Neuro workshop: Multidisciplinary approaches to Neuroscience

10 a.m. - 5.30 p.m. Friday 1st October 2004

Centre for Mathematical Sciences

Wilberforce Road, CB3 OWA

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Schedule

A draft schedule for the day is available (pdf format).

Speakers

Roger Carpenter (Physiology): The LATER model: stochastic properties of neural decision and latency.
Stephen Eglen (Applied Maths): Spontaneous activity and its role in wiring visual pathways.
Friedemann Pulvermuller (MRC CBU): Brain reflections of language and actions.
Simon Laughlin (Zoology): From neuronal constraint to brain design.
David Mackay (Physics): Distributed phase codes for associative memory, prediction, and latent variable discovery.
Lisa Saksida (Psychology): Neural Networks in the temporal lobe: at the interface of perception and memory.
Wolfram Schultz (Anatomy): Neural mechanisms of reward and prediction.

Abstracts for some of the talks.

Registration

Registration is now closed, as lunch numbers have now been placed. If you would like to attend, but have not yet registered, contact Stephen (see below).

Poster

We have an A4 poster if you'd like to advertise this meeting in your lab/department.

Organisers

This meeting has been organised by Stephen Eglen, David Mackay, Gos Micklem and Duncan Simpson. It is one of an occasional series of workshops run by The CURE + CCBI to promote awareness, discussion and collaboration across the Cambridge area.

For further information, contact Stephen Eglen (sje30 at cam.ac.uk).