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Program Summary Thursday, 25 February 4.00p Registration opens 5.00p Welcome reception 5.45p Opening remarks 6.00p Session 1: Engineering neural circuits Invited speakers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Blaise Agüera y Arcas 8.00p Poster Session I Friday, 26 February 7.30a Breakfast 8.30a Session 2: Memory and temporal integration Invited speaker: Mark Goldman; 3 accepted talks 10.30a Session 3: Network dynamics 5 accepted talks 11.45p Lunch break 2.00p Session 4: Human computation Invited speakers: Paul Smolensky, Edward Chang; 1 accepted talk 4.15p Session 5: Dissecting cortical circuits Invited speaker: Stephanie Palmer; 2 accepted talks 5.30p Dinner break 7.30p Poster Session II Saturday, 27 February 7.30a Breakfast 8.30a Session 6: Visual processing Invited speaker: Greg DeAngelis; 3 accepted talks 10.30a Session 7: Sensorimotor integration Invited speaker: Mala Murthy; 2 accepted talks 11.45p Lunch break 2.00p Session 8: Attention and action selection Invited speaker: Marisa Carrasco; 4 accepted talks 4.15p Session 9: Motor control Invited speaker: Reza Shadmehr; 2 accepted talks 5.30p Dinner break 7.30p Poster Session III COSYNE 2016 i Sunday, 28 February 7.30a Breakfast 8.30a Session 10: Great expectations Invited speaker: Peggy Series; 3 accepted talks 10.30a Session 11: Generating perceptions Invited speaker: Leslie Vosshall; 2 accepted talks 11.45p Lunch break 2.00p Session 12: Neural control of behavior Invited speaker: Richard Mooney; 3 accepted talks ii COSYNE 2016 Poster Session Topics Session I Session II Session III Thursday Friday Saturday Topic Area Bayesian models, optimality 1–3 1–2 1–2 Behavior, psychophysics 4–9 3–9 3–8 Cognition: attention, memory 10–14 10–12 9–11 Cognition: decision making, perception 15–21 13–20 12–20 Computational modeling 22–26 21–26 21–26 Learning: memory, plasticity 27–30 27–32 27–30 Learning: reward, reinforcement 31–37 33–37 31–36 Motor systems 38–45 38–46 37–45 Network dynamics 46–55 47–56 46–55 Oscillations, rhythms 56–58 57–59 56–58 Population coding/decoding 59–68 60–67 59–68 Sensory processing: vision 69–81 68–81 69–81 Sensory processing: audition 82–87 82–89 82–87 Sensory processing: other 88–90 90–93 88–91 Single-neuron computation 91–95 94–97 92–96 Techniques, methods, algorithms 96–105 98–105 97–105 COSYNE 2016 iii The MIT Press THE HUMAN ADVANTAGE TREES OF THE BRAIN, A New Understanding ROOTS OF THE MIND of How Our Brain Giorgio A. Ascoli Became Remarkable An examination of the stun- Suzana Herculano-Houzel ning beauty of the brain’s Why our human brains are cellular form, with many color awesome, and how we left illustrations, and a provocative our cousins, the great apes, claim about the mind-brain behind: a tale of neurons and relationship. calories, and cooking. Hardcover | $30 | £20.95 Hardcover | $29.95 | £19.95 PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL FELT TIME DESIGN The Psychology of How Peter Sterling We Perceive Time and Simon Laughlin Marc Wittmann Two distinguished neurosci- translated by Erik Butler entists distil general principles from more than a century An expert explores the riddle of scientific study, “reverse of subjective time, from why engineering” the brain to time speeds up as we grow understand its design. older to the connection be- tween time and consciousness. Hardcover | $45 | £31.95 Hardcover | $24.95 | £17.95 BRAIN COMPUTATION AS HIERARCHICAL THE BRAIN’S ABSTRACTION REPRESENTATIONAL POWER Dana H. Ballard On Consciousness and the An argument that the com- Integration of Modalities plexities of brain function can Cyriel M. A. Pennartz be understood hierarchically, in terms of different levels of A neuroscientifically informed abstraction, as silicon com- theory arguing that the core of puting is. qualitative conscious experi- Computational Neuroscience series ence arises from the integra- Hardcover | $55 | £37.95 tion of sensory and cognitive modalities. Hardcover | $45 | £31.95 TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE Toward New Therapies edited by Karoly Nikolich and Steven E. Hyman Experts from academia and industry discuss how to create Visit the a new, more effective transla- tional neuroscience drawing MIT PRESS on novel technology and recent discoveries. 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BOSS is intuitive and easy to understand (even for novice users). Join us: Saturday, February 27th, 6.30 pm Deer Valley Room, Marriott Hotel Space is limited - Please register with [email protected] Attendance is limited to the first 100 registrants. Please go to http://womenatcosyne.eventzilla.net/web/event?eventid=2138836343 to register. x COSYNE 2016 About Cosyne About Cosyne The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. To encourage interdisciplinary interactions, the main meeting is arranged in a single track. A set of invited talks are selected by the Executive Committee and Organizing Commit- tee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts and the occasional odd bribe. Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural coding, natural scene statistics, den- dritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plastic- ity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation with spiking networks. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in be- tween. Cosyne 2016 Leadership Organizing Committee General Chairs Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania), Konrad Kording (Northwestern University) Program Chairs Megan Carey (Champalimaud), Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest University) Workshop Chairs Claudia Clopath (Imperial College), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud) Undergraduate Travel Chairs Jill O’Reilly (University of Oxford), Robert Wilson (University of Arizona) Communications Chair Xaq Pitkow (Rice University) Executive Committee Anne Churchland (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme) Alexandre Pouget (University of Geneva) Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) COSYNE 2016 xi About Cosyne Program Committee Megan Carey (Champalimaud), co-chair Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest University), co-chair Alex Huk (University of Texas at Austin) Andrea Hasenstaub (University of California, San Francisco) Arianna Maffei (Stony Brook University) Bing Brunton (University of Washington) Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh) Bruno Averbeck (NIH) Damon Clark (Yale University) Daniel O’Connor (Johns Hopkins University) Daniel Butts (University of Maryland) Eric Shea-Brown (University of Washington) Jessica Cardin (Yale University) Joseph Paton (Champalimaud) Johannes Burge (University of Pennsylvania) Kathy Nagel (New York University) Kechen Zhang (Johns Hopkins University) Lindsey Glickfeld (Duke University) Long Ding (University of Pennsylvania) Marta Zlatic (Janelia Farm Research Campus) Mehrdad Jazayeri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Na Ji (Janelia Farm Research Campus) Paul Miller (Brandeis University) Sam Sober (Emory University) Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Max Planck Institute) xii COSYNE 2016 About Cosyne Reviewers Thomas Akam, Athena Akrami, Justin Ales, Ana Amador, Jan Antolik, Behtash Babadi, Omri Barak, Renata Batista-Brito, Rudy Behnia, Daniel Bendor, Gordon Berman, James Bigelow, Bart Borghuis, Ethan Bromberg-Martin, Michael Buice, Jianhua Cang, Rishidev Chaudhuri, Eugenia Chiappe, Yuwei Cui, Rodica Curtu, Thaddeus Czuba, Stephen David, Christopher DiMattina, Anita Disney, Takahiro Doi, Felice Dunn, Mark Eldridge, Tatiana Engel, Sean Escola, Christopher Fetsch, Greg Field, James Fitzgerald, Alfredo Fontanini, Makoto Fukushima, Stefano Fusi, Sunil Gandhi, David Gire, Jesse Goldberg, Mark Gold- man, Tim Hanks, Bryan Hansen, Kathryn Hedrick, Ann Hermundstad, Michael Higley, Mark Histed, Elizabeth Hong, Bryan Hooks, Marc Howard, Chengcheng Huang, Wentao Huang, Arvind Iyer, James Jeanne, Kresimir Josic, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Sung Soo Kim, Alex Kwan, Giancarlo La Camera, Phil Larimer, Kenneth Latimer, Brian Lau, Mark Laubach, Arthur Leblois, Andrew Leifer, Ashok Litwin-Kumar, Eran Lottem, Kenway Louie, Pedro Maia, Brian Malone, Jean-Baptiste Masson, James McFarland, Joseph McGuire, Melchi Michel, Jason Middleton, Stefan Mihalas, Joseph Monaco, Masayoshi Murakami, Gabe Murphy, Kae Nakamura, Matthew Nassar, Ian Nauhaus, Gabriel Ocker, Tomoko Ohyama, Srdjan Ostojic, Il Memming Park, Simon Peron, Leopoldo Petreanu, Elizabeth Phillips, Di- etmar Plenz, Cindy Poo,
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