Conference Spotlight: Cosyne 2022

Session 1

6:30 p.m.: Dopamine specifies the structure of spontaneous behavior Robert Datta (invited)

8 p.m.: Operative Dimensions in High-Dimensional Connectivity of Recurrent Neural Networks Renate Krause, Matthew Cook, Valerio Mante, Giacomo Indiveri

Session 2

9 a.m.: From plans to outcomes: Continuous representations of actions in primate prefrontal cortex
Valerio Mante (invited)

Session 3

11:45 a.m.: What can birds and rodents tell us about human speech? Michael Long (invited)

Session 4

3:45 p.m.: Isolating the role of synaptic plasticity in hippocampal place codes Mark Plitt, Konstantin Kaganovsky, Jun Ding, Thomas Sudhof, Lisa Giocomo

Session 5

Time TBD? A transcriptomic axis predicts state modulation of cortical interneurons Stephane Bugeon, Joshua Duffield, Mario Dipoppa, Anne Ritoux, Isabelle Prankerd, Dimitris Nicoloutsopoulos, David Orme, Maxwell Shinn, Han Peng, Hamish Forrest, Aiste Viduolyte, Charu Bai Reddy, Yoh Isogai, Matteo Carandini, Kenneth D. Harris

Session 6

9 a.m.: Coordinated spike coding Christian Machens (invited)

10 a.m.: Direct measurement of whole-brain functional connectivity in C. elegans Francesco Randi, Anuj Sharma, Sophie Dvali, Andrew M Leifer

Session 7

11:45 a.m.: Optogenetic mapping of circuit connectivity in the motor cortex during goal-directed behavior Arseny Finkelstein, Kayvon Daie, Ran Darshan, Karel Svoboda

12:15 p.m.: Dynamic causal communication channels between neocortical areas Mitra Javadzadeh, Joaquin Rapela, Maneesh Sahani, Sonja B Hofer

Session 11

12:15 p.m.: Deep neural network modeling of a visually-guided social behavior Benjamin Cowley, Adam Calhoun, Nivedita Rangarajan, Jonathan Pillow, Mala Murthy

Session 12

3 p.m.: The synaptic origins and functional role of diverse cortical responses during behavior Jack Toth, Michele Insanally, Robert Froemke, Badr Albanna, Brian DePasquale, Saba Fadaei, Trisha Gupta, Kanaka Rajan

Evolution of memory representations and engrams across time and experience (Day 1)
Organizers: Yaniv Ziv, Denise Cai
Speakers:, Elizabeth Buffalo, Stefano Fusi

Why is everything everywhere (Day 1)?
Organizers: Evan Schaffer, Sue Ann Koay, Philip Coen, Florencia Iacaruso
Speakers: Dora Angelaki

Brain-Score and beyond: confronting brain-like ANNs with neuroscientific data (Day 1)
Organizers: Martin Schrimpf, Tiago Marques, Joel Zylberberg, Kohitij Kar
Speakers: Kanaka Rajan

Illuminating neural computation through perturbations and adaptive experimental designs (Day 1)
Organizers: Daniel O’Shea, Lea Duncker, Anne Draelos, John Pearson Dylan Calame
Speakers: Agostina Palmigiano, Joe Paton, Valerio Mante, Shaul Druckman

Mechanisms, functions, and methods for diversity of neuronal and network timescales
Organizers: Richard Gao, Roxana Zeraati
Speakers: Lucas Pinto

Linking phenomena across levels of analysis: The need for a new multi-level reverse-engineering toolkit
Organizers: Ilker Yildirim, Máté Lengyel
Speakers: Xaq Pitkow, Dora Angelaki

Why is everything everywhere (Day 2)?
Organizers: Evan Schaffer, Sue Ann Koay, Philip Coen, Florencia Iacaruso
Speakers: Adrienne Fairhall, Mala Murthy, Andrew Leifer, Misha Ahrens, Evan Schaffer

Brain-Score and beyond: confronting brain-like ANNs with neuroscientific data (Day 2)
Organizers: Martin Schrimpf, Tiago Marques, Joel Zylberberg, Kohitij Kar
Speakers:Anthony Movshon, Eero Simoncelli, Daniel Yamins

The what, how and when of learning: How do artificial and biological agents approach the problem of learning, and how can approaches from one inform the other? (Day 2)
Organizers: Javier Masís, Athena Akrami, Keno Juechems, Tom Ringstrom Javier Masís
Speakers:Kanaka Rajan

Geometry is all you need? The importance of representational geometry across brain areas and cognitive processes
Organizers: Ramon Nogueira, Valeria Fascianelli, Lorenzo Posani, Mario Dipoppa
Speakers: Stefano Fusi

Understanding Variability in Neural Computations and Behaviors
Organizers: Alex Williams, Adam Calhoun
Speakers: Jonathon Pillow

Emerging roles of co-release of neuromodulators in brain function
Organizers: Srikanth Ramaswamy, Arvind Kumar
Speakers: Bernardo Sabatini