Connectionists: International Symposium on Computational Neuroscience - Montreal, Canada, May 8-9, 2006

[Paul Cisek]

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR POSTERS
 
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XXVIIIth International Symposium
 
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE:
>From theory to neurons and back again
 
May 8-9, 2006
University of Montréal
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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The 28th International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche
sur le système nerveux central et le Centre de recherche en sciences
neurologiques will be held on May 8-9, 2006, at the University of
Montréal. The objectives of this symposium are to illustrate the
power and utility of computational approaches to address fundamental
issues of brain function from the level of single cells to that of large
systems, as well as to discuss how computational and more traditional
physiological methods complement one another. The symposium will
include presentations on computational models of sensory and motor
systems, learning processes, and information coding.
 
Registration is now open. Please visit http://www.grsnc.umontreal.ca/XXVIIIs/
for information.
 
Submissions are invited for a limited number of poster presentations.
Authors of select posters will be invited to contribute a short chapter to
a special issue of the book series Progress in Brain Research.

Deadline for poster submissions: Friday, March 31, 2006.
 
Conference speakers:
 
Larry Abbott
Yoshua Bengio
Catherine Carr
Paul Cisek
Simon Giszter
Sten Grillner
Stephen Grossberg
Geoffrey Hinton
Len Maler
Eve Marder
James McClelland
David McCrea
Bruce McNaughton
Alexandre Pouget
Stephen Scott
Michael Shadlen
Reza Shadmehr
Robert Shapley
Daniel Wolpert
 
Sponsors:
 
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Groupe de recherche sur le système nervaux central (GRSNC)
Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ)
Université de Montréal (CEDAR)