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CNS*2004

The Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting

July 18-20 2004, Baltimore, MD, USA

CNS*2004 meeting program

SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2004

09.00 : Announcements

09.10 : Invited talk: M. Kennedy

ORAL SESSION 1: Ion channels dynamics

10.00 : James B. Maciokas, Philip Goodman, John Kenyon, Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, Henry Markram
Accurate Dynamical Models of Interneuronal GABAergic Channel Physiologies

10.20 : Gergo Orban, Tamas Kiss, Peter Erdi
Theta-frequency synchronization of hippocampal CA1 populations by hyperpolarization-activated currents

10.40 - 11.10 : break

11.10 : Jeremy R. Edgerton, J.E. Hanson, Dieter Jaeger
Effects of dendritic spiking on synaptic integration in globus pallidus neurons

ORAL SESSION 2: Morphology and connectivity

11.30 : Beth L. Chen, Dmitri B. Chklovskii
Why are most neurons in the head?

11.50 : Dmitri B. Chklovskii
Synaptic connectivity and neuronal morphology: two sides of the same coin

12.10 : Ruggero Scorcioni, Giorgio A. Ascoli
Algorithmic reconstruction of complete axonal arborizations in rat hippocampal neurons

12.30 - 14.00 : Lunch

14.00 : Announcements

14.10 : Featured contributed talk: Nathaniel N. Urban, Vikrant Kapoor, Jason Castro
Dendritic integration in accessory olfactory bulb mitral cells (featured contributed talk)

ORAL SESSION 3: Learning

14.50 : Robert Kozma, Derek Wong, Walter J Freeman
Learning intentional behavior in the k-model of the amygdala and the cortico-hippocampal formation

15.10 : Yael Niv, Michael Duff and Peter Dayan
Dopamine, Uncertainty and TD Learning

15.30 - 16.10 : break

ORAL SESSION 4: Synaptic plasticity

16.10 : Anat Elhalal, David Horn
In-vitro neuronal networks evidence for synaptic plasticity

16.30 : Erik Fransen Lars Zanden
A synapse which can switch from inhibitory to excitatory and back

16.50 : Jonathan Rubin, Richard Gerkin, Guoqiang Bi, Carson Chow
Calcium dynamics as a signal for spike-timing dependent plasticity

17.10 : Announcements

19.00 : Poster I (cashbar)

MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004

09.00 : Announcements

09.10 : Invited talk: T. Sejnowski

ORAL SESSION 5: Large scale interactions

10.00 : Alexander Grushin, James A. Reggia
Evolving processing speed asymmetries and hemispheric interactions in a neural network model

10.20 : Carol Whitney, Michal Lavidor
The source of hemifield asymmetries in visual word recognition

10.40 - 11.10 : break

ORAL SESSION 6: Network dynamics

11.10 : Featured contributed talk: Brent Doiron, Maurice J. Chacron, Benjamin Lindner, Leonard Maler, Andre Longtin, Joseph Bastian
Network dynamics and information transfer of natural stimuli in electric fish

11.50 : Zuzanna Piwkowska, Michael Rudolph, Mathilde Badoual, Alain Destexhe, Thierry Bal
Recreating active states in vitro with a dynamic clamp protocol

12.10 : K.D. Harris, P. Bartho, M.B. Zugaro, L. Monconduit, S. Marguet, G. Buzsaki
Disintegration of neocortical cell assemblies under general anesthesia

12.30 : Scott A. Hill, Melissa A. Borla, Jorge V. Jos, Donald M. O'Malley
Neurokinematic modeling of complex swimming patterns of the larval zebrafish

12.50 : Announcements

13.00 - 14.30 : Lunch

14.30 - 18.30 : Poster II (snacks, cashbar)

Banquet

TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2004

08.50 : Announcements

09.00 : Featured contributed talk: Eugene M. Izhikevich
Which Model to Use for Cortical Spiking Neurons?

ORAL SESSION 7: Visual system

09.40 : Jim Bednar, Judah De Paula, Risto Miikkulainen
Self-organization of color opponent receptive fields and laterally connected orientation maps

10.00 : Rama Ratnam, Jozien B. M. Goense
Variance stabilization of spike trains via non-renewal mechanisms - The impact on the speed and reliability of signal detection

10.20 : Ko Sakai, Ogiya Mitsuharu
The role of early vision in the determination of depth and motion from ambiguous binocular information

10.40 - 11.10 : break

ORAL SESSION 8: Single-neuron and population coding

11.10 : Peng Xu and Pamela Abshire
Threshold detection of intensity flashes in the blowfly photoreceptor by an ideal observer

11.30 : Katja Karmeier, Holger G. Krapp, Martin Egelhaaf
Population coding of rapid changes in self-motion by the blowfly visual system

11.50 : A-M. M. Oswald, M.J. Chacron, B. Doiron, J. Bastian, L. Maler
Processing sensory input with bursts and isolated spikes

12.10 : Rachel M. Berquist, Remus M. Osan & Michael G. Paulin
Prey electric field estimation in dogfish: A neuronal population coding model

12.30 : Lauren M. Jones, Asaf Keller
Temporal coding in whisker primary afferents

12.50 : Announcements

13.00 - 15.00 : Lunch

15.00 : Announcements

15.10 : Invited talk: M. Nicolelis
Computing with Neural Ensembles

16.00 - 20.00: Poster III (snacks, cashbar)

Party

POSTER SESSION I: Visual system 1

Timothy Sweeney and Philip Ulinski
Spatial Distribution of Inhibitory Interneurons Expressing Calcium Binding Proteins in Turtle Visual Cortex

Peter Kalocsai
Human sensitivity to face statistics computed on V1 similarity

Haruka Nishimura, Ko Sakai
The computational model for border-ownership determination consisting of surrounding suppression and facilitation in early vision

Mona Mathur and Basabi Bhaumik
Study of spatial frequency selectivity and its spatial organization in the visual cortex through a feedforward model

M.A. Giese, D.A Leopold
Physiologically inspired neural model for the encoding of face spaces

Botond Szatmary, Barnabas Poczos and Andras Lorincz
Finding structure by entropy minimization in coupled reconstruction networks

Axel Etzold, Christian W. Eurich
A direct, interval-based method for reconstructing stimuli from noise-robust tuning curves

Yuguo Yu, Ph.D Tai Sing Lee, Ph.D
Adaptive contrast gain control and information maximization

ortega, guillermo bongard, markus louis, enrique fernandez, eduardo
Rate synchronization as a deterministic signal in neural spike trains

POSTER SESSION I: Sensory systems

Evan Haskell Gary J. Rose
Parallel Processing of Multi-Modal Information in Single Neuron Computation

Niklas Ludtke, Mark E. Nelson
Electrolocation of prey-like stimuli a detection-theoretic approach

Don H. Johnson Jyotirmai Uppuluri
Finding Likely Models that Describe Population Responses

Jonathan L House, Rdiger Krahe, Mark E Nelson
Primary Afferent Responses to Naturalistic Signals and Backgrounds in Weakly Electric Fish

Patrick D. Roberts
Recurrent Neural Network Generates a Basis for Sensory Image Cancellation

Kazuhisa Fujita,Yoshiki Kashimori,Takeshi Kambara
Dynamic population coding for detecting the distance and size of an object in electrolocation

Enrico Rossoni, Gareth Leng, Jianfeng Feng
Modeling the milk-ejection reflex

POSTER SESSION I: Hippocampus 1

Alexei V. Samsonovich, Giorgio A. Ascoli
Algorithmic Description of Hippocampal Granule Cell Dendritic Morphology

Duncan E. Donohue and Giorgio A. Ascoli
Morphological Noise in a Computational Model of Dendritic Branching

Michael E. Hasselmo
Hippocampal and prefrontal cortical mechanisms in goal-directed and memory-guided behavior

F. Saraga, J.J. Lawrence, J.M. Statland, C.J. McBain and F.K. Skinner
Modeling IM Channels in Hippocampal CA1 Oriens/Alveus Interneurons

M. Stead, G.A. Worrell, and B. Litt
Frequency dependence in the long-range temporal correlation human hippocampus energy fluctuations

Alan H. Bond
Representing episodic memory in a system-level model of the brain

A. Madany Mamlouk, H. Sharp, K. M. L. Menne, U. G. Hofmann, T. Martinetz
Unsupervised spike sorting with ICA and its evaluation using GENESIS simulations

Xiangbao Wu, William B Levy
Increasing CS and US longevity increases the learnable trace interval

David S. Touretzky
Path Integrator Contributions to Hippocampal Map Formation

Ashlie B. Hocking and William B Levy
Computing Conditional Probabilities in a Minimal CA3 Pyramidal Neuron

Maria Markaki, Stelios Orphanoudakis and Panayiota Poirazi
Modelling reduced excitability in aged CA1 neurons as a calcium-dependent process

Pawel Kudela, Piotr J Franaszczuk, Gregory K Bergey
Modeling of intracellular Ca2+ during epileptic seizures

POSTER SESSION I: Information coding 1

Dileep George
Inter-spike-interval Coding and Computation with Integrate and Fire Neurons

Thomas Hoch, Gregor Wenning and Klaus Obermayer
Correlations in the background activity allow the use of single neuron learning rules in populations

V Del Prete and ACC Coolen
Population dynamics of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons quantifying the contribution of spike timing to coding

Andras Lorincz
Is neocortical encoding of sensory information intelligent?

Patrick Crotty and William B Levy
Energy-Efficient Interspike Interval Codes

Liam Paninski, Jonathan Pillow, Eero Simoncelli
Comparing integrate-and-fire-like models estimated using intracellular and extracellular data

Thomas Wennekers and Nihat Ay
Stochastic Interaction in Associative Nets

Aaron P. Shon Rajesh P. N. Rao
Implementing belief propagation in neural circuits

Aurel A. Lazar
Time Encoding with Integrate-and-Fire Neurons

POSTER SESSION I: System dynamics

Kosuke Hamaguchi Masato Okada Michiko Yamana Kazuyuki Aihara
Stochasticity in Localized Synfire Chain

Rubn Moreno-Bote Nstor Parga
Simple model neurons with AMPA and NMDA filters. The role of the synaptic time scales

Friedrich T. Sommer Thomas Wennekers
Synfire chains with conductance-based neurons internal timing and coordination with timed input

Benjamin Lindner, Jan Benda, and Andre Longtin
Effect of spike-driven feedback on the firing statistics of noisy spike generators

Joanna R. Pressley, Todd W. Troyer
A-Currents Reduce Spike Synchrony Driven by Input Transients

Sean Carver, Tim Kiemel, Herman van der Kooij, John Jeka
Comparing Internal Models of the Dynamics of the Visual Environment

Robert L. Fry
Neural Statics and Dynamics

POSTER SESSION I: EEG/MEG

Yoichi Miyawaki, Masato Okada
Mechanisms of spike inhibition in a cortical network induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Murielle Hsu David Hsu
A piece-wise harmonic Langevin model of EEG dynamics Theory and application to EEG seizure detection

Zoltn Somogyvri, Gbor Borbth, Lszl Zalnyi, Istvn Ulbert, Pter rdi
Electrode-cell distance estimation method, based on spatial potential patterns of spiking cells

Freeman, Walter J
Self Organized Criticality in Scale-Free Neocortical Dynamics

Yuqiao Gu, Bjrn Wahlund, Hans Liljenstrm, Dietrich von Rosen and Hualou Liang
Analysis of Phase Shifts in Clinical EEG Evoked by ECT

POSTER SESSION I: Cellular mechanisms

Renaud Jolivet, Alexander Rauch, Hans-Rudolf Lscher, Wulfram Gerstner
Reduced models of neuronal activity have spike timing predictive power

Clay Campaigne and Philip Ulinski
Temporal Dynamics of Three Populations of Inhibitory Interneurons in Turtle Visual Cortex

Peter Roper
Frequency-dependent depletion of secretory vesicle pools modulates bursting in vasopressin neurones of the rat supraoptic nucleus

Mandana Ahmadi, Timothy J. Lewis, John Rinzel
Bistability in a Two-Compartment Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neuron

Gutkin, B.; Stiefel, K; Sejnowski, T.
Cholinergic modulation of phase response curves of cortical pyramidal neurons

Mathilde Badoual, Michael Rudolph, Zuzanna Piwkowska, Alain Destexhe, Thierry Bal
High discharge variability in neurons driven by current noise

Luk Chong Yeung, Harel Z. Shouval and Leon N Cooper
A Biophysical Model of Metaplasticity Can Account for Homeostatic Synaptic-Scaling

POSTER SESSION I: Thalamus and brainstem

Eric Brown, Jeff Moehlis, Mark Gilzenrat, Philip Holmes, Ed Clayton, Gary Aston-Jones, and Jonathan Cohen
A neural mechanism for optimizing task performance

C.M. Weaver, R. Baker, and S.L. Wearne
Morphologic contributions to velocity storage neural integration

P. Achard, R. Rodriguez, G. Hilaire
Model of maturation of the respiratory rhythm generator

William Lytton, Michael O'Laughlin and Daniel Uhlrich
Paroxysm potentiation synaptic potentiation enhances repetitive epileptiform discharge without enhancing evoked response

Marco A. Huertas, Jeffrey R. Groff, Gregory D. Smith
The effect of feedback inhibition on throughput properties of the dLGN/PGN

Young-Ah Rho, Jaeseung Jeong, and Kyoung J. Lee
A possible synchronization mechanism of the suprachiasmatic nucleus based on the phase-response curve

POSTER SESSION I: Invertebrates:

Z. N. Aldworth A. G. Dimitrov J. P. Miller
Driving Neuronal Responses Using Stimulus Feedback in the Cricket Cercal Sensory System

Yikun Huang John P. Miller
Phased Array Processing for Spike Discrimination

Randall D. Hayes, John H. Byrne, Steven J. Cox and Douglas A. Baxter
Estimation of Single-Neuron Model Parameters from Spike Train Data

Victoria Booth, Amitabha Bose
Multistability in inhibitory networks with depressing synapses

Andrey Shilnikov, Ronald L. Calabrese, and Gennady Cymbalyuk
Transition between tonic spiking and bursting in a neuron model

Peter Andras
Neural activity pattern systems

POSTER SESSION II: Olfactory system

Thomas A. Cleland Praveen Sethupathy
Non-topographical contrast enhancement enables disambiguation of high-dimensional neural representations

HUGUES Etienne, MARTINEZ Dominique
Encoding in a network of sparsely connected spiking neurons application to locust olfaction

Jason Castro Vikrant Kapoor Nathan Urban
Analysis of the mitral cell-granule cell reciprocal synapse adaptation and divisive scaling

Orit Kliper, David Horn, Brigitte Quenet
The inertial-DNF Model Spatiotemporal Patterns with Two Time-Scales

Christiane Linster, Silke Sachse, Giovanni Galizia
Olfactory contrast enhancement by functional inhibition in the honeybee antennal lobe

G. Gradwohl and Y. Grossman
A THEORETICAL COMPUTER MODEL OF CELLULAR MODIFICATION ASSOCIATED WITH OLFACTORY LEARNING IN THE RAT PIRIFORM CORTEX

Blejec Andrej
Statistical method for detection of firing rate changes in spontaneously active neurons

Catherine A. Lowry Leslie M. Kay
OSCILLATORY DYNAMICS OF OLFACTORY STRUCTURES IN RESPONSE TO PREDATOR AND NON-PREDATOR ODORS

POSTER SESSION II: Visual system 2

Rodrigo F. Oliveira, Luciano da Fontoura Costa, Antonio C. Roque
A Possible Mechanism of Curvature Coding in Early Vision

Charles Raliff, Peter Sterling, Vijay Balasubramanian
More dark information in natural scenes requires denser mosaics of OFF ganglion cells

Subramonia Sarma, Yoonsuck Choe
Salience of Orientation-Filter Responses as Suspicious Coincidence in Natural Images

Neil D. B. Bruce
Features That Draw Visual Attention An Information Theoretic Perspective

Heiko Stemmann, Winrich A. Freiwald, Aurel Wannig, Erich L. Schulzke, Christian W. Eurich
Encoding of Dynamic Visual Stimuli by Primate Area MT Neurons

Wenxue Wang Bijoy K. Ghosh
Detection of Video Inputs Using the WUNG Model

Maciej T. Lazarewicz, Sandhitsu Das, Leif H. Finkel
Recognition of Temporal Event Sequences by a Network of Cortical Neurons

POSTER SESSION II: Hippocampus 2

David W. Sullivan and William B Levy
Activity Affects Trace Conditioning Performance in a Minimal Hippocampal Model

Peter A. Murray and Frances K. Skinner
Reduced Kinetic Schemes of Short-term Synaptic Plasticity in Inhibitory Network Models

Theoden I. Netoff, Jonh A. White
Bridging single cell and network dynamics

W.R. Holmes S. Zeng
Stochastic model of calcium initiated reactions in a dendritic spine

Leslie M. Kay
Performance and olfactory-hippocampal theta band coherence

Zsofia Huhn, Gergo Orban, Mate Lengyel, Peter Erdi
Dendritic spiking accounts for rate and phase coding in a biophysical model of a hippocampal place cell

Jonghan Shin, Daesoo Kim, and Hee-Sup Shin
Theta rhythm during passive whole body rotation is absent in phospholipase1 knockout mice

J. Ziburkus J.R. Cressman E. Barreto S.J. Schiff
Dynamical evolution of neuronal interactions during in vitro seizures

Toru Aonishi Hiroyoshi Miyakawa Masashi Inoue Masato Okada
Effect of Dendritic Backpropagating Action Potential on Neural Interaction

Gabor Szirtes, Barnabas Poczos and Andras Lorincz
Neural Kalman-filter

J.A. Gillis; W.P. Luk; L. Zhang; F.K. Skinner
Characterizing in vitro Hippocampal Ripples using Time-Frequency Analysis

Theoden I. Netoff, Robert Clewley, Scott Arno, Tara Keck, John A. White
Epilepsy in Small-World Networks

POSTER SESSION II: Memory

Kabaso, D.M., Luebke, J.I., Hof, P.R. and Wearne, S.L.
Modeling Morphologic Contributions to Age-Related Alterations in Neuronal Excitability

Mauktik Kulkarni, Kechen Zhang
A biophysical model of graded persistent activity in a single neuron

John A. Wolf, Jason T. Moyer, Leif H. Finkel
The Role of NMDA Currents in State Transitions of the Medium Spiny Neuron in a Network Model of the Nucleus Accumbens

Jeremy B. Caplan, Mackenzie Glaholt, Terence W. Picton and Anthony R. McIntosh
Unifying memory for associations and lists using cognitive theory, behavioural testing and brain activity

Narihisa Matsumoto, Daisuke Ide, Masataka Watanabe, Masato Okada
Synaptic Depression Enlarges Basin of Attraction

Koki Yamashita, Shoji Tanaka
Parametric study of dopaminergic neuromodulatory effect in a reduced model of the prefrontal cortex

Algis Garliauskas
ESTIMATION OF NONLINEARITIES TO STORAGE CAPACITY OF NN BY ALTERNATIVE MFT

Shoji Tanaka
State-dependent alteration of dopamine and glutamate transmission in the prefrontal cortex by psychostimulants

Yoshihisa Kubota, Tara R. Gaertner, John A. Putkey and M. Neal Waxham
A Novel Monte-Carlo Simulation of Molecular Interaction and Diffusion in Postsynaptic Spine

Anders Sandberg, Erik Fransen
An Autocatalytic Model of STDP Timing from Slow Calcium Signals

Tetsuto Minami Toshio Inui
Roles of the prefrontal neurons in delayed matching-to-category task A modeling study

POSTER SESSION II: Information coding 2

Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver
Multiplicative gain modulation for linear and non-linear inputs

Sheng Li Si Wu
On the Variability of Cortical Neural Responses A Statistical Interpretation

Dileep George, Friedrich T. Sommer
Computing with Inter-spike Interval Codes in Networks of Integrate and Fire Neurons

Bjrn Naundorf, Theo Geisel, Fred Wolf
Dynamical Response Properties of a Canonical Model for Type-I Membranes

Christopher J. Rozell and Don H. Johnson
Examining methods for estimating mutual information in spiking neural systems

Go ASHIDA
Signal Size Detection by Noisy Neurons

Gregor Wenning, Thomas Hoch, Klaus Obermayer
The Role of Colored Noise in Pulse Detection, a leaky Integrate-and-Fire Model Study

POSTER SESSION II: Network properties 1

Kousuke Abe
Existence of stable states of stochastic dynamics in a model of neocortex

Michael Stich and Manuel G. Velarde
Dynamics of a small network of spiking neurons

Thomas P. Trappenberg and Dominic I. Standage
Multi-packet regions in stabilized continuous attractor networks

Christina Ambrosio, Amitabha Bose, Farzan Nadim
The Effect of Modulatory Neuronal Input on Gastric Mill Frequency

Hamish Meffin, Anthony N. Burkitt, David B. Grayden
Dynamically Adjustable Contrast Enhancement from Cortical Background Activity

Gabor Szirtes, Zsolt Palotai and Andras Lorincz
Noise induced structures in STDP networks

David C. Tam, Ph.D.
Motion Detection in Hexagonal Arrays of Insect Ommatidia

Eugene M. Izhikevich, Joseph A. Gally, Gerald M. Edelman
Spike-Timing Patterns in Cortical Neural Networks With Axonal Conduction Delays

POSTER SESSION II: Motor system 1

M.R.Berends, R. Maex, E. De Schutter
The effect of NMDA receptors on gain modulation in cerebellar granule cells

Yutaka Hirata, Akimasa Yoshikawa, Pablo M. Blazquez, Stephen M. Highstein
Evaluation of the inverse dynamic model in cerebellum during visual-vestibular interactions at different VOR gains in squirrel monkeys

A. Fishbach, S.A. Roy, C. Bastianen, L.E. Miller, J.C. Houk
Discrete Corrective Submovements in the Monkey Predictive Control under Uncertainty

Joe Graham Victoria Booth Ranu Jung
Modeling Motoneurons after Spinal Cord Injury Persistent Inward Currents and Plateau Potentials

Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski Dietmar Plenz Kim T Blackwell
The role of background synaptic noise in striatal fast spiking interneurons

Wei Wu, Wilson Truccolo, Maryam Saleh, David Mumford, John P. Donoghue
Movement Direction Decoding using Fast Oscillation in Local Field Potential and Neural Firing during Instructed Delay in a Center-Out Reaching Task

Uri T. Eden Emery N. Brown
Adaptive Decoding of Hand Movement Trajectories from Simulated Spike Train Observations from a Dynamic Ensemble of Motor Cortical Neurons

S. A. Oprisan, and C. C. Canavier
Stability criterion for a two-neuron reciprocally coupled network based on the phase and burst resetting curves

Leonid L. Rubchinsky, Nancy Kopell, Karen A. Sigvardt
Normal and Parkinsonian Control of Motor Programs in Pallidal and Subthalamic Networks of Basal Ganglia

Rafael Rodriguez-Rojas1, Lazaro Alvarez, Rolando Palmero, Raul Macias, Maylen Carballo, Mario Alvarez
Neural activity changes in Supplementary Motor Area induced by dopaminergic treatment in parkinsonian patients

Amitabha Bose, Timothy J. Lewis, Richard J. A. Wilson
Two-oscillator model of ventilatory rhythmogenesis in the frog

POSTER SESSION II: Robots and silicon neurons

L. Cozzi, P. D'Angelo, M. Chiappalone, A.N. Ide, A. Novellino, S. Martinoia, V. Sanguineti
Coding and decoding of information in a bi-directional neural interface

Chiara Bartolozzi Giacomo Indiveri
A Selective Attention Chip for implementing multi-chip sensory systems

D.P. Tsakiris, A. Menciassi, M. Sfakiotakis, G. La Spina and P. Dario
Undulatory locomotion of polychaete annelids mechanics, neural control and robotic prototypes

POSTER SESSION III: Visual system 3

Christoph Rasche
Signaling Contours by Retinal Wave Propagation

Timothy Melano and Charles M. Higgins
The Neuronal Basis of Direction Selectivity in Lobula Plate Tangential Cells

Emilio Salinas
A model of target selection based on goal-dependent modulation

Baran Curuklu, Anders Lansner
A Model of the Summation Pools within the Layer 4 (Area 17)

Zuley Rivera-Alvidrez Charles M. Higgins
Contrast Saturation in a Neuronally-Based Model of Elementary Motion Detection

B.A. Siegler, M. Ritchey, J.E. Rubin
Spike-timing dependent plasticity as a mechanism for ocular dominance shift

Ruediger Kupper, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Edgar Koerner
Spike-latency codes and the effect of saccades

M. Szabo, R. Almeida, G. Deco, M. Stetter
A neuronal model for the shaping of feature selectivity in IT by visual categorization

Benoit Gaillard Jianfeng Feng
Modelling a Visual Discrimination Task

Nadja Schinkel Klaus R. Pawelzik Udo A. Ernst
Robust integration and detection of noisy contours in a probabilistic neural model

Yoshiki Kashimori, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Kazuhisa Fujita, Meihong Zheng, Takeshi Kambara
A functional role of multiple spatial resolution maps in form perception along the ventral visual pathway

POSTER SESSION III: Auditory system

Kaushik Ghose & Cynthia F. Moss
The bat's head aim governs flight, simplifying computation during interception

Ruben Tikidji Hamburyan, Sofia Polevaya
Sound-Source Localization by Neural Network Based on Modified Integrate-and Fire Neuron Model with Autopolarization

Taesu Kim and Soo-Young Lee
Learning self-organized topology-preserving complex speech features at primary auditory cortex

Rajiv Narayan, Kamal Sen
A computational model for discrimination of natural sounds

William Tam and Kechen Zhang
A Recurrent Network Model of Eye-Position Effect on Auditory Receptive Field

Rock Z. Shi and Timothy Horiuchi
Excitation and Inhibition in Bat Azimuthal Echolocation

Ramana Dodla John Rinzel
Phasic, tonic, and mixed mode firing of an auditory neuron model -- bifurcation analysis

Kazuhisa Fujita, ShungQuang Huang, Yoshiki Kashimori, Takeshi Kambara
Neural mechanism of detecting interaural intensity differences in the owl's auditory brainstem for sound location

POSTER SESSION III: Attention

Hualou Liang, Steven L. Bressler, Robert Desimone, Pascal Fries
Empirical Mode Decomposition A Method for Analyzing Neural Data

Calin I. Buia, Paul H. E. Tiesinga
Rapid temporal modulation of synchrony in cortical interneuron networks with synaptic depression

Andras Lorincz
Attentional filtering in neocortical areas A top-down model

POSTER SESSION III: Speech and language

Karl Magnus Petersson
ON THE RELEVANCE OF THE NEUROBIOLOGICAL ANALOGUE OF THE FINITE STATE ARCHITECTURE

Peter Grenholm Karl Magnus Petersson
ARTIFICIAL GRAMMAR LEARNING A CASE STUDY OF THE REBER GRAMMAR

Alan H. Bond
A psycholinguistically and neurolinguistically plausible system-level model of natural-language syntax processing

POSTER SESSION III: Network properties 2

Michael Rudolph and Alain Destexhe
Multi-channel shot noise and characterization of cortical network activity

Christopher P. Fall, John Rinzel
An Intracellular Ca2+ Subsystem as a Biologically Plausible Source of Intrinsic Bistability in a Network Model of Working Memory

Andreas Knoblauch
Statistical implications of clipped Hebbian learning of cell assemblies

Michela Chiappalone, Antonio Novellino, Ildiko Vajda, Alessandro Vato, Sergio Martinoia and Jaap van Pelt
Burst detection algorithms for the analysis of spatio-temporal patterns in cortical networks of neurons

Carter Wendelken Lokendra Shastri
Connectionist Mechanisms for Cognitive Control

Jonathan Rubin Amitabha Bose
Localized activity patterns in excitatory neuronal networks

Q.Zou, M.Rudolph, N.Roy, M.Sanchez-Vives, D.Contreras, A.Destexhe
Reconstructing synaptic background activity from conductance measurements in vivo

J. Michael Herrmann, Hecke Schrobsdorff, Theo Geisel
Localized Activations in a Simple Neural Field Model

Charles H. Anderson and Brian Fischer
Large Scale Networks for Contextual Inference, Routing and Motor Control

Ofer Melamed, Gilad Silberberg, Henry Markram, Wulfram Gerstner and Magnus J.E. Richardson
Subthreshold cross-correlations between cortical neurons A reference model with static synapses

M. Kubo, K. Abe, G. Ashida
New Technique for analyzing stationary global activity in neural networks

Jan Karbowski and G.B. Ermentrout
Modeling genetic control of thalamo-cortical connections and area patterning

John Matthew Beggs
Living cortical networks at the critical point may optimize information transmission and storage simultaneously

Mauro Copelli Rodrigo F. Oliveira Antonio Carlos Roque Osame Kinouchi
Signal Compression in the Sensory Periphery

Armen B. Stepanyants, Judith A. Hirsch, Luis M. Martinez, Zoltan F. Kisvarday, Alex S. Ferecsk, and Dmitri B. Chklovskii
POTENTIAL CONNECTIVITY IN LOCAL CORTICAL CIRCUITS

Kenji Morita, Kazuyuki Aihara
A network model with pyramidal cells and GABAergic non-FS cells in the cerebral cortex

POSTER SESSION III: Synchronization and oscillation

Steve Bellinger
Modeling Astrocyte Communication

Hiroshi Okamoto, Yoshikazu Isomura, Masahiko Takada, Tomoki Fukai
Investigating the time course of single-trial activity of neurons that show gradual increase or decrease in histograms

Kenneth P. Eaton and Craig S. Henriquez
Confounded spikes generated by synchrony within neural tissue models

Paul Tiesinga
Reliability resonance boosts activity in downstream cortical areas

Ho Young Jeong & Boris Gutkin
Study on the role of GABAergic synapses for synchronization

Andrey Shilnikov, Ronald L. Calabrese, and Gennady Cymbalyuk
How a neuron model can demonstrate co-existence of tonic spiking and bursting?

POSTER SESSION III: Motor system 2

Xiuxia Du, Bijoy K. Ghosh
Modelling of the Basal Ganglia Affected by Huntington's Disease

Carmen C. Canavier
The effect of interspike waveform on phase resetting and its impact on the regularity of the firing pattern

Boothe, D.L., Cohen, A.H. Neuro. & Cog. Sci. Program, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
A STOCHASTIC NEURAL NETWORK MODEL OF LIMBED LOCOMOTION

A. Kuznetsov, C Wilson, and N. Kopell
Modeling of the transient firing of the nigral dopamine neuron in vivo and in slices

Christian Hauptmann, Oleksandr Popovych, Peter Tass
Delayed feedback control of synchronization in locally coupled and stimulated networks

Mark Shelhamer
Phase transition between reactive and predictive eye movements is confirmed with nonlinear prediction and surrogates

Wilsaan M. Joiner Mark Shelhamer
An Investigation of the Relative Stability of Reactive and Predictive Oculomotor Tracking

Alexander Lerchner, John Rinzel
Synaptic Model for Spontaneous Activity in Developing Networks

POSTER SESSION III: Learning and Plasticity

Naoki Masuda, Kazuyuki Aihara
Encoding Multiple Temporal Waveforms by Neural Population with Spike-time-dependent Plasticity

Chris L. Baker, Aaron P. Shon, Rajesh P.N. Rao
Learning Temporal Clusters with Synaptic Facilitation and Lateral Inhibition

Neel Shah, Luk Chong Yeung, Harel Z. Shouval and Leon N Cooper
A biophysical basis for the inter-spike interaction of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity

Anatoli Gorchetchnikov and Michael E. Hasselmo
A simple rule for spike-timing-dependent plasticity local influence of AHP current

Jean-Pascal Pfister David Barber Wulfram Gerstner
Optimal Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity for Precise Action Potential Firing

POSTER SESSION III: Synaptic mechanisms and signal transduction

Joanna Tyrcha and William B Levy
Synaptic Failures and a Gaussian Excitation Distribution

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Extracting information from the power spectrum of voltage noise

Thomas Sangrey and William B Levy
Conduction Velocity Costs Energy

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Cortical microcircuit with adapting synapses

POSTER SESSION III: Databases and software

Kay A. Robbins, Igor Grinshpan, Kevin Allen, David M. Senseman
Synchronized Views for Exploring Populations of Neurons

William Lytton and Michael Hines
No event left behind adapting variable timestep integration to networks

Thomas Frster, Andreas VM Herz, and Raphael Ritz
NIPClassificator - Toward an evolvable neuroinformatics ontology