Nips Workshop

[Christiane Linster]

                           CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                     NIPS'96 Postconference Workshop 

             NEURAL MODULATION AND NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

                     Snowmass (Aspen), Colorado USA
                          Friday Dec 6th, 1996


Akaysha Tang				Christiane Linster
The Salk Institute               	Dept. of Psychology
Computational Neurobiology Lab   	Harvard University
10010 North Torrey Pines Road    	33, Kirkland Street
La Jolla, CA  92037              	Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (619) 453 4100 x1618		Tel: (617) 496 2555
Fax: (619) 587 0417			Fax: (617) 495 3827
tang at salk.edu				linster at berg.harvard.edu


OBJECTIVES


Neural modulation is ubiquitous in the nervous system and can provide
the neural system with additional computational power that has yet to
be characterized.  From a computational point of view, the effects of
neuromodulation on neural information processing can be far more
sophisticated than the simple increased/decreased gain control,
assumed by many modelers.  We would like to bring together scientists
from diverse fields of studies, including psychopharmacology,
behavioral genetics, neurophysiology, neural networks, and
computational neuroscience.  We hope, through sessions of highly
critical, interactive and interdisciplinary discussions, 

* to identify the strengths and weaknesses of existing research methodology
and practices within each of the field;

* to work out a series of strategies to increase the interactions between experimental and
theoretical research and; 

* to further our understanding of the
role of neuromodulation in neural information processing.



WORKSHOP FORMAT

This one-day workshop will be organised into two three-hour sessions, one in
early morning and one in late afternoon.  The intermitting time is reserved for
skiing or free-wheeling interactions between participants. Each 
session consists of 2 hour oral presentations and 1 hour panel discussion.


A group of invited researchers in the field, including Terry Sejnowski and John Lisman and Michael Hasselmo. If you have
done work on this or related topics and would like to attend and/or contribute, please 
send an email describing your research interests to: 

	Christiane Linster
	linster at berg.harvard.edu


Abstracts should be sent in by email or by fax.


Please contact the workshop organizers for further information, or consult 
the NIPS WWW home page:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS/