The aim of the conference is to discuss experimental approaches that evaluate and assess theoretical mechanistic explanations for how memories are stored, retrieved and maintained in the brain. Several reasons make this the right time to bring together theoreticians and experimentalists to discuss the dynamics of memory. First, the existence of a diversity of experimental techniques - especially, but not exclusively, the ability to record the simultaneous activity of large populations of neurons - which are capable of providing evidence sufficiently precise so as to discard proposed theoretical alternatives. Second, the progressive infiltration of theoretical ideas into experimental journals and forums has made it possible for experimentalists to become familiar and interested in quantitative approaches which, until recently, were only discussed among theoreticians. Because of this, we feel like this conference will be of great interest to systems neuroscientists, both those using experimental as well as theoretical approaches.
Speakers:
Moshe Abeles (Hebrew University, Israel): "Encoding and retrieval of established complex memories"
Matthew Chafee (Univ of Minnesota, USA): "Spatial working memory and rapid neuronal population dynamics in primate parietal cortex"
Albert Compte (IDIBAPS, Spain): "Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of continuous attractors in spatial working memory"
Daniel Durstewitz (BCCN Heidelberg-Mannheim, Germany): "Neural Dynamics during Multiple-Item Working Memory Reconstructed from Multiple Single-Unit Recordings"
Rainer Friedrich (FMIBR, Switzerland): "Transformations of dynamic odor representations in the zebrafish brain"
Mark Goldman (UC Davis, USA): "Microcircuits for short-term memory storage and neural integration"
Wolfgang Maas (FIAS Frankfurt, Germany): "Memory in dynamical systems: From attractors to trajectories"
Matthias Munk (MPI Tuebingen, Germany): "Local and distributed population coding and its relation to neural mass signals"
Alessandro Treves (SISSA, Italy): "Sharp transitions separate distinct phases of latching dynamics"
Misha Tsodyks (Weizmann, Israel): "Scaling laws of associative retrieval from long-term memory"
Kechen Zhang (Johns Hopkins , USA): "Attractor dynamics in the limbic system: Evidence and challenges"
Registration for the event is open until June 30th. Further details about the satellite logistics and registration procedures can be found in the the conference website:
The organizers,
IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
email: acompte@clinic.ub.es
web: http://complab.fcrb.es/complab/pres
No comments:
Post a Comment