NIPS 2001 Workshop 

“Information & Statistical Structure in Spike Trains”

 

Saturday, December 8, 2001

 

Morning Session

 

  7:30AM - 7:40AM                     Introduction                                                                               Jonathan Victor

Emery Brown

 

  7:40AM -   8:05AM                   Eliminating Nuisance Parameters For Cortical                              Richard Jenison 

                                                First-Spike Latency Decoding Of Sound Source Direction

 

  8:05AM -  8:30AM                    Pay-As-You-Go Decoding of Spike Trains                                    Barry Richmond

 

  8:30AM –  8:55AM                   Analysis Of Neural Receptive Field Plasticity By Point                  Emery Brown

                                                Process Adaptive Filtering

 

  8:55AM –  9:20AM                   Break

 

  9:20AM –  9:45AM                   Binless Strategies For Estimation Of Information From                  Jonathan  Victor

                                                Spike Trains

 

  9:45AM –10:10AM                   Information Distortion And Neural Coding                                      Alexander Dimitrov

 

10:10AM –10:30AM                   Open Discussion

 

10:30AM -   4:30PM                   Break

 

Afternoon Session

 

 4:30PM  -   4:55PM                   How Well The Ganglion Cell Codes the Visual Message                Rob Smith

 

 4:55PM  -   5:20PM                   Adaptive Estimation of Time-Varying Dynamics In                         Garrett Stanley

                                                The Early Visual Pathway

 

 5:20PM  -  5:40PM                    Break

 

 5:40PM  -  6:05PM                    Spike Train Structure And The Relay of Information                       Simon Schultz

                                    In A Model Of Thalamic Bursting

 

 6:05PM    6:30PM                   Synaptic Read-Out Of Information Carried By The                         Misha Tsodyks

                                                Spike Trains

 

 6:30PM  -  7:00PM                    Open Discussion