Apologies if you receive this more than once. ***** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ***** ***** AND ***** ***** FINAL INVITED PROGRAM ***** FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 30, 2001 Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001 Boston University http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ This interdisciplinary conference focuses on two fundamental questions: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible. Contributed talks will be presented on each of the three conference days. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. All posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Ted Adelson: The perception of surface properties Yiannis Aloimonos: What geometry and statistics tell us about the motion pathway Gail A. Carpenter: Adaptive resonance theory Michael Jordan: Inference and learning in graphical models INVITED SPEAKERS Thursday, May 31, 2001 Larry Abbott: Spike-timing effects in Hebbian synaptic plasticity Wulfram Gerstner: Rapid signal transmission by populations of spiking neurons Nancy Kopell: Rhythms and cell assemblies in the nervous system Wolfgang Maass: Liquid state machines: A new framework for understanding neural computation on spike trains Henry Markram: Neocortical microcircuits of perception, attention, and memory Victor Lamme: The role of recurrent processing in visual awareness Wolf Singer: Neuronal synchrony in cerebral cortex and its functional implications (keynote lecture) Friday, June 1, 2001 Ralph D. Freeman: Organization of receptive fields of neurons in the primary visual cortex Nikos Logothetis: On bistable perception David J. Heeger: Attention and sensory signals in primary visual cortex Maggie Shiffrar: The visual analysis of moving bodies Stephen Grossberg: The complementary brain: Unifying brain dynamics and modularity Allen Waxman: Multi-sensor 3D image fusion technologies Saturday, June 2, 2001 Peter L. Strick: Basal ganglia and cerebellar "loops" with the cerebral cortex: Motor and cognitive circuits Richard Ivry: Timing, temporal coupling, and response selection Daniel Bullock: Action selection and reinforcement learning in a model of laminar frontal cortex and the basal ganglia Christoph Schreiner: Temporal correlation and information transfer in the auditory thalamo-cortical system Rochel Gelman: Continuity and discontinuity in cognitive development: Numerical cognition as a case Maja Mataric: From what you see to what you do: Imitation in humans and humanoid robots Leon Cooper: Bi-directionally modifiable synapses: From theoretical fantasy to experimental fact (keynote lecture) REGISTRATION FORM Fifth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 30, 2001 Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001 FAX: (617) 353-7755 http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. CHECK ONE: ( ) $75 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) ( ) $50 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) ( ) $50 Conference Only (Regular) ( ) $35 Conference Only (Student) ( ) $25 Tutorial Only (Regular) ( ) $15 Tutorial Only (Student) METHOD OF PAYMENT (please fax or mail): [ ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. [ ] I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Name as it appears on the card: _____________________________________ Type of card: _______________________________________________________ Account number: _____________________________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________________________
