Thursday, November 13, 2025

Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas
* Event talks will also be broadcast via zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94307323129

Registration/Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Welcome!
Time: 9:00 - 9:15 AM

Spatial Navigation I
Time: 9:15 - 10:35 AM

• 9:15-9:35 Spatial Representations Emerge in a Model Linking Global Maps to First-Person Perspectives - Jeff Krichmar (UCI) (abstract)
• 9:35-9:55 Structured remapping in the subiculum: A shared latent code underlies spatial transformations across environments -​​ Dori Derdikman (Technion) (abstract)
• 9:55-10:15 Path integration gain recalibration and theta rhythm - James Knierim (Johns Hopkins) (abstract)
• 10:15-10:35 Path integration impairments reveal early cognitive changes in Subjective Cognitive Decline - Zoran Tiganj (Indiana U) (abstract)

Coffee break
Time: 10:35 - 10:50 AM

Spatial Navigation II
Time: 10:50 - 11:50 AM

• 10:50-11:10 Recalibration of path integration in place cells and head-direction cells – Yotaro Sueoka (Johns Hopkins) (abstract)
• 11:10-11:30 Explicit error coding can mediate gain recalibration in continuous bump attractor networks - Noah Cowan (Johns Hopkins) (abstract)
• 11:30-11:50 Sparse-to-dense coding transformation between hippocampal subregions CA3 and CA1 in very large environments - Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Inst. of Sci.) (abstract)
  

Lunch!
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:50 PM

Sensory Motor/Decision Making I
Time: 12:50 - 2:10 PM

• 12:50-1:10 Data-Driven Feature Extraction and Stability of ECoG Speech and Hand Motor Decoding in an ALS Patient - Dean Krusienski (Virginia Commonwealth) (abstract)
• 1:10-1:30 CLAWing toward threshold: how the dynamic interplay of cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic pathways shapes the decision-making process - Timothy Verstynen (CMU) (abstract)
• 1:30-1:50 The Weight of an Error: Generalized Information Integration through Weighted Prediction Errors - Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth) (abstract)
• 1:50-2:10 Dynamic, distributed decision-making by frontostriatal circuits - Rishidev Chaudhuri (UC Davis) (abstract)
  

Coffee break
Time: 2:10 - 2:25 PM

Sensorimotor/Decision Making II and Memory
Time: 2:25 - 3:45 PM

• 2:25-2:45 Perturbing the brain from the inside out - Paul Nuyujukian (Stanford) (abstract)
• 2:45-3:05 Dynamics of thalamocortical networks during sensory discrimination - Ariel Gilad (Hebrew University) (abstract)
• 3:05-3:25 Saccade-Related Evoked Potentials and Their Role in Human Visual Encoding - Gansheng Tan (Washington University) (abstract)
• 3:25-3:45 Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic Forgetting - Maksim Bazhenov (UCSD) (abstract)
  

Coffee break
Time: 3:45 - 4:00 PM

Audition
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 PM

• 4:00-4:20 Laminar Processing in Auditory Cortex ‘Untangles’ Sound Representations During Active Listening - Srivatsun Sadagopan (University of Pittsburgh) (abstract)
• 4:20-4:40 Encoding Auditory Space in Marmoset Cortex - Yi Zhou (Arizona State University) [NO RECORDING] (abstract)
• 4:40-5:00 Multiscale temporal integration in the auditory cortex - Sam Norman-Haignere (University of Rochester) (abstract)
  

Poster Session + Reception
Time: 5:00 - 7:30 PM
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Friday, November 14, 2025

Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas
* Event talks will also be broadcast via zoom: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94307323129

Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Funder's Panel (R: remote)
Time: 8:30 - 9:15 AM

NSF: Dwight Kravitz (speaking), Elizabeth Chua (R), Joseph Toscano (R)
NIH: Siavash Vaziri, PhD (R, speaking)
AFOSR: Hal Greenwald (R)
DLR: Rainer Girgenrath (R)
ANR: Anthony Petit (R, speaking), Daniela Craciun (R),
NICT: Hideki Kashioka (R), Yoshiaki Tsushima (R), Hiroshi Emoto (R)

Keynote 1: Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute, UC San Diego): NeuroAI
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 AM

Coffee break
Time: 10:00 - 10:15 AM

Modeling/Theory
Time: 10:15 - 11:35 AM

• 10:15-10:35 Efficient Training of Large Networks with Constrained Feedback - Jonathan Kadmon (Hebrew University) (abstract)
• 10:35-10:55 Causality as the Minimum Energy Principle (modeling causality in resting state fMRI) - Moo Chung (University of Wisconsin) (abstract)
• 10:55-11:15 EEG-DaSh electroencephalography data and tool sharing resource - Arnaud Delorme & Oren Shriki (UC San Diego) (abstract)
• 11:15-11:35 Decomposing spiking neural networks with Graphical Neural Activity Threads - Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Lab) (abstract)
  

Systems 1
Time: 11:35 AM - 12:15 PM

• 11:35-11:55: How cortical circuits talk: Reorganization of high-dimensional cortical activity across cognitive states and goal-directed behavior - Arseny Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University) (abstract)
• 11:55-12:15 Learning resting state dynamics from 40K fMRI sequences - Vikas Singh (University of Wisconsin) (abstract)
  

Lunch
Time: 12:15 - 1:15 PM

Keynote II: Bruno Olshausen (Berkeley): Neural computations for geometric reasoning
Time: 1:15 - 2:00 PM

Vision
Time: 2:00 - 3:20 PM

• 2:00-2:20: Looking at Neural Representation of Translucent Object Appearance in the Macaque Brain through Artificial Neural Networks - Ryusuke Hayashi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) (abstract)
• 2:20-2:40: Modeling dorsal and ventral visual pathways for active vision - Zhongming Liu (University of Michigan) (abstract)
• 2:40-3:00 Robustness and Flexibility of Visual System Organization and Function - Herwig Baier (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence) (abstract)
• 3:00-3:20. Cortical processing of high-acuity vision - Daniel Butts (University of Maryland, College Park) (abstract)
  

Coffee break
Time: 3:20 - 3:35 PM

Systems II
Time: 3:35 - 4:15 PM

• 3:35-3:55: Correspondence of large-scale functional brain network decline across aging mice, nonhuman primates, and humans - Gagan Wig (University of Texas, Dallas) (abstract)
• 3:55-4:15: Submillisecond interactions in large-scale spike train recordings - Kamran Diba (University of Michigan Medical School) (abstract)
  

Farewell
Time: 4:15 - 4:30 PM