CNS 2019 Workshop W13: Integrative Theories of Cortical Function
Wednesday
17th July
2019
28th Annual Computational
Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2019), Barcelona, Spain.
Venue: TBA
Brief Description: Understanding how our brain computes
and analyses sensory inputs from our external environment whilst enabling us to
experience such rich and varied mental lives is one of the great scientific
challenges of the 21st century. An attempt to understand the
underlying integrative principles of cortical functions have led to appealing
computational theories. In concert with these theories, multiple models have
been developed that are implementing cortical computations as diverse as
sensory perception, control of voluntary motor activity and high-level
cognitive functions. This workshop aims to look at some of the recent advances
in development of theories governing these cortical computations, the models
implementing those computations, and the experimental evidence that is used to
differentiate between models. We plan to foster a dialogue between
theoreticians, modellers and experimentalists.
·
Hamish
Meffin, National Vision Research Institute, and Department of Optometry &
Visual Science, The University of Melbourne, hmeffin@unimelb.edu.au
·
Anthony
N. Burkitt, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University
of Melbourne, aburkitt@unimelb.edu.au
·
Ali
Almasi, National Vision Research Institute of Australia, aalmasi@aco.org.au
Program of speakers:
9:30
– 10:50am: Session 1, Chair: Hamish Meffin
• Max Nolte: Cortical
reliability amid noise and chaos
10:50
– 11:20am: Morning Tea
11:20
– 12:40pm: Session 2, Chair: Ali Almasi
• Alex Reyes:
Mathematical structures and operations for representing sound frequency and
intensity
12:40
– 2:50pm: Lunch
2:50-4:10pm:
Session 3, Chair: Tony Burkitt
• Ali Almasi: Feature
selectivity and invariance in primary visual cortex
4:10
– 4:40pm: Afternoon Tea
4:40
– 6:00pm: Session 4, Chair: Hamish Meffin
• Thomas Parr: The
anatomy of (active) inference