CNS*1995

The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting

July 11 - 15, 1995, Monterey, California

CNS*1995 Meeting Agenda

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1995

6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration

WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1995

9:00 : Welcoming Remarks and General Information

9:15 : Invited Talk: To be determined

Short Talks

10:05 : De Schutter, Erik (Born Bunge Foundation)
Dendritic Calcium Channels Amplify the Variability of Postsynaptic Responses

10:25 : Xie, Xiaping (University of Southern California) Jim-Shih.Liaw, Michel Baudry, and Theodore W. Berger
Experimental and Modeling Studies Demonstrate a Novel Expression Mechanism for Early Phase of Long -Term Potentiation

10:45 : Bhalla, Upinder S. (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Ravi Iyengar
A Model for Interacting Signal Transduction Pathways in LTP Induction

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Long Talk: Wilson, Charles (University of Tennessee)
Two-State Behavior of the Striatal Spiny Neuron Results from Activation of Voltage Gated Potassium Channels in the Dendrites

12:00 : Lunch and viewing, poster session A

2:20 : Long Talk: Sen, Kamal (Brandeis University) Eve Marder and Lawrence F. Abbott
Neural Decoding and Synaptic Response Prediction

Short Talks

3:00 : Blackwell, Kim T. (Environmental Research Institute of Michigan) Thomas P. Vogl and Daniel L. Alkon
Channel Model of Second Messenger Mediated Transformation of GABA Induced Currents

3:20 : Gibson, William G. (University of Sydney) Max R. Bennett and John Robinson
Modeling the Spontaneous Release of Quanta at Active Zones of Varicosities, Boutons and Endplates

3:40 : Holmes, (Ohio University)
Modeling the Effects of Ambient Glutamate Concentrations on NMDA and non-NMDA Receptor Conductances

4:00 : Destexhe, Alain (Salk Institute) Diego Contreras, Mircea Steriade, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and John R. Huguenard
Computational Models Constrained by Voltage-Clamp Data for Investigating Dendritic Currents

4:20 - Break

4:40 : Long Talk: Gobbel, Randall J. (UCSD)
Dopaminergic and Cholinergic Modulation in a Biophysical Model of the Neostriatum

5:20 : End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Poster Session A

James J. Abbas (The Catholic University of America)
Using Neural Models in the Design of a Movement Control System

Hagai Agmon-Snir (NIDDK) Idan Segev
The Concept of Decision Points as a Tool in Analyzing Dendritic Computation

Yehuda Albeck (Caltech)
Resolving Sound Localization Ambiguity

Wayne J. Aldridge (University of Michigan) Eric A. Walters and Sid Gilman
A Relational Database for Behavioral and Neuronal Recordings From the Basal Ganglia in Cats Performing a Go/No-Go Motor Task

Charles H. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine) Steven P. Matyus
Neural Circuits for Processing Ensemble Averages: Neural Multipliers

Sven Anderson (University of Chicago) Peter Rauske and Daniel Margoliash
Predicting Auditory Responses to Birdsong using Network Models of Neural Responses to Simple Stimuli

Marian Stewart Bartlett (Salk Institute) Terrence J. Sejnowski
Unsupervised Learning of Pose and Expression Invariant Face Representations Through Temporal Association

William Bialek (NEC Research Institute) Marc Potters, Rob R. de Ruyter Van Steveninck
Adaptation to Image Statistics: Experiments in Fly Vision

William Bialek (NEC Research Institute) Michael DeWeese
Random Switching and Optimal Processing in the Perception of Ambigous Signals

Edward K. Blum (University of Southern California) Patrick K. Leung
Modeling and Simulation of Human Walking: a Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Model

Ben Bonham (University of California, Berkeley) Edwin R. Lewis
Activity-Dependent Synaptic Development in the Peripheral Auditory System

Victoria Booth (National Institutes of Health) John Rinzel
Dendritic Origin of Bistability of Motoneuron Firing Patterns

Nicholas T. Carnevale (Yale University) Michael P. O'Boyle, Nicholas T. Carnevale, Brenda J. Claiborne, and Thomas H. Brown
Sensitivity of Hippocampal Granule Cell Models to Variations in Dendritic Diameter

George T. Chou (Massachussets Institute of Technology)
FigureGround Segregation from Kinetic Occlusion

Sharon Crook (University of Maryland) Bard Ermentrout and James M. Bower
Connectivity, Axonal Delay, and Synchrony in Cortical Oscillators

Sanjoy Das (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) Neeraj J. Gandhi and Edward L. Keller
Spatio-Temporal Representation of the Superior Colliculus in a Saccadic Eye Movement Model

Scott N. Deyo (The University of Wisconsin School) William A. Lytton
Mechanisms for Sustained, Synchronous Oscillations in Model Networks

Peter F. Dominey (University of Southern California) Jocelyne Ventre-Dominey, Emmanuel. Broussolle, and Marc Jeannerod
Representation and Computation for Analogical Transfer in Sequence Learning: Human and Neural Models of Cortico-Striatal Function

Edgar Erwin (University of California, S.F.) Kenneth D. Miller
Modeling Coordinated Column Development in Visual Cortex

David Field (Cornell University) Bruno A. Olshausen
Sparse Codes, Combinatorial Codes, and Factorial Codes

Michelle Fitzurka (University of North Texas) David C. Tam
First Order Interspike Interval Difference Phase Plane Analysis of Neuronal Spike Train Data

Eric S. Fortune (University of Chicago) Daniel Margoliash
Selective Photablation and Recovery of Functional Circuits for Song Production

Gal Gyngyi (University of California at Berkeley) Richard X. Tang and Walter J. Freeman
Modeling Reaching in a Plane by Estimating Jacobian Matrices of Nonlinear Functions of Arm Movement from Changes in Joint Angles and Hand Positions

Fabrizio Gabbiani (Caltech) Ralf Wessel and Christof Koch
Coding of Time-Varying Electric Field Amplitude Modulations in a Wave-Type Electric Fish

Gerard L. Gebber (Michigan State University)
A Physiological Model of the Brain Stem System Responsible for the 10-Hz Rhythm in Sympathetic Nerve Discharge

Jack J. Gelfand (Princeton University) Vijaykumar Gullapalli and Douglas L. Rohde
A Model For Practice Related Shifts In The Locus of Activity for Skill Learning In Verbal Response Selection Tasks

William G. Gibson (University of Sydney) Max R. Bennett and Les Farnell
Monte Carlo Simulation of Quantal Transmission at Purinergic Junctions

Andrew Gillies (University of Edinburgh)
Mechanisms for Control of Massive Excitation in the Subthalamic Nucleus

Bruce P. Gramham (University of Edinburgh)
Computer Simulation of Mechanisms for Unblocking Axons

Tino Gramss (Evotec Biosystems GmbH)
A Neural Model for the Separation of Acoustic Signals

Yoram Grossman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) G. Gradwohl and Idan Segav
Modeling the Inhibition of Ia Input in Cat a-Motoneurons Based on Morphological and Physiological Data

Rowshanak Hashemiyoon (Hahneman University) John K. Chapin
Synchronised Oscillations May Integrate Sensory Processing Across the Subcortical Visual System

Michael Hasselmo (Harvard University) Milos Cekic
Cholinergic Suppression of Synaptic Transmission May Allow Combination of Associative Feedback and Self-Organizing Feedforward Connections in the Neocortex

Detlef Heck (Max-Planck-Institute)
Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Mossy Fiber Activity and Their Possible Role for the Function of the Cerebellum in Motor Control

Conor Heneghan (Columbia University Department of Electrical Eng.) Robert G. Turcott, Steven B. Lowen, and Malvin C. Teich
Wavelet-Transform Estimation of the Fractal Dimension of a Neural Spike Train

Jan Holly (RS Dow Neurological Sciences Institute) Gin McCollum
Cell Excitation Probability Functions and Cell Ensemble Response to Spatio-Temporally Distributed Repeated Input

Mark E. Jackson (University of Texas at Dallas) James Patterson and Lawrence J. Cauller
Dynamical Analysis of Spike Trains in a Simulation of Reciprocally Connected "Chaoscillators". Dependence of Spike Pattern Fractal Dimension on Strength of Feedback Connections

Dieter Jaeger (Caltech) Erik De Schutter and James M. Bower
Cross-Correlation Analysis of Spike Trains Derived from a Model of the Cerebellar Purkinje Cell with Active Dendritic Conductances

Mark James (University of Sydney) Doan Hoang
Pattern Learning in a Cortical Circuit

Ranu Jung (University of Maryland) Tim Kiemel and Avis H. Cohen
Bifurcation Analysis of a Neural Network Model for Locomotor Control in the Lamprey

Ainat Kalay-Rogel (MIT) H. Parnas, G. Schneider, and E. Shamir
Modeling Axonal Growth of the Visual System in the Syrian Hamster Via Grammar Rules

Rolf Ketter (University of Dusseldorf) Margareta Feizelmeier
A Computational Analysis of the Relationship between Morphological= and Electrophysiological Properties of Dopaminergic Neurons

Kumar Tribhawan (University of California) Donald A. Glaser
Comparing Performance of Human Observers for Coherent and Stochastic= Motion Signals

Kumar Tribhawan (University of California) Donald A. Glaser
How Fast is Recognition of 2-D Visual Patterns?

Larry Lancaster (University of California, Berkeley) Leslie Kay
A Method to Detect Nonstationary Commonalities Between Two Time Series

Mark D. Lenhart (University of California) Walter J. Freeman
A Neurophysiological Explanation of the Retroactive Interference Memory Effect

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1995

9:00 : General Information

9:15 : Invited Talk: To be determined

Short Talks

10:05 : Thomas, Elizabeth (University of Wisconsin) William W. Lytton
Investigation of Changes in GABAA Mediated Inhibition on a Model Thalamic Network

10:25 : Friesen, Otto W. (University of Virginia) Craig G. Hocker, and Martin Straume
Computer Simulations of Intersegmental Coordination in the Medicinal Leech

10:45 : Troyer, Todd W. (University of California, S.F.) Allison J. Doupe and Kenneth D. Miller
An Associational Hypothesis for Sensorimotor Learning of Birdsong

11:05 : Margoliash, Daniel (University of Chicago)
Forebrain Representations of the Motor Program for Song

11:25 : Break

11:40 : Long Talk: Rieke, Fred (NEC Research Institute) and Deana A. Bodnar and William Bialek
Coding of Naturalistic Stimuli in the Frog Auditory Nerve

12:20 : Lunch and viewing poster session B

2:30 : Long Talk: Reinagel, Pam (Caltech)
Nonlinear Decoding of Visual Messages From the Retina

Short Talks

3:10 : Diesmann, Markus (Weizmann Institute of Science) Marc-Oliver Gewaltig and Ad Aertsen
Characterization of Synfire Activity by Propagating 'Pulse Packets'

3:30 : Teich, Malvin C. (Columbia University)
Fractal Neural Firing Patterns and Peripheral Memory in the Visual System

3:50 : Kay, Leslie (University of California, Berkeley) Walter J. Freeman
Preafference and Reafference in Olfactory Perception

4:10 : Nelson, Mark E. (University of Illinois) Eric C. Welton, Zhimin Ding, Malcolm A. MacIver
Evolving Neural Controllers Using Biological Hints: Implementing Single Leg Reflexes in an Insect-Like Robot

4:30 : Massone, Lina (Northwestern University) Jennifer D. Myers
On the Relative Roles of Brain and Plant in Point-to-Point Arm Movements

5:00 - Break

5:20 : Long Talk: Mahamud, Shyjan (University of Massachusetts) Andrew G. Barto, Ronald E. Kettner, and James C. Houk
A Model of Prediction in Smooth Eye Movement

6:00 End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Poster Session B

Jacob E. Levin (University of California, Berkeley) Frederic Theunissen and John P. Miller
Ambient Noise Enhances Neural Coding in the Cricket Cercal Sensory System through Stochastic Resonance

William B. Levy (University of Virginia Health Sciences Center) Olga V. Yousukhno and William R. Holmes
Dentritic Inhibition: Is it Pathway Specific?

Kenneth L. Levy (Arizona State University) Daryl R. Kipke
A Biologically-Plausible Model of Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus that Computes Accurate Spike Times in Real-Time

Hans Liljenstrum (Royal Institute of Technology) Tomas Wilhelmsson
A Parallel Implementation of an Olfactory Cortex Model: Dynamics and Associative Memory

Zheng Liu (Brandeis University) Laurence F. Abbott and Eve Marder
Modeling the AB Neuron and its Modulation

Steven B. Lowen (Columbia University) Malvin C. Teich
Refractoriness-Modified Fractal Stochastic Point Processes for Modeling Sensory-System Spike Trains

Yair Manor (Hebrew University) Yosef Yarom, John Rinzel, and Idan Segev
Subthreshold Spontaneous Oscillations in the Inferior Olive: An Experimentally-Based, Minimal Biophysical Network Model

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University) K. Mulchandani
A Framework for Modeling Neuron Morphology

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University) Sandeep Tewari
Implicit Function Modeling of Neuron Morphology

Michael I. Miller (Washington University) Robert M. Schmich
Stochastic Intensity of Neural Spike Discharge Based on Active Channel Dynamics

Ali A. Minai (University of Cincinnati) Thomas S. Green
A Covariance-Based Learning Rule for the Hippocampus

Robert U. Muller (SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn) Andrea A. Fenton and John L. Kubie
On the Reliability of Place Cell Firing During Passes through the Firing Field

Richard Murphey (University of Texas Medical Branch) Joel Tabak and Lee Moore
Sensitivity of Xenopus Embryo Locomotion Neural Networks to NMDA and Non-NMDA Receptor Properties

Valerie Nenov (UCLA School of Medicine) John Klopp, Dan Komaromi, Scott Shell, and Walter Read
The use of WWW for Computational Neuroscience Instruction

Ferruccio Panzica (Institue of Neurologico "C. Besta") S. Franceschetti, G. Sancini, and G. Avanzini
Input Resistance and Membrane Time Constants in Two Classes of Rats Pyramidal Neurons

Bruce R. Parnas (NASA Ames Research Center)
Stochastic Resonance and Noise in the Neural Coding of Sensory Signals

Klaus Pawelzik (The Salk Institute) Olaf Scherf, Fred Wolf, and Theo Geisel
Correlation Dependence of Ocular Dominance Patterns Requires Receptive Field Shrinkage during Development

Barak A. Pearlmutter (Siemens Corporate Research) Lucas C. Parra
Maximal Information Transfer in a Spiking Neuron

John S. Pezaris (Caltech) Maneesh Sahani, and Richard A. Anderson
Tetrodes for Monkeys

D. Plenz (University of Tennessee) J. Wickens and S. T. Kitai
Basal Ganglia Control of Sequential Activity in the Cerebral Cortex: A Model

Alberto L. Politoff (University of Noth Dakota)
Cognition-Related Variables in the Power Spectrum of the Electroencephalogram

Mathias Quoy Bernard Doyon and Manuel Samuelides
Hebbian Learning in Chaotic Neural Networks

Jeffrey Reznic (New York University) Steven E. Fox and Ursula Staubli
Cellular Bases of 5-HT3 Receptor Antagonist Effects in the Hippocampus of the Freely Moving Rat

Dario L. Ringach (New York University)
A "Tachometer" Feedback Model of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements

Raphael Ritz (Institut fur Theoretische Physik) Wulfram Gerstner and J. Leo van Hemmen
Spontaneous Spatio-Temporal Activity Patterns in a Simple Model of the Visual Cortex

J. Cooper Roddey (University of Calfornia, Berkeley) Gwen A. Jacobs
Wind Velocity Encoding by Ensembles of Filiform Mechanorecptors of the Cricket Cercal Sensory System

Antonio C. Roque-da-Silva-Filho
Hebbian Learning and Spatially Decaying Lateral Synapses Imply Equilibrium Topography

Stefan Rotter (Max-Planck-Institute) Detlef Heck and Ad Aertsen
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Activity in Cortical Networks

Samir Sayegh (Purdue University) Pulin Sampat and Sattar Jaboori
Building and Using a Map: From Retina to Hippocampus and Back

Lawrence Schovanec (Texas Tech University) Clyde F. Martin
Fatigue Effects in Models of Muscular Control

Bhavin Sheth (MIT)
Feature Selectivity May Guide Cortical Column Formation

Martin W. Simmen (University of Edinburgh) Edmund T. Rolls and Alessandro Treves
Rapid Retrieval in an Autoassociative Network of Spiking Neurons

Clay Spence (D. Sarnoff Research Center)
Do Neurons in the Barn Owl Couple to Extracellular Potentials?

Martin Stemmler (Caltech) Ernest Niebur and Marius Usher
Non-Classical Reception Fields and the Role of Lateral Connections Primary Visual Cortex: From Physiology to Psychophysics

Michael Stiber (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology) Ricci S. C. Leong and Ramachandran Chandramani
Synaptic Coding of Inhibitory Transients: Comparison of Model and Living Preparation

James V. Stone (University of Sussex)
Using Spatio-Temporal Constraints for Hierarchical Learning of Stereo Hyperacuity in Random Dot Stereograms

James V. Stone (University of Sussex) Alistair Bray
A Learning Rule for Extracting Spatio-Temporal Invariances

Daniel Suta (Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic) J. Popel?r, and J. Syka
A Computational Study of Inferior Colliculus Neurons: Response to Pure-Tone Acoustical Stimulation

David C. Tam (University of North Texas)
A Time-Scale Invariant Method for Detection of Changes and Oscillations in Neuronal Firing Intervals

Simon J. Thorpe (Universit. Paul Sabatier) Jacques Gautrais
The Role of Asynchrony in Visual Processing

Christopher W. Tyler (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) Richard T. Miller
The Theory of Pattern Recognition by Trajectory Analysis in Autocorrelation Hyperspace

Philip S. Ulinski (University of Chicago) Adam J. Peiper
Activation of the Fast Sodium Conductance in Pyramidal Cells of Turtle Visual Cortex by Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Geniculocortical Synapses

Philip S. Ulinski (University of Chicago) Jaime G. Mancilla
Temporal Structure of Compound Postsynaptic Potentials in Visual Cortex

Michael C. Vanier (Caltech) James M. Bower
Stochastic Parameter-Search Methods for Parametrizing Single Neuron Models

Simon A. J. Winder (The University of Bath)
Simulation of Retinal Contrast Gain Control Mechanisms

Simon A. J. Winder (The University of Bath)
Including Contrast Gain Control in a Parallel Simulation of the Visual Cortex

David B. Wren-Hardin (University of Chicago) Daniel Margoliash
Graceful Degradation of Song Following Lesion of HVc

Kechen Zhang (University of California, San Diego)
Representing Head Directions by Attractor Dynamics and the Selective Inhibition Hypothesis

FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1995

9:00 : General Information

9:15 : Invited Talk - To be determined

Short Talks

10:05 : Wolf, Fred (University of Frankfurt) Frank Hoffs?mmer, Theo Geisel, Siegrid Lwel and Kerstin Schmidt
Sequential Bifurcation and Dynamic Rearrangement of Columnar Patterns During Cortical Development

10:25 : Harris, Anthony (University of Pittsburg) Steven Small and Dan Simons
Hebbian Learning, Weight Normalization, and the Development of Segregates

10:45 : Long Talk: Lee, Tai Sing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Neurophysiological Evidence for Image Segmentation and Medial Axis Computation in Primate V1

11:05 : Break

11:30 : Long Talk: Olshausen, Bruno A. (Cornell University) David J. Field
Learning Localized, Oriented, Multiscale, Receptive Fields from Natural Scences

12:10 : Lunch

2:20 : Long Talk: Tang, Akaysha C. (Harvard University) Michael E. Hasselmo
To Recognize Something as New, Do you have to Remember What is Old? GABAergic Modulation and its Computational and Behavioral Consequences

Short Talks

3:00 : Blum, Kenneth I. (MIT) L. F. Abbott
Functional Significance of Long Term Potentiation in Recurrent Networks

3:20 : Muller, Robert U. (SUNY Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, Matt Stead and John L. Kubie
The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Graph

3:40 : Lukashin, Alexander (Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center) B. R. Amirikian, V. L. Mozhaev, G. L. Wilcox, and A. P. Geogopoulos
Modeling Motor Cortical Representation of Movement by an Attractor Network of Stochastic Neurons

4:00 : Break

4:30 : Long Talk: Horn, David (Tel Aviv University) Nir Levy and Eytan Ruppin
Locally-Driven Synaptic Compensation in Alzheimer's Disease: A Computational Study

5:10 : End of Day Announcements

8:00 : Banquet

SATURDAY, July 15, 1995

9:30 : Announcements and organization of workshop day

10:00 - 12:30 : Morning Workshops

12:30 : Lunch

2:00 - 5:00 : Afternoon Workshops