2010 NIMH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program Annual Spring Retreat and 5th Annual Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind Annual Symposium on Innovative Research

8:30am  Continental Breakfast served in Foyer

9:00am  Welcome – Terry Sejnowski

9:00am  Symposium on Neural Circuits
Chair:  Steve Hillyard

9:00am  Terry Sejnowski, Salk and UCSD
"Cortical Circuits: Maximizing Reliability"

9:30am  Andrea Hasenstaub, Salk
"Cortical Circuits: Linking network Processes to Cellular properties"

10:00am  Break

10:15am  Keynote Talk
Alcino Silva, UCLA
"Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Memory Allocation in Neural Circuits"

11:00am Break

11:15am INC Cognitive Neuroscience Blitz Talks
Chair:  Terry Sejnowski

11:15 – 11:20am   Frank Haist, Psychiatry Department Center for Human Development, UCSD  
"Brain Systems for Processing "own" and "other" Race Faces"

11:20 – 11:25am   Ricardo Gil-da-Costa, Vision Center Lab, Salk
"Novel MRI Compatible EEG System for Human and Non-human Primates: Investigating Semantic Categories Across Species"

11:25 – 11:30am   Angela Yu, Cognitive Science, UCSD  
"Gauging One's Own Uncertainty"

11:30 – 11:35am   Ben Cipollini, Cognitive Science, UCSD  
"An Explanation of Lateralized Local/Global Processing via Differential Columnar Connectivity"

11:35 – 11:40am  Anup Doshi, ECE, UCSD
"Head and Eye Gaze Dynamics during Visual Attention Shifts in Complex Environments"

11:40 – 11:45am  Hulusi Kafaligonul, Vision Center Lab, Salk
"Evidence That Static Sounds Shift the Temporal Tuning of Lower Visual Motion Areas"

11:45 – 11:50am  Christopher Kanan, Computer Science and   Engineering, UCSD
 "Image Recognition Using Fixations"

11:50 – 11:55am  Vicente Malave, Cognitive Science, UCSD
 "Functional Connectivity with Sparse Graphical Models"

11:55 – 12:00pm  Emily Mankin, Neuroscience, UCSD
 "Coding of Temporal Context in the Hippocampus"

12:00 – 12:05pm  Ned Sahin, Radiology, UCSD
"Sequential Processing in Broca’s Area of Word Identity, Structure, and Sound: Revealed with Intra-cranial Electrophysiology (ICE)"

12:05 – 12:10pm  Pradeep Shenoy, Cognitive Science, UCSD
"An Optimality Framework for Understanding the Psychology and Neurobiology of Inhibitory Control"

 12:15pm  Lunch

1:30pm – 4:00pm  
Fifth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research
"From Brains to Minds: Innovative Research Supported by the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind"
Chairs: Jeff Elman and Nick Spitzer

1:30 – 1:45pm  Stephani Otte, UCSD and Salk
 "Interactions Between Intrinsic Properties and Gamma Oscillations to Control Neuronal Responsiveness"

1:45 – 2:00pm  James Marshel, SNL, Salk and Neurosciences, UCSD
 "Relating Specific Neuronal Network Structure and Function to    Perceptual Experience"

2:00 – 2:15pm  Howard Poizner, INC, UCSD
"Unsupervised Learning:  From Brain to Behavior"

2:15 – 2:30pm   Ayse P. Saygin, Cognitive Science, UCSD
"The Thing That Should Not Be: Human Perception of Natural and Artificial Agents"

2:30pm  Afternoon Break

2:45 – 3:00pm  Katie Travis, Neurosciences, UCSD
"Lexical-Semantic Brain Activity in Infants”

3:00 – 3:15pm  Scott Makeig, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, INC, UCSD
  "Mobile Brain/Body Imaging, a New Functional Brain Imaging      Modality”

3:15 – 3:30pm  Brad Aimone, Salk
 "Feed-forward Inhibition, Theta, and Neurogenesis - How Spike Timing May Reveal New Neurons”

3:30 – 3:45pm  Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science, UCSD
  “Affective Influences on Neurogenesis”