Thursday February 27, 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**
Friday February 28, 2020
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
Saturday February 29, 2020
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
Sunday March 01, 2020
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
Monday March 02, 2020
*Some workshop schedules have changed. For the latest updates, please see the Cosyne workshop page.
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
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
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
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
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
17:40 – 18:05 Florian Engert Evidence accumulation, integration and decision making in larval zebrafish
Tuesday March 03, 2020
*Some workshop schedules have changed. For the latest updates, please see the Cosyne workshop page.
17:00 – 17:30 David Tank (PNI) TBA
18:15 – 18:45 Larry Abbott (Columbia) Latent States of Latent-State Models
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?
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
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
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
