2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Spring Retreat And 9th Annual KIBM Symposium On Innovative Research

When:

Saturday, May 10, 2014
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Continental Breakfast served at 8:00 am

Where:

University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center (Auditorium- Room B211, Floor B-2)
10100 John Jay Hopkins Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0523

Guidelines for INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks (5-minute presentations):

Your presentation will be required to be submitted as a pdf file with a maximum of 3 pages/slides (excluding the title/opening slide).
Please submit your presentation in PDF file format to:
Luis Palacios (lpalacio@ucsd.edu) no later than Wednesday, May 7th.

Guidelines forEighth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research.

Presenters are expected to bring their presentations pre-loaded on their own personal laptops.

Agenda

8:00 am	Welcome Continental Breakfast
Symposium: Human Neuroscience Chair: Steve Hillyard
8:30 am	Eric Halgren Department of Radiology, UCSD "The Next 10 Years of Human Intracranial Recordings: Deep Roots, Many Branches"
9:00 am	Todd Coleman Department of Bioengineering, UCSD "Brain Machine Interfaces - Applications and Implications"
9:30 am	Terry Sejnowski Salk Institute & Department of Biology, UCSD "A Sneak Preview of Human Neuroscience in the Final NIH BRAIN Initiative Report"
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	Keynote Speaker: Ralph Greenspan, Director, Center for Brain Activity Mapping, UCSD Talk Title: "Seymour Benzer, Drosophila, and the Improbable Origins of the BRAIN Initiative"
11:00 am	Break

INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks (5-minute presentations) Chair: Terry Sejnowski

11:15 am	Emily Mankin "The Contibutions of Distinct Subregions of Hippocampus to What-Where-When Memory"
11:20 am	Jena Hales "Medial Entorhinal Cortex Lesions and Memory Retrieval in Rats"
11:25 am	Luke Miller "The Role of Vision in Tool Embodiment"
11:30 am	Philip Lai "Characterizing the Social and Affective Phenotype of Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders"
11:35 am	Krista Perks "Mechanisms of Auditory Signal Processing in Natural and Noisy Environments"
11:40 am	Lavanya Krishnan "Cortical Mechanism Underlying Crossmodel Influences on Visual Time-Order Illusion"
11:45 am	Amanda Casale "Behavioral State Determines Cell-Type Specific Gamma-Band Synchronization in V1 of the Awake Mouse"
11:50 am	Ross Metusalem "Hemispheric Difference in Processing the Scenario Relevance of Words in Context"
11:55 am	Edward Ester "Intrinsic Oscillations Modulate the Information Content of Feature-Selective Representations in Human Cortex"
12:00 pm	Lunch

Ninth Annual KIBM Symposium on Innovative Research Chair: Nick Spitzer (1:30pm – 4:15pm)
1:30 pm	Nick Spitzer and Ralph Greenspan Overview of KIBM and CBAM
2:00 pm	Andrea Chiba "Set Me Free: The Potential for Pro-Social Behavior Between Animats and Rats"
2:15 pm	Timothy Gentner "Synaptic Mechanisms for Natural Signal Integration"
2:30 pm	Jason Klug "Dissecting the Pathways of Action Sequence Learning: From Multisite Optogenetics to Computational Models"
2:45 pm	Afternoon Break
3:15 pm	Pamela Reinagel "How Rats Decide to Decide"
3:30 pm	Danielle John "Development of a Novel Electrochemical Immunosensor Method for Biomarker Detection"
3:45 pm	John Wixted "The Representation of Episodic memory in Single Neurons of the Human Hippocampus"
4:00 pm	Nick Spitzer - Farewell remarks

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