Conference Spotlight: Cosyne 2018

9.15a Unsupervised discovery of neural sequences in large-scale recordings. Emily Mackevicius, Andrew Bahle, Alex Williams, Shijie Gu, Natalia Denissenko, Mark Goldman, Michale Fee

11.30a Social behavior shapes hypothalamic neural ensemble representations of conspecific sex. Ryan Remedios, Ann Kennedy, Moriel Zelikowsky, Benjamin Grewe, Mark Schnitzer, David Anderson

3.15p Dopamine neurons projecting to the tail of the striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli. William Menegas, Korleki Akiti, Naoshige Uchida, Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida

4.15p Marlene Cohen, Understanding the relationship between neural variability and behavior (invited)

5.15p Shared stochastic modulation can facilitate biologically plausible decoding. Caroline Haimerl, Eero Simoncelli

8.30a Byron Yu, Brain-computer interfaces for basic science (invited)

9.15a Learning can generate new patterns of neural population activity. Emily Oby, Matthew Golub, Jay Hennig, Alan Degenhart, Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, Byron Yu, Steve Chase, Aaron Batista

9.30a Control of sensorimotor dynamics through adjustment of inputs and initial condition. Evan Remington, Devika Narain, Eghbal Hosseini, Mehrdad Jazayeri

11.30a Predictive coding of novel versus familiar stimuli in the primary visual cortex. Jan Homann, David Tank, Sue Ann Koay, Alistair M. Glidden, Michael J. Berry II

3.00p A relational odor map in piriform cortex. Stan Pashkovski, Guliano Iurilli, Sandeep Datta

5.15p Propagation of spike timing and firing rate in feedforward networks reconstituted in vitro. Jeremie Barral, Xiao-Jing Wang, Alex Reyes

6.00p SCGB Computational + Experimental Matchmaking.
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9.15a Orbitofrontal and parietal contributions to economic decisions in rats. Christine Constantinople, Charles Kopec, Carlos Brody

9.30a Widespread cortical involvement in evidence-based navigation. Lucas Pinto, David Tank, Carlos Brody, Stephan Thiberge

9.45a Principles governing the integration of landmark and self-motion cues in entorhinal cortical codes for navigation. Malcolm Campbell, Samuel Ocko, Caitlin Mallory, Surya Ganguli, Lisa Giocomo

11.30a Motor preparation through rebound in an identified sensory integrator. Maarten Zwart, En Yang, Ziqian Wei, Nikita Vladimirov, Sujatha Narayan, Minoru Koyama, Ahmed Abdelfattah, Jonathan Grimm, Luke Lavis, Eric Schreiter, Takashi Kawashima, Shin-ichi Higashijima, Shaul Druckmann, Misha Ahrens

2.00p A cross-species analysis of accumulation of evidence under non-sensory uncertainty and its modulation by the prefrontal cortex. Pietro Vertechi, Eran Lottem, Dario Sarra, Beatriz Godinho, Isaac Treves, Tiago Quendera, Matthijs Oude Lohuis, Zachary Mainen

2.15p Individual animals use distinct strategies in a changing spatial memory task. David Kastner, Anna Gillespie, Peter Dayan, Loren Frank

Cortical circuits: functions and models of long-range connections

RNNs: What are we doing and why?

Model-Based Cognition: Hierarchical Reasoning and Sequential Planning

SCGB Computational + Experimental Matchmaking.

Brain-wide neuronal dynamics and inter-area communication: recordings, analysis, and theory – Day 2

RNNs: What are we doing and why?

Manifold-splaining: what the theorist said to the experimentalist