PROGRAM. Look for 2009 program here later.  Please note that exact times are possibly subject to change. The 2007 program is listed below.  Prior year programs (2006; 2005) can be viewed here.

 

2007 Program

 

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Day 1 ~ Thursday November 1, 2007

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1:30-3:00PM

Keynote Speaker

Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine

3:00-4:30PM

Contributed Talks

Six 15 min. talks:

Gregory Dam - "A Bayesian Model of Motor Reward Learning"

Rafal Bogacz - "The basal ganglia and cortex implement optimal decision making between alternative actions"

Patrick Simen - "Explicit melioration by a simple neural network"

Heather Ames - "Speaker normalization using cortical strip maps: A neural model for steady state vowel identification"

Javier Bautista - "Learning objects, places and relations in a brain model of visual navigation"

Laurenz Wiskott - "Slowness and Sparseness Lead to Place-, Head Direction-, and Spatial-View Cells"

4:30-5:00PM

Break w/ snacks

 

5:00-7:00PM

Symposium: Computational Models in Biological Psychiatry

 

Michael Frank, University of Arizona (Moderator)

Jeremy Seamans, University of British Columbia

Anthony Bishara, Indiana University

Quentin Huys, Columbia

 

7:00-9:00PM

Main Poster Session

Hors d'oeuvre w/ cash bar

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Day 2 ~ Friday November 2, 2007

(Posters to remain up until 2:30 PM)

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  8:30-10:30AM

Symposium: Computionally-Based Brain Imaging: Models, Levels, and Approaches

Todd Braver, Washington University, St. Louis (Moderator)

John Anderson, Carnegie Mellon

John O'Doherty, California Institute of Technology

Ken Norman, Princeton

Barry Horwitz, NIH

10:30-11:00AM

Break

 

11:00-12:30PM

Contributed Talks

Six 15 min. talks:

Elliot Ludvig - "Stimulus representations and the timing of reward prediction errors"

Misha Ahrens - "Inferring Elapsed Time from Stochastic Neural Processes"

Maneesh Sahani - "A Unifying Probabilistic Computational Framework for Attention"

Philippe Domenech - "Predictability and surprise during rapid perceptual decision-making"

Jeffrey Johnson - "A Neurally-Based Process Model of Visual Working Memory and Change Detection"

Janet Hsiao - "A differential encoding account of hemispheric asymmetry in visual perception"

12:30-2:00PM

Business Meeting & Lunch

Lunch on own

2:00-2:30PM

Final Poster Session

Morning talks focus

2:30-4:30PM

Symposium: Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Learning and Memory

Janet Wiles, University of Queensland (Moderator)

Christina Dalla, Rutgers

Laurenz Wiskott, Humboldt University, Berlin

Sue Becker, McMaster University

4:30-5:00PM

Break

 

5:00-6:30PM

Keynote Speaker

Alex Pouget, University of Rochester

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