San Diego Cognitive Neuroscience Community


2008 Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Spring Retreat and
Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Symposium in San Diego
Sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program
for the Institute for Neural Computation and the
Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UCSD

Sat. May 3rd, 2008 (8:30 AM to 5:00 PM)

SALK INSTITUTE (Trustees Room)
10010 North Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037 Tel: (858) 453-4100 ext. 1226

REGISTRATION CLOSED


8:50 AM - Welcome - Terry Sejnowski

            

  • Symposium: "Learning and Decisions", Chair: Terry Sejnowski

    • 9:00 am
      William Kristan      , Biology
      “Competition and Cooperation in Making Behavioral Choices”
    • 9:20 am
      Richard Krauzlis, Salk Institute
      “Brainstem Control of Higher-level Vision”
    • 9:40 am
      Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
      “Relevance Signals in Affective Learning”
    • 10:00 am
      Javier Movellan, Institute for Neural Computation/Machine Perception Laboratory, UCSD
      “BEVERLY: A Baby Robot That Learned What Humans Look Like”
    • 10:20 am ~ Break
    • 10:30 am ~ Keynote Talk
      Richard Andersen, Caltech
      “Free Choice Activates Decision Circuits”
    • 11:20 am  ~ Break

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11:30 AM


  • Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks (5 min. each), Chair: Steve Hillyard
    • Inna Fishman: “Revisiting the Old Nature vs. Nurture Debate: ERP (Event-related   potentials) Investigation of the Rewarding Value of Human Faces”
    • Michael Pitts: “Electrophysiological Markers of Neural Competition in Figure-ground Perception”

    • Brock Kirwan: “The Effect of Memory Strength Manipulations in the Medial Temporal Lobe”

    • Ying Wu: “EEG Dynamics of Socially Mediated Learning”
    • Jim Marshel: “Targeting Single Neuronal Networks in Vivo”

    • Lief Gibb: “Inhibition and Neural Feedback in a Computational Model of Birdsong Sequencing”

    • Katie Travis: “Multimodal Neuroimaging of Language Development: A Baby Talk”

    • Lee Lovejoy: “Inactivation of Primate Superior Colliculus Causes Spatial Neglect”

  • Lunch and Poster Session 12:15 PM



1:30 PM – 4:45 PM


  • Third Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research: “From Brains to Minds: Innovative Research Supported by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind”

    • 1:30-1:45 pm
      Marc Wittmann      , Department of Psychiatry, UCSD
      Martin Paulus
      “Decision Making, Time Perception, and Impulsivity”

    • 1:45-2:00 pm
      Rafael Núñez      , Cognitive Science, UCSD
      Ruey-Song Huang, Institute for Neural Computation/Swartz Center, UCSD
      “Neural Basis of Metaphorical Abstraction: An fMRI Study”

    • 2:00-2:15 pm
      Vivian Ciaramitaro, Psychology, UCSD / The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Vision Center Laboratory
      Karen Dobkins
      “Auditory Stimuli Influence Low-Level Visual Processing and Attentional Selection Early in Development”

    • 2:15-2:30 pm
      Katie Travis, Neurosciences, UCSD
      Jeff Elman, Eric Halgren, Anders Dale, Tim Brown, Mingxiong Huang
      “The Spatiotemporal Neural Dynamics of Word Knowledge in the Infant Brain”

    • 2:30-2:45 pm   ~ Afternoon Break

    • 2:45-3:00 pm      
      James Marshel      , Neurosciences, UCSD, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
      Ed Callaway, David Lyon, Ian Wickersham
      “Targeting Single Neuronal Networks in Vivo”

    • 3:00-3:15 pm      
      Peter Wais      , Psychology, UCSD
      John Wixted
      “An fMRI Signal for Both Recollection and Familiarity in the Hippocampus”

    • 3:15-3:30 pm      
      Ethan Bier      , Cell and Develpomental Biology, UCSD
      Harvey Karten    
      “Comparing Gene Expression Patterns in Mammalian and Avian Brains”

    • 3:30-3:45 pm      
      Robert Clark, School of Medicine, UCSD/ VA Medical Center, San Diego
      Larry Squire
      “Seven Day Reversible Hippocampal Lesions:  What Happens to Spatial Memory?”

    • 3:45-4:00 pm
      Brad Aimone, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
      Janet Wiles, Fred Gage, Andrea Chiba
      “Long-term Computational Function of Adult Neurogenesis in Memory Formation”

    • 4:00-4:15 pm      
      Henry Abarbanel, Physics, UCSD
      Tim Gentner
      “Dynamical Electrophysiology: Neurons and Networks”

    • 4:15-4:30 pm      
      Philip Low, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
      Terrence Sejnowski, Fred Gage
      “Sleep EEGs as a High-Resolution Window into Brain Activity”

    • 4:30-4:45 pm
      Anirvan Ghosh, Biological Sciences, UCSD
      Massimo Scanziani
      “Dynamic Instability of Developing Neural Networks”

POSTER SESSION
If you would like to present a poster please enter the title or "TBA" in the registration form
(Dimensions: 48" X 48")


This retreat is sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program for
the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, at UCSD.

comments to: lpalacio@ucsd.edu