Berlin
Date
Sep 20 – 23
Abstracts
Invited Lectures
Danielle Bassett | University of Pennsylvania, USA
Network Reconfiguration: Functional Role and Structural Predictors
Daphne Bavelier | University of Geneva/ Rochester University, Switzerland/USA
Learning and Transfer: Lessons from Action Video Games
Matteo Colombo | Tilburg University, Netherlands
Bayes, the Brain, and the Future of Cognitive Science
Bard Ermentrout | University of Pittsburg, USA
Scent and Sensibility: Navigating a Chemical Trail
Máté Lengyel | University of Cambridge, UK
Bayesian Principles Underlying the Organisation of Neural Circuits
Nicole Rust | University of Pennsylvania, USA
The Superposition of Object-Based and Rule-Based Representations in Inferotemporal (IT) Cortex
Sebastian Seung | Princeton University, USA
Comprehensive Anatomical Classification of Retinal Ganglion Cells
Tatyana Sharpee | Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
How Invariant Feature Selectivity Is Achieved in Cortex
Gina Turrigiano | Brandeis University, USA
Firing Rate Homeostasis in Freely Behaving Rodents
Tor Wager | University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Large-Scale Predictive Modeling: Principles and Examples from Affective Neuroscience
Valentin Braitenberg Award Winner
David Willshaw | Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, UK
Brains4Brains Award Winner
Anthony Jang | National Institutes of Health, USA
Effects of Prefrontal and Medial-Temporal Brain Lesions on Learning a Bayesian Prior Belief on Reversals
Contributed Talks
Jan Clemens | Princeton University, USA
The Organization of Adaptation in Auditory Receptor Neurons of Drosophila
Moritz Deger | University of Cologne, Germany
A Spike Timing Dependent Model of Dendritic Spine Plasticity and Turnover
Stéphane Deny | Institut de la Vision, Paris, France
A Flexible Code: Retinal Ganglion Cells Dynamically Switch between two Computations
Logan Grosenick | Stanford University, USA
Recording and Modeling Cellular-Activity Timing Relationships Spanning Brain Volumes in Mouse and Human
Bettina Hein | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany
Local Circuits Form Long-Ranging Spontaneous Correlations to Build Distributed Sensory Representations in the Early Developing Visual Cortex
Jens Kremkow | Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University of Berlin & Neuroscience Research Center (NWFZ) Charité, Berlin, Germany
Principles Underlying Sensory Map Topography in Primary Visual Cortex
Martin Nawrot | Universität Köln, Germany
Balanced Networks with Excitatory and Inhibitory Clusters Reproduce Cortical Variability Dynamics In Vivo