Conference Spotlight: Cosyne 2020

Session 1

7.45p Dissecting modularity and redundancy in multi-regional circuits by population recording and modeling.Byungwoo Kang, Guang Chen*, Nuo Li, Shaul Druckmann**

Session 2

8.30a  Mehrdad Jazayeri, Computation-through-dynamics for the temporal control of behavior (invited)

9.15a Flexible neural control of motor units revealed via latent factor models. Najja Marshall, Joshua Glaser, Sean Perkins, Larry Abbott, John Cunningham, Mark Churchland

9.30a Evidence of a memory trace in motor cortex after short‐term learning. Darby Losey, Jay Hennig, Emily Oby, Matt Golub, Patrick Sadtler, Kristin Quick, Stephen Ryu, Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu, Steven Chase

9.45a Separation of preparatory neural states when learning multiple arm-movement dynamics.Xulu Sun, Daniel O’Shea, Matt Golub, Eric Trautmann, Stephen Ryu, Krishna Shenoy

Session 4

2.00p John Cunningham,Automating parameter inference in theoretical neuroscience (invited)

3.15p Gradient-based learning with Hebbian plasticity in structured and deep neural networks. Dina Obeid, Cengiz Pehlevan

Session 6

9.15a Dissecting feedforward and feedback interactions between populations of neurons. Evren Gokcen, Joao Semedo, Amin Zandvakili, Christian Machens, Adam Kohn, Byron Yu

9.45a Assembly Structure Expands the Dimension of Shared Variability in Cortical Networks.  Danielle Rager, Sanjeev Khanna, Matthew Smith, Brent Doiron

Session 9

5.00p Deep neural network modeling of visuomotor transformations during social interaction. Adam Calhoun, Benjamin Cowley, Jonathan Pillow, Mala Murthy

Session 10

8.30a Lisa Giocomo, Multiple maps for navigation (invited)

9.45a A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex. Pinglei Bao, Liang She, Mason McGill, Doris Tsao

Session 11

11.15a A map for odors and place in posterior piriform cortex. Cindy Poo, Gautam Agarwal, Niccolo Bonnachi, Zachary Mainen

11.30a Rapid representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Carl Schoonover, Andrew Fink, Richard Axel

Session 12

2.15p The role of frontal cortex in multisensory decision-making. Philip Coen, Miles Wells, Peter Zatka-Haas, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth Harris

*Some workshop schedules have changed. For the latest updates, please see the Cosyne workshop page.

Interpretable computational neuroscience: What are we modeling and what does it have to do with the brain?

09:00 – 09:10 Matt Whiteway and Josh Glaser Introduction

10:30 – 11:00 Anqi Wu (Columbia) Extracting structure from high-dimensional neural recordings with Bayesian latent variable modelsx-wide calcium imaging data

16:30 – 17:00 Grace Lindsay (UCL) Merging neural circuit models with deep learning

18:00 – 18:30 Lea Duncker (UCL) Fitting models of balanced E/I dynamics to neural data

18:30 – 19:00 Scott Linderman (Stanford) Unifying and generalizing models of neural dynamics during decision-making

Scrutinizing models of brain function: From in-silico stimulus synthesis to direct brain perturbation

Organizers: Arash Afraz, Pouya Bashivan, Jenelle Feather, Kohitij Kar

11:15 – 11:40 Kohitij Kar Chemogenetic and pharmacological perturbations to test circuit motifs critical for core object recognition

Comparative decision making workshop

Organizers: Pamela Reinagel, Tim Hanks, Alex Huk, Roozbeh Kiani

09:45 – 10:15 Florian Engert Neural basis of evidence accumulation and decision making in larval zebra fish

16:30 – 17:00 Zoe Ashwood Discrete latent states underlie sensory decision making behavior

Fifteen years of grid cells

19:05 – 19:30 Surya Ganguli A computation origin for grid cells

Non-canonical neural responses: Where do they come from and what do they do?

09:45 – 10:15 Stefano Fusi Abstract representations: neural responses and their geometry

16:30 – 17:00 Lisa Giocomo Mixed selectivity in neural codes for navigation

18:15 – 18:45 Kanaka Rajan TBD

Neural networks that are neuronal networks: Considerations of neuron morphology in circuit computations.

16:30 – 17:05 Michael Hausser Dendritic computations in vivo – linking experiments and theory

Structure learning: Graphs, manifolds, and geometries

09:40 – 10:05 David Tank Probing variability in a cognitive map from neural dynamics

10:05 – 10:30 Ila Fiete Flexible representation and memory of cognitive variables with grid cells

11 – 11:30 Roozbeh Kiani Decision Making through Integration of Sensory Evidence at Prolonged Timescales

17:20 – 17:45 Ida Momennejad Predictive cognitive maps for generalization and hierarchical planning

18:25 – 18:50 Mehrdad Jazayeri Hierarchical reasoning by neurons in the frontal cortex

Representational drift

10:15 – 10:45 Andrew Fink / Carl Schoonover Rapid representational drift in primary olfactory cortex

17:00 – 17:30 Laura Driscoll Dynamic Reorganization of Neuronal Activity Patterns in Parietal Cortex

The Neurobiology of control

17:40 – 18:05 Florian Engert Evidence accumulation, integration and decision making in larval zebrafish

*Some workshop schedules have changed. For the latest updates, please see the Cosyne workshop page.

Interpretable computational neuroscience: What are we modeling and what does it have to do with the brain?

17:00 – 17:30 David Tank (PNI) TBA

18:15 – 18:45 Larry Abbott (Columbia) Latent States of Latent-State Models

Scrutinizing models of brain function: From in-silico stimulus synthesis to direct brain perturbation

09:10 – 09:35 Eero Simoncelli Testing perceptual consequences of physiological models

11:35-12:00 Pouya Bashivan Using computational models to predict and control the responses in populations of neurons

Comparative decision making workshop

Organizers: Pamela Reinagel, Tim Hanks, Alex Huk, Roozbeh Kiani

09:15 – 09:45 Xiao-Jing Wang Distributed decision-making in a large-scale brain circuit

09:45 – 10:15 Nuo Li Modularity and redundancy in multi-regional circuits underlie robustness of short-term memory: Dissecting multi-regional circuits by population recording and modeling

10:15 – 10:45 Roozbeh Kiani The geometry of the representation of decision variable and stimulus difficulty across the frontoparietal cortex

11 – 11:30 Christian Machens How many dimensions for a single decision?

Fifteen years of grid cells

09:00 -09:25 Ila Fiete TBD

11:10 – 11:35 Lisa Giocomo Multiple maps for navigation

17:20 – 17:45 Beth Buffalo Grid-like responses in the primate entorhinal cortex

Modules in the brain: Compartmentalized and distributed computation across cortical areas

Organizers: Laura Driscoll, Lea Duncker

9:45 – 10:20 Nick Steinmetz Distributed coding of choice, action, and engagement across the mouse brain

10.35 – 11.10 Lucas Pinto Task-specific whole-cortical states during decision making

17.55 – 18.30 Kanaka Rajan Multi-region “networks of networks” models of adaptive and maladaptive state transitions

18:30 – 19:05 Maneesh Sahani Modularity in unsupervised learning

Learning to learn. Novel approaches to studying synaptic plasticity.

9:15 – 9:50 Niru Maheswaranathan Learning unsupervised rules Part II/ Current theoretical studies of synaptic plasticity

10:35 – 11:05 Mitya Chklovskii Analytical derivation of plasticity rules

Closing the gap between neural networks and the brain: A collaborative effort for bridging computational models and experimental data for visual processing

11:00 – 11:25 Dan Yamins Three Big Problems in the Modern DNN Theory of the Ventral Stream, and (Tentative) Approaches to Solutions To Them

18:00 – 18:25 Pinglei Bao A unified model for understanding the functional organization of inferotemporal cortex

18:50 – 19:00 James DiCarlo Reverse engineering the neural mechanisms of human visual intelligence

Learning in piriform cortex

Organizers: Carl Schoonover, Cindy Poo

17:00 – 17:30 Robert Datta Cortex constructs a systematic representation of odor space

Memory, modularity, and attention: Efficient information dispatching in neural computations

10:45 – 11:20 David Sussillo Neural dynamics as a limited resource in multitask networks

11:20 – 11:55 Ida Momennejad Memory for planning: predictive maps and prioritized replay