The neurobiological mechanisms of sequence processing

Organizers

Petros E. Vlachos | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany
Alessio Quaresima | Institut Pasteur, France / Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Hartmut Fitz | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University, Netherlands

Abstract

Recognition and generation of temporal sequences are fundamental capacities of human and animal cognition. Nevertheless, our understanding of the computational basis of these capacities remains limited. Many models have been proposed, but what do they tell us about the neural mechanisms? Does a unifying principle exist, or is sequence processing implemented by diverse neural algorithms? The workshop brings together theoretical and model-based approaches to explain sequence processing in the brain. It aims to foster discussion about the computational principles that support both the sequential propagation of neuronal activity (sequence generation) and the integration of temporal patterns (sequence recognition) in biological networks.

Schedule (CEST)

Sunday, Sep 29

14:00

Petros E. Vlachos and Alessio Quaresima | Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany, and Institut Pasteur, France / Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Introduction by the organizers

14:05

Alessio Quaresima | Institut Pasteur, France / Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
Spontaneous formation of sequence-dependent memories in network with dendrites

14:35

Tomoki Fukai | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan
Self-supervised learning of sequence patterns in single neurons and networks

15:00

Gianluigi Mongillo | Paris Descartes University, France
Synaptic Theory of Serial Order

15:30

Tristan Stöber | Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
TBA

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Anna Levina | University of Tübingen, Germany
Individual neuron and network-mediated timescales for solving long temporal dependency tasks

17:00

Claudia Clopath | Imperial College London, UK
Unsupervised plasticity and sequential activity

17:30

Barna Zajzon | Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
TBA

18:00

General discussion

18:30

End