Workshop 2: Cognitive Neuroscience: Schedule
Tentative Schedule |
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| Monday, December 10 Neurobiological Bases |
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| 8:00am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:15-8:45am | Breakfast | ||
| 8:45-9:00am | Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Murray Sherman: Thalamus plays a central role in cortical functioning | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Ray Guillery: Most of the messages thalamus sends to cortex contribute to "forward models" | ||
| 11:30-11:45am | Break | ||
| 11:45-12:45pm | Marty Usrey: Visual attention modulates thalamocortical communication | ||
| 12:45-2:00pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:00-3:00pm | Sabine Kastner: Neural basis of visual attention in the primate brain | ||
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break | ||
| 3:30-4:30pm | Okihide Hikosaka: Choosing valuable objects automatically - a basal ganglia mechanism | ||
| 4:30-5:30pm | Discussion | ||
| 5:30-7:00pm | Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge | ||
| 7:15pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| Tuesday, December 11 Reinforcement Learning |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Michael Frank: Linking levels of analysis in computational models of corticostriatal function | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Matthew Botvinick: Planning as probabilistic inference | ||
| 11:30-11:45am | Break | ||
| 11:45-12:45pm | Yael Niv: The orbitofrontal cortex as a state space for reinforcement learning | ||
| 12:45-3:15pm | Lunch, informal discussions, and poster viewing; lunch provided | ||
| 3:15-4:15pm | Antonio Rangel: The neuroeconomics of simple choice | ||
| 4:15-4:45pm | Break | ||
| 4:45-5:45pm | Discussion | ||
| 5:45pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| Wednesday, December 12 Dynamic Circuits, Coding, and Variability |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Misha Tsodyks: Scaling laws of associative retrieval from long-term memory | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Stefano Fusi: The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks | ||
| 11:30-11:45am | Break | ||
| 11:45-12:45pm | Sophie Deneve: Perceptual inference predicts divisive, input targeted inhibition | ||
| 12:45-2:15pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:15-3:15pm | Alex Pouget: A normative theory of Weber's law | ||
| 3:15-3:45pm | Break | ||
| 3:45-4:45pm | Xiao-Jing Wang | ||
| 4:45-5:45pm | Discussion | ||
| 5:45pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| Thursday, December 13 Decision Making |
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| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Anne Churchland: Integrating information across time and sensory modalities for decision-making | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Rafal Bogacz: Do we have Bayes' theorem hardwired in the cortico-basal-ganglia circuit? | ||
| 11:30-11:45am | Break | ||
| 11:45-12:45pm | Phil Holmes: The neural dynamics of decision making: multiple scales and a range models | ||
| 12:45-3:15pm | Lunch, informal discussions, and poster viewing; lunch provided | ||
| 3:15-4:15pm | Eric Shea-Brown: Neural integrators -- what do we need and what can we get away with? | ||
| 4:15-4:45pm | Break | ||
| 4:45-5:45pm | Discussion | ||
| 5:45pm | Shuttle pick-up from MBI | ||
| 6:30-7:00pm | Cash Bar | ||
| 7:00pm | Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel | ||
| Friday, December 14 | |||
| 8:15am | Shuttle leaves for MBI | ||
| 8:30-9:00am | Breakfast | ||
| 9:00-10:00am | Peter Dayan: Interactions between Model-free and Model-based Reinforcement Learning | ||
| 10:00-10:30am | Break | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Michael Shadlen: Consciousness as a decision to engage | ||
| 11:30-12:15pm | Discussion | ||
| 12:15pm | One Shuttle back to hotel One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH) |
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