CNS*1998

The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting

July 26 - 30, 1998 Santa Barbara, California

CNS*1998 Agenda

SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1998

9:00 : Welcoming Remarks and General Information

Featured Contributed Talk

9:15 : Barry J. Richmond (NIH/NIMH), John A. Hertz, and Timothy J. Gawne
Comparing Responses to Visual Stimuli Appearing on Receptive Fields of V1 Complex Cells Due to Saccades with Responses Elicited by Stimulus Sequences

Contributed Talks

10:05 : Udo Ernst (MPI for Fluid Dynamics), Klaus Pawelzik, Fred Wolf, and Theo Geisel
Theory of Nonclassical Receptive Field Phenomena in the Visual Cortex

10:25 : Ko Sakai (RIKEN Brain Science Institute), and Shigeru Tanaka
Retinotopic Coding and Perceptual Segmentation in Tilt Illusion

10:45 : David H. Goldberg (Brown University), Harel Shouval and Leon N Cooper
Lateral Connectivity: A Possible Scaffolding for the Development of Orientation Preference Maps

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Gyngyi Gal (Emory University), John P. Donoghue and Jerome N. Sanes
Relations Among Neural Activities Recorded in Premotor and Motor Cortex of Trained Monkeys During Visually Guided Hand and Arm Movements Tasks

11:40 : Emery N. Brown (Massachusetts General Hospital / MIT), Loren M. Frank, Dengda Tang, Michael C. Quirk, and Matthew A. Wilson
A Statistical Model of Spatial Information Encoding in The Rat Hippocampus

12:00 : Satoru Inoue (The University of Electro-Communications), Yoshiki Kashimori, and Takeshi Kambara
The Neural Model of Nucleus Laminaris and Integration Layer Accomplishing Hyperacuity in Sound Location in the Barn Owl

12:20 : Lunch Break and preview of Poster Session A

Featured Contributed Talk

2:20 : Michael E Hasselmo (Harvard University), Erik Fransen, Gene V Wallenstein, Angel A Alonso, and Clayton T Dickson
A Biophysical Simulation of Intrinsic and Network Properties of Entorhinal Cortex

Contributed Talks

3:10 : Jonathan Wolfe (University of New Mexico), and Akaysha Tang
Neuromodulation of Spike Timing and Spike Rate

3:30 : Omer Artun (Brown University), and Harel Z. Shouval
Temporal Coding by Dynamic Synapses

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Hans E. Plesser (Max-Planck-Institut), and Theo Geisel
Bandpass Properties of Integrate-Fire Neurons

Invited Talk

4:30 : To Be Announced

5:20 : End of Day Announcements

Poster Session A

8:00 : Péter Adorján (Technische Universität Berlin), György Barna, Péter Érdi, and Klaus Obermayer
A Statistical Neural Field Approach to Orientation Selectivity

Charles H. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine)
Modeling Population Codes using Probability Density Functions

Charles H. Anderson (Washington University School of Medicine), Shahin Hakimian and W. Thomas Thach
A PDF Model of Populations of Purkinje Cells: Non-linear Interactions and High Variability

David J. Anderson (University of Michigan), Steven M. Bierer
Noise Reduction of Multi-channel Neural Activity Using an Array Processing Technique

Ildiko Aradi (Ohio University), William R. Holmes
Active Dendrites Regulate Spatio-temporal Synaptic Integration in Hippocampal Dentate Granule Cells

Delorme Arnaud (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition), Fabre-Thorpe Michèle, Richard Ghislaine, Fize Denis, and Simon Thorpe
Rapid Processing of Complex Natural Scenes : A Role for the Magnocellular Visual Pathways?

Delorme Arnaud (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition), Jacques Gautrais, Rufin van Rullen, and Simon Thorpe
Pikenet : A Simulator for Modeling Large Networks of Integrate and Fire Neurons

Bill Baird (U.C. Berkeley)
An Oscillating Cortical Architecture Simulating Auditory Attention and EEG-ERP Data

Davis Barch (University of California, Berkeley), Donald A. Glaser
Detection and Characterization of Coherent Motion by A 2-dimensional Sheet of Connected Elements: The "bow-wave" Model

William H. A. Beaudot (McGill University)
Figure-ground Segregation of Coherent Motion In V1: A Model Based on The Role of Intra-cortical and Extra-cortical Feedbacks

Avrama Blackwell (George Mason University)
Dynamics of the Light-induced Na+ Current in Hermissenda

Brian Blais (Brown University), Harel Shouval and Leon N Cooper
Formation of Direction Selectivity in Natural Scene Environments

Alan H. Bond (Caltech)
A System Model of the Primate Neocortex

Vladimir E. Bondarenko (Russian Academy of Sciences), Teresa Ree Chay
Generation of Various Rhythms by Thalamic Neural Network Model

Victoria Booth (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Dendritic Plateau Potentials in Bistable Motoneurons

Carlos Brody (UNAM)
Slow Resting Potential Covariations in Lgn Neurons Can Lead To Apparently Fast Cross-correlations in Their Spike Trains

David Brown (The Babraham Institute), and Jianfeng Feng
Is There a Problem Matching Model and Real Cv(isi)?

Anthony N. Burkitt (The Bionic Ear Institute), and Graeme M. Clark
New Technique for Analyzing Integrate and Fire Neurons

Gully Burns (University of Southern California)
Neuroscholar 1.00, A Neuroinformatics Databasing Website

Maria Bykhovskaia (University of Virginia), Mary Kate Worden and John T. Hackett
Frequency Facilitation at the Lobster Neuromuscular Junction: Quantal Analysis and Simulations

Martin T. Chian (University of Southern California), M. T. Chian, V.Z. Marmarelis, and T.W. Berger
Identification of Unobservable Neural Systems in the Hippocampus using Adaptive Estimation

Ryan Clement (Arizona State University), Russell Witte, Rob Rennaker, and Daryl Kipke
Functional Connectivity in Auditory Cortex using Chronic, Multichannel Microelectrodes in Awake Animals

Sharon Crook (Montana State University), John P. Miller
The Mechanistic Basis of Neural Encoding

Erik De Schutter (University of Antwerp), Reinoud Maex and Bart Vos
Synchronized Firing of Golgi Cells: Functional Modulation by the Cerebellar Circuitry

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo (SUNY at Binghamton)
Inhibitory Influence on Electrophysiological Response to Taste in the Brain Stem

Jim Dilmore (University of Pittsburgh), J. G. Dilmore, B. S. Gutkin, and G. B. Ermentrout
A Biophysical Model of Dopaminergic Modulation of Persistent Sodium Currents in Pfc Pyramidal Neurons: Effects on Neural Response Properties

Alexander Dimitrov (The University of Chicago), Alexander Dimitrov, Trevor Mundel, Vernon L. Towle, and Jack D. Cowan
Independent Components Analysis of Subdural Ecog Recordings from an Epileptic Patient

Mikael Djurfeldt (SANS/NADA, KTH), Anders Sandberg, Örjan Ekeberg, and Anders Lansner
See---a Framework for Simulation of Biologically Detailed and Artificial Neural Networks and Systems

Gideon Dror (The Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo)
Analysis and Modelling of Population Dynamics in the Visual Cortex

Witali L. Dunin-Barkowski (Texas Tech University), Serge L. Shishkin and Donald C. Wunsch
Phase-based Storage of Information in Cerebellum: A Case of Stationary Random Inputs

Michael Eisele (Salk Institute), Terry Sejnowski
Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Pyramidal Neurons

Chris Eliasmith (Washington University in St. Louis), Charles H. Anderson
Attractors, Representation, and the Pdf Framework

Péter Érdi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
A Statistical Approach to Neural Population Dynamics: Theory, Algorithms, Simulations

Jianfeng FENG (The Babraham Institute)
Coefficient of Variation Greater Than 0.5 How And When?

Brent A. Field (Univeristy of Oregon), Alexander R. Pico, and Richard T. Marrocco
Local Injections Of Neurotransmitters Significantly Alter High-frequency (245hz), Activity

Piotr J. Franaszczuk (Univ.of Maryland School of Medicine), Pawel Kudela and Gregory K. Bergey
Model of the Propagation of Synchronous Firing in a Reduced Neuron Network

Francesco Frisone (University of Genova), Paolo Vitali, Pietro G. Morasso, Guido Rodriguez, Alberto Pilot, and Marco Rosa
Can the Synchronization of Cortical Areas Be Evidenced by fMRI?

Tomoki Fukai (Tokai University)
Modeling the Interplay of Short-term Memory and the Basal Ganglia in Sequence Processing

Gradwohl Gideon (University of the Negev), Nitzan Ron Grossman Yoram
Homogeneous Distribution of Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapses on the Dendrites of the Cat Surea Triceps Alpha-motoneurons Increases Synaptic Efficacy: Computer Model

J. Randall Gobbel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Synchronization of Tonically Active Neurons in a Biophysical Model of the Neostriatum

David Golomb (Ben-Gurion University of Negev), David Hansel
Theory of Synchrony in Sparse Neuronal Networks

Jeremy P. Goodridge (Carnegie Mellon University), A. David Redish and David S. Touretzky
A Model of the Rat Head Direction System That Accounts for the Unique Properties of Anterior Thalamic Head Direction Cell Firing

Alex Guazzelli (USC Brain Project), Mihail Bota and Michael A. Arbib
Incorporating Path Integration Capabilities In the Tam-wg Model of Rodent Navigation

Alex Guazzelli (USC Brain Project), Mihail Bota and Michael A. Arbib
Incorporating Path Integration Capabilities in the Tam-wg Model of Rodent Navigation

Juergen Haag (Friedrich-Miescher-Laboratory), Alexander Borst
Influence of Active Membrane Properties on the Encoding of Motion Information In Visual Interneurons of the Blowfly

Rolf Henkel (University of Bremen)
Sampling Three-dimensional Space --- The Interplay of Vergence- And Fusion-system

Michael Herrmann (Max-Planck-Institut), Klaus Pawelzik and Theo Geisel
Simultaneous Self-organization of Place and Direction Selectivity in a Neural Model of Self-localization

MONDAY, JULY 27, 1998

9:00 : General Information

Featured Contributed Talk

9:15 : Vikaas S. Sohal (Stanford University), and John R. Huguenard
Long-range Connections Synchronize Rather Than Spread Intrathalamic Oscillatory Activity: Computational Modeling and In Vitro Electrophysiology

Contributed Talks

10:05 : Thomas Wennekers (University of Ulm), Gunther Palm
How Imprecise is Neuronal Synchronization?

10:25 : Steven P. Dear (Pennsylvania State University), Corey B. Hart
Computational Mechanisms Linking Synchronization and Information Coding

10:45 : Nicholas Hatsopoulos (Brown University), Liam Paninski, and John P. Donoghue
Mutual Information Provided by Synchronous Neuronal Discharge about Target Location

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Dror Gideon (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo), Tsodyks Misha
Analysis and Modelling of Population Dynamics in the Visual Cortex

11:40 : Steven L. Bressler (Florida Atlantic University), Mingzhou Ding and Weiming Yang
Investigation of Cooperative Cortical Dynamics by Multivariate Autoregressive Modeling of Event-related Local Field Potentials

12:00 : Charlotte Gruner (Rice University), Don H. Johnson
Correlation and Neural Information Coding Efficiency

12:20 : Mark S. Goldman (Brandeis University), Sacha B. Nelson and Laurence F. Abbott
Decorrelation Of Spike Trains by Synaptic Depression

12:40 : Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session B

Featured Contributed Talk

2:00 : John K. Chapin (Allegheny University of Health Sci.), Ronald S. Markowitz and Karen A. Moxon
Controlling Robot Arms using Neuronal Population Recordings

Contributed Talks

2:50 : Rolf Eckmiller (Universitaet Bonn), Ralph Huenermann and Michael Becker
Exploration of a Dialog-based Tunable Retina Encoder for Retina Implants

3:10 : Joel White (Tufts Medical School), John Kauer
Odor Recognition in an Artificial Nose by Spatio-temporal Processing using an Olfactory Neuronal Network

3:30 : Ralf Moeller (University of Zurich), Marinus Maris and Dimitrios Lambrinos
A Neural Model of Landmark Navigation in Insects

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Malcolm P. Young (Neural Systems Group), Claus-C Hilgetag and Jack W Scannell
Models of Paradoxical Lesion Effects and Rules of Inference for Imputing Function to Structure in the Brain

Invited Talk

4:30 : To be Announced

5:20 : End of Day Announcements

Poster Session B

8:00 : John Hertz (Nordita), Zhaoping Li
Odor Recognition and Segmentation by Coupled Olfactory Bulb and Cortical Networks

Andrew Hill (Emory University)
Phase Lag between Oscillators of a Realistic Neuronal Network Model of the Leech Heartbeat Motor Pattern Generating System

Osamu Hoshino (The University of Electro-Communications), Yoshiki Kashimori and Takeshi Kambara
A Neural Mechanism of Feature Binding Based on the Dynamical Map Theory in Distributed Coding Scheme

Arthur Houweling (The Salk Institute), Maxim Bazhenov, Igor Timofeev, Mircea Steriade, and Terrence Sejnowski
Computational Analysis of Intracortical Augmenting Responses Resulting from Short-term Synaptic Plasticity

Hidetoshi Ikeno (Maizuru National College of Technology), Shiro Usui
Mathematical Description of Ionic Currents of the Kenyon Cell in the Mushroom Body of Honeybee

Laurent Itti (California Institute of Technology), Christof Koch and Jochen Braun
A Quantitative Model Relating Visual Neuronal Activity to Psychophysical Thresholds

Eugene Izhikevich (Arizona State University)
FM Interactions in Brain Models

Eugene Izhikevich (Arizona State University)
Theoretical Foundations of Pulse-coupled Models

David B. Jaffe (University of Texas at San Antonio), Raymond A. Chitwood
Comparing Electrotonus in Hippocampal Ca3 Nonpyramidal and Pyramidal Neurons

David B. Jaffe (The University of Texas at San Antonio), Raymond A. Chitwood
The Contribution of Active Dendrites to Epsp Propagation in a Hippocampal Ca3 Nonpyramidal Neuron Model

Pat Johnston (UCLA), John Klopp, Val Nenov, and Eric Halgren
The Effects of Varying Connectional Parameters on Input-output Relationships in a Neocortical-hippocampal Model

Jorge V. Jose (Northeastern University), P.H.E. Tiesinga
Spiking Statistics in Noisy Hippocampal Interneurons

Jeeyune Jung (University of Kentucky), Ranu Jung
Brain-spinal Feedforward-feedback Interactions Affect Output Pattern and Intracellular Properties of Motor Networks in the Lamprey

Takeshi Kambara (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Hiromichi Owada and Yoshiki Kashimori
A Neural Mechanism of Am Frequency Selectivity of Pyramidal Cell Circuit in Electrosensory Lateral-line Lobe of Weakly Electric Fish

Adam Kepecs (Biology Department, Brandeis University), Milos Dolnik
Control of Neuronal Chaos: Using Single Cell Dynamics To Store Information

Daryl Kipke (Arizona State University), Russell Witte, Glen Hattrup, Justin Williams, and Daryl Kipke
Pursuing Dynamic Reorganization in Auditory Cortex using Chronic, Multichannel Microelectrodes in Awake, Behaving Animals

Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski (Karolinska Institutet), Jesper Tegner, Sten Grillner, and Anders Lansner
Control of Burst Proportion and Frequency Range by Drive Dependent Modulation of Adaptation

Jeffrey L. Krichmar (George Mason University), Kim T. Blackwell, Garth S. Barbour, Alexander B. Golovan, and Thomas P. Vogl
A Solution To The Feature Correspondence Problem Inspired By Visual Scanpaths

Yoshihisa Kubota (Caltech), James M. Bower
Decoding Time-Varying Calcium Signals by CaMKII/PP1: A Dynamical System Theory of Synaptic Calcium Computation

Linda J. Larson-Prior (San Francisco College of Osteopathic Medicine), Huo Lu and Fred W. Prior
Serotonergic Modulation of the Cerebellar Granule Cell Network

Mark Laubach (Duke University Medical Center), Marshall Shuler, and Miguel Nicolelis
of Neural Ensemble Interactions

Sarah Lesher (University of Maryland), Nick Mellen, Suzanne Dykstra, Mark L. Spano, and Avis H. Cohen
Stable Lamprey Swimming Has Unstable Periodic Orbits

William B. Levy (University of Virginia), Xiangbao Wu
Enhancing The Performance of A Hippocampal Model by Increasing Variability Early in Learning

Jim-Shih Liaw (University of Southern California), J.-S.Liaw and T.W. Berger
Synapse Dynamics: Harnessing the Computing Power of Synaptic Dynamics

David T.J. Liley (University of Technology), Peter J. Cadusch and James J. Wright
A Continuum Theory of Electrocortical Activity

Miguel Maravall (SUNY at Stony Brook)
An Analysis of Connectivity and Function in Hippocampal Associative Memory

Bethge Matthias (Max-Planck-Institut), Klaus Pawelzik and Theo Geisel
Rapid Learning with Depressing Synapses

Marcelo Bastos Mazza (Universidade de São Paulo), Antônio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho
A Realistic Computer Simulation of Properties of Somatotopic Maps

Marilene de Pinho S. Mazza (Universidade de São Paulo), Marilene de Pinho and Antônio Carlos Roque da Silva Filho
A Realistic Computer Simulation of Tonotopic Maps Formation Processes in the Auditory Cortex

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University)
Design of a Brain Tissue Scanner

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University), Brent P. Burton and Travis S. Chow
Virtual Microscopy of Brain Tissue

Bruce H. McCormick (Texas A&M University), Brent P. Burton, Travis S. Chow, and Andrew T. Duchowski
Exploring The Brain Forest

Elliot D. Menschik (University of Pennsylvania), Shih-Cheng Yen and Leif H. Finkel
Functional Properties of a Cellular-level Model of Hippocampal Ca3

John Miller (Montana State University), B. Girish, Tenaya M. Rodewald, and John P. Miller
Encoding of Direction and Dynamics of Air Currents by Filiform Mechanoreceptors in the Cricket Cercal System

Ali A. Minai (University of Cincinnati), Simona Doboli and Phillip J. Best
A Letent Attractors Model of Context-selection in The Dentate Gyrus-hilus System

Farhad K. Mosallaie (Baylor College of Medicine), John A. Halter and Andrew R. Blight
Effects of Activity Dependent Ion Concentration on Repetitive Firing in the Myelinated Axon

Frank Mossn (University of Missouri at St. Louis), Hans A. Braun, M. Dewald, M. Huber, K. Voigt, and Xing Pei
Unstable Periodic Orbits and Chaos in Thermally Sensitive Neurons

Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis), Peter Jung and Ann Cornell-Bell
Noise Mediated Spiral Waves in Glial Cell Networks Show Evidence of Self Organized Critical Behavior

Frank Moss (University of Missouri), Xing Pei, Kevin Dolan, and Ying-Cheng Lai
Counting and Scaling Unstable Periodic Orbits in Biological and Physical Systems

Karen Anne Moxon (Allegheny University), John K. Chapin
Cortico-thalamic Interactions in Response to Whisker Stimulation in a Computer Model of the Rat Barrel System

Robert Muller (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn), Andre Fenton and Gyorgy Csizmadia
Conjoint Control of Place Cell Activity by Two Visual Stimuli

Shingo Murakami (The University of Tokyo), Akira Hirose
Proposal of Microscopic Nerve-cell-activity Analysis Theory for Elucidating Membrane Potential Dynamics

John S. Nafziger (University of Pennsylvania), Shih-Cheng Yen and Leif H. Finkel
Effects of Element Spacing on the Detection of Contours: Psychophysical and Modeling Studies

Hirofumi Nagashino (The University of Tokushima), Minoru Kataoka and Yohsuke Kinouchi
A Coupled Neural Oscillator Model for Recruitment and Annihilation of the Degrees of Freedom of Oscillatory Movements

Bruno A. Olshausen (University of California, Davis)
A Functional Model of V1 Horizontal Connectivity Based on the Statistics of Natural Images

Tetsuya Oyamada (The University of Electro-Communications), Yoshiki Kashimori and Takeshi Kambara
A Neural Network Model of Olfactory System for Odor Recognition and Memorization Controlled by Amygdala

Michael G. Paulin (University of Otago) and Larry F. Hoffman
Transfer Function Models of Bullfrog Vestibular Neurons Responding to Naturalistic Stimuli Evaluate using an Information Criterion

Xing Pei (University of Missouri at St. Louis), Lon Wilkens and Winfried Wojtenek
The Site Of Endogenous Oscillation In The Electrosensory Primary Afferent Nerve Fiber In The Paddlefish, Polyodon Spathula

J. S. Pezaris (California Institute of Technology), M. Sahani and R. A. Andersen
Response Correlations in Parietal Cortex

TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1998

9:00 : General Information

Featured Contributed Talk

9:15 : Raymon M. Glantz (Rice Universiry)
A Cellular Model for rhe Mechanism of Directional Selectivity in Tangential Cells of the Crayfish Visual System

Contributed Talks

10:05 : Hermann Schobesberger (University of Pittsburgh), Boris S. Gutkin and John P. Horn
A Minimal Model for Metabotropic Modulation of Fast Synaptic Transmission and Firing Properties in Bullfrog Sympathetic B Neurons

10:25 : Taraneh Ghaffari-Farazi (University of Southern California), T. Ghaffari-Farazi, J.-S. Liaw, and T.W. Berger
Morphological Impacts on Synaptic Transmission

10:45 : Niraj S. Desai (Brandeis University), Lana C. Rutherford, Sacha B. Nelson, and Gina G. Turrigiano
Activity Regulates the Intrinsic Excitability of Neocortical Neurons

11:05 : Break

11:20 : Dieter Jaeger (Emory University), and Volker Gauck
The Response Function of Different Types of Neurons for Artificial Synaptic Input Applied with Dynamic Current Clamping

11:40 : Máté Lengyel (KFKI, Research Inst.), Ádám Kepecs and Péter Érdi
An Investigation of Location-dependent Differences between Somatic and Dendritic IPSPs

12:00 : Farzan Nadim (Brandeis University), Yair Manor, Nancy Kopell, and Eve Marder
Frequency Regulation by a Synapse Acting as a Switch: A Role for Synaptic Depression of Graded Transmission

12:20 : Lunch Break and Poster Preview Session C

Invited Talk

2:00 : To Be Announced

Contributed Talks

2:50 : Christopher A. Del Negro (UCLA), Chie-Fang Hsiao and Scott H. Chandler
Orthodox and Unorthodox Dynamics Govern Bursting Behavior in Rodent Trigeminal NeuronsOrthodox and Unorthodox Dynamics Govern Bursting Behavior in Rodent Trigeminal Neurons

3:10 : Mike Neubig (University Laval), Alain Destexhe
Changes in the Subcellular Localization of T-type Calcium Channels Change the Threshold and Strength of its Bursts

3:30 : Paul Rhodes (National Institutes of Health)
Regulation of Na+ And K+ Channel Gating Controls the Electrical Properties of Pyramidal Cell Dendrites

3:50 : Break

4:10 : Jaap van Pelt (Netherlands Institute for Brain Research), Harry B. M. Uylings
Modeling the Natural Variability in Neuronal Branching Patterns

4:30 : Adrian Robert (UC San Diego)
Pyramidal Arborizations and Activity Spread in Neocortex

4:50 : Geoffrey J. Goodhill (Georgetown University Medical Center), Jeffrey S. Urbach
Mathematical Analysis of Gradient Detection by Growth Cone

5:20 : End of Day Announcements

Poster Session C

8:00 : Christian Piepenbrock (Technical University of Berlin), Klaus Obermayer
Effects of Lateral Competition in the Primary Visual Cortex on the Development of Topographic Projections and Ocular Dominance Maps

Panayiota Poirazi (University of Southern California), Bartlett Mel
Memory Capacity of Neurons with Active Dendrites

Sergei Rebrik (University of California, San Francisco), Brian D. Wright and Ken Miller
Cross Channel Correlations in Tetrode Recordings: Implications for Spike-sorting

Chris Roehrig (University of British Columbia), Catharine H. Rankin
Dymods: A Framework for Modularizing Dynamical Neuronal Structures

Jonathan Rubin (The Ohio State University), David Terman
Geometric Analysis of Neural Firing Patterns in Network Models with Fast Inhibitory Synapses

Eytan Ruppin (Tel-Aviv University), Gal Chechik and Isaac Meilijson
Neuronal Regulation: A Biological Plausible Mechanism for Efficient Synaptic Pruning in Development

Maureen E. Rush (California State University, Bakersfield), William Ott
A-current Modulation of Low-threshold Spiking

Ilya A. Rybak (DuPont Central Research), Michael L. Ramaker and James S. Schwaber
Modeling Interacting Neural Populations: Dynamics, State Transitions and Applications to Particular Models

Cristiane Salum (St. George's Hospital Medical School), Alan D. Pickering
Striatal Dopamine in Reinforcement Learning: A Computational Model

Hermann Schobesberger (University of Pittsburgh), Boris S. Gutkin and John P. Horn
A Minimal Model for Metabotropic Modulation of Fast Synaptic Transmission and Firing Properties in Bullfrog Sympathetic B Neurons

Simon Schultz (Oxford University), Stefano Panzeri, Alessandro Treves, and Edmund T. Rolls
Correlated Firing and the Information Represented by Neurons in Short Epochs

Nicolas Schweighofer (ERATO), Kenji Doya and Mitsuo Kawato
A Model of the Electrophysiological Properties of the Inferior Olive Neurons

Peggy Series (Ecole Normale Superieure), Philippe Tarroux
Synchrony and Delay Activity in Cortical Network Models

Ladan Shams (University of Southern California), Christoph von der Malsburg
Are Object Shape Primitives Learnable?

Lokendra Shastri (International Computer Science Institute)
Recruitment of Binding-match and Binding-error Detector Circuits Via Long-term Potentiation and Depression

Natalia Shevtsova (University of Maryland), James A. Reggia
Lateralization in a Bihemispheric Neural Model of Letter Identification

Ying Shu (Univ. of Southern California), Xiaping Xie, Jim-shih Liaw, and Ted W. Berger
A Protocol-based Simulation for Linking Computational and Experimental Studies

Jonathan Z. Simon (University of Maryland), Catherine E. Carr and Shihab A. Shamma
A Dendritic Model of Coincidence Detection in the Avian Brainstem

Frances K. Skinner The Toronto Hospital Research Institute
Liang Zhang, Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, and Peter L. Carlen Bursting: A Role for Gap-junctional Coupling

Gregory D. Smith National Institute of Health Charles L. Cox, S. Murray Sherman, and John Rinzel
Fourier Analysis of Sinusoidally Driven Thalamocortical Relay Neurons and a Minimal Integrate-and-fire-or-burst Model

Sheryl S. Smith Allegheny University Ronald S. Markowitz, Chris I. deZeeuw and John K. Chapin
Hormone Modulation of Synchronized Inferior Olivary Ensembles During Rapid Vibrissa Movement: Association with Increased Levels of Gap Junction Proteins

Jacob Spoelstra University of Southern California Michael A. Arbib and Nicolas Schewighofer
Cerebellar Adaptive Control of a Biomimetic Manipulator

Klaas Enno Stephan (C&O-Vogt Institute), Rolf Kötter
Objective Relational Transformation (ort), - A New Foundation cor Connectivity Databases

Michael Stiber (Univ. of Washington), Bilin Zhang Stiber, Edwin R. Lewis, and Kenneth R. Henry
Categorization of Gerbil Auditory Fiber Responses

Susanne Still (Institut fuer Neuroinformatik), Gwendal Le Masson
Traveling Waves with Asymmetric Phase-lags in a Ring of Three Inhibitory Coupled Model Neurons

Fahad Sultan (Univeristy Tuebingen)
A Model of Temporal and Activity Dependent Mechanisms Underlying the Phyolgenetic Development of Cerebellar Molecular Interneuron Morphology

Daniel Suta (Johns Hopkins University), Eric D. Young
Computer Simulations of Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Neuronal Circuits

Joel Tabak (NINDS/NIH), Walter Senn, Michael O'Donovan, and John Rinzel
Comparison of Two Models for Pattern Generation Based on Synaptic Depression

David C. Tam (University of North Texas)
A Spike Train Analysis for Detecting Temporal Integration in Neurons

Shoji Tanaka (Yale University School of Medicine), Shuhei Okada
Functional Prefrontal Cortical Circuitry for Visuospatial Working Memory Formation: A Computational Model

Masami Tatsuno (Waseda University), Yoji Aizawa
Network Model of Synaptic Modification Induced by Time-structured Stimuli in the Hippocampal Ca1 Area

Kathleen Taylor (University of Oxford), John Stein
Attention, Intention and Salience in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

Jesper Tegnér (Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology), Jeanette Hellgren-Kotaleski
The Synaptic Nmda Component Affects the Synchronization between Neural Oscillators

Simon Thorpe (Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition), Van Rullen Rufin
Spatial Attention in Asynchronous Neural Networks

Hiroyuki Uchiyama (Kagoshima University)
Avian Centrifugal Visual System: A Possible Neural Substrate for Selective Visual Attention

Michael S. Wehr (Caltech), John Pezaris and Maneesh Sahani
Simultaneous Paired Intracellular and Tetrode Recordings for Evaluating The Performance of Spike Sorting Algorithms

Thomas Wennekers (University of Ulm, Germany), Friedrich T. Sommer
Gamma-oscillations Support Optimal Retrieval in Associative Memories of Pinsky-rinzel Neurons

Ralf Wessel (UCSD), William B. Kristan Jr and David Kleinfeld
Spatial Distribution of Voltage-gated Channels in the Neurites of the Leech Anterior Pagoda Cell: Functional Consequences for Nonlinear Synaptic Integration

Justin C. Williams (Arizona State University), Robert Rennaker, David Pellinen, and Daryl Kipke
Towards A Long Term Neural Interface: Unit Stability in Chronic, Multichannel Recordings

Simon A. J. Winder (Microsoft Corporation)
A Model for Biological Winner-take-all Neural Competition Employing Inhibitory Modulation of Nmda-mediated Excitatory Gain

Laurenz Wiskott (The Salk Institute)
Learning Invariance Manifolds

Russell Witte (Arizona State University), Glen Hattrup, Justin Williams, and Daryl Kipke
Pursuing Dynamic Reorganization in Auditory Cortex Using Chronic, Multichannel Microelectrodes in Awake, Behaving Animals

Shih-Cheng Yen (University of Pennsylvania), Elliot D. Menschik and Leif H. Finkel
Synchronization and Desynchronization in Striate Cortical Networks

Katherine R. Zaremba (Arizona State University), Steven M. Baer
Relaxation Oscillators and Bursters Coupled Through Passive Cables

Ying Zhou (Rhode Island College), Walter Gall
Including a Second Inward Conductance in Morris and Lecar Dynamics

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1998

9:30 : General Information

Featured Contributed Talk

9:45 : Volker Steuber (University of Edinburgh), and David Willshaw
A Model of Intracellular Signalling Can Implement Radial Basis Function Learning in Cerebellar Purkinje Cell

Contributed Talks

10:35 : Berthold Ruf (Institute for Theoretical Computer Science), Thomas Natschlaeger
Pattern Analysis with Spiking Neurons Using Delay Coding

10:55 : Arthur D. Kuo (University of Michigan), Mark J. Evans
An Adaptive Filter Model of Velocity Storage in Visual-vestibular Interactions

11:15 : Yoshiki Kashimori (Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan), Takeshi Kambara
Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Suppression of Background Signals Arising from Tail Movements in the Gymnotid Electrosensory System

11:35 : Daniel A. Butts (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), Marla B. Feller, Carla J. Shatz, and Daniel S. Rokhsar
The Developing Retina Motivates a General Model of Neural Waves

11:55 : Federal Funding Opportunities

12:30 : Lunch Break

2:00 : Workshops I - Organization

9:30 : Rock and Roll Jam Session

THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1998

9:30 : General Information

Featured Contributed Talk

9:45 : Xiao-Jing Wang (Brandeis University), Yinghui Liu, and Baylor Fox
Neuronal Mechanisms of Working Memory in Prefrontal Cortex

Contributed Talks

10:35 : David Horn (Tel Aviv University), Nir Levy and Eytan Ruppin
The Importance of Nonlinear Dendritic Processing in Multimodular Memory Networks

10:55 : Song Chun Zhu (Stanford University)
From Local Features to Global Perception: Computing Texture and Shape in Markov Random Fields

11:15 : Enrico Simonotto (Univ. Missouri at St. Louis), F. Spano, M. Riani, A. Ferrari, F. Levrero, A. Pillot, P. Renzetti, R. C. Parodi, F. Sardanelli, P. Vitali, J. Twitty, and F. Moss
fMRI Studies of Visual Cortical Activity during Noise Stimulation

Featured Contributed Talk

11:35 : Frank Moss (University of Missouri at St. Louis), and David F. Russell
Animal Behavior Enhanced By Noise

12:25 : Buisness Meeting

1:00 : Lunch Break

2:30 : Workshops II - Organization

9:30 : Banquet - Life's a Beach