| 8:00
am |
Registration
/ Continental Breakfast |
| 8:25
am |
Welcome |
| Session
1 |
| 8:30
am |
Richard
Andersen, Caltech
Decoding intended goals and expected value from the
posterior parietal cortex |
| 8:50
am |
Bill
Kristan, UCSD
Group dynamics: How leeches make behavioral choices |
| 9:10
am |
Ed
Callaway, Salk Institute
Organizational rules for the specificity of cortical
connections |
| 9:30
am |
Frances
Chance, UCI
ROC analysis of synaptic strength |
| 9:50
am |
Irving
Biederman, USC
(with G. Kayaert and R. Vogels, KU Leuven
Medical School)
The representation of object shape in macaque inferior
temporal cortex |
| 10:10
am |
Coffee
Break |
| Session
2 |
| 10:30
am |
Zili
Liu, UCLA
Top-down influence from shape recognition to stereo
depth discrimination |
| 10:50
am |
Rich
Krauzlis, Salk Institute
Probing the neural mechanisms that govern where and
when to look
|
| 11:10
am |
George
Sperling, UCI
A linear systems approach to modeling the spatial distribution
of visual attention |
| 11:30
am |
Laurent
Itti, USC
Pierre Baldi, UCI
A surprising theory of attention |
| Keynote
Address |
| 11:50
am |
Geoffrey
Hinton, University of Toronto
Learning lateral connections between hidden units
|
| 12:20
pm |
Lunch
and Poster Session |
| Session
3 |
| 1:50
pm |
Terrence
J. Sejnowski, Salk Insitute / UCSD
Spike time patterns |
| 2:10
pm |
Pietro
Perona, Caltech
Can we learn categories from one example? |
| 2:30
pm |
Ivan
Soltesz, UCI
Small world networks of the hippocampus |
| 2:50
pm |
Dario
Ringach, UCLA
Haphazard wiring of simple receptive fields and orientation
columns in visual cortex |
| 3:10
pm |
Coffee
Break |
| Session
4 |
| 3:30
pm |
Larry
Swanson, USC
How complex is brain circuitry? |
| 3:50
pm |
Paul
Thompson, UCLA
Brain imaging in human populations: mathematical/computational
challenges |
| 4:10
pm |
Bosco
Tjan, USC
(with V. Lestou, University of Glasgow and Z.
Kourtzi, Max-Planck Institute)
An fMRI method for identifying the sequential stages
of processing in the ventral visual pathway |
| 4:30
pm |
Geoffrey
Boynton, Salk Institute
Correlations between cortical maps and human visual
and tactile acuity |
| 4:50
pm |
Coffee
Break |
| Session
5 |
| 5:10
pm |
Zhong-Lin
Lu, USC
Mechanisms of perceptual learning |
| 5:30
pm |
Charles
Chubb, UCI
A visual mechanism tuned to black |
| 5:50
pm |
Ladan
Shams, UCLA
Visual perception is multisensory perception |
| Awards |
| 6:10
pm |
Best-poster
awards and concluding remarks |
| 6:15
pm |
Adjourn
and BBQ |
