Workshop on cortical dynamics: from the architecture to functions

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Information

• Date: Feb 26 and 27, 2014
• Venue: Northwing lecture room #2 (3F), Faculty of Science Buildg #5 (Dept Physics), Kyoto University
• see the map in the below.
  
• Organizers:
                    Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto University)
                    Shintaro Funahashi (Kyoto University)
  
• Contact and registration: Tomokatsu Onaga (Dept Physics, Kyoto University)
• Participation fee for the workshop: 1,000 JPY (on your arrival)
  

Workshop program

Feb 26th (Wednesday)

10:00-12:30

• ♦ --- opening remark ---
• ♦ Shintaro Funahashi (Kyoto University) Functions of reciprocal connections between prefrontal cortex and thalamic mediodorsal nucleus in spatial working memory.
  
• ♦ David Hansel (CNRS) The balanced state: the standard model and beyond.
• ♦ Melodie Durnez (CNRS) TBA

12:30-14:00 lunch

14:00-15:30

• ♦ Hiroyuki Ito (Kyoto Sangyo University) What spontaneous activities tell us about the cortex? - a review from non-linear science perspective.
• ♦ Satoshi Nishida (Kyoto University) Dynamic switching of target-location signaling in activity of macaque lateral intraparietal neurons during delayed-response visual search.
• ♦ Akio Tanaka (Kyoto University) Persistent activity of prefrontal neurons serves as a source of confidence in short-term memory.

15:30-16:00 break

16:00-17:30

• ♦ Yasuhiro Mochizuki (Kyoto University) TBA.
• ♦ Andrea Benucci (RIKEN BSI) The balance between stimulus- and network-driven dynamics in the primary visual cortex.
• --- discussion ---

18:00- dinner

Feb 27th (Thursday)

09:30-12:30

• ♦ Keiji Miura (Tohoku University) and Takaaki Aoki (Kagawa University) Hodge-Kodaira Decomposition of Evolving Neural Networks.
• ♦ Takashi Shinozaki (NICT) Weak inhibition effectively synchronizes neural population with spontaneous firing.
• ♦ Tomokatsu Onaga (Kyoto University) Bursting transition in a self-exciting point process.
• ♦ Shigeru Shinomoto (Kyoto University) and Ryota Kobayashi (National Institute of Informatics)Estimating Inputs from Neuronal Membrane Potential.
• ♦ --- Closing remark ---

12:30-

• --- discussion & excursion ---

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