45pm 5:00pm
Yulia
Sandamirskaya
(
Autonomous
sequencing of boosts in a dynamic neural fields
architecture for spatial language
5:00pm 8:00pm
Coffee Break and Poster Session
I
FRIDAY, MAY
13, 2011
Invited and
Contributed Speakers and Conference Reception
8:0am – 8:30am
Registration
NEW TOOLS
Session Chair: Michael
Hasselmo
8:30am 9:15am
Ed Boyden
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Controlling brain circuits with light: New tools for
analyzing neural systems
NAVIGATION AND ACTION
Session Chair: Michael Hasselmo
9:15am 10:00am
Howard Eichenbaum
(
The hippocampus
in space and time
10:00am 10:45am
Michale Fee
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Prime movers of the brain: Neural circuits that drive
complex motor behavior
10:45am 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am
12:00pm
Laurence Maloney
(
Perception, action, and uncertainty
12:00pm 12:45pm
Michael Paradiso
(
Saccadic
eye movements and their role in neural coding and perception
12:45pm 1:00pm
Discussion of invited
talks
1:00pm 2:15pm
Lunch
VISION AND IMAGE
PROCESSING
Session Chair: Arash
Yazdanbakhsh
2:15pm 2:30pm
Yongqiang
Cao and Stephen Grossberg
(
Stereopsis
and 3D surface perception by spiking neurons in laminar cortical circuits: A
method for converting neural rate models into spiking models
2:30pm 2:45pm
Karthik
Srinivasan, Stephen Grossberg, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(
Inhibitory
peak shifts convert absolute disparity in V1 to relative disparity in V2: An
early step towards invariant object recognition
2:45pm 3:00pm
Tony
Vladusich, Franz Faul, and Vebjψrn
Ekroll
(
The
computational role of brightness and darkness dimensions in the perception of
opaque and transparent achromatic colors
3:00pm 3:15pm
Stephen
Tschechne and Heiko Neumann
(
Ordinal
depth from kinetic occlusions A neural model
3:15pm 3:30pm
Timothy
Barnes and Ennio Mingolla
(
An
augmented Barlow-Levick model detects onsets and
offsets of motion
3:30pm 3:45pm
Lorena
Chanes, Ana B. Chica, and Antoni Valero-Cabre
(École des Neurosciences de Paris, INSERM UMR,
CNRS UMR, Boston University School of Medicine, and Open University of
Catalonia)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on the frontal eye fields (FEF) combined
with visuospatial cues facilitates conscious vision
in humans
3:45pm 4:00pm
Ruth
Rosenholtz
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
A
summary statistic representation in early vision fundamentally constrains
visual performance
4:00pm 4:15pm
Roman
Borisyuk, Oleksandr Burylko,
and Yakov Kazanovich
(
Bifurcation
analysis of phase oscillator neural networks with star-like coupling: Application
to visual attention modeling
4:15pm 4:30pm
David
P. Reichert, Peggy Series, and Amos J. Storkey
(
Deep
Boltzmann machines as generative models of object-based attention in the visual
cortex
LEARNING
AND RECOGNITION
Session
Chair: Arash Yazdanbakhsh
4:30pm 4:45pm
I.
Lopez-Juarez, M. Peña-Cabrera, and M. Castelán
(Centro de Investigación
y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN [CINVESTAV] and Instituto
de Investigaciones en Matemáticas
Aplicados y en Sistemas
[IIMAS-UNAM])
Object
recognition employing contour, form, and depth information
4:45pm 5:00pm
Sheng
Chen, Yafeng Yin, Hong Man, Danil V. Prokhorov, and
Haibo He
(Stevens Institute of Technology, Toyota
Research Institute, and
Incremental
learning for object recognition with stream video
5:00pm 5:15pm
Giuseppe
Morlino, Sascha S.
Griffiths, Lars Schillingmann, Stefano Nolfi, Britta Wrede, and
Katharina Rohlfing
(
Human
and artificial agents learning categories in interactions
5:15pm 5:30pm
Christian
Wallraven and Lewis Chuang
(
Non-accidental
properties determine object exploration patterns
5:30pm 5:45pm
Atif Hashmi, Andrew Nere, and Mikko Lipasti
(
Learning
through spatially localized and temporally correlated spontaneous activations
5:45pm 6:00pm
Lichan
Liu, Vahe Poghosyan, and
Andreas Ioannides
(AAI Scientific
Cultural Services Ltd.)
Fast
complex processing and attention effects in the human visual system: Evidence
from the analysis of MEG data elicited by faces
6:00pm 9:00pm
Conference Reception
SATURDAY,
MAY 14, 2011
Invited and
Contributed Speakers and Poster Session
8:00am 8:30am
Registration
PERCEPTUAL
DYNAMICS AND ATTENTION
Session
Chair: Robert Sekuler
8:30am 9:15am
Kamal Sen
(
Competition
between target natural sounds and background maskers unveils spatial tuning at
the cortical level
9:15am 10:00am
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
(
Understanding individual differences in auditory
attention: From physiology to behavior
10:00am 10:45am
George Alvarez
(
How does neural architecture
constrain attentional selection?
10:45am 11:15am
Coffee Break
11:15am
12:00pm
John Maunsell
(
A neuronal population code
for attentional state
12:00pm 1:15pm
Lunch
PLENARY LECTURE
Session Chair: Helen Barbas
1:15pm 2:15pm
Michael Goldberg
(
Attention, saccades, and arousal
in the parietal cortex
2:15pm 2:30pm
Q&A
COGNITION, PLANNING, AND
ATTENTION
Session Chair: Helen
Barbas
2:30pm 2:45pm
Miguel A. Garcia-Cabezas and Helen Barbas
(
Anterior cingulate cortex
can modulate primary olfactory cortex
2:45pm 3:00pm
Eduardo Mercado III
(
Mapping individual
variations in learning capacity
SPATIAL MAPPING AND
NAVIGATION
Session Chair: Helen
Barbas
3:00pm 3:15pm
Himanshu Mhatre, Anatoli
Gorchetchnikov, and Stephen Grossberg
(
Learning a dorsoventral gradient of grid cell receptive field sizes
from a gradient of habituative rates in a
self-organizing entorhinal cortical map
3:15pm 3:30pm
Praveen K. Pilly and Stephen
Grossberg
(
How does the brain learn to
represent space? Coordinated learning of entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal
place cells
3:30pm 3:45pm
Marcos Villarreal and Remus Osan
(
Analysis
of hippocampal place cells encoding during pharmacological manipulation of
GABA-A receptors
3:45pm 4:00pm
Rodrigo Silva-Lugo and Stan
Franklin
(
Episodic memory in the LIDA
cognitive architecture
4:00pm 4:15pm
(
Medial
temporal and striatal contributions to the integration and separation of
overlapping spatial memories
NEURAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Session Chair: Helen Barbas
4:15pm 4:30pm
Jesse Palma, Massimiliano
Versace, and Stephen Grossberg
(
After-hyperpolarization currents and calcium dynamics control
sigmoid transfer functions in spiking cortical networks
4:30pm 4:45pm
Claus C. Hilgetag,
and Changsong Zhou
(
Model complexity in the
study of neural network dynamics
4:45pm 5:00pm
Evan G. Antzoulatos
and Earl K. Miller
(Massachusetts Institute
of Technology)
Differences
between neural activity in prefrontal cortex and striatum during learning of
novel, abstract categories
5:00pm 8:00pm
Coffee Break and Poster Session II
POSTER
SESSION I
Thursday,
May 12, 2011
All posters
will be displayed for the full day
VISION AND IMAGE
PROCESSING
#1
Yongqiang
Cao, Stephen Grossberg, and Jeffrey Markowitz
(
Neural
dynamics of retinal waves and their role in development of a laminar retinogeniculate map
#2
Gina
Escobar, Steve Van Hooser, and Paul Miller
(
Emergence
of direction selectivity in V1 cortex
#3
Marνa-Jose
Escobar, Guillaume S. Masson, and Pierre Kornprobst
(Universidad Técnica
Federico Santa Marνa, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, and INCM-CNRS Marseille)
Can
V1 surround suppression mechanism explain MT motion integration?
#4
Jasmin
Léveillé and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(
Vector
subtraction in velocity space
#5
Murat
Aytekin and Michele Rucci
(
Motion
parallax during visual fixation under natural conditions
#6
Martina
Poletti and Michele Rucci
(
Influence
of eye position on saccade planning
#7
Claudia
Cherici, Martina Poletti,
and Michele Rucci
(
Analysis
of individual variability in the retinal stimulus: Implications for neural
models
#8
Gennady
Livitz and Ennio Mingolla
(
Neural
model of chromatic induction in solid and textured displays
#9
Seth
Elkin-Frankston, RJ Rushmore, and Antoni Valero-Cabre
(
The
impact of functional and anatomical connectivity governing visual processing
#10
Oliver
W. Layton, Ennio Mingolla, and N. Andrew Browning
(
Processing
of differential motion signals is not necessary to explain human heading bias
in the presence of independently moving objects
AUDITION,
SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE
#11
Michael
C. Brady
(
Neural
fields respond to bottom-up change and top-down persistence
#12
Chaleece
Sandberg and Swathi Kiran
(
Abstract
and concrete noun processing in persons with aphasia using fMRI
#13
Yoonseob
Lim, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, and Timothy Gardner
(
Auditory
contours and Gestalt rules for sound analysis
#14
Xiao
Perdereau
(
Mirror
binomial language learning
COGNITION,
PLANNING, AND ATTENTION
#15
Daniel
J. Franklin and Stephen Grossberg
(
A
neural network model of normal and abnormal learning and memory: Adaptively timed
conditioning, hippocampus, amnesia, neurotrophins, and consciousness
#16
Clare
Timbie and Helen Barbas
(
Cortical
processing of emotion: Projections from the amygdala to posterior orbitofrontal
cortex
#17
Peter
J. Fried, R. Jarrett Rushmore, Alvaro Pascual-Leone,
and Antoni Valero-Cabre
(
Noninvasive
modulation of verbal and spatial working memory in the dorsolateral prefrontal
cortex
#18
Ruxandra
L. Costea and Corneliu A. Marinov
(
Performance
analysis of a K-WTA recurrent neural network
REINFORCEMENT
AND EMOTION
#19
Haibo
He, Zhen Ni, and Danil V. Prokhorov
(
Actor-critic
design for on-line learning and optimization for machine intelligence
#20
Patrick
Connor and Thomas Trappenberg
(
Implicit
reinforcement: Unovershadowing by lateral inhibition
in a striatal model
POSTER SESSION II
Saturday, May 14, 2011
All posters
will be displayed for the full day
LEARNING AND RECOGNITION
#1
Mark
Bourjaily and Paul Miller
(
Generating
selective persistent neural activity via correlation-based and structural
plasticity
#2
Sylvain
Chartier and Gyslain Giguθre
(
Unifying
bidirectional associative memory and self-organizing maps
#3
Yuichiro
Wajima and Masanori Nakagawa
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
The
analysis of time series cognitive constraints change-process in the insight
problem solving: Toward a new neural network model of insight problem solving
#4
Tae-Hyun
Kim, Vu Huong,
(Myong Ji University)
Unsupervised
competitive learning algorithms with chi square distance measure for texture
classification of images
#5
Masaki
Ogino, Ryuzo Nakata, and
Minoru Asada
(
Hierarchical
neural network with multiple sparsenesses for
global-to-fine categorization in inferior temporal cortex
SENSORYMOTOR
CONTROL AND ROBOTICS
#6
Bret
Fortenberry, Anatoli Gorchetchnikov, and Stephen Grossberg
(
RoboHead:
Computing head direction during visually-guided navigation on a robotic
platform
#7
Jasmin
Léveillé, Heather Ames, Ben Chandler,
Anatoli Gorchetchnikov, Gennady Livitz, Massimiliano Versace, and Ennio
Mingolla
(
Invariant
object recognition and localization in a virtual animat
#8
Gennady
Livitz, Heather Ames, Ben Chandler, Anatoli Gorchetchnikov, Jasmin Léveillé, Massimiliano Versace, and Ennio
Mingolla
(
Visually-guided
adaptive robotic agent (ViGuAR)
#9
F.
Machorro-Fernandez,
(Centro de Investigación
y de Estudios Avanzados del
IPN [CINVESTAV] )
Towards
the implementation of the constructivist theory for HRI based on ART
#10
Xutao Kuang, Bertram Shi, and Michele Rucci
(
Depth
perception during head/eye movements in a humanoid robot
#11
I.
Hayashi, M. Kiyotoki, A. Kiyohara,
M. Tokuda, and S.N. Kudoh
(
In
vitro logicality for neuro-robot hybrid
NEURAL
CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
#12
Robert
Law
(
Determination
of potential synchronies in arbitrarily connected homogeneous networks of
nonlinear cells
#13
Fernanda
S. Matias, Pedro V. Carelli,
Claudio R. Mirasso, and Mauro Copelli
(Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
and Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Anticipated
synchronization in neuronal microcircuits
#14
Alexander
M. Duda and Stephen E. Levinson
(
Characterizing
populations of spiking neurons
#15
Tony
Vladusich, Brian F. Sadacca, Donald B. Katz, and Paul
Miller
(
Discrete
cortical states encode behaviorally relevant information
#16
J.B.
Gillespie and C.J. Houghton
(
A
metric space approach to the information channel capacity of spike trains
#17
Armen Stepanyants
(Northeastern University)
Synaptic
connectivity in a biologically constrained perceptron-like neural network model
#18
Nazanin
Mohammadi Sepahvand, Reyhaneh Bakhtiari, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi,
and Babak Nadjar Araabi
(
A
computational model of imbalance in excitatory/inhibitory ratio and its
relation to attention deficit in autistic brain
#19
Meita Rumbayan, Asifujiang Abudureyimu, and Ken Nagasaka
(
Spatial
mapping of solar irradiation potential in
#20
Demetris
K. Roumis, Mark L. Andermann, Glenn Goldey, Vladimir K. Berezovskii,
and R. Clay Reid
(
Mapping
of visual areas in alert mice using optical imaging