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Mercredi 8 octobre 2008




A partir de 17h00

Inscription + Apero bienvenue (18h00)

19h00 - 20h30 : Session inaugurale (chair : Laurent Perrinet)

19:00 - 19:15 : Introduction et présentation de l'initiative Neurocomp Frédéric Alexandre

19:15 - 20:30 : Cortical network dynamics - Precision in a noisy environment Ad Aertsen (Invited Talk)




Jeudi 9 octobre 2008



8h00 - 9h00 : Inscription + installation posters 1

9h00 - 10h40 : Session 1 (chair : Viktor Jirsa)

9:00 - 10:00 : The Intrinsic Properties of the Brain: The Role of Fluctuations During Rest Gustavo Deco (Invited Talk)

10:00 - 10:20 : Interactions of motion and form in the visual cortex - a neural model Cornelia Beck, Heiko Neumann (ref. 1.1)

10:20 - 10:40 : Functional properties of feed-forward inhibition Jens Kremkow, Laurent Perrinet, Ad Aertsen, Guillaume Masson (ref. 1.2)

10h40 - 11h00 : Café

11h00 - 12h15 : Session 2 - Neuron models (chair : Alain Destexhe)

11:00 - 11:20 : Methods for comparing and constraining models of dendritic spines Skene Nathan, Nasuto Slawomir (ref. 2.1)

11:20 - 11:40 : Modélisation des rythmes rapides bêta et gamma du bulbe olfactif Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé (ref. 2.2)

S P O T L I G H T S

11:40 - 11:45 : A formalization of the computational impact of intrinsic plasticity Jérémie Naudé, Stéphane Genet, Hugues Berry, Séverine Mahon, Jeanne Paz, Bruno Delord (ref. 2.3)
11:45 - 11:50 : Noise induced tuned decrease in firing in neural models: inverse stochastic resonance Boris Gutkin, Henry Tuckwell, Juergen Jost (ref. 2.4)
11:50 - 11:55 : Estimation des paramètres du modèle d'Hodgkin-Huxley par des métaheuristiques Laure Buhry, Sylvain Saighi, Audrey Giremus, Eric Grivel, Sylvie Renaud (ref. 2.5)
11:55 - 12:00 : Nicotine control of dopamine signaling in the Ventral Tegmental Area Michael Graupner, Boris Gutkin (ref. 2.6)
12:00 - 12:05 : Stimulus-dependency in the power-law scaling of the subthreshold activity of V1 cells Olivier Marre, Sami El Boustani, Sébastien Béhuret, Cyril Monier, Thierry Bal, Alain Destexhe, Yves Frégnac (ref. 2.7)
12:05 - 12:10 : Quantifying Neural Correlations Using Lempel-Ziv Complexity Jean-Luc Blanc, Nicolas Schmidt, Loic Bonnier, Laurent Pezard, Annick Lesne (ref. 2.8)
12:10 - 12:15 : Implementation of a bayesian Filter in a Photoreceptor Cell Audrey Houillon, Jacques Droulez (ref. 2.9)

12h15 - 13h15 : Déjeuner

13h15 - 14h30 : Poster Session 1

14h30 - 16h10 : Session 3 (chair : Alexa Riehle)

14:30 - 15:30 : Dynamical Field Theory as a neuronally grounded framework for understanding cognition Gregor Schöner (Invited Talk)


S P O T L I G H T S

15:30 - 15:35 : On practical neural field parameters adjustment Frédéric Alexandre, Jérémy Fix, Axel Hutt, Nicolas Rougier, Thierry Viéville (ref. 3.1)

15:35 - 15:40 : Detection de contours visuels par un modele de champ neuronal Mathieu Galtier, Olivier Faugeras (ref. 3.2)

15:40 - 15:45 : Implémentation d'un mécanisme de "covert attention" avec un réseau de neurones impulsionnels Sylvain Chevallier, Philippe Tarroux (ref. 4.1)

15:45 - 15:50 : Fisher vs Shannon information in Populations of Neurons Peggy Series (ref. 4.2) 

15:50 -15:55 : A model of neural mechanisms in monocular transparent motion perception Florian Raudies, Pierre Bayerl, Heiko Neumann (ref. 4.3)

15:55 - 16:00 : A simple mechanism to reproduce the neural solution of the aperture problem in monkey area MT Maria-Jose Escobar, Guillaume Masson, Pierre Kornprobst (ref. 4.4)

16:00 - 16:05 : A Model of Optimal Oculomotor Strategies in Reading for Normal and Damaged Visual Fields Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin, Anna Montagnini, Eric Castet (ref. 4.5)
16:05 - 16:10 : Explicit uncertainty for eye movement selection Francis Colas, Fabien Flacher, Pierre Bessière, Benoît Girard (ref. 4.6)
16:10 - 16:15 : Letter perception: from item-level erps to computational models Arnaud Rey, Stéphane Dufau, Stéphanie Massol, Jonathan Grainger (ref. 4.7)

16h15 - 17h10 : Café + Poster Session 1  (continued)

17h10 - 18h30 :  Session 4 - Biophysical and behavioral models (chair : Frédéric Alexandre)

17:10 - 17:30 : A computational approach to the covert and overt deployment of spatial attention Jérémy Fix, Nicolas Rougier, Frédéric Alexandre (ref. 4.8)
17:30 - 17:50 : Biophysical cortical column model for optical signal analysis Sandrine Chemla, Thierry Viéville, Frederic Chavane (ref. 5.1)
17:50 - 18:10 : Modélisation macroscopique du complexe Hippocampe-Cortex Entorhinal Fabrice Wendling, Etienne Labyt, Fabrice Bartolomei (ref.. 5.2)
18:10 - 18:30 : 3D navigation with an insect-inspired autopilot Geoffrey Portelli, Julien Serres, Franck Ruffier, Nicolas Franceschini (ref.  6.1)

20h00 - 23h00 : Banquet

La Vigie, Restaurant de l'UNM - 34 Boulevard Charles Livon - 13007 Marseille - Tél. : 04 91 52 80 98



Posters Session 1



Neuron models

Neural fields and attractor models

Computational vision

Functional and connexionnist models





Vendredi 10 octobre 2008

8h00 - 9h00 : Installation posters 2

9h00 - 10h40 : Session 5 (chair : Marc Maier)

9:00 - 10:00 : Useful Signals from Motor Cortex Andrew Schwartz (Invited Talk)
10:00 - 10:20 : Spike based inference in a network with divisive inhibition Sophie Denève, Timm Lochmann (ref. 6.2)
10:20 - 10:40 : Un modèle computationnel de l’automatisation motrice Lionel Rigoux, Olivier Sigaud (ref. 6.3)

10h40 - 11h00 : Café


11h00 - 12h20 : Session 6 - BMI and signal processing (chair : Simon Thorpe)

11:00 - 11:20 : Maximum decoding abilities of temporal patterns and synchronized firings Boris Gourévitch, Jos Eggermont (ref. 8.1)
11:20 - 11:40 : Reconstructing the cortical functional network during imagery tasks for boosting asynchronous BCI Michel Besserve, Jacques Martinerie, Line Garnero (ref. 8.2)

S P O T L I G H T S

11:40 - 11:45 : Non-identity Learning Vector Quantization applied to evoked potential detection Nanying Liang, Laurent Bougrain (ref. 8.3)
11:45 - 11:50 : Adaptive classification of mental states for asynchronous brain computer interfaces Jean Le Pavec, Maureen Clerc (ref. 8.4)
11:50 - 11:55 : Independent component analysis reveals the unity of cognitive control Clémence Roger, Christian, G. Bénar, Franck Vidal, Thierry Hasbroucq, Boris Burle (ref. 8.5)
11:55 - 12:00 : Estimation of individual evoked potential by wavelet transform Moncef Benkherrat, Franck Vidal, Thierry Hasbroucq, Boris Burle (ref. 8.6)
12:00 - 12:05 : Bayesian modelling of sensorimotor systems: Application to handwriting Estelle Gilet, Julien Diard, Pierre Bessière (ref. 8.7)
12:05 - 12:10 : A unified and quantitative network model to describe spatial attention in area V4 Etienne Hugues, Jorge Jose (ref. 9.1)
12:10 - 12:15 : Impact of cortical input on subthalamic activity during deep brain stimulation Julien Modolo, Anne Beuter (ref. 9.2)
12:15 - 12:20 : Motion integration modulated by form information Émilien Tlapale, Guillaume Masson, Pierre Kornprobst (ref. 9.3)

12h20 - 13h20 : Déjeuner 

13h00 - 14h30 : Poster session 2

14h30 - 16h15 : Session 7 - Population coding and functional specialization (chair : Olivier Faugeras)

14:30 - 14:50 : Les groupes polychrones pour capturer l'aspect spatio-temporel de la mémorisation Regis Martinez, Helene Paugam-Moisy (ref. 10.1)
14:50 - 15:10 : Effects of intrinsic oscillations on weight dynamics under Spike timing-dependent plasticity Fabiano Baroni, Pablo Varona (ref. 10.2)
15:10 - 15:30 : Statistics of spikes trains, synaptic plasticity and Gibbs distributions Bruno Cessac, Horacio Rostro, Juan-Carlos Vasquez, Thierry Viéville (ref. 10.3)
15:30 - 15:50 : Specialisation in recurrent neural networks with spike-timing-dependent plasticity Matthieu Gilson, David B. Grayden, Doreen A. Thomas, J. Leo van Hemmen, Anthony N. Burkitt (ref. 10.4)

S P O T L I G H T S

15:50 - 15:55 : Mécanisme d'auto-organisation corticale : un modèle basé sur la règle de plasticité synaptique BCM Thomas Girod, Frédéric Alexandre (ref. 10.5)
15:55 - 16:00 : Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity and Regime Transitions in Random Recurrent Neural Networks Frédéric Henry, Emmanuel Daucé (ref. 10.6)
16:00 - 16:05 : Reliable recall of spontaneous activity patterns in chaotic cortical networks Pierre Yger, Olivier Marre, Andrew Davison, Yves Frégnac (ref. 11.1)
16:05 - 16:10 : Analyzing cortical network dynamics with respect to different connectivity assumptions Nicole Voges, Laurent Perrinet (ref. 11.2)
16:10 - 16:15 : To which extend is the ``neural code'' a metric ? Bruno Cessac, Horacio Rostro, Juan-Carlos Vasquez, Thierry Viéville (ref. 11.3)

16h15 - 17h20 : Café + Poster session 2 (continued)

17h20 - 18h40 : Session 8 - Neural Interfaces (chair : Sylvie Renaud)

17:20-17:40 : Présentation INCF Elli Chatzopoulou (Invited Talk)
17:40-18:00 : Implementing entorhinal grid fields in biophysical neuronal models Michiel Remme, Mate Lengyel, Boris Gutkin (ref. 12.1)
18:00-18:20 : Tools for electrophysiology labs: a C coded dynamic-clamp on DSP board (aC/DC) Sofiane Boussa, Pasquier Jennifer, Leboulenger François, Frank Le Foll, Alain Faure (ref. 12.2)
18:20-18:40 : Table ronde / Présentation NeuroComp'09



Poster session 2

BMI and signal processing

Population coding and fonctional specialization





Samedi 11 octobre 2008




Atelier Computational Vision

organisé par Pascal Mamassian et Pierre Kornprobst

9h00 - 17h00


Atelier Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI)

organisé par Marc Maier et Thomas Brochier

9h00 - 13h00