MEETING SCHEDULE

 

EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

 ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS

May 19 – 22, 2004

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2004

Tutorial Lecture and Invited and Contributed Talks

7:15am-8:00am

Meeting Registration

8:00am-10:00am     

            Stephen Grossberg

            (Boston University)

Tutorial Lecture Series: Linking brain to mind

10:00am-10:30am

Coffee Break

Session Chair: Daniel Bullock

10:30am-11:15am   

William H. Warren

(Brown University)    

Behavioral dynamics of locomotor path formation

11:15am-12:00pm

Jeffrey D. Schall

(Vanderbilt University)

Neural selection and control of visual guided eye movements

12:00pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-2:15pm       

Eve Marder

(Brandeis University)

Stability and plasticity in neuronal and network dynamics

2:15pm-3:00pm

Ehud Ahissar

(The Weizmann Institute)

Encoding and decoding of vibrissal active touch

3:00pm-3:45pm

Mriganka Sur

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Plasticity and dynamics of visual cortex networks

3:45pm-4:15pm       

Coffee Break

Session Chair: Eric Schwartz

4:15pm-4:30pm

            Michael E. Hasselmo, Randal A. Koene, and Robert C. Cannon

            (Boston University)

Hippocampal and prefrontal cortical mechanisms for goal-directed and memory-guided behavior

4:30pm-4:45pm

Randal A. Koene, R.C. Cannon, and Michael E. Hasselmo

            (Boston University)

Goal directed behavior guided by an integrate and fire model of mechanisms in prefrontal cortex

4:45pm-5:00pm

Denis Sheynikhovich and Wulfram Gerstner

            (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)

            Agent localization in a familiar environment

5:00pm-5:15pm

Alexei Samsonovich and Giorgio Ascoli

            (George Mason University)

A simple neural network model of the hippocampus suggesting its role in the navigation of memory

5:15pm-5:30pm

Anil K. Seth

            (The Neurosciences Institute)

            High neural complexity accompanies robust behavior in a target fixation task

5:30pm-5:45pm

            Jason Ritt, Mark L. Andermann, and Christopher I. Moore

            (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University)

            Mechanical interactions in texture sensing by rat vibrissae

5:45pm-6:00pm

            Valentin Zhigulin and Mikhail Rabinovich

            (California Institute of Technology and University of California at San Diego)

            Learning of synchronization in heterogeneous spiking neural networks

6:00pm-6:15pm

            K.D. Harris, P. Bartho, M.B. Zugaro, L. Monconduit, S. Marguet, and G. Buzsaki

            (Rutgers University)

            Disintegration of neocortical cell assemblies under general anesthesia

6:15pm-6:30pm

            Marcus Kaiser

            (International University Bremen)

            Structural patterns underlying robustness in neural systems

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004

Tutorial Lecture, Invited and Contributed Talks, and Poster Session I

7:15am-8:00am

Meeting Registration

8:00am-10:00am     

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Tutorial Lecture Series: Linking brain to mind

10:00am-10:30am

Coffee Break and Poster Session I

Session Chair: Frank Guenther

10:30am-11:15am

Stephen D. Goldinger

(Arizona State University)

Generalization gradients in perceptual memory

11:15am-12:00pm

            Moshe Bar

(Massachusetts General Hospital)

Top-down facilitation of visual object recognition

12:00pm-12:45pm

Alan Baddeley

(University of York)

What’s new in working memory?  

12:45pm-2:15pm     

Lunch

2:15pm-3:15pm       

Plenary Talk:

John R. Anderson

(Carnegie Mellon University)

Using fMRI to track the components of a cognitive architecture

Session Chair: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

3:15pm-3:30pm

            D.L. Jewett, L.J. Larson-Prior, and M.T. Hart

            (Abratech Corporation and Washington University)

A-waves and G-waves: Unexpected, puzzling, overlapped auditory evoked responses in humans

3:30pm-3:45pm

            Jeffrey S. Bowers

            (University of Bristol)

            The role of competition in visual word identification

3:45pm-4:00pm

            Colin J. Davis

            (Macquarie University)

Phase coding: A method for simultaneously encoding order and signal strength in a neural network model of recognition

4:00pm-4:15pm

            Wu-Hsi Li and Shyh-Kang Jeng

            (National Taiwan University)

            From speech signals to syllables/words: An unsupervised learning approach

4:15pm-4:30pm

            T. Vieville and S. Thorpe  

            (INRIA)

            A deterministic biologically plausible classifier

4:30pm-4:45pm

            Pedro M. Rodrigues and Jaap M.J. Murre

            (University of Lisbon and University of Amsterdam)

            Neural correlates of a human category learning model

4:45pm-5:00pm

            Gail A. Carpenter, Bilgin Ersoy, and Stephen Grossberg

            (Boston University)

            Top-down expectations during cortical learning of recognition categories

5:00pm-5:30pm       

Coffee Break

5:00pm-8:00pm       

Poster Session I  

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2004

Tutorial Lecture and Invited and Contributed Talks

7:30am-8:00am

Meeting Registration

8:00am-10:00am     

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Tutorial Lecture Series: Linking brain to mind

10:00am-10:30am   

Coffee Break

Session Chair: Ennio Mingolla

10:30am-11:15am   

Joseph Z. Tsien

(Boston University)

Integrated analysis of memory process in mice

11:15am-12:00pm   

Bartlett W. Mel

(University of Southern California)

The pyramidal neuron: What sort of computing device?

12:00pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-2:15pm

Daniel Kersten

(University of Minnesota)

How does human vision resolve ambiguity about objects?

2:15pm-3:00pm

Stephen M. Kosslyn

(Harvard University)

The imagery debate 30+ years later: Can neuroscience data settle the issue?

3:00pm-3:45pm

Chantal E. Stern

(Boston University)

Sequence? What sequence? fMRI studies of the medial temporal lobe in sequence learning

3:45pm-4:15pm       

Coffee Break

Session Chair: Michele Rucci

4:15pm-4:30pm

            Basabi Bhaumik and Mona Mathur

            (Indian Institute of Technology)

Co-development of orientation and spatial frequency map: A possible developmental mechanism

4:30pm-4:45pm

            Jochen Triesch

            (University of California at San Diego)

            Synergies between synaptic and intrinsic learning in individual model neurons

4:45pm-5:00pm

            Yongqiang Cao and Stephen Grossberg

            (Boston University)

A laminar cortical model of stereopsis and 3D surface perception: Da Vinci stereopsis and closure

5:00pm-5:15pm

            Doerthe Seifert, Mark A. Elliott, and Anne Giersch

            (Ludwig-Maximilians University and University Hospital of Strasbourg)

The effects of benzodiazepine administration on collinearity grouping and synchrony coding in perceptual organization

5:15pm-5:30pm

            Janneke F.M. Jehee, Gustavo Deco, Jaap M.J. Murre, and Victor A.F. Lamme

            (University of Amsterdam and University Pompeu Fabra)

A model of recurrent interactions between lower- and higher-tier visual areas explains crowding

5:30pm-5:45pm

            Wenxue Wang, Philip S. Ulinski, and Bijoy K. Ghosh

            (Washington University and University of Chicago)

Cellular mechanisms generating and controlling wave propagation in the visual cortex

5:45pm-6:00pm

            Pierre Bayerl and Heiko Neumann

            (University of Ulm)

            Disambiguating visual motion: A model of recurrent V1-MT interaction

6:00pm-6:15pm

            Zhijun Yang, Katherine Cameron, Vasin Boonsobhak, and Alan Murray

            (Edinburgh University)

            A cognitive vision model with STDP adaptation

6:15pm-6:30pm

            Ming-Jung Seow and Vijayan K. Asari

            (Old Dominion University)

Neural network based human visual system modeling for visibility improvement in digital images

6:30pm-9:30pm

            Meeting Reception

 

 

SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2004

Tutorial Lecture, Invited and Contributed Talks, and Poster Session II

7:30am-8:00am       

Meeting Registration

8:00am-10:00am     

Stephen Grossberg

(Boston University)

Tutorial Lecture Series: Linking brain to mind

10:00am-10:30am   

Coffee Break and Poster Session II

Session Chair: Gail Carpenter

10:30am-11:15am

Jeremy Wolfe

(Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School)

The role of selective attention in human vision: A two pathways account

11:15am-12:00pm

Tai-Sing Lee

(Carnegie Mellon University)

Inference and prediction in the visual cortex

12:00pm-12:45pm

Gail A. Carpenter, Siegfried Martens, and Ogi J. Ogas

(Boston University)

Distributed prediction and hierarchical knowledge discovery by ARTMAP neural networks

12:45pm-2:15pm     

Lunch

2:15pm-3:15pm       

Plenary Talk:

Miguel Nicolelis

(Duke University)

Computing with neural ensembles

Session Chair: Michael Cohen

3:15pm-3:30pm

            Arash Fazl, Stephen Grossberg, and Ennio Mingolla

            (Boston University)

Adaptive information fusion during invariant visual object learning and recognition using active visual eye movements and attentional control

3:30pm-3:45pm

Artur M. Arsenio

            (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

            On the development of a simple artificial brain for a humanoid

3:45pm-4:00pm

            Claus C. Hilgetag and Helen Barbas

            (International University Bremen and Boston University)

Proximity and structural similarity as predictors of primate corticocortical connectivity

4:00pm-4:15pm

            Don Peterson, Boris Galitsky, and Saveli Goldberg

            (University of London and Massachusetts General Hospital)

Literal handling of conflicting default rules leads to inadequate

 reactions of autistic patients

4:15pm-4:30pm

            Masahide Ohki, Hiroyuki Torikai, and Toshimichi Saito

            (Hosei University)

            Basic characteristics of a simple radial basis ART network and its application

4:30pm-4:45pm

            Hackjin Kim and Paul J. Whalen

            (University of Wisconsin)

A computational model of amygdala-basal forebrain interaction in the detection and resolution of predictive uncertainty

4:45pm-5:00pm

            Eiji Mizutani and Stuart E. Dreyfus

            (Tsing Hua University and University of California at Berkeley)

Cohen-Grossberg and Elman recurrent networks for model-free actor-critic reinforcement learning in non-Markovian domains

5:00pm-5:30pm       

Coffee Break

5:00pm-8:00pm       

Poster Session II

 

 

POSTER SESSION I: Thursday, May 20, 2004

All posters will be displayed for the full day.

 

Audition, Speech, and Language:

#1

Christian Karl, Howard I. Cohen, Socrates Deligeorges, Tyler Gore, David C. Mountain, Marianne Nourzad, Zibing Yang, Aleks Zosuls, and Allyn E. Hubbard

(Boston University)

Real-time auditory signal processing for sound localization in battlefield acoustics

 

#2

Socrates Deligeorges and David C. Mountain

(Boston University)

A computationally efficient biomimetic model for sound localization and identification using temporal cues

 

#3

Antje Ihlefeld and Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham

(Boston University)

Extracting sound location cues in reverberant space: Short-term interaural level differences in a classroom

 

#4

Youngik Kim and Rhee Man Kil

(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

Noise-robust estimation of sound source directions based on zero-crossing peak-amplitude coding

 

#5

Martha E. Tyrone and Bencie Woll

(Haskins Laboratories and City University London)

Sign as articulation: Evidence from movement disorders

 

#6

Asuka Terai, Saori Hirose, and Masanori Nakagawa

(Tokyo Institute of Technology)

A neural network model of metaphor understanding influenced by the visual image

 

#7

Masanori Nakagawa, Asuka Terai, and Saori Hirose

(Tokyo Institute of Technology)

A neural network model of metaphor understanding

 

#8

Keiga Abe and Masanori Nakagawa

(Tokyo Institute of Technology)

A neural network model of metaphor generation

 

#9

Leena Mary, K. Sreenivasa Rao, Suryakanth V. Gangashetty, and B. Yegnanarayana

(Indian Institute of Technology)

Neural network models for capturing duration and intonation knowledge for language and speaker identification

 

Learning and Recognition:

#10

Rudolf Andoga and Marek Dobes

(Technical University of Kosice and Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Modeling visual object-oriented attention using neural networks

 

#11

S. Buchala, N. Davey, R.J. Frank, and T.M. Gale

(University of Hertfordshire and QEII Hospital)

Gender recognition: The role of global and feature-based information

 

#12

Xiangyu Tang, Douglas Garrett, Viral Shah, Lawrence Kite, and Christoph von der Malsburg

(University of Southern California)

Full-body human recognition from video sequences

 

#13

Rushi Bhatt and Massimiliano Versace

(Boston University)

Default ARTMAP with self-adjusting learning rate

 

#14

Rui Xu and Donald C. Wunsch II

(University of Missouri at Rolla)

Application of ellipsoid ART/ARTMAP in analyzing gene expression data

 

#15

Xiao Hu, Anne Maglia, and Donald C. Wunsch II

(University of Missouri at Rolla)

Using a recurrent neural network to predict the expression level of a genetic regulatory network

 

#16

Wei Cao, Qiao Li, and Shekhar Pradhan

(West Virginia University, Beijing University, and Bluefield </