NIPS Workshop on Spatial Perception

[Terry Sejnowski]

NIPS*93 WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT

Title:
Processing of visual and auditory space and its modification by experience.

Intended Audience:
Researchers interested in spatial perception, sensory fusion and learning.

Organizers:
Josef P. Rauschecker		Terrence Sejnowski
josef at helix.nih.gov		terry at helmholtz.sdsc.edu

Program:
   This workshop will address the question how spatial information is
represented in the brain, how it is matched and compared by the visual and
auditory systems, and how early sensory experience influences the
development of these space representations.
   We will discuss neurophysiological and computational data from cats,
monkeys, and owls that suggest how the convergence of different sensory
space representations may be handled by the brain. In particular, we will
look at the role of early experience and learning in establishing these
representations. Lack of visual experience affects space processing in cats
and owls differently. We will therefore discuss various kinds of plasticity
in different spatial representations.
   Half the available time has been reserved for discussion and informal
presentations. We will encourage lively audience participation.


Morning Session 

(7:30 - 8:30) Presentations 

Predictive Hebbian learning and sensory fusion 
(Terry Sejnowski)

A connectionist model of the owl's sound localization system 
(Dan Rosen)

Intermodal compensatory plasticity of sensory systems 
(Josef Rauschecker)

8:30 - 9:30  Discussion


Afternoon Session 

(4:30 - 5:30)  Presentations

Neurophysiological processing of visual and auditory space in monkeys 
(Richard Andersen)

Learning map registration in the superior colliculus with predictive
Hebbian learning 
(Alex Pouget)

A neural network model for the detection of heading direction from optic
flow in the cat's visual system 
(Markus Lappe)

5:30 - 6:30  Discussion

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