Thursday, November 13, 2025

UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas

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) 
• 9:35-9:55 Structured remapping in the subiculum: A shared latent code underlies spatial transformations across environments -​​Dori Derdikman (Technion)
• 9:55-10:15 Uncertainty-Driven Mode Switching in Active Sensing and Motor Control - Noah Cowan (Johns Hopkins)
• 10:15-10:35 Path integration impairments reveal early cognitive changes in Subjective Cognitive Decline - Zoran Tiganj (Indiana U)

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

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

• 10:50-11:10 Recalibration of hippocampal path integration gain without angular head velocity gain recalibration of head direction cells - Sueoka Yotaro (Johns Hopkins)
• 11:10-11:30 Path integration gain recalibration and theta rhythm - James Knierim (Johns Hopkins)
• 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.)

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

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

• 12:50-1:10 [to be confirmed] Data-Driven Feature Extraction and Stability of ECoG Speech and Hand Motor Decoding in an ALS Patient - Dean Krusienski (Virginia Commonwealth)
• 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)
• 1:30-1:50 Evidence Integration through Weighted Prediction Error: Behavioral Evidence and Computational Model - Alireza Soltani (Dartmouth)
• 1:50-2:10 Network models of cortical and subcortical interactions for dynamical control of decision making - Rishidev Chaudhuri (UC Davis)

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)
• 2:45-3:05 Dynamics of thalamocortical networks during sensory discrimination - Ariel Gilad (Hebrew University)
• 3:05-3:25 Saccade-Related Evoked Potentials and Their Role in Human Visual Encoding - Gansheng Tan (Washington University)
• 3:25-3:45 Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic Forgetting - Maksim Bazhenov (UC San Diego)

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)
• 4:20-4:40 Encoding Auditory Space in Marmoset Cortex - Yi Zhou (Arizona State University)
• 4:40-5:00 Multiscale temporal integration in the auditory cortex - Sam Norman-Haignere (University of Rochester)

Poster Session + Reception
Time: 5:00 - 7:30 PM

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Friday, November 14, 2025

UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas

Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM

Funder's Panel
Time: 8:30 - 9:15 AM

Keynote 1: Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute, UC San Diego)
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)
• 10:35-10:55 Causality as the Minimum Energy Principle (modeling causality in resting state fMRI) - Moo Chung (University of Wisconsin)
• 10:55-11:15 EEG-DaSh electroencephalography data and tool sharing resource - Arnaud Delorme (UC San Diego)
• 11:15-11:35 Decomposing spiking neural networks with Graphical Neural Activity Threads - Bradley Theilman (Sandia National Lab)

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)
• 11:55-12:15 Learning resting state dynamics from 40K fMRI sequences - Vikas Singh (University of Wisconsin)

Lunch
Time: 12:15 - 1:15 PM

Keynote II: Bruno Olshausen (Berkeley)
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))
• 2:20-2:40 Modeling dorsal and ventral visual pathways for active vision - Zhongming Liu (University of Michigan)
• 2:40-3:00 Robustness and Flexibility of Visual System Organization and Function - Herwig Baier (Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence)
• 3:00-3:20 Cortical processing of high-acuity vision - Daniel Butts (University of Maryland, College Park)

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 and humans - Gagan, Wig (University of Texas, Dallas)
• 3:55-4:15 Submillisecond interactions in large-scale spike train recordings - Kamran Diba (University of Michigan Medical School)

Farewell
Time: 4:15 - 4:30 PM