SIXTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL
SYSTEMS (ICCNS)
May 30 – June 1, 2012
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012
Invited and Contributed Speakers and Poster Session
8:00am – 8:30am
Registration
VISION,
LEARNING, RECOGNITION, AND COGNITION
Session
Chair: Stephen Grossberg
8:30am – 9:15am
Martin Banks
(University of California, Berkeley)
Combining depth information from disparity and blur
9:15am – 10:00am
Christopher
Pack
(McGill
University)
Hierarchical processing of complex motion along the
primate dorsal visual pathway
10:00am – 10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am – 11:15am
Zhong-Lin Lu
(Ohio State University)
Functions and mechanisms of perceptual learning
11:15am – 12:00pm
Margaret
Livingstone
(Harvard Medical School)
Functional
modules: How do we get them and what good are they?
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm – 2:00pm
Max Riesenhuber
(Georgetown University)
Object recognition in cortex: From
pipelines to flying crossbodies
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Stephen
Grossberg (Plenary)
(Boston University)
How can children (and robots) learn to follow
gaze, share joint attention, imitate their teachers, and use tools during
social interactions?
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Discussion of invited and plenary talks
NEURAL DYNAMICS OF VISION
Session Chair: Arash Yazdanbakhsh
3:30pm –
3:45pm
Karthik Srinivasan, Stephen Grossberg and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston
University)
Predictive remapping of binocularly fused images during saccadic eye
movements
3:45pm –
4:00pm
Georg Layher, Martin A. Giese, and Heiko Neumann
(Ulm
University and University Clinic Tübingen)
Neural processing of implied motion and action sequences
4:00pm –
4:15pm
N. Andrew Browning
(Boston
University)
Computation of time-to-contact in radially expansive MST cells
AUDITION, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE
Session Chair: Arash Yazdanbakhsh
4:15pm –
4:30pm
Jeffrey E. Markowitz and Timothy J. Gardner
(Boston
University)
Long-range structure of canary syntax
4:30pm –
4:45pm
A. Conrad Nied, Seppo P. Ahlfors, and David W. Gow Jr.
(Massachusetts
General Hospital and Salem State University)
Top-down influences produce a regressive phonotactic effect in speech
perception
4:45pm –
5:00pm
Thomas Hannagan and Jonathan Grainger
(CNRS and Université de Provence)
Symmetry networks for invariant word representations
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Coffee Break and Poster Session I
THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012
CELEST WORKSHOP ON “BUILDING AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS”, CONTRIBUTED
SPEAKERS, AND CONFERENCE RECEPTION
8:00am – 8:30am
Registration
Workshop
Chair: Heather Ames Versace
8:30am – 8:40am
Heather Ames
Versace
(Boston University)
Workshop overview
8:40am – 9:25am
Max Versace
(Boston University)
Intelligent machines or bust
9:25am
– 9:35am
Q&A
9:35am – 10:20am
Greg Snider
(Hewlett Packard Labs)
Robot brains from dynamic fields
10:20am – 10:30am
Q&A
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 11:45am
Stefano Fusi
(Columbia University)
Constructing efficient neural
representations for both biological and neuromorphic artificial systems
11:45am
– 11:55am
Q&A
11:55am – 1:10pm
Lunch
1:10pm – 1:55pm
Gary Bradski
(Willow Garage)
Perception tools
and systems for autonomous robots
1:55pm – 2:05pm
Q&A
2:05pm – 2:50pm
Jeff Krichmar
(University of California, Irvine)
Design
principles for biologically inspired cognitive robotics
2:50pm – 3:00pm
Q&A
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Discussion of workshop talks
NEURAL
CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
Session
Chair: Anatoli Gorchetchnikov
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Praveen K.
Pilly and Stephen Grossberg
(Boston University)
A dorsoventral gradient of cell
response rates supports the self-organization of entorhinal grid cells with
multiple spatial scales
3:45pm – 4:00pm
Claus C. Hilgetag, Guadalupe C. Garcia, Annick Lesne, and Marc-Thorsten Hütt
(Hamburg University, Boston
University, Jacobs University Bremen, Institut des Hautes Études Scientiques, and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris)
Patterns of
self-sustained rhythmic activity in a deterministic model of excitable neural
networks
4:00pm – 4:15pm
Xue-Xin Wei
and Alan A. Stocker
(University of Pennsylvania)
Bayesian
inference with efficient neural population codes
4:15pm – 4:30pm
Sabato
Santaniello, Samuel P. Burns, Alexandra J. Golby, Jedediah M. Singer, William
S. Anderson, and Sridevi V. Sarma
(Johns
Hopkins University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston,
and Johns Hopkins Hospital)
A multivariate Bayesian framework for
modeling brain dynamics at seizure onsets in drug-resistant epilepsy patients
4:30pm – 4:45pm
Sean Lorenz,
Jonathan Brumberg, Frank Guenther, and Byron Galbraith
(Boston University)
Adaptive
real-world brain-computer communication interfacing with EEG
COGNITION,
PLANNING, AND EMOTION
Session
Chair: Anatoli Gorchetchnikov
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Basilis
Zikopoulos and Helen Barbas
(Boston University)
A biological
circuit model for attention to emotional stimuli in primates
5:00pm – 5:15pm
Michael C.
Avery, Douglas A. Nitz, Andrea A. Chiba, and Jeffrey L. Krichmar
(University of California Irvine and
University of California San Diego)
Simulation of cholinergic and noradrenergic
modulation of behavior in uncertain environments
5:15pm – 5:30pm
Patryk A.
Laurent
(Johns Hopkins University)
Understanding reward delay discounting
as emerging from interactions between hippocampal and striatal neural networks
5:30pm – 5:45pm
Tobias
Teichert, Dian Yu, and Vincent P. Ferrera
(Columbia University)
Correlates of
reward-biased sensory decision-making in macaque prefrontal cortex
5:45pm – 6:00pm
Swathi Kiran, Uli Grasemann, Chaleece Sandburg, and Risto Miikkulainen
(Boston
University and University of Texas at Austin)
A computational account of bilingual aphasia rehabilitation
6:00pm
– 9:00pm
Conference
Reception
FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012
Invited and Contributed Speakers and Poster Session
8:00am – 8:30am
Registration
AUDITION,
EMOTION, DECISION-MAKING, AND ACTION
Session
Chair: Daniel Bullock
8:30am – 9:15am
Lori Holt
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Using speech to listen in on auditory processing
9:15am – 10:00am
Nathaniel Daw
(New York University)
Reinforcement learning in
humans: Beyond reinforcement
10:00am – 10:30am
Coffee Break
10:30am – 11:15am
Paul Glimcher
(New York University)
Cortical
normalization and the neural mechanisms of decision making
11:15am – 12:00pm
Veit Stuphorn
(Johns Hopkins University)
The role of the Supplementary Eye Field in value-based decision-making
12:00pm – 1:15pm
Lunch
1:15pm – 2:00pm
(Dartmouth College)
Learning and memory in the head direction cell circuit: How head
direction cells guide behavior
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Helen Barbas (Plenary)
(Boston University)
Prefrontal pathways and flexible behavior
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Discussion of invited and plenary talks
SENSORY-MOTOR
CONTROL AND ROBOTICS
Session
Chair: Praveen Pilly
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Walter A.
Talbott, He Crane Huang, and Javier Movellan
(University of California San Diego)
Continuous time
infomax models of oculomotor control
3:45pm – 4:00pm
Mathis
Richter and Yulia
Sandamirskaya
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Neural
dynamics for behavioral organization of an embodied agent
4:00pm – 4:15pm
Ken Nagata,
David Wright, Daiki Takano, Takashi Yamazaki, and Tetsuya Maeda
(Research Institute for Brain and
Blood Vessels)
Neural
correlates of motor learning and memory consolidation
4:15pm – 4:30pm
Rahul Agarwal
and Sridevi V. Sarma
(Johns Hopkins University)
Performance
limitations of relay neurons
VLSI
AND APPLICATIONS
Session
Chair: Praveen Pilly
4:30pm – 4:45pm
Zhen Ni,
Haibo He, and Danil V. Prokhorov
(University of Rhode Island and Toyota
Research Institute)
Adaptive learning
with goal generator network based on heuristic dynamic programming
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Andreas
Knoblauch
(Honda Research Institute)
Efficient
associative computation with memristive synapses
5:00pm – 8:00pm
Coffee Break and Poster Session II
POSTER SESSION I
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
All posters will be displayed for the full day
VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING
#1
Xutao Kuang,
Jonathan D. Victor, and Michele Rucci
(Boston University and Weill Cornell
Medical College)
Modeling the
influences of fixational eye movements on contrast sensitivity
#2
Claudia
Cherici, Xutao Kuang, Martina Poletti, and Michele Rucci
(Boston University)
What is the
visual input to the retina?
#3
Marco Boi,
Martina Poletti, and Michele Rucci
(Boston University)
Dynamics of
spatial frequency sensitivity during natural fixation
#4
Martina
Poletti and Michele Rucci
(Boston University)
Neural
mechanisms responsible for integrating space across saccades
#5
Xuejie Zhang
and Alex Leng Phuan Tay
(Nanyang Technological University)
Neural
network assisted localization for topological navigation
#6
Naoko Koide,
Kazushi Ikeda, and Tomohiro Shibata
(Nara Institute of Science and
Technology)
Difference between experts and
non-experts of gaze patterns in abstract paintings observation
#7
J. Zhong, C.
Weber, and S. Wermter
(University of Hamburg)
Learning
features and transformations with a predictive horizontal product model
#8
Will Seltzer,
Jasmin Léveillé, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
On
Weber-Fechner law in perceptual vector subtraction
#9
Chris Johnson
and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
A minimal
model of motion tuning in middle temporal visual cortex
#10
Nan Jia and
Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
Neural
mechanism of visual stability
#11
Oliver
Layton, Ennio Mingolla, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
Multiplicative
motion correlation detection produces stable border-ownership signals
#12
Jeremy Wurbs,
Ennio Mingolla, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
A model of motion representation that
includes the cortical magnification factor, receptive field size, and scatter
#13
Bo Cloud Cao,
Ennio Mingolla, and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
The modulatory effects of cortical
feedback and horizontal connections: A rate model study of the balance between
excitation and inhibition
#14
Ben Chandler,
Greg Snider, and Ennio Mingolla
(HP Labs and Boston University)
Real-time
disocclusion in natural environments
#15
Florian
Raudies and Arash Yazdanbakhsh
(Boston University)
A model for
visual magnification factors
#16
Arash
Sangari, Hasti Mirkia, and Amir H. Assadi
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Perceptual
geometry of interior architecture and modeling observer navigation
#17
Mark A.
Motter, Massimiliano Versace, and Ajay Joshi
(NASA Langley Research Center and
Boston University)
Neuromorphic
solutions for UAS collision avoidance
LEARNING AND RECOGNITION
#18
Jing Wang and
Haibo He
(University of Rhode Island)
A cascading
neural network structure for pattern recognition
#19
Xiao Fang and
Haibo He
(University of Rhode Island)
A virtual
reality learning approach for intelligent systems control and optimization
#20
Haibo He, Jun
Yan, Yida Yang, and Yan Sun
(University of Rhode Island)
Evaluating
complex network vulnerability using self-organizing map
#21
Yufei Tang,
Haibo He, and Jinyu Wen
(University of Rhode Island and
Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
Power system stabilization with high
wind power penetration using hierarchical ADP control
#22
Gary C.-W.
Shyi and Chuan-Yu Yeh
(National Chung Cheng University)
How does learning different viewpoints
affect recognition of 3-D faces? A test of the mirror-symmetry hypothesis
POSTER SESSION II
Friday,
June 1, 2012
All posters will be displayed for the full day
COGNITION, PLANNING, AND EMOTION
#1
Tobias
Teichert and Jack Grinband
(Columbia University)
Optimizing
decision-making by delaying decision onset
#2
Burak
Erdeniz, Neil Davey, Ray Frank, and John Done
(University of Hertfordshire)
The neural correlates of chosen action
values and prediction errors for rewards and punishments during early and late
learning trials
#3
Yohan J.
John, Daniel Bullock, Basilis Zikopoulos, and Helen Barbas
(Boston University)
Emotional
learning and response generation in amygdala circuits
#4
Paul G.
Joseph and Haim Levkowitz
(University of Massachusetts)
An
algorithmic approach to affect driven stream of consciousness
#5
R.E. Newmark,
K. Schon, R.S. Ross, and C.E. Stern
(Boston University and Massachusetts
General Hospital)
Mechanisms underlying active
maintenance of overlapping and non-overlapping representations: A
high-resolution investigation of medial temporal lobe structures
#6
M.A.
Garcia-Cabezas and H. Barbas
(Boston University)
Relationship of cortical architecture
to the laminar pattern of projections from anterior cingulate to orbitofrontal
cortices
#7
Arash Hossein-Nezhad, Sara Ahmadi,
Khadijeh Mirzaei, Gholamreza Shariati, Mohammad Ali Sahraian and Hamidreza
Ahmadkhaniha
(Tehran University of Medical Sciences
and Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences)
Vitamin D receptor genotype may modify
the susceptibility to cognitive disorders by regulation of dopamine D1 receptor
gene expression
#8
Xiaoxu Kang,
Sridevi V. Sarma, Marc Shieber, and Nitish V. Thakor
(Johns Hopkins University and
University of Rochester Medicine College)
Decoding cognitive states in primate
reach-to-grasp tasks from premotor cortical ensembles
#9
Zhang Yujie,
Dong Yuan, Wang Yue, and Masanori Nakawaga
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Computational model of inductive
reasoning based on statistical analysis of Chinese corpora
NEURAL CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
#10
U.M. Erdem
and M.E. Hasselmo
(Boston University)
A hierarchical model of linear look
ahead using grid cell activity and visual cues for goal directed navigation
#11
Pavel
Sountsov and Paul Miller
(Brandeis University)
Bayesian
inference and learning in a biologically realistic model neural network
#12
Lizeth
Gonzalez-Carabarin, Tetsuya Asai, and Masato Motomura
(Hokkaido University)
Noise impact on spike transmission
through serially-connected electrical FitzHugh-Nagumo model with subthreshold
and suprathreshold interconductances
SENSORY-MOTOR CONTROL AND ROBOTICS
#13
Jeffrey E.
Markowitz, Gregory Guitchounts, and Timothy J. Gardner
(Boston University)
A long-range,
highly synchronous motor signal in the songbird brain
#14
Andrei Melnik
and Peter Koenig
(University of Osnabrueck)
How does
multimodal integration work for the generation of rhythms?
#15
George L. Chadderdon, Samuel A.
Neymotin, Cliff C. Kerr, Joseph T. Francis, and William W. Lytton
(SUNY Downstate Medical Center,
University of Sydney, and Kings County Hospital)
Dopamine-based reinforcement learning
of virtual arm reaching task in a spiking model of motor cortex
#16
Katharina
Havermann, Robert Volcic, and Markus Lappe
(University of Muenster and Italian
Institute of Technology)
Saccadic
learning signals during pursuit
#17
J. Schroeder,
G. Telian, V. Mariano, W. Rayburn, B. Talbot, and J. Ritt
(Boston University)
Closed loop
optogenetic control of active touch
#18
Rujiao Yan,
Tobias Rodemann, and Britta Wrede
(Bielefeld University and Honda
Research Institute)
Audiovisual
integration in dialog scenarios
APPLICATIONS
#19
Christopher
M. Woodsum and Harvey C. Woodsum
(Hobbit Wave Inc. and Johns Hopkins
University)
Optimization of cascaded hermetic
transform processing architectures via a chimerical hybrid genetic algorithm
AUDITION, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE
#20
Vivian M.
Ciaramitaro and Daniel Jentzen
(University of Massachusetts Boston)
Crossmodal attention influences
auditory contrast sensitivity contrast gain or response gain?
#21
Yoonseob Lim,
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, and Timothy J. Gardner
(Boston University)
Neural coding
of auditory temporal sequences in a songbird operant behavior
#22
Jingyuan
Huang and Lori L. Holt
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Does acoustic
information persist in auditory short-term memory?