MEETING SCHEDULE 

 

FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

May 19–22, 2010

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2010

CELEST Workshop on

“TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM”

 

Workshop Chair: Michael Hasselmo

Department of Psychology, Boston University

 

8:00am – 8:45am

Registration

 

8:45am – 8:50am

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Conference Welcome and Introduction

 

8:50am – 9:35am

Cliff Saper

(Harvard Medical School)

Sleep switches

 

9:35am – 9:45am

Q&A

 

9:45am – 10:30am

Bruce McNaughton

(University of Lethbridge)

Memory trace reactivation in sleep

 

10:30am – 10:40am

Q&A

 

10:40am – 11:00am

Coffee Break

 

11:00am – 11:45am

Steffen Gais

(Ludwig Maximilians University)

Cholinergic and other neurotransmitter influences on memory processing during sleep

 

11:45am – 11:55am

Q&A

 

11:55am – 12:40pm

Mark Brandon and Michael Hasselmo

(Boston University)

Modulation of grid cells and head direction cells during waking and sleep

 

12:40pm – 12:50pm

Q&A

 

12:50pm – 2:15pm

Lunch

 

2:15pm – 3:00pm

Robert Stickgold

(Harvard Medical School)
Sleep, memory, and dreams:  Beyond consolidation

 

3:00pm – 3:10pm

Q&A

 

3:10pm – 3:55pm

Matt Wilson

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Hippocampal memory reactivation during sleep

 

3:55pm – 4:05pm

Q&A

 

4:05pm – 4:50pm

Erin Wamsley

(Harvard Medical School)

Memories in the sleeping brain: A function for our dreams?

 

4:50pm – 5:00pm

Q&A

 

5:00pm – 5:15pm

General discussion with all speakers and wrap-up

 

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2010

Invited and Contributed Speakers and Poster Session 

 

COGNITION, LEARNING, AND CONTROL

Session Chair: Daniel Bullock

 

8:30am – 9:15am

Moshe Bar

(Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School)

The proactive brain: Predictions in visual cognition

 

9:15am – 10:00am

Barry Richmond

(National Institutes of Health)                                                                                                   

Neuropsychological, physiological, and theoretical studies of stimulus-outcome learning in monkeys

 

10:00am – 10:45am

Xiao-Jing Wang

(Yale University)

Computational neurobiology of decision making

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

11:15am – 12:00pm 

Josef Rauschecker

(Georgetown University Medical Center)

A functional and computational role for the dorsal stream in space and speech

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm

Linda Smith

(Indiana University)

Head, hand and eye: Action, attention, and learning in toddlers

 

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

2:00pm – 2:45pm 

Steven Petersen

(Washington University)

Using network analysis tools to study the brain's control systems

 

2:45pm – 3:00pm

Discussion

 

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Plenary Lecture

Earl Miller

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

The prefrontal cortex: Brain rhythms and cognition

 

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session I

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2010

Invited and Contributed Speakers

and Conference Reception

 

 

VISION, ATTENTION, RECOGNITION, AND ACTION

Session Chair: Stephen Grossberg

 

8:30am – 9:15am 

Anthony Movshon

(New York University)

Reading visual information from neuronal populations

 

9:15am – 10:00am

Carol Colby

(Carnegie Mellon University)

Active vision

 

10:00am – 10:45am

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Linking What and Where in visual attention, recognition, navigation, and planning

 

10:45am – 11:15am

Coffee Break

 

11:15am – 12:00pm  

Heiner Deubel

(University of Munich)

Attention before goal-directed actions

 

12:00pm – 12:45pm 

Russell Poldrack

(UCLA)

Stopping ourselves: The neural basis of response inhibition

 

12:45pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

 

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Plenary Lecture

Leon Chua

(University of California, Berkeley)

Memristor minds

 

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Conference Reception

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010

CELEST Workshop on

“NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING:

FROM BRAINS TO NANOCHIPS”

 

Workshop Chairs: Heather Ames and Massimiliano Versace

Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University

 

8:00am – 8:30am

Registration

 

8:20am – 8:30am

Heather Ames and Massimiliano Versace

(Boston University)

Introductory Remarks

 

8:30am – 9:15am

Ralph Etienne-Cummings

(Johns Hopkins University)

Implementing a spike-based HMAX vision system with a silicon neural array

 

9:15am – 9:25am

Q&A

 

9:25am – 10:10am

Dharmendra Modha

(IBM)

Cool, compact cognitive computing chips

 

10:10am – 10:20am

Q&A

 

10:20am – 10:40am

Coffee Break

 

10:40am – 11:25am

Narayan Srinivasan

(HRL Laboratories LLC)

Low power analog neuromorphic hardware for large scale cortical computations

 

11:25am – 11:35am

Q&A

 

12:20pm – 12:30pm

Q&A

 

12:30pm – 1:45pm

Lunch

 

1:45pm – 2:30pm

Karlheinz Meier

(University of Heidelberg)

Neuromorphic computing – Are we ready for a big step?

 

2:30pm – 2:40pm

Q&A

 

2:40pm – 3:00pm

Discussion with all workshop speakers

 

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Contributed 15-minute talks

 

5:00pm – 8:00pm

Poster Session II

 

POSTER SESSION I

 Thursday, May 20, 2010

All posters will be displayed for the full day

 

Poster session contents to be determined subsequent to the January 31, 2010 contributed abstract submission deadline.

 

 

POSTER SESSION II

 Saturday, May 22, 2010

All posters will be displayed for the full day

 

Poster session contents to be determined subsequent to the January 31, 2010 contributed abstract submission deadline.