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of the conference can be found here.
Download pdf of program and speaker abstracts here.
The schedule is listed below:
Friday,
January 26
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
| 08:00
- 08:15 |
Welcoming
Remarks:
Vinod Menon, Stanford University
Chris Kello, NSF |
| 08:15
- 08:30 |
Opening
Address:
Steven Bressler, FAU |
Session
I: Cortical Network Dynamics
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Moderator:
Steven Bressler |
| 08:30
- 09:30 |
Keynote
Address:
Walter Freeman, UC Berkeley
My legacy: A launch pad for exploring neocortex
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| 09:30
- 10:00 |
Leslie
Kay, U Chicago
Manipulating fast and slow neural synchrony in olfactory processing
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| 10:00
- 10:30 |
Gyorgy
Buzsaki, Rutgers
Oscillations organize hippocampal cell ensembles
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| 10:30
- 10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:45
- 11:15 |
Robert
Knight, UC Berkeley
High gamma and human behavior
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| 11:15
- 11:45 |
Charles
Gray, Montana State
Distributed processing in the cerebral cortex: How can we get
the data to ask the questions?
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| 11:45
- 12:15 |
Steven
Bressler, FAU
The dynamic formation of large-scale cortical networks by coordination
of oscillatory assemblies
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| 12:15
- 14:00 |
Lunch
Break |
Session
II: Brain Network Imaging
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Moderator:
Vinod Menon |
14:00
- 15:00
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Keynote
Address:
Marsel Mesulam, Northwestern
Imaging distributed networks
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| 15:00
- 15:30 |
David
Leopold, NIMH
The role of the primary visual cortex in multistable perception
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| 15:30
- 16:00 |
Marcus
Raichle, Washington U
Spontaneous intrinsic network dynamics: An fMRI perspective
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| 16:00
- 16:15 |
Coffee
Break |
| 16:15
- 16:45 |
Mark
D'Esposito, UC Berkeley
Neural mechanisms of working memory
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| 16:45
- 17:15 |
Joaquin
Fuster, UCLA
Distributed memory and the Perception-Action Cycle
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| 17:15
- 17:45 |
Vinod
Menon, Stanford
Dynamic brain networks: Relation to behavior and cognition
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| 17:45
- 18:00 |
Coffee
Break |
| 18:00
- 18:30 |
Special
Lecture:
Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
Freeman’s Merleau-Pontian neurodynamics: Similarities and differences
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Friday, January 26
Bancroft Hotel, 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley
| 19:00
- 22:30 |
Reception
& banquet in honor of Walter Freeman
Banquet
Speaker: Michael Merzenich, UCSF |
Saturday, January 27
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
| Session
III: Brain Network Modeling |
Moderator:
Robert Kozma |
| 08:30
- 09:30 |
Keynote
Address:
Olaf Sporns, Indiana U
Brain network modeling: Connectivity, dynamics, and embodiment
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| 09:30
- 10:00 |
Fritz
Sommer, UC Berkeley
Spike timings relative to retinal oscillations carry visual
information to cortex
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| 10:00
- 10:30 |
Anil
Seth, Sussex
Causal networks in neural systems: Lessons from brain-based
devices
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| 10:30
- 10:45 |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:45
- 11:15 |
Eugene
Izhikevich, NSI
Simulating 1011
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| 11:15
- 11:45 |
Barry
Horwitz, NIDCD
Combined use of brain network modeling and functional brain
imaging: Integrating neuroscientific data across different spatiotemporal
scales
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| 11:45
- 12:15 |
Robert
Kozma, U Memphis
Modeling cortical phase transitions
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| 12:15
- 14:00 |
Lunch
Break |
| Session
IV: Cognitive Dynamics |
Moderator:
Chris Kello |
| 14:00
- 15:00 |
Keynote
Address:
Jay McClelland, Stanford
Dynamics of cognitive processing and learning: Linking connectionist,
neuroscience, and dynamical systems approaches
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| 15:00
- 15:30 |
Alan
Yuille, UCLA
Vision as Bayesian inference: Analysis by synthesis
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| 15:30
- 16:00 |
Gregory
Ashby, UC Santa Barbara
A neurobiological theory of automaticity in perceptual categorization
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| 16:00
- 16:15 |
Coffee
Break |
| 16:15
- 16:45 |
Patricia
Carpenter, Carnegie Mellon
A catalytic theory of perception and action
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| 16:45
- 17:15 |
Micheal
Spivey, Cornell
Continuous temporal dynamics in perception and cognition
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| 17:15
- 17:45 |
Guy
Van Orden, U Cincinnati
Prospects at hand for cognitive dynamics
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| 17:45
- 18:00 |
Coffee
Break |
| 18:00
- 18:30 |
Special
Lecture:
Stan Leung, Western Ontario
Electrophysiology of mass action
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| 18:30
- 19:00 |
Special
Lecture:
Giuseppe Vitiello, U Salerno
Relations between many-body physics and nonlinear brain dynamics
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(Please note that this is a tentative schedule and may
be subject to change)
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