CNS*98 listing of papers, and registration information

Dave_Touretzky@cs.cmu.edu Dave_Touretzky at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Jun 15 17:06:08 EDT 1998


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SEVENTH ANNUAL COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE MEETING (CNS*98)
         July 26 - 30, 1998   Santa Barbara, California

                REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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Registration is now open for this year's Computational Neuroscience meeting
(CNS*98).  This is the seventh in a series of annual inter-disciplinary
conferences intended to address the broad range of research approaches and
issues involved in the general field of computational neuroscience.  As in
previous years, this meeting will bring together experimental and
theoretical neurobiologists along with engineers, computer scientists,
cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in
understanding how biological neural systems compute.  The meeting will
equally emphasize experimental,  model-based, and more abstract theoretical
approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.

The meeting in 1998 will take place at Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort in
Santa Barbara, California and include plenary, contributed, and poster
sessions.  The first session starts at 9 am, Sunday July 26th and the
meeting ends with the annual CNS banquet on Thursday evening, July 30th.
There will be no parallel sessions.  The meeting includes two half days of
informal workshops focused on current issues in computational neuroscience.
Day care will be available for children and given the beauty and
recreational interest of the area, we encourage families to attend.

LOCATION:  The meeting will take place at the Fess Parker's Double Tree
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SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1998

9:00	Welcoming Remarks and General Information

9:15	Featured Contributed Talk: Barry J.  Richmond  (NIH/NIMH) John A.
Hertz and
	Timothy J. Gawne

	Comparing Responses to Visual Stimuli Appearing on Receptive Fields
of V1 Complex Cells
	Due to Saccades with Responses Elicited by Stimulus Sequences


Contributed Talks

10:05	Udo Ernst	(MPI for Fluid Dynamics)  Klaus Pawelzik, Fred
Wolf, and Theo Geisel

	Theory of Nonclassical Receptive Field Phenomena in the Visual Cortex

10:25	Ko Sakai   (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)    Shigeru Tanaka

	Retinotopic Coding and Perceptual Segmentation in Tilt Illusion

10:45	 David H. Goldberg (Brown University)  Harel Shouval and Leon N Cooper

	Lateral Connectivity: A Possible Scaffolding for the Development of
Orientation Preference
	Maps

11:05	Break


11:20	Gy=F6ngyi Ga=E1l (Emory University)  John P. Donoghue and Jerome N. Sa=
nes

	Relations Among Neural Activities Recorded in Premotor and Motor
Cortex of Trained Monkeys
	During Visually Guided Hand and Arm Movements Tasks

11:40	Emery N. Brown  (Massachusetts General Hospital / MIT)   Loren M.
=46rank, Dengda Tang,
	Michael C. Quirk, and Matthew A. Wilson

	A Statistical Model of Spatial Information Encoding in The Rat
Hippocampus

12:00	Satoru Inoue  (The University of Electro-Communications)  Yoshiki
Kashimori and
	Takeshi Kambara

	The Neural Model of Nucleus Laminaris and Integration Layer
Accomplishing Hyperacuity in
	Sound Location in the Barn Owl



12:20	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session A


2:20	Featured Contributed Talk:  Michael E  Hasselmo (Harvard
University)  Erik Fransen,
	Gene V Wallenstein, Angel A Alonso, and Clayton T Dickson

	A Biophysical Simulation of Intrinsic and Network Properties of
Entorhinal Cortex

Contributed Talks

3:10	Jonathan Wolfe  (University of New Mexico)  Akaysha Tang

	Neuromodulation of Spike Timing and Spike Rate

3:30	Omer Artun (Brown University) Harel Z. Shouval

	Temporal Coding by  Dynamic Synapses

3:50	 Break

4:10	Hans E. Plesser  (Max-Planck-Institut) Theo Geisel

	Bandpass Properties of Integrate-Fire Neurons


4:30	Invited Talk: To be Announced



5:20	End of Day Announcements




8:00 	Poster Session A

P=E9ter Adorj=E1n (Technische Universit=E4t Berlin)
Gy=F6rgy Barna, P=E9ter =C9rdi, and Klaus Obermayer
A Statistical Neural Field Approach to Orientation Selectivity
543

Charles H. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine)
Modeling Population Codes using Probability Density Functions
239

Charles H. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine)
Shahin Hakimian and W. Thomas Thach
A PDF Model of Populations of Purkinje Cells:  Non-linear Interactions and
High Variability
248

David J. Anderson (University of Michigan)
Steven M. Bierer
Noise Reduction of Multi-channel Neural Activity Using an Array Processing
Technique
501

Ildiko Aradi (Ohio University)
William R. Holmes
Active Dendrites Regulate Spatio-temporal Synaptic Integration in
Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cells
388

Delorme Arnaud (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition)
=46abre-Thorpe Mich=E8le, Richard Ghislaine, Fize Denis, and Simon Thorpe
Rapid Processing of Complex Natural Scenes : A Role for the Magnocellular
Visual Pathways?
235

Delorme Arnaud (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition)
Jacques Gautrais, Rufin van Rullen, and Simon Thorpe
Pikenet : A Simulator for Modeling Large Networks of  Integrate and Fire
Neurons
369

Bill Baird (U.C. Berkeley)
An Oscillating Cortical Architecture Simulating  Auditory Attention and
Eeg-erp Data
513

Davis Barch (University of California, Berkeley)
Donald A. Glaser
Detection and Characterization of Coherent Motion by A 2-dimensional Sheet
of Connected Elements: The "bow-wave" Model
412

William H. A. Beaudot (McGill University)
=46igure-ground Segregation of Coherent Motion In V1: A Model Based on The
Role of Intra-cortical and Extra-cortical Feedbacks
386

Avrama Blackwell (George Mason University)
Dynamics of the Light-induced Na+ Current in Hermissenda
206

Brian Blais (Brown University)
Harel Shouval and Leon N Cooper
=46ormation of Direction Selectivity in Natural Scene Environments
226

Alan H. Bond (Caltech)
A System Model of the Primate Neocortex
593

Vladimir E. Bondarenko (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Teresa Ree Chay
Generation of Various Rhythms by Thalamic Neural Network Model
87

Victoria Booth (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Dendritic Plateau Potentials in Bistable Motoneurons
236

Carlos Brody (UNAM)
Slow Resting Potential Covariations in Lgn Neurons Can Lead To Apparently
=46ast Cross-correlations in Their Spike Trains
316

David Brown (The Babraham Institute)
Jianfeng Feng
Is There a Problem Matching Model and Real Cv(isi)?
238

Anthony N. Burkitt (The Bionic Ear Institute)
Graeme M. Clark
New Technique for Analyzing Integrate and Fire Neurons
574

Gully Burns (University of Southern California)
Neuroscholar 1.00, A Neuroinformatics Databasing Website
517

Maria Bykhovskaia (University of Virginia)
Mary Kate Worden and John T. Hackett
=46requency Facilitation at the Lobster Neuromuscular Junction: Quantal
Analysis and Simulations
193

Martin T. Chian (University of Southern California)
M. T. Chian, V.Z. Marmarelis, and T.W. Berger
Identification of Unobservable Neural Systems in the Hippocampus using
Adaptive Estimation
406

Ryan Clement (Arizona State University)
Russell Witte, Rob Rennaker, and Daryl Kipke
=46unctional Connectivity in Auditory Cortex using Chronic, Multichannel
Microelectrodes in Awake Animals
602

Sharon Crook (Montana State University)
John P. Miller
The Mechanistic Basis of Neural Encoding
192

Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp)
Reinoud Maex and Bart Vos
Synchronized Firing of Golgi Cells: Functional Modulation by the Cerebellar
Circuitry
259

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo (SUNY at Binghamton)
Inhibitory Influence on Electrophysiological Response to Taste in the Brain
Stem
373

Jim Dilmore (University of Pittsburgh)
J. G. Dilmore, B. S. Gutkin, and G. B. Ermentrout
A Biophysical Model of Dopaminergic Modulation of Persistent Sodium
Currents  in Pfc Pyramidal Neurons: Effects on Neural Response Properties
217

Alexander Dimitrov (The University of Chicago)
Alexander Dimitrov, Trevor Mundel, Vernon L. Towle, and Jack D. Cowan
Independent Components Analysis of Subdural Ecog Recordings from an
Epileptic Patient
396

Mikael Djurfeldt (SANS/NADA, KTH)
Anders Sandberg, =D6rjan Ekeberg, and Anders Lansner
See---a Framework for Simulation of Biologically Detailed and Artificial
Neural Networks and Systems
518

Gideon Dror (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)
Analysis and Modelling of Population Dynamics in the Visual Cortex
564

Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski (Texas Tech University)
Serge L. Shishkin and Donald C. Wunsch
Phase-based Storage of Information in Cerebellum: A Case of Stationary
Random Inputs
531

Michael  Eisele (Salk Institute)
Terry Sejnowski
Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Pyramidal Neurons
485

Chris Eliasmith (Washington University in St. Louis)
Charles H. Anderson
Attractors, Representation, and the Pdf Framework
288

P=C8ter Erdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
A Statistical Approach to Neural Population Dynamics:  Theory, Algorithms,
Simulations
263

Jianfeng FENG (The Babraham Institute)
Coefficient of Variation Greater Than .5 How And When?
223

Brent A. Field (Univeristy of Oregon)
Alexander R. Pico and Richard T. Marrocco
Local Injections Of Neurotransmitters Significantly Alter High-frequency
(245hz) Activity
559

Piotr J. Franaszczuk (Univ.of Maryland School of Medicine)
Pawel Kudela and Gregory K. Bergey
Model of the Propagation of Synchronous Firing in a Reduced Neuron Network
368

=46rancesco Frisone (University of Genova)
Paolo Vitali, Pietro G. Morasso, Guido Rodriguez, Alberto Pilot, and Marco R=
osa
Can the Synchronization of Cortical Areas Be Evidenced by Fmri?
264

Tomoki Fukai (Tokai University)
Modeling the Interplay of Short-term Memory and the Basal Ganglia in
Sequence Processing
157

Gradwohl Gideon (University of the Negev)
Nitzan Ron Grossman Yoram
Homogeneous Distribution of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses on the
Dendrites of the Cat Surea Triceps Alpha-motoneurons Increases Synaptic
Efficacy: Computer Model
191

J. Randall Gobbel
Carnegie Mellon University
Synchronization of Tonically Active Neurons in a Biophysical Model of the
Neostriatum
488

David Golomb (Ben-Gurion University of Negev)
David Hansel
Theory of Synchrony in Sparse Neuronal Networks
208

Jeremy P. Goodridge (Carnegie Mellon University)
A. David Redish and David S. Touretzky
A Model of the Rat Head Direction System That Accounts for the Unique
Properties of Anterior Thalamic Head Direction Cell Firing
384

Alex  Guazzelli (USC Brain Project)
Mihail Bota and Michael A. Arbib
Incorporating Path Integration Capabilities In the Tam-wg Model of Rodent
Navigation
428

Alex Guazzelli (USC Brain Project)
Mihail Bota and Michael A. Arbib
Incorporating Path Integration Capabilities in the Tam-wg Model of Rodent
Navigation
524

Juergen Haag (Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory)
Alexander Borst
Influence of Active Membrane Properties on the Encoding of Motion
Information In Visual Interneurons of the Blowfly
103

Rolf Henkel
University of Bremen
Sampling Three-dimensional Space --- The Interplay of Vergence- And
=46usion-system
198

Michael Herrmann (Max-Planck-Institut)
Klaus Pawelzik and Theo Geisel
Simultaneous Self-organization of Place and Direction Selectivity in a
Neural Model of Self-localization
420



MONDAY, JULY 27, 1998


9:00	General Information

9:15	Featured Contributed Talk: Vikaas S. Sohal  (Stanford University)
	and  John R. Huguenard

	Long-range Connections Synchronize Rather Than Spread Intrathalamic
Oscillatory Activity:
	Computational Modeling and In Vitro Electrophysiology


Contributed Talks

10:05	Thomas Wennekers (University of Ulm) Gunther Palm

	How Imprecise is Neuronal Synchronization?

10:25	Steven P. Dear (Pennsylvania State University) Corey B. Hart

	Computational Mechanisms Linking Synchronization and Information Coding

10:45 	Nicholas Hatsopoulos  (Brown University) Liam Paninski, Nicholas G.
Hatsopoulos,
	and John P. Donoghue

	Mutual Information Provided by Synchronous Neuronal Discharge about
Target Location

11:05	Break


11:20	Dror Gideon (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo) Tsodyks Misha

	Analysis and Modelling of Population Dynamics in the Visual Cortex


11:40	Steven L. Bressler (Florida Atlantic University) Mingzhou Ding and
Weiming Yang

	Investigation of Cooperative Cortical Dynamics by Multivariate
Autoregressive Modeling of
	Event-related Local Field Potentials


12:00	Charlotte Gruner (Rice University) Don H. Johnson

	Correlation and Neural Information Coding Efficiency

12:20	Mark S. Goldman  (Brandeis University) Sacha B. Nelson and
Laurence F. Abbott

	Decorrelation Of Spike Trains by Synaptic Depression

12:40 	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session B


2:00	Featured Contributed Talk:  John K. Chapin  (Allegheny University
of Health Sci.)
	Ronald S. Markowitz and Karen A. Moxon

	Controlling Robot Arms using Neuronal Population Recordings


Contributed Talks

2:50	Rolf Eckmiller  (Universitaet Bonn) Ralph Huenermann and Michael Becker

	Exploration of a Dialog-based Tunable Retina Encoder for Retina
Implants

3:10	Joel White  (Tufts Medical School) John Kauer

	Odor Recognition in an Artificial Nose by Spatio-temporal
Processing using an Olfactory
	Neuronal Network.


3:30	Ralf Moeller (University of Zurich) Marinus Maris and Dimitrios
Lambrinos

	A Neural Model of Landmark Navigation in Insects


3:50	 Break


4:10	Malcolm P. Young (Neural Systems Group)  Claus-C Hilgetag and Jack
W Scannell

	Models of Paradoxical Lesion Effects and Rules of Inference for
Imputing Function to
	Structure in the Brain


4:30	Invited Talk:  TBA


5:20	End of Day Announcements

8:00	Poster Session B


John Hertz (Nordita)
Zhaoping Li
Odor Recognition and Segmentation by Coupled Olfactory Bulb and Cortical
Networks
106

Andrew Hill (Emory University)
Phase Lag between Oscillators of a Realistic Neuronal Network Model of the
Leech Heartbeat Motor Pattern Generating System
429

Osamu Hoshino (The University of Electro-Communications)
Yoshiki Kashimori and Takeshi Kambara
A Neural Mechanism of Feature Binding Based on the Dynamical Map Theory in
Distributed Coding Scheme
257

Arthur Houweling (The Salk Institute)
Maxim Bazhenov, Igor Timofeev, Mircea Steriade, and Terrence Sejnowski
Computational Analysis of Intracortical Augmenting Responses Resulting from
Short-term Synaptic Plasticity
482

Hidetoshi Ikeno (Maizuru National College of Technology)
Shiro Usui
Mathematical Description of Ionic Currents of the Kenyon Cell in the
Mushroom Body of Honeybee
553

Laurent Itti (California Institute of Technology)
Christof Koch and Jochen Braun
A Quantitative Model Relating Visual Neuronal Activity to Psychophysical
Thresholds
530

Eugene Izhikevich (Arizona State University)
=46M Interactions in Brain Models
11

Eugene Izhikevich (Arizona State University)
Theoretical Foundations of Pulse-coupled Models.
12

David B. Jaffe (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Raymond A. Chitwood
Comparing Electrotonus in Hippocampal Ca3 Nonpyramidal and Pyramidal Neurons
274

David B. Jaffe (The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Raymond A. Chitwood
The Contribution of Active Dendrites to Epsp Propagation in a Hippocampal
Ca3 Nonpyramidal Neuron Model
438

Pat Johnston
UCLA
John Klopp, Val Nenov, and Eric Halgren
The Effects of Varying Connectional Parameters on Input-output
Relationships in a Neocortical-hippocampal Model
432

Jorge V. Jose (Northeastern University)
P.H.E. Tiesinga
Spiking Statistics in Noisy Hippocampal Interneurons
98

Jeeyune Jung (University of Kentucky)
Ranu Jung
Brain-spinal Feedforward-feedback Interactions Affect Output Pattern and
Intracellular  Properties of Motor Networks in the Lamprey
471

Takeshi Kambara (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Hiromichi Owada and Yoshiki Kashimori
A Neural Mechanism of Am Frequency Selectivity of Pyramidal Cell Circuit in
Electrosensory Lateral-line  Lobe of Weakly Electric Fish
496

Adam Kepecs (Biology Department, Brandeis University)
Milos Dolnik
Control of Neuronal Chaos: Using Single Cell Dynamics  To Store Information
440

Daryl Kipke (Arizona State University)
Russell Witte, Glen Hattrup, Justin Williams, and Daryl Kipke
Pursuing Dynamic Reorganization in Auditory Cortex using Chronic,
Multichannel Microelectrodes in Awake, Behaving Animals
497

Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski (Karolinska Institutet)
Jesper Tegner, Sten Grillner, and Anders Lansner
Control of Burst Proportion and Frequency Range by Drive Dependent
Modulation of Adaptation
200

Jeffrey L. Krichmar (George Mason University)
Kim T. Blackwell, Garth S. Barbour, Alexander B. Golovan, and Thomas P. Vogl
A Solution To The Feature Correspondence Problem Inspired By Visual Scanpath=
s
215

Yoshihisa Kubota (Caltech)
James M. Bower
Decoding Time-Varying Calcium Signals by CaMKII/PP1:
A Dynamical System Theory of Synaptic Calcium
Computation
616

Linda J. Larson-Prior
San Francisco College of Osteopathic Medicine
Huo Lu and Fred W. Prior
Serotonergic Modulation of the Cerebellar Granule Cell Network
234

Mark Laubach (Duke University Medical Center)
Marshall Shuler and  Miguel Nicolelis
Principal and Independent Component Analyses for Multi-site Investigations
of Neural Ensemble Interactions
229

Sarah Lesher
(University of Maryland)
Nick Mellen, Suzanne Dykstra, Mark L. Spano, and Avis H. Cohen
Stable Lamprey Swimming Has Unstable Periodic Orbits
374

William B. Levy (University of Virginia)
Xiangbao Wu
Enhancing The Performance of A Hippocampal Model by Increasing Variability
Early in Learning
529

Jim-Shih Liaw (University of Southern California)
J.-S.Liaw and T.W. Berger
Synapse Dynamics: Harnessing the Computing Power of Synaptic Dynamics
398

David T.J. Liley
(University of Technology)
Peter J. Cadusch and James J. Wright
A Continuum Theory of Electrocortical Activity
72

Miguel Maravall (SUNY at Stony Brook)
An Analysis of Connectivity and Function in Hippocampal Associative Memory
232

Bethge Matthias (Max-Planck-Institut)
Klaus Pawelzik and Theo Geisel
Rapid Learning with Depressing Synapses
555

Marcelo Bastos Mazza (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo)
Ant=F4nio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho
A Realistic Computer Simulation of Properties of Somatotopic Maps
101

Marilene de Pinho S. Mazza (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo)
Marilene de Pinho and Ant=F4nio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho
A Realistic Computer Simulation of Tonotopic Maps Formation Processes in
the Auditory Cortex
102

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University)
Design of a Brain Tissue Scanner
160

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University)
Brent P. Burton and Travis S. Chow
Virtual Microscopy of Brain Tissue
161

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University)
Brent P. Burton, Travis S. Chow, and Andrew T. Duchowski
Exploring The Brain Forest
159

Elliot D. Menschik (University of Pennsylvania)
Shih-Cheng Yen and Leif H. Finkel
=46unctional Properties of a Cellular-level Model of Hippocampal Ca3
127

John Miller (Montana State University)
B. Girish, Tenaya M. Rodewald, and John P. Miller
Encoding of Direction and Dynamics of Air Currents by Filiform
Mechanoreceptors in the Cricket Cercal System
431

Ali A. Minai (University of Cincinnati)
Simona Doboli and Phillip J. Best
A Letent Attractors Model of Context-selection in The Dentate Gyrus-hilus
System
268

=46arhad K. Mosallaie (Baylor College of Medicine)
John A. Halter and Andrew R. Blight
Effects of Activity Dependent Ion Concentration on Repetitive Firing in the
Myelinated Axon
528

=46rank Mossn (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
Hans A. Braun, M. Dewald, M. Huber, K. Voigt, and Xing Pei
Unstable Periodic Orbits and Chaos in Thermally Sensitive Neurons
272

=46rank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
Peter Jung and Ann Cornell-Bell
Noise Mediated Spiral Waves in Glial Cell Networks Show Evidence of Self
Organized Critical Behavior
347

=46rank Moss (University of Missouri)
Xing Pei, Kevin Dolan, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Counting and Scaling Unstable Periodic Orbits in Biological and Physical
Systems
252

Karen Anne Moxon (Allegheny University)
John K. Chapin
Cortico-thalamic Interactions in Response to Whisker Stimulation in a
Computer Model of the Rat Barrel System
222

Robert Muller (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn)
Andre Fenton and Gyorgy Csizmadia
Conjoint Control of Place Cell Activity by Two Visual Stimuli
372

Shingo Murakami (The University of Tokyo)
Akira Hirose
Proposal of Microscopic Nerve-cell-activity Analysis Theory for Elucidating
Membrane Potential Dynamics
328

John S. Nafziger (University of Pennsylvania)
Shih-Cheng Yen and Leif H. Finkel
Effects of Element Spacing on the Detection of Contours:  Psychophysical
and Modeling Studies
400

Hirofumi  Nagashino (The University of Tokushima)
Minoru Kataoka and Yohsuke Kinouchi
A Coupled Neural Oscillator Model for Recruitment and Annihilation of the
Degrees of Freedom of Oscillatory Movements
95

Bruno A. Olshausen (University of California, Davis)
A Functional Model of V1 Horizontal Connectivity Based on the Statistics of
Natural Images
468

Tetsuya Oyamada (The University of Electro-Communications)
Yoshiki Kashimori and Takeshi Kambara
A Neural Network Model of Olfactory System for Odor Recognition and
Memorization Controlled by Amygdala
459

Xing Pei (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
Lon Wilkens and Winfried Wojtenek
The Site Of Endogenous Oscillation In The Electrosensory Primary Afferent
Nerve Fiber In The Paddlefish, Polyodon Spathula
332


J. S. Pezaris (California Institute of Technology)
M. Sahani and R. A. Andersen
Response Correlations in Parietal Cortex
538


TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1998


9:00	General Information

9:15	Featured Contributed Talk:  Raymon M. Glantz  (Rice Universiry)

	A Cellular Model for rhe Mechanism of Directional Selectivity in
Tangential Cells of the
	Crayfish Visual System


Contributed Talks

10:05	Hermann Schobesberger  (University of Pittsburgh) Boris S. Gutkin
and John P. Horn

	A Minimal Model for Metabotropic Modulation of Fast Synaptic
Transmission and  Firing
	Properties in Bullfrog Sympathetic B Neurons

10:25	Taraneh Ghaffari-Farazi  (University of Southern California) T.
Ghaffari-Farazi,
	J.-S. Liaw, and T.W. Berger

	Morphological Impacts on Synaptic Transmission


10:45	Niraj S. Desai  (Brandeis University)  Lana C. Rutherford, Sacha B.
Nelson,
	and Gina G. Turrigiano

	Activity Regulates the Intrinsic Excitability of Neocortical Neurons

11:05	Break


11:20	Dieter Jaeger  (Emory University)  Volker Gauck

	The Response Function of Different Types of Neurons for Artificial
Synaptic  Input Applied
	with Dynamic Current Clamping.

11:40	M=E1t=E9 Lengyel (KFKI, Research Inst.) =C1d=E1m Kepecs and P=E9ter =
=C9rdi

	An Investigation of Location-dependent Differences between Somatic
and Dendritic IPSPs

12:00	Farzan Nadim (Brandeis University) Yair Manor, Nancy Kopell, and
Eve Marder

	Frequency Regulation by a Synapse Acting as a Switch: A Role for
Synaptic Depression of
	Graded Transmission

12:20	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session C

2:00 	Invited Talk:  TBA

Contributed Talks

2:50	Christopher A. Del Negro (UCLA) Chie-Fang Hsiao and Scott H. Chandler

	Orthodox and Unorthodox Dynamics Govern Bursting Behavior in Rodent
Trigeminal Neurons

3:10	Mike Neubig (University Laval) Alain Destexhe

	Changes in the Subcellular Localization of T-type Calcium Channels
Change the Threshold
	 and Strength of its Bursts


3:30	Paul Rhodes (National Institutes of Health)

	Regulation of Na+ And K+ Channel Gating Controls the Electrical
Properties of Pyramidal Cell
	Dendrites


3:50	Break

4:10	Jaap van Pelt (Netherlands Institute for Brain Research)  Harry B.
M. Uylings

	 Modeling the Natural Variability in Neuronal Branching Patterns

4:30 	Adrian Robert (UC San Diego)

	Pyramidal Arborizations and Activity Spread in Neocortex


4:50 	Geoffrey J. Goodhill (Georgetown University Medical Center) Jeffrey
S. Urbach

	Mathematical Analysis of Gradient Detection by Growth Cones

5:20	End of Day Announcements


8:00	Poster Session C

Christian Piepenbrock (Technical University of Berlin)
Klaus Obermayer
Effects of Lateral Competition in the Primary Visual Cortex on the
Development of Topographic Projections and Ocular Dominance Maps
381

Panayiota Poirazi (University of Southern California)
Bartlett Mel
Memory Capacity of Neurons with Active Dendrites
233

Sergei Rebrik (University of California, San Francisco)
Brian D. Wright and Ken Miller
Cross Channel Correlations in Tetrode Recordings: Implications for
Spike-sorting
434

Chris Roehrig (University of British Columbia)
Catharine H. Rankin
Dymods: A Framework for Modularizing Dynamical Neuronal Structures
558

Jonathan Rubin (The Ohio State University)
David Terman
Geometric Analysis of Neural Firing Patterns in Network Models with Fast
Inhibitory Synapses
614

Eytan Ruppin (Tel-Aviv University)
Gal Chechik and Isaac Meilijson
Neuronal Regulation: A Biological Plausible Mechanism for Efficient
Synaptic Pruning in Development
572

Maureen E. Rush (California State University, Bakersfield)
William Ott
A-current Modulation of Low-threshold Spiking
481

Ilya A. Rybak (DuPont Central Research)
Michael L. Ramaker and James S. Schwaber
Modeling Interacting Neural Populations:  Dynamics, State Transitions and
Applications to Particular Models
83

Cristiane Salum (St. George's Hospital Medical School)
Alan D. Pickering
Striatal Dopamine in Reinforcement Learning: A Computational Model
326

Hermann Schobesberger (University of Pittsburgh)
Boris S. Gutkin and John P. Horn
A Minimal Model for Metabotropic Modulation of Fast Synaptic Transmission
and Firing Properties in Bullfrog Sympathetic B Neurons
385

Simon Schultz (Oxford University)
Stefano Panzeri, Alessandro Treves, and Edmund T. Rolls
Correlated Firing and the Information Represented by Neurons in Short Epochs
325

Nicolas Schweighofer (ERATO)
Kenji Doya and Mitsuo Kawato
A Model of the Electrophysiological Properties of the Inferior Olive Neurons
197

Peggy Series (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Philippe Tarroux
Synchrony and Delay Activity in Cortical Network Models
311

Ladan Shams (University of Southern California)
Christoph von der Malsburg
Are Object Shape Primitives Learnable?
63

Lokendra Shastri (International Computer Science Institute)
Recruitment of Binding-match and Binding-error Detector Circuits Via
Long-term Potentiation and Depression
427

Natalia Shevtsova (University of Maryland)
James A. Reggia
Lateralization in a Bihemispheric Neural Model of Letter Identification
294

Ying Shu (Univ. of Southern California)
Xiaping Xie, Jim-shih Liaw, and Ted W. Berger
A Protocol-based Simulation for Linking Computational and Experimental Studi=
es
491

Jonathan Z. Simon (University of Maryland)
Catherine E. Carr and Shihab A. Shamma
A Dendritic Model of Coincidence Detection in the Avian Brainstem
297

=46rances K. Skinner
The Toronto Hospital Research Institute
Liang Zhang, Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, and Peter L. Carlen
Bursting: A Role for Gap-junctional Coupling
370

Gregory D. Smith
National Institute of Health
Charles L. Cox, S. Murray Sherman, and John Rinzel
=46ourier Analysis of Sinusoidally Driven Thalamocortical Relay Neurons and =
a
Minimal Integrate-and-fire-or-burst Model
65

Sheryl S. Smith
Allegheny University
Ronald S. Markowitz, Chris I. deZeeuw and John K. Chapin
Hormone Modulation of Synchronized Inferior Olivary Ensembles During Rapid
Vibrissa Movement: Association with Increased Levels of Gap Junction
Proteins
218

Jacob Spoelstra
University of Southern California
Michael A. Arbib and Nicolas Schewighofer
Cerebellar Adaptive Control of a Biomimetic Manipulator
466

Klaas Enno Stephan (C&O-Vogt Institute)
Rolf K=F6tter
Objective Relational Transformation (ort) - A New Foundation cor
Connectivity Databases
251

Michael Stiber (Univ. of Washington)
Bilin Zhang Stiber, Edwin R. Lewis, and Kenneth R. Henry
Categorization of Gerbil Auditory Fiber Responses
162

Susanne Still (Institut fuer Neuroinformatik)
Gwendal Le Masson
Traveling Waves with Asymmetric Phase-lags in a Ring of Three Inhibitory
Coupled Model Neurons
585

=46ahad Sultan (Univeristy Tuebingen)
A Model of Temporal and Activity Dependent Mechanisms Underlying the
Phyolgenetic Development of Cerebellar Molecular Interneuron Morphology
504

Daniel Suta (Johns Hopkins University)
Eric D. Young
Computer Simulations of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Neuronal Circuits
377

Joel Tabak (NINDS/NIH)
Walter Senn, Michael O'Donovan, and John Rinzel
Comparison of Two Models for Pattern Generation Based on Synaptic Depression
421

David C. Tam (University of North Texas)
A Spike Train Analysis for Detecting Temporal Integration in Neurons
413

Shoji Tanaka (Yale University School of Medicine)
Shuhei Okada
=46unctional Prefrontal Cortical Circuitry for Visuospatial Working Memory
=46ormation: A Computational Model.
94

Masami Tatsuno (Waseda University)
Yoji Aizawa
Network Model of Synaptic Modification Induced by  Time-structured Stimuli
in the Hippocampal Ca1 Area
158

Kathleen Taylor (University of Oxford)
John Stein
Attention, Intention and Salience in the Posterior Parietal Cortex
261

Jesper Tegn=E9r (Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology)
Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski
The Synaptic Nmda Component Affects the Synchronization between Neural
Oscillators
201

Simon Thorpe (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition)
Van Rullen Rufin
Spatial Attention in Asynchronous Neural Networks
335

Hiroyuki Uchiyama (Kagoshima University)
Avian Centrifugal Visual System: A Possible Neural Substrate for Selective
Visual Attention
407

Michael S. Wehr (Caltech)
John Pezaris and Maneesh Sahani
Simultaneous Paired Intracellular and Tetrode Recordings for Evaluating The
Performance of Spike Sorting Algorithms.
507

Thomas Wennekers (University of Ulm, Germany)
=46riedrich T. Sommer
Gamma-oscillations Support Optimal Retrieval in Associative Memories of
Pinsky-rinzel Neurons
376

Ralf Wessel (UCSD)
William B. Kristan Jr and David Kleinfeld
Spatial Distribution of Voltage-gated Channels in the Neurites of the Leech
Anterior Pagoda Cell: Functional Consequences for Nonlinear Synaptic
Integration
142

Justin C. Williams (Arizona State University)
Robert Rennaker, David Pellinen, and Daryl Kipke
Towards A Long Term Neural Interface:  Unit Stability in Chronic,
Multichannel Recordings
492

Simon A. J. Winder (Microsoft Corporation)
A Model for Biological Winner-take-all Neural Competition Employing
Inhibitory Modulation of Nmda-mediated Excitatory Gain
536

Laurenz Wiskott (The Salk Institute)
Learning Invariance Manifolds
108

Russell Witte (Arizona State University)
Glen Hattrup, Justin Williams, and Daryl Kipke
Pursuing Dynamic Reorganization in Auditory Cortex Using Chronic,
Multichannel Microelectrodes in Awake, Behaving Animals.
560

Shih-Cheng Yen (University of Pennsylvania)
Elliot D. Menschik and Leif H. Finkel
Synchronization and Desynchronization in Striate Cortical Networks
395

Katherine R. Zaremba (Arizona State University)
Steven M. Baer
Relaxation Oscillators and Bursters Coupled Through Passive Cables
573

Ying Zhou (Rhode Island College)
Walter Gall
Including a Second Inward Conductance in Morris and Lecar Dynamics
211



WEDNESDAY, July 29, 1998


9:30	General Information

9:45	Featured Contributed Talk:  Volker Steuber (University of Edinburgh)
	and David Willshaw

	A Model of Intracellular Signalling Can Implement Radial Basis
=46unction Learning in Cerebellar
	Purkinje Cell

Contributed Talks

10:35	Berthold Ruf (Institute for Theoretical Computer Science) Thomas
Natschlaeger

	Pattern Analysis with Spiking Neurons Using Delay Coding

10:55	Arthur D.  Kuo (University of Michigan) Mark J. Evans

	An Adaptive Filter Model of Velocity Storage in Visual-vestibular
Interactions

11:15	Yoshiki Kashimori (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan) Takeshi
Kambara

	Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Suppression of Background Signals
Arising from Tail
	Movements in the Gymnotid Electrosensory System


11:35	Daniel A. Butts (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) Marla B. Feller,
Carla J. Shatz,
	and Daniel S. Rokhsar

	The Developing Retina Motivates a General Model of Neural Waves


11:55	Federal Funding Opportunities

12:30	Lunch Break


2:00	Workshops I	- Organization


9:30 	Rock and Roll Jam Session


THURSDAY, July 30, 1998


9:30	General Information

9:45	Featured Contributed Talk:  Xiao-Jing Wang  (Brandeis University)
	Yinghui Liu and Baylor Fox

	Neuronal Mechanisms of Working Memory in Prefrontal Cortex

Contributed Talks

10:35	David Horn (Tel Aviv University) Nir Levy and Eytan Ruppin

	The Importance of Nonlinear Dendritic Processing in Multimodular
Memory Networks


10:55	Song Chun Zhu (Stanford University)

	From Local Features to Global Perception:  Computing Texture and
Shape in Markov
	Random Fields


11:15	Enrico Simonotto (Univ. Missouri at St. Louis) F.Spano, M.Riani,
	A. Ferrari, F. Levrero, A. Pillot, P. Renzetti, R.C. Parodi, F.
Sardanelli, P. Vitali,
	J. Twitty, and F. Moss

	FMRI Studies of Visual Cortical Activity during Noise Stimulation


11:35	Featured Contributed Talk:  Frank Moss (University of Missouri at
St. Louis)
	David F. Russell

	Animal Behavior Enhanced By Noise


12:25	Business Meeting

1:00	Lunch Break

2:30	Workshops II	- Organization

9:30 	Banquet - Life is a beach



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