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<p class="MsoNormal">The following post-conference workshop will be held on August 9, Friday, 2013 at the IJCNN 2013 in Dallas, Texas. One might be able to register for this workshop separately. Please check the IJCNN website. Anyone interested in this workshop
can contact us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>“Perception and cognition in the brain – integrating single cell recordings, spiking neurons and a brain theory”<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>IJCNN 2013, Dallas, Texas, Aug 9, 2013<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Sponsors</u> – 1. Autonomous Machine Learning (AML) Section of INNS (International Neural Network Society)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <b>2. Spiking Neural Network SIG of INNS<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black">Presenters:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">Narayan Srinivasa</span></b>, HRL Laboratories, USA (<a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/people/NarayanSrinivasa/63753/profile">http://www.frontiersin.org/people/NarayanSrinivasa/63753/profile</a> )<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">Moran Cerf</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">,
</span>New York University, USA (<a href="http://www.morancerf.com/cv.php">http://www.morancerf.com/cv.php</a>)<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">Asim Roy</span></b>, Arizona State University, USA (<a href="http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy">http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy</a>)<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even after decades of research, the mechanisms by which perception and cognition arise in the brain have been elusive to us. This workshop will present research in three separate but related areas to get a better understanding of these
mechanisms in the brain. We will first review and summarize the findings of over four decades of research on single cell recordings of the brain, both in animals and humans, to provide a better understanding of how the internal mechanisms of the brain work.
This will also cover some recent recordings from the medial temporal lobe region of the human brain that relate to higher level perception and cognition. Second, we will review the relevance of spike coding and provide examples of spiking neural network models
and related neuromorphic technology that are under development. Some of the next generation of robots will be built using such neuromorphic chips that implement some of these ideas. Third, we will review a new brain theory that postulates that localist representation,
instead of a distributed one, and grandmother cells are used widely in the brain. This theory is based on substantial neurophysiological evidence and shows the pathway to perception and cognition in the brain. In fact, the most efficient and easily accessible
form of semantic cognition could be built with grandmother cells. We will try to integrate these research findings for a better understanding of the processes within the brain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After these presentations, we will have open discussions about research and collaboration to build the next generation of robots that possess the skills of perception and cognition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Some references:<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>A. <u>Narayan Srinivasa’s work on spiking neurons<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=CoreyThibeault&UID=41027"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Corey M. Thibeault</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=KirillMinkovich&UID=91102">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Kirill Minkovich</span></a>, <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=MichaelO_Brien_2&UID=74872">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Michael J. O'Brien</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=FrederickHarris&UID=22273">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Frederick C. Harris</span></a><sup>
</sup>and <b><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=NarayanSrinivasa&UID=63753"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Narayan Srinivasa</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in"><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2013.00077/abstract">Efficiently passing messages in distributed spiking neural network simulation</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=KarlDockendorf&UID=86878"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Karl Dockendorf</span></a> and
<b><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=NarayanSrinivasa&UID=63753"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Narayan Srinivasa</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in"><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2013.00080/abstract">Learning and prospective recall of noisy spike pattern episodes</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=CoreyThibeault&UID=41027"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Corey M. Thibeault</span></a> and
<b><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Community/WhosWhoActivity.aspx?sname=NarayanSrinivasa&UID=63753"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Narayan Srinivasa</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in"><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/computational_neuroscience/10.3389/fncom.2013.00088/abstract">Using a hybrid neuron in physiologically inspired models of the basal ganglia</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>B. <u>Moran Cerf’s work on single cell recordings<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-1"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Moran Cerf</span></a></span></b><span lang="EN">,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-2">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Nikhil Thiruvengadam</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-3">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Florian Mormann</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-4">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Alexander Kraskov</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-5">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Rodrigo Quian Quiroga</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-6">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Christof Koch</span></a> & <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html#auth-7">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Itzhak Fried</span></a> <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:.25in"><u><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/abs/nature09510.html">On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons</a><o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white">
<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-1"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Florian Mormann</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-2">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Julien Dubois</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-3">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Simon Kornblith</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-4">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Milica Milosavljevic</span></a>,
<b><a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-5"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Moran Cerf</span></a></b>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-6">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Matias Ison</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-7">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Naotsugu Tsuchiya</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-8">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Alexander Kraskov</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-9">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Rodrigo Quian Quiroga</span></a>,
<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-10">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Ralph Adolphs</span></a>, <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-11">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Itzhak Fried</span></a> & <a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110#auth-12">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">Christof Koch</span></a> <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:.25in"><u><a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n10/full/nn.2899.html%3FWT.ec_id%3DNEURO-201110">A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala</a>
<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>C. <u>Asim Roy’s work on brain theories<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1.
<b>Asim Roy</b>: <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00551/full">
A theory of the brain: localist representation is used widely in the brain</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2.
<b>Asim Roy</b>: <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00300/ful">
An extension of the localist representation theory: grandmother cells are also widely used in the brain</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3.
<b>Asim Roy</b>: <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=4648938&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D4648938">
Connectionism, controllers and a brain theory</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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