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Organizers: Jochen Braun  Frank Bremmer  Karl Gegenfurtner

Preliminary program:


 

9-12 Lecture

Computer Exercise
2 - 4

4-7 Lecture

Sunday

arrival (afternoon and evening of Sunday, September 5, 2004)

Monday

Heinz Wässle: Retina Computer Setup

Andrew Derrington: LGN

Tuesday

Pascal Barone: Cortical anatomy

Psychophysics Toolbox
(Volker Franz)

Ad Aertsen: Functional connectivity

Wednesday

Gregor Rainer: Single units, imaging and behavior Psychometric functions
(Felix Wichmann)
Tony Movshon: V1

Thursday

Karl Gegenfurtner: Color

Color image processing (Thorsten Hansen)

Concetta Morrone: Texture, energy models

Friday

Tony Movshon: Motion

Motion models
(Tony Movshon)

David Burr: High level motion

Saturday

Simon Thorpe: Spikes and recognition

SpikeNet
(Simon Thorpe)

Christoph Zetzsche: Statistics of the visual input

Sunday

DAY OFF (optional afternoon trip to Marburg and Giessen)

Monday

Heinrich Bülthoff: Object recognition

Poster tour

Frank Bremmer: Parietal cortex and action

Tuesday

Jochen Braun: Saliency and attention

Saliency models
(Jochen Braun)

Stefan Treue: Neural correlates of attention

Wednesday

Heiner Deubel: Eye movements

Demos on eye movements (SMI)
and electrophysiological recordings
(Thomas Recording)

Petra Stoerig: Neuropsychology

Thursday

Gustavo Deco: Computational vision

Computational models (Gustavo Deco)

Gemma Calvert: Polymodal integration

Friday

Final discussion and farewell

The daily schedule is as follows:

           8.00h – 9.00h: Breakfast
           9.00h – 12.00h:           Lecture
           12.00h – 14.00h:         Lunch
           14.00h – 16.00h:         Computer exercises
           16.00h – 19.00h:         Lecture
           19.00h – 21.00h:         Dinner
           21.00h – Open end:      After-dinner discussion

Saturday night there will be a special dinner, followed by a party.

The daily schedule is as follows:

           8.00h – 9.00h: Breakfast
           9.00h – 12.00h:           Lecture
           12.00h – 14.00h:         Lunch
           14.00h – 16.00h:         Computer exercises
           16.00h – 19.00h:         Lecture
           19.00h – 21.00h:         Dinner
           21.00h – Open end:    After-dinner discussion

Saturday night there will be a special dinner, followed by a party.

Confirmed speakers:

Ad Aertsen, Freiburg, studies the neuronal dynamics of higher brain functions by looking at the spatio-temporal organization of brain activity at many different sites at a time (electrophysiology, modeling).


Pascal Barone, Toulouse
, studies cortical anatomy.

 
Jochen Braun, Magdeburg,
works on the neural basis of visual attention, visual learning, and visual grouping phenomena. He combines anatomically targeted psychophysics with computational modeling and fMRI  to characterize the visual information encoded in specific cortical populations.

 
Frank Bremmer, Marburg,
works on space and motion representation in macaque posterior parietal cortex. By means of fMRI he recently described the human equivalent of the macaque area VIP (electrophysiology, fMRI, computation, psychophysics).


Heinrich Bülthoff, Tübingen, works on the visual and haptic recognition of objects, orientation and navigation in three-dimensional space, and the information processing underlying both (psychophysics, modelling.

 

David Burr, Florence, works on spatial perception during eye movements, preferably saccades (psychophysics).

 

Gemma Calvert, Bath, works on polysensory integration and neuroimaging.

 

Gustavo Deco, Barcelona, works on the large-scale architecture of visual perception, attention and memory.  He uses neurodynamic modeling of interacting neural populations to account for a wide range of behavioural, single-unit, and functional imaging data.

 

Heiner Deubel, Munich, works on the effects of saccadic eye movements on spatial and temporal perception (psychophysics).

 

Andrew Derrington, Nottingham, studies the functional peoperties of neurons in the primate lateral geniculat enucleus, and relates these results to the perception of contrast, motion, and color (electrophysiology, psychophysics).

 

Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen, works on color vision, netural images, and the relationship between perception and action (psychophysics, neurophysiology).

 

Christof Koch, Pasadena, works on the neural basis of consciousness.

 

Concetta Morrone, Milano, works on the encoding of optic flow and the separate visual processing in the color and the motion pathways (psychophysics, computation).


Tony
  Movshon, New York,
deals with the neurophysiological basis of motion perception.


Gregor Rainer, Tübingen,  works on visual processing for image recognition and actegorization in prefrontal cortical areas.

 

Petra Stoerig, Düsseldorf works on neuropsychology.

 

Simon Thorpe, Toulouse, works on object recognition and the classification of naturale scenes (psychophysics, modeling).

 

Stefan Treue, Göttingen, works on the neural correlates of attention in primate visual cortex (electrophysiology, psychophysics, computation).

 

Heinz Wässle, Frankfurt, studies the synaptic circuits of the mammalian retina using light and electron microscopy, in order to understand their role in the transfer and processing of light signals (anatomy, electrophysiology).

 

Christoph Zetzsche, Bremen, works on the statistical properties of natural images in relationship to the response properties of cortical cells.