REGISTRATION FOR CNS*99

[James M. Bower]

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EIGHTH ANNUAL COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE MEETING (CNS*99)

July 18 - 22, 1999   Pittsburgh, Pennsylavania

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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Registration is now open for this year's Computational Neuroscience meeting
(CNS*99).
 This is the eighth 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 1999 will take place at Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and include plenary, contributed, and poster
sessions.  The first session starts at 9 am, Sunday July 18th and the
meeting ends with the annual CNS banquet on Thursday evening, July 22nd.
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 not be available.

LOCATION:  The meeting will take place at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers in
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CNS*99 MEETING AGENDA



SUNDAY, JULY 18, 1999

9:00	Welcoming Remarks and General Information

9:15	Featured Contributed Talk: Boris Gutkin (Center for Neuroscience at
University of Pittsburgh) G. Bard Ermentrout

A Canonical Theory of Spike Generation in Cortical Neurons Accounts for
Complex Neural Responses to Constant and Time-varying Stimuli


Contributed Talks

10:05	Frances Chance (Brandeis University) Sacha Nelson, and L. F. Abbott

Recurrent Cortical Amplification Produces Complex Cell Responses

10:25	Brian Blais (Brown University) Ann Besu, Harel Shouval, and Leon Cooper

Statistics of LGN Activity Determine the Segregation of ON/OFF Subfields
for Simple Cells in Cortex


10:45	Alain Destexhe (Laval University) Denis Pare

Correlated Synaptic Bombardment in Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons in Vivo


11:05	Break


11:20	Reinoud Maex (University of Antwerp) Bart P. Vos and Erik De Schutter

Imprecise Spike Synchronization Reveals Common Excitation through Weak
Distributed Synapses

11:40	Allan Coop (Rockefeller University) George Reeke

Simulating the Temporal Evolution of Neuronal Discharge


12:00	Gwendal le Masson (Institut Fran=E7ois Magendie) Emmanuel Barbe,
Valerie Morisset, and Frederic Nagy

>From Current Clamp Experiments to Conductance-based Model Neurons: A
>Direct Link Using A New Error Function and Optimization Scheme

12:20	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session A


2:20	Featured Contributed Talk: Rama Ratnam (University of Illinois)
Mark Nelson

Impact of Afferent Spike Train Irregularity on the Detection of Weak
Sensory Signals


Contributed Talks

3:10	Elise Cassidente (Carnegie Mellon University) Xiaogang Yan and Tai
Sing Lee

A Bayesian Decision Approach to Decode Local and Contextual Signals from
Spike Trains

3:30	Alexander Dimitrov (MSU Center for Computational Biology) John P.
Miller

Natural Time Scale for Neural Encoding

3:50	 Break

4:10	Kevin Otto (Arizona State University) Rousche Patrick and Daryl Kipke

Investigating Neural Coding and Plasticity in Auditory Cortex using
Real-Time Feedback from Ensemble Neural Recordings

4:30	End of Day Announcements


8:00 	Poster Session A


Pamela Abshire (Johns Hopkins University)
Andreas Andreou
Relating Information Capacity to a Biophysical Model for Blowfly Retina

Paul Adams (SUNY Stony Brook)
Kingsley Cox
Implications of Digital Synapses for Thalamocortical Function

Ildiko Aradi (Ohio University)
William Holmes
Synchronized Oscillation in Networks of Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus
Interneurons with Different Adaptation Properties

Per Aronsson (Royal Institute of Technology)
Hans Liljenstr=F6m
Electromagnetic Interaction in a Neural System


Giorgio A. Ascoli (George Mason University)
Jeffrey L. Krichmar
L-Neuron: A Modeling Tool for the Efficient Generation and Parsimonious
Description of Dendritic Morphology

Davis Barch (University of California at Berkeley)
Characterization of Static Input by Activity Oscillations in an Excitable
Membrane Model: Effect of Input Size, Shape and Texture on Oscillation
Parameters

Hauke Bartsch (Technische University)
The Influence of Threshold Variability on the Response of Visual Cortical
Neurons

John Beggs (Yale University)
Why LTP and LTD are Asymmetric: A Bin Model to Explain Induction Parameters

Alan Bond (California Institute of Technology)
Problem-solving Behavior in a System Model of the Primate Neocortex

Vladimir Bondarenko (University of Pittsburgh)
Teresa Chay
The Role of AMPA, GABA, [Ca2+]i, and Calcium Stores in Propagating Waves in
Neuronal Networks

Mihail Bota (USC Brain Project)
Alex Guazzelli and Michael Arbib
The Extended Taxon-Affordances Model: Egocentric Navigation and the
Interactions between the Prefrontal Cortex and the Striatum

Hans A. Braun (University of Marburg)
Martin T. Huber, Mathias Dewald, Karlheinz Voigt, Alexander Neimann, Xing
Pei, and Frank Moss
A Computer-Model of Temperature Encoding in Peripheral Cold Receptors:
Oscillations, Noise and Chaotic Dynamics

Adam Briska (University of Wisconsin)
Daniel Uhlrich and William Lytton
Independent Dendritic Domains in the Thalamic Circuit

Dyrk Brockmann (Max-Planck-Institut)
Theo Geisel
The Ecology of Gaze Shifts

David Brown (The Babraham Institute)
Jianfeng Feng
Low Correlation between Random Synaptic Inputs Impacts Considerably on the
Output of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model

Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Riccardo Barbieri, Michael C. Quirk, Loren M. Frank, and Matthew A. Wilson
Constructing a Time-dependent Gamma Probability Model of Spatial
Information Encoding in the Rat Hippocampus

Nicolas Brunel (Brandeis University)
Phase Diagrams of Sparsely Connected Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory
Spiking Neurons

Anthony Burkitt (The Bionic Ear Institute)
Graeme Clark
Analysis of Synchronization in the Response of Neurons to Noisy Periodic
Synaptic Input

Anthony Burkitt (The Bionic Ear Institute)
Interspike Interval Variability for Balanced Networks with Reversal
Potentials for Large Numbers of Inputs

Marcelo Camperi (University of San Francisco)
Peter Pacheco, Nicola Rugai, and Toshiyuki Uchino
NEUROSYS: An Easy-to-Use System for the Simulation of Very Large Networks
of Biologically Accurate Neurons on Parallel Computers

Marcelo Camperi (University of San Francisco)
Nicola Rugai
Modeling Dopaminergic Modulation of Delay-Period Activity in Prefrontal
Cortex During Working Memory Processes"

Carmen Canavier (University of New Orleans)
Reciprocal Excitatory Ohmic Synapses Convert Pacemaker-Like Firing into
Burst Firing in a Simple Model of Coupled Neurons

Gal Chechik (Tel-Aviv University)
Isaac Mailijson and Eytan Ruppin
Neuronal Normalization Provides Effective Learning through Ineffective
Synaptic Learning Rules

Yoonsuck Choe (The University of Texas at Austin)
Risto Miikkulainen and Lawrence K. Cormack
Effects of Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Resource Redistribution in Hebbian
Weight Adaptation

Carson Chow (University Of Pittsburgh)
Nancy Kopell
Dynamics of Spiking Neurons with Electrical Coupling

Thomas Coates (Pennsylvania State University)
Control and Monitoring of a Parallel Processed Neural Network via the World
Wide Web

Eyal Cohen (Tel-Aviv University)
Nir Levy and Eytan Ruppin
Global Versus Local Processing of Compressed Representations: A
Computational Model of Visual Search

Gennady S. Cymbalyuk (Emory University)
Ronald L. Calabrese
Oscillatory Behaviors in Pharmacologically Isolated Heart Interneurons from
the Medicinal Leech



Yue Dai (University of Manitoba)
Kelvin Jones, Brent Fedirchuk, and Larry Jordan
Regulation of the Action Potential Voltage Threshold in Cat Spinal
Motoneurons during Fictive Locomotion

Field David (Cornell University)
Learning Wavelet-Like Receptive Fields from Natural Scenes with a
Biologically Plausible De-correlation Network

Marilene de Pinho (Universidade De S=E3o Paulo)
Marcelo Mazza and Antonio Roque-da-Silva
A Biologically Plausible Computer Simulation of Classical Conditioning
Induced Reorganization of Tonotopic Maps in the Auditory Cortex

Gustavo Deco (Siemens AG)
Josef Zihl
Neurodynamical Mechanism of Binding and Selective Attention for Visual Search

Alain Destexhe (Laval University)
Helmut Kroger
Consequences of Correlated Synaptic Bombardment on Dendritic Integration in
Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo (SUNY at Binghamton)
Kurt Grandis and Christian Reich
Stimulation of Sodium Channels in Taste Receptor Cells Provides Noise that
Enhances Taste Detection

L. M. Dobbs (Schafer Corporation)
T. J. Manuccia and J. L. Murphy
Planar Optically Switched Microelectrode Array (OSMA)

Silke Dodel (Max Planck Institute)
J. Michael Herrmann, Theo Geisel, and Jens Frahm
Components of Brain Activity -Data Analysis for FMRI

Gideon Dror (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)
Misha Tsodyks
Activity of Coupled Excitatory and Inhibitory Neural Populations with
Dynamic Synapses

Gideon Dror (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)
Misha Tsodyks
Chaotic Phenomena in Neural Populations with Dynamic Synapses

Witali Dunin-Barkowski (Texas Tech University)
Donald Wunsch
Phase-Based Cerebellur Learning of Dynamic Signals

Gaute T. Einevoll (Agricultural University of Norway)
Paul Heggelund
Mathematical Models for Spatial Receptive-Field Organization of DLGN
Neurons in CAT

Chris Eliasmith (Washington University in St. Louis)
Charles H. Anderson
Rethinking Central Pattern Generators: A General Framework

Steven Epstein (Boston University)
Jason Ritt, Yair Manor, Farzan Nadim, Eve Marder, and Nancy Kopell
Network Oscillations Generated by Balancing Graded Asymmetric Reciprocal
Inhibition in Passive Neurons

T. Ghaffari Farazi (University of Southern California)
J.-S. Liaw and T.W. Berger
Functional Implications of Synaptic Morphology

Stuart Feerick (The Babraham Institute)
Jianfeng Feng and David Brown
Random Pulse input Versus Continuous Current plus White/colored Noise: Are
They Equivalent?

Jianfeng Feng (The Babraham Institute)
Stimulus-Evoked Oscillatory Synchronization in Neuronal Models

Joseph Francis (George Washington University)
Bruce Gluckman and Steven Schiff
Deterministic Structure in Data from a Free Running Neuronal Ensemble: A
Comparison of Three Non-linear Test for Determinism

Mark Fuhs (Carnegie Mellon University)
David Touretzky
Synaptic Learning Models of Map Separation in the Hippocampus

Tomoki Fukai (Tokai University)
Seinichi Kanemura
Precisely-Timed Transient Synchronization by Synaptic Depression

Ryuta Fukuda (Keio University)
Satoshi Nagayasu, Junko Hara, William Shankle, Masaru Tomita
Suggesting Human Cortical Connectivity for Language-related Areas and
Simulations of its Computational Model

Enrique Garibay (Brandeis University)
Xiao-Jing Wang
Information Transfer in a Model Neuron with Correlated Inputs

Daniel Gill (The Hebrew University)
Lidror Troyansky and Israel Nelken
Auditory Localization using Direction-dependent Spectral Information

Simon F. Giszter (MCPHU)
William J. Kargo
On-line Limb Trajectory Adaptation by Assembly and Control of Force-field
Primitives Using Modular Encapsulated Feedback

J. Randall Gobbel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Reinforcement Learning in a Biophysical Model of Basal Ganglia-Neocortex Loops



MONDAY, JULY 19, 1999

9:00	General Information

9:15	Featured Contributed Talk: Don Johnson (Rice University) Charlotte
Gruner, Raymon Glantz

Quantifying Information Transfer in Spike Generation


Contributed Talks

10:05	Daniel Butts (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Daniel Rokhsar

The Information Content of Spontaneous Retinal Waves

10:25	Mona Spiridon (EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Carson
Chow
and Wulfram Gerstner

Signal Transmission through A Population of Integrate-and-fire Neurons


10:45	Paul H.E. Tiesinga (Salk Institute) Jorge V. Jose

Driven by Inhibition

11:05	Break


11:20	Jianfeng Feng (The Babraham Institute)

Stimulus-Evoked Oscillatory Synchronization in Neuronal Models


11:40	Charles Anderson (Washington University) Qingfeng Huang and John Clark

Harmonic Analysis of Spiking Neuronal Ensembles


12:00	Steven Schiff (Krasnow Institute) David Colella

Brain Chirps: Spectrographic Signatures of Epileptic Seizures





12:20	Vikaas Sohal (Stanford University School of Medicine) Molly Hunstman
and John Huguenard

Reciprocal Inhibitory Connections Produce Phase Lags That Desynchronize
Intrathalamic Oscillations


12:40 	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session B


2:00	Featured Contributed Talk: Nancy Kopell (Boston University)
Bard Ermentrout, Miles Whittington, and Roger Traub

Gamma and Beta Rhythms Have Different Synchronization Properties


Contributed Talks

2:50	Carson Chow (University of Pittsburgh) Carlo Laing and G. Bard
Ermentrout

Bump Solutions in a Network of Spiking Neurons

3:10	Christian W. Eurich (Institute of Theoretical Physics) Klaus
Pawelzik, Udo Ernst, Jack Cowan, and John Milton

Delay Adaptation in the Nervous System


3:30	Kay Robbins (University of Texas at San Antonio) David Senseman

The Relationship of Response Latency to Modal Decomposition: Analysis of
the Initial Spread of Visually-evoked Cortical Depolarization

3:50	Break


4:10	Ernst Niebur (Johns Hopkins University) Arup Roy, Peter Steinmetz,
and Kenneth Johnson

Model-free Detection of Synchrony in Neuronal Spike Trains, with an
Application to Primate Somatosensory Cortex


4:30	Invited Talk: To be announced



5:20	End of Day Announcements




8:00	Poster Session B

Mark Goldman (Brandeis University)
Jorge Golowasch, Laurence Abbott, and Eve Marder
Dependence of Firing Pattern on Intrinsic Ionic Conductances: Sensitive and
Insensitive Combinations

Anatoli Gorchetchnikov (Middle Tennessee State University)
Introduction of Threshold Self-adjustment Improves the Convergence in
Feature-detective Neural Nets

Boris S. Gutkin (University of Pittsburgh)
G. Bard Ermentrout and Joseph O'Sullivan
Layer 3 Patchy Recurrent Excitatory Connections May Determine the Spatial
Organization of Sustained Activity in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Junko Hara (University of California at Irvine)
Ryuta Fukuda, William Shankle, and James Fallon
Estimating Cortical Connectivity from Statistical Properties of the
Microscopic Features of the Developing Human Cerebral Cortex: Comparison to
Contemporary Methods and Relevance to Computational Modeling

Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski (NADA)
Patrik Krieger
Simulation of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Induced Cellular and Network
Effects in the Lamprey Locomotor CPG

Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski (NADA)
Alexander Kozlov, Erik Aurell, Sten Grillner, and Anders Lansner
Modeling of Plasticity of the Synaptic Connections in the Lamprey Spinal
CPG - Consequences for Network Behavior

Tim Hely (Santa Fe Institute)
The Development of Corpus Callosum Connections in Primary Visual Cortex

Alix Herrmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Wulfram Gerstner
Effect of Noise on Neuron Transient Response

J. Michael Herrmann (Max-Planck-Institut Fuer Stroemungsforschung)
Klaus Pawelzik and Theo Geisel
Learning Predictive Representations

Claus C. Hilgetag (Newcastle University)
Spatial Neglect and Paradoxical Lesion Effects in the CAT - A  Model Based
on Midbrain Connectivity




Ulrich Hofmann (California Institute of Technology)
Stephen Van Hooser, David Kewley, and James Bower
Relationship between Field Potentials and Spike Activity in Rat S1:
Multi-site Cortical Recordings and Simulations

William Holmes (Ohio University)
Comparison of CaMKinase II Activation in a Dendritic Spine Computed with
Deterministic and Stochastic Models of the NMDA Synaptic Conductance

Greg Hood (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
John Burkardt and Greg Foss
Visualizing the Visual System

David Horn (Tel Aviv University)
Irit Opher
Complex Dynamics of Neuronal Thresholds

Osamu Hoshino (The University of Electro-Communications)
Satoru Inoue, Yoshiki Kashimori, and Takeshi Kambara
A Role of a Hierarchical Dynamical Map in Cognition and Binding Different
Sensory Modalities

Michael Howe (University of Texas at Austin)
Risto Miikkulainen
Hebbian Learning and Temporary Storage in the Convergence-Zone Model of
Episodic Memory

Fred Howell (University of Edinburgh)
Jonas Dyhrfjeld-Johnsen, Reinhoud Maex, Nigel Goddard, and Erik De Schutter
A Large Scale Simulation Model of the Cerebellar Cortex using PGENESIS

Martin T. Huber (University of Marburg)
J=FCrgen C. Krieg, Hans A. Braun, Xing Pei, and Frank Moss
Do Stochastic-dynamic Effects Contribute to the Progression of Mood
Disorders: Implications from Neurodynamic Modelling

Hidetoshi Ikeno (Himeji Institute of Technology)
Shiro Usui
Information Processing by Electro-diffusion in the Kenyon Cell

Satoru Inoue (The University of Electro-Communications)
Yoshiki Kashimori, Osamu Hoshino, and Takeshi Kambara
A Neuronal Model of Nucleus Laminaris and Inferior Colliculus Detecting
Microsecond Interaural Time Difference in Sound Localization

David Jaffe (University of Texas at San Antonio)
Nicholas Carnevale
Morphological Determinants of Synaptic Integration

Kelvin E. Jones (University of Manitoba)
Kevin P. Carlin, Jeremy Rempel, Larry M. Jordan, and Rob M. Brownstone
Dendritic Calcium Channels in Mouse Spinal Motoneurons: Implications for
Bistable Membrane Properties

Ranu Jung (University of Kentucky)
David Magnuson
Non-stationary Analysis of Extracellular Neural Activity

Ranu Jung (University of Kentucky)
Min Shao
Robustness of the CGSA in Estimating the Hurst Exponent from Time Series
with Fractal and Harmonic Components

George Kalarickal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Marshall
Neural Model of Temporal and Stochastic Properties of Binocular Rivalry

Takeshi Kambara (University of Electro-Communications)
Yoshiki Kashimori
A Positive Role of Noises in Accurate Detection of Time Difference by
Electrosensory System of Weakly Electric Fish

Jan Karbowski (Boston University)
Nancy Kopell
Multispikes and Synchronization in a Large Neural Network with Temporal Delays

Matthias Kaschube (Max-Planck-Institut Fuer Stroemungsforschung)
Fred Wolf, Theo Geisel, and Siegrid Loewel
Quantifying the Variability of Patterns of Orientation Domains in the
Visual Cortex of Cats

Yoshiki Kashimori (Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Takeshi Kambara
A Role of Synaptic Variation Depending on Precise Timing of Pre- and
Post-synaptic Depolarization in Electrolocation

Adam Kepecs (Brandeis University)
Xiao-Jing Wang
An Analysis of Complex Bursting in Cortical Pyramidal Neuron Models

Blackwell Kim (George Mason University)
Characterization of the Light-induced Currents in Hermissenda

D. O. Kim (Univ. Conn. Health Center)
W. R. D'Angelo
Computational Model for the Bushy Cell of the Cochlear Nucleus

Wonryull Koh (Texas A&M University)
Bruce H. McCormick
Distributed, Web-based Microstructure Database for Brain Tissue

Wonryull Koh (Texas A&M University)
Bruce H. McCormick, William R. Shankle, and James H. Fallon
Geometric Modeling of Local Cortical Networks

Alexander Kozlov (Russian Academy of Science)
Erik Aurell, Tatiana Deliagina, Sten Grillner, Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski,
Grigory Orlovsky, and Pavel Zelenin
Modeling Control of Body Orientation in the Lamprey

Sarah Lesher (University of Maryland)
Li Guan and Avis Cohen
Symbolic Time Series Analysis of Neural Data

Nir Levy (Tel Aviv University)
David Horn and Eytan Ruppin
Distributed Synchrony in an Attractor of Spiking Neurons

Shu-Chen Li (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Ulman Lindenberger and Peter A. Frensch
Unifying Levels of Cognitive Aging: From Neurotransmission to
Representation to Cognition

Hualou Liang (Florida Atlantic University)
Mingzhou Ding and Steve Bressler
On the Tracking of Dynamic Functional Relations in Monkey Cerebral Cortex

Christiane Linster (Boston University)
Eve Derosa, Michaella Maloney, and Michael Hasselmo
Selective Cholinergic Suppression of Pre-strengthened Synapses: A Mechanism
to Minimize Associative Interference between Odors

John E. Love (Florida Institute of Technology)
Kathleen M. Johnson
GRAVICOGNITOR: Toward a Hybrid Fuzzy Cellular Neural Network Based on the
Cytoarchitectonics of Biological Gravity-Sensing Organ Ontogenesis

Huo Lu (California Institute of Technology)
James Bower
Noradrenergic Modulation of Interneurons in the Cerebellar Cortex

Malcolm A. MacIver (University of Illinois)
Mark E. Nelson
Evidence for Closed-Loop Control of Prey Capture in Weakly Electric Fish

Norbert Mayer (MPI Fuer Stroemungsforschung)
Michael Herrmann and Theo Geisel
Receptive Field Formation in Binocularly Deprived Cats

Marcelo Mazza (Universidade De S=E3o Paulo)
Antonio Roque-da-Silva
Realistic Computer Simulation of Cortical Lesion Induced Imbalances in
Properties of Somatotopic Maps

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University)
Richard W. DeVaul, William R. Shankle, and James H. Fallon
Modeling Neuron Spatial Distribution and Morphology in the Developing Human
Cerebral Cortex

Rebecca McNamee (University Of Pittsburgh)
Mingui Sun and Robert Sclabassi
Use of a Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (NFIS) for Modeling the Physiologic
System of Beat-By-Beat Cardiac Control: Comparison to an Auto-Regressive
Moving Average (ARMA) Model

Georgiy Medvedev (Boston University)
Charles Wilson, Jay Callaway, and Nancy Kopell
A Dopaminergic Neuron as a Chain of Oscillators: Analysis of Transient Dynamics

Eduardo Mercado III (Rutgers University)
Catherine E. Myers and Mark A. Gluck
Modeling Auditory Cortical Processing as an Adaptive Chirplet Transform

Eugene Mihaliuk (West Virginia University)
Kenneth Showalter
Entrainment with Hebbian Learning

Octavian D. Mocanu (Universidad Aut=F3noma De Barcelona)
Joan Oliver, Fidel Santamar=EDa, and James Bower
A Passive Featuring of the Cerebellar Granule Cell (The Branching Point
Hypothesis)

Benoit Morel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Biologically Plausible Learning Rules for Neural Networks and Quantum Computing

John Nafziger (University of Pennsylvania)
Leif Finkel
A Stimulus Density-dependent Normalization Mechanism for Modulating the
Range of Contour Integration



TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1999


9:00	General Information


9:15	Featured Contributed Talk: Seth Wolpert (Penn State
University-Harrisburg)
W. Otto Friesen

On the Parametric Stability of a Central Pattern Generator


Contributed Talks

10:05	Robert Butera (Lab of Neural Control, NINDS, NIH) Sheree Johnson,

Christopher Del Negro, John Rinzel, and Jeffrey Smith

Dynamics of Excitatory Networks of Burst-capable Neurons: Experimental and
Modeling Studies of the Respiratory Central Pattern Generator

10:25	Philip Ulinski (University of Chicago) Vivek Khatri

Functional Significance of Interactions between Inhibitory Interneurons in
Visual Cortex

10:45	Stella Yu (Carnegie Mellon University) Tai Sing Lee

What do V1 Neurons Tell Us about Saccadic Suppression


11:05	Break


11:20	John A. White (Boston University) Matthew I. Banks, Nancy Kopell,

and Robert A. Pearce

A Novel Mechanism for Theta Modulation of Fast GABA_A Circuit Activity


11:40	Jeremy Caplan (Brandeis University) Michael Kahana, Robert Sekuler,
Matthew Kirschen, and Joseph Madsen

Task Dependence of Human Theta Oscillations during Virtual Maze Navigation

12:00	Albert Compte (Brandeis University) Nicolas Brunel and Xiao-Jing Wang

Spontaneous and Spatially Tuned Persistent Activity in a Cortical Working
Memory Model


12:20	Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session C

2:00 	Featured Contributed Talk: A. D. Redish (University of Arizona)
B. L. McNaughton and C. A. Barnes

What Makes Place Cells Directional on the Linear Track?



Contributed Talks

2:50	Victoria Booth (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Amitabha Bose

and Michael Recce

Hippocampal Place Cells and the Generation of Temporal Codes

3:10	Ali Minai (University of Cincinnati) Simona Doboli and Phillip Best

A Comparison of Context-Dependent Hippocampal Place Codes In 1-Layer and
2-Layer Recurrent Networks


3:30	Mayank Mehta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Michael Quirk
and Matthew Wilson

>From Hippocampus to V1: Effect of LTP on Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of
>Receptive Fields

3:50	Break

4:10	Jessica D. Bayliss (University of Rochester) Dana H. Ballard

Single Trial P3 Epoch Recognition in a Virtual Environment

4:30 	Geoffrey Goodhill (Georgetown University Medical Center) Andrei
Cimponeriu

Modeling the Joint Development of Ocular Dominance and Orientation Columns
in Visual Cortex


4:50 	Arjen van Ooyen (Netherlands Institute for Brain Research) David
Willshaw

Influence of Dendritic Morphology on Axonal Competition and Pattern of
Innervation

5:20	End of Day Announcements

8:00	Poster Session C

Hirofumi Nagashino (The University of Tokushima)
Kazumi Achi and Yohsuke Kinouchi
Synchronization with a Periodic Pulse Train in an Asymmetrically Coupled
Neuronal Network Model

Alexander Neiman (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
Xing Pei, Frank Moss, Winfried Wojtenek, Lon Wilkens, Martin Huber, Mathias
Dewald,
and Hans Braun
Spike Train Reveals Low Dimensional Deterministic Behaviors in a
Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron with Intrinsic Oscillator

Alexander Neiman (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
 Frank Moss, Pei Xing, David Russell, Winfried Wojtenek, Lon Wilkens, Hans
Braun, and Martin Huber
Synchronization of the Electroreceptors of the Paddlefish

Alexander Neiman (University of Missouri at St.Louis)
Ulrike Feudel, Xing Pei, Winfried Wojtenek, Frank Moss, Hans Braun, Mathias
Dewald,
and Martin Huber
Global Bifurcations and Intermittency in a Hodgkin-Huxley Model of
Thermally Sensitive Neurons

Mike Neubig (University Laval)
Alain Destexhe
Are Inhibitory Synaptic Conductances on Thalamic Relay Neurons
Inhomogeneous?  Are Synapses from Individual Afferents Clustered?


Duane Nykamp (New York University)
Daniel Tranchina
A Population Density Approach that Facilitates Large-scale Modeling of
Neural Networks: Extension to Slow Inhibitory Synapses

Hiroshi Okamoto (Fuji Xerox Co.)
Tomoki Fukai
A Model for A Cortical Mechanism to Store Intervals of Time

Tim C. Pearce (University of Leicester)
Odour to Sensor Space Transformations in Artificial and Biological Noses

John Pezaris (California Institute of Technology)
Maneesh Sahani and Richard Andersen
Dynamics in LIP Spike Train Coherence

Hans E. Plesser (Max-Planck-Institut for Fluid Dynamics)
Wulfram Gerstner
Escape Rate Models for Noisy Integrate-and-Fire Neurons

Gregor Rainer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Earl Miller
Neural Ensemble States in the Prefrontal Cortex during Free Viewing
Identified using Hidden Markov Model

Pamela Reinagel (Harvard Medical School)
R. Clay Reid
Reproducibility of Firing Patterns in the Thalamus

David V. Reynolds (University of Windsor)
Christopher Aswin
A Large-Scale Neuroanatomical Model of Attention Implemented as a Computer
Simulation

Barry Richmond (National Institute of Mental Health)
Mike Oram and Matthew Wiener
The Random Origin of Precise Timing within Single Spike Trains during
Pattern Recognition

Dan Rizzuto (Brandeis University)
Michael Kahana
An Autoassociative Neural Network Model of Paired-associate Learning

Patrick Roberts (Neurological Sciences Institute)
Electrosensory Response Mechanisms in Mormyrid Electric Fish

Bas Rokers (Rutgers University)
Catherine Myers
A Dynamic Model of Learning in the Septo-Hippocampal System




Ilya A. Rybak (Drexel University)
John K. Chapin, Allon Guez, and Karen A. Moxon
Competition and Cooperation between the Automatic and Higher Order
Voluntary/Behavioral Neural Mechanisms in the Brain Control of Movements

Maneesh Sahani (California Institute of Technology)
John Pezaris and Richard Andersen
Short Discrete Epochs of Chirped Oscillatory Spiking in LIP Neurons

Maneesh Sahani (California Institute of Technology)
Jennifer Linden
Doubly Stochastic Poisson Models for Smoothing and Clustering of Spike Trains

Ko Sakai (RIKEN)
Shigeru Tanaka
Perceptual Segmentation and Neural Grouping in Tilt Illusion

Anders Sandberg (Royal Institute of Technology)
Anders Lansner, Karl-Magnus Peterson, Martin Ingvar, and =D6rjan Ekeberg
A Palimpsest Memory Based on an Incremental Bayesian Learning Rule

Fidel Santamaria (California Institute of Technology)
Dieter Jaeger, James Bower, and Erik De Schutter
Dendritic Temporal Integration Properties of a Purkinje Cell are Modulated
by Background Activity: A Modeling Study

William Rodman Shankle (University of California at Irvine)
Junko Hara, James H. Fallon, A. Kimball Romney, John P. Boyd, Robert S.
Sneddon, and Benjamin H. Landing
Insights into the Structuring of the Cytoarchitecture of the Developing
Postnatal Human Cerebral Cortex from Term Birth to Age 72 Months: Relevance
to Computational Models and Access to the Data

Gregory Smith (New York University)
Charles Cox, S. Murray Sherman, and John Rinzel
Spike-frequency Adaptation in Sinusoidally-driven Thalamocortical Relay Neurons

Paul Smolen (The University of Texas)
Douglas A. Baxter and John H. Byrne
Biochemical Constraints on Realistic Models of Circadian Rhythms

Friedrich T. Sommer (University of Ulm)
On Cell Assemblies in a Cortical Column

Sen Song (Brandeis University)
Larry Abbott
Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Learning and Neuronal Response Variability

Cristina Soto-Trevino (Brandeis University)
L.F. Abbott and Eve Marder
A Robust Network Based on Activity-dependent Regulation of Inhibitory
Synaptic Conductances

Bilin Zhang Stiber (University of California at Berkeley)
Edwin R. Lewis, Michael Stiber, and Kenneth R. Henry
Auditory Singularity Detection by a Gerbil Cochlea Model

Katrin Suder (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Florentin Woergoetter and Thomas Wennekers
Neural Field Description of State-Dependent Visual Receptive Field Changes

Mingui Sun (University of Pittsburgh)
Robert J. Sclabassi
A Novel Method to Salvage Clipped Multichannel Neurophysiological Recordings

Krisztina Szalisznyo (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Peter Erdi
Search for Resonators:Effects of Granule Cell Firing Properties on Temporal
Patterns of the CA3 Pyramidal Cell

David Tam (University of North Texas)
A Spike Train Analysis for Detecting Spatio-temporal Integration in Neurons

David Tam (University of North Texas)
A Spike Train Analysis for Detecting Spatial Integration in Neurons

Shoji Tanaka (Sophia University)
Post-Cue Activity of Prefrontal Cortical Neurons Controlled by Local Inhibition

Akaysha Tang (University of New Mexico)
Barak Pearlmutter, Michael Zibulevsky, and Rebecca Loring
Response Time Variability in the Human Sensory and Motor Systems

Adam Taylor (University of California at San Diego)
William B. Kristan, Jr. and Garrison W. Cottrell
A Model of the Leech Segmental Swim Central Pattern Generator

Peter Thomas (University of Chicago)
Jack Cowan
Spin Model for Orientation Map Via Reduction of Hebb's Rule

Simon Thorpe (CERCO)
Arnaud Delorme and Rufin van Rullen
Real-time Simulation of Visual Processing with Millions of Spiking Neurons

Paul H. E. Tiesinga (Salk Institute)
Shuang Zhang and Jorge V. Jose
Model of Carbachol-induced Gamma-frequency Oscillations in Hippocampus

Wilson Truccolo-Filho (Florida Atlantic University)
Mingzhou Ding and Steven L. Bressler
Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of a Generic Cortical Area Model

Philip Ulinski (University of Chicago)
Zoran Nenadic and Bijoy Ghosh
Spatiotemporal Dynamics in a Model of Turtle Visual Cortex

Jean-Francois Vibert (Facult=E9 de M=E9decine Saint-Antoine)
Vincent Lagoueyte, Nicolas Bourri=E9, Gilles Fortin, and Jean Champagnat
Modeling the Primitive Rhythmic Neural Network of the Chicken Embryo

Gene Wallenstein (University of Utah)
Michael Hasselmo
Septal Modulation of Hippocampal Firing Fields and Flexible Spatial Learning

Heng Wang (University of Kentucky)
Ranu Jung
Effects of Supraspinal-Spinal Loops on the Dynamic Evolution of Fictive
Locomotion

Stuart Washington (The Krasnow Institute)
Giorgio Ascoli and Jeffrey Krichmar
Statistical Analysis of Dendritic Morphology's Effect on CA3 Pyramidal Cell
Electrophysiology

Thomas Wennekers (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences)
Dynamics of Spatio-temporal Patterns in Associative Networks of Spiking Neurons

Matthew Wiener (NIMH, NIH)
Mike Oram and Barry Richmond
Assessing Information Processing in V1 Neurons across Stimulus Sets

Russell Witte (Arizona State University)
Daryl Kipke
Evidence of Competing Neural Assemblies in Background Activity of Neurons
in Auditory Cortex of Awake Guinea Pig

Xiangbao Wu (University of Virginia)
Sean Polyn and William Levy
Entorhinal/dentate Excitation of CA3: A Critical Variable in Hippocampal
Models?

Xiangbao Wu (University of Virginia)
Aaron Shon and William Levy
Using Computational Simulations to Discover Optimal Training Paradigms

Jian Zhang (Brandeis University)
Larry Abbott
Gain Modulation of Recurrent Networks

Ying Zhou (Rhode Island College)
Walter Gall
An Organizing Center for Planar Neural Excitability




WEDNESDAY, July 21, 1999


9:30	General Information

9:45	Featured contributed talk: Sharon Crook (Montana State University)
Gwen Jacobs, Kelli Hodge, and Cooper Roddey

Dynamic Patterns of Activation in a Neural Map in the Cricket Cercal
Sensory System



Contributed Talks

10:35	Richard Zemel (University of Arizona) Jonathan Pillow

Encoding Multiple Orientations in a Recurrent Network

10:55	Dana Ballard (University of Rochester) Rajesh Rao

A Single-spike Model of Predictive Coding

11:15	 Invited Presentation: To be announced

11:50	Federal Funding Opportunities

12:30	Lunch Break


2:00	Workshops I  - Organization


9:30 	Rock and Roll Jam Session




THURSDAY, July 22, 1999


9:30	General Information

9:45	Featured Contributed Talk: Nathaniel D. Daw (Carnegie Mellon
University) David S. Touretzky

Behavioral Results Suggest an Average Reward TD Model of Dopamine Neurons





Contributed Talks

10:35	Christiane Linster (Boston University) Michael Hasselmo

How Cholinergic Modulation Influences Generalization between Similar
Odorants: Behavioral Predictions from A Computational Model


10:55	Elliot D. Menschik (University of Pennsylvania) Leif H. Finkel

Cholinergic Neuromodulation of an Anatomically Reconstructed Hippocampal
CA3 Pyramidal Cell


11:15	 Invited Presentation: To be announced


12:25	Business Meeting

1:00	Lunch Break

2:30	Workshops II   - Organization

6:30	Banquet - Banquet River Cruise