CNS*1997
The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting
July 6 - 10, 1997, Big Sky, Montana
CNS*1997 Workshops
Synchrony in Neural Systems: can Theoreticans Contribute?
D. Hansel and C. van Vreeswijk
The capability of neural activity to become synchronized is now well established experimentally in a wide variety of small and large neural circuits. However the mechanisms that give rise to neural synchrony are not well understood. Furthermore the roles of synchronization in neural computation remain a mystery.
The goals of this minisymposium will be:
- To give an overview of the most recent experiments reporting observation of neural synchrony.
- To discuss the experimental evidence for correlation between synchronized activity and computational tasks.
- To evaluate the contributions of theoreticians to our understanding of cellular and synaptic mechanisms that give rise to the emergence of synchrony in neural systems.
- To examine the various functions of collective states proposed in models of neural computation.