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COSYNE 2010 7th Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting Main Conference 25–28 February 2010 • Salt Lake City, Utah 1 Program Summary Thursday, 25 February 4:00 pm Registration opens 6:00 pm Welcome reception 7:20 pm Introductory Remarks 7:30 pm Keynote address: R. Clay Reid, Harvard Medical School 8:30 pm Poster Session I Friday, 26 February 7:30 am Breakfast 8:30 am Morning Session (break 10:00 – 10:30) 12:00 pm Lunch break (and last chance to see Session I posters) 2:00 pm Afternoon Session (break 3:15 – 3:45) 5:00 pm Dinner break 7:30 pm Poster Session II Saturday, 27 February 7:30 am Breakfast 8:30 am Special session honoring Horace Barlow’s legacy (break 10:00 – 10:30) 12:00 pm Lunch break (and last chance to see Session II posters) 2:00 pm Afternoon Session (break 3:15 – 3:45) 5:00 pm Dinner break 7:30 pm Poster Session III Sunday, 28 February 7:30 am Breakfast 8:30 am Morning Session (break 10:15 – 10:45) 12:00 pm Lunch break (hotel checkout, and last chance to see Session III posters) 2:00 pm Afternoon Session 4:00 pm Closing remarks COSYNE 10 i IN NEUROSCIENCE Editor-in-Chief: Idan Segev ACADEMIC PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Expert article review • Interactive peer-review • Democratic article tiering High quality publishing • Rapid online publishing • Open access articles WHY PUBLISH IN FRONTIERS? • Expert Editors (over 2,600 world class editors) • Instantaneous Abstract Publishing (be the first, claim your discovery date) • Efficient Peer-Review (first real-time peer-review in publishing) • Democratic Article Tiering (best articles selected by thousands of readers) • Fast Publication (around 3 months from submission to acceptance) • Massive Readership (over 225,000 neuroscience related readers) • Global Dissemination (over 160 countries) • Real-time Impact (online analysis of the impact of your article) • Archived Presence (in Pubmed, PsycINFO and Google Scholar) Over 2,000 authors already have a Frontiers article. 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