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<p><span lang="en-US">We would like to invite you to participate in
our excellence workshop "Naturalistic integration of information
from external stimulation into ongoing neuronal activities of
the brain". <br>
It will take place October 20-23, 2016 at the
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst (near Bremen)</span><span
lang="en-US"><span lang="en-US">, Germany</span>. <br>
</span><span lang="en-GB"><br>
The invited main speakers are </span><span lang="en-US">Costas
Anastassiou, Sliman Bensmaia, Anythony N. Burkitt, Ilka Diester,
Jannis Hildebrandt, Eduardo Fernandez Jover, Andreas Kreiter,
Kristine Krug, Walter Lang, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Thomas Lenarz,
Hubert H Lim, Tobias Moser, Klaus Obermayer, Ramesh Rajan,
Christopher J. Rozell, Mohamad Sawan, Alessandro Vato, Günther
Zeck, Eberhart Zrenner.</span><br>
<span lang="en-US">A preliminary program can be found under </span><span
lang="en-GB"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nncn.de/en/news/events/11th-bernstein-sparks-workshop">http://www.nncn.de/en/news/events/11th-bernstein-sparks-workshop</a><br>
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<p><span lang="en-GB">As you might know quite well from your own
experience, it is a huge problem to interface with the brain and
to successfully introduce artificial, meaningful signals into
on-going neural information processing. On the other hand,
exciting possibilities in medical and fundamental research are
waiting to be explored and to be realized. This workshop will
address major challenges in this field:</span><br>
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<p><br>
* Ideas and technologies for improving functional
neuro-prostheses. Besides presenting general advances, we will
specifically focus on artificial vision and hearing, and on
building better prosthetic limbs providing touch sensation
feedback<br>
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<p>* Using causal interference with neural processing as a tool for
understanding how the brain works and processes information<span
lang="en-GB"><br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-GB">* Establishing stimulation protocols and
designing algorithms for providing external information with
dynamics matching spatio-temporal activation patterns observed
under 'normal' conditions, encoded in a format that the brain
can 'understand'. <br>
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<p><span lang="en-GB"><br>
Our workshop will bring together experimentalists,
technologists, medical scientists, and theoreticians who are the
experts in getting meaningful signals into neuronal circuits
actively engaged in information processing. The workshop will
provide a platform allowing you to present your work and to have
discussions with other researchers (especially from other
disciplines, who use different methods or work on other areas of
the brain) about putative solutions for solving this puzzle.</span><span
lang="en-GB"><br>
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<p><span lang="en-US"><br>
Besides the talks of the main speakers with plenty of time for
discussions there will be a poster session. </span><span
lang="en-GB">Participation in the workshop will be limited to
about 60 attendees (20 main speakers, 40 postdocs + PhD
students) on a first come first serve basis. </span><span
lang="en-GB">In case you are interested in participating, we
would ask you to send your reply to </span><u><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de"><span lang="en-GB"></span></a><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de">ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de</a></a></u><span
lang="en-GB">. I</span><span lang="en-GB">n order to cover all
costs, may we ask for a registration fee in the amount of €
60,00 (€ 40,00 for Bernstein members) for PhD students and €
120,00 (€ 80,00 for Bernstein members) for postdocs/professors.
You will understand that we cannot cover your costs for
accommodation and travelling.</span></p>
<p lang="en-US"><span lang="en-GB"><br>
The meeting is part of the "Bernstein Sparks Workshops series"
and will be supported and partly financed by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Bernstein Coordination Site
(BCOS) of the Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience.
Further support and financing is provided by the
"Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study" ( </span><span
lang="en-GB"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.h-w-k.de/index.php?id=2213">http://www.h-w-k.de/index.php?id=2213</a>
).<br>
</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-GB">Yours sincerely</span></p>
<p><span lang="en-GB">Udo Ernst and David Rotermund</span></p>
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