Event Sessions
8:30 am
Welcome + Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Nick Spitzer, Ralph Greenspan
Overview of KIBM and CBAM
9:15 am
Ben D. Amsel, Cognitive Science
Grapheme-color Synesthesia: A Window into The Interface Between Perception and Knowledge
9:30 am
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science and Program in Neuroscience
Do You Feel What I Feel: Building a Toolbox for Studying Sociality and Interoception
9:45 am
Shyam Srinivasan, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
Principles of Scaling of Olfactory Systems
10:00 am
Takeo Katsuki, Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind
Probing the Mind of Mating Flies: The Neuronal Mechanisms of Behavioral Exclusivity During Drosophila Sexual Behavior
10:15 am AM Break
10:00 am
Keynote Speaker: Larry Swanson, Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section University of Southern California
Old and New Ideas About the Cerebral Cortex
11:30 am
Christopher Keown, Cognitive Science
Gender-specific Regulation of DNA Methylation in Mouse Frontal Cortex
11:45 am
Mieko Ueno, Cognitive Science
The Basal Ganglia and Language: Investigations into Syntactic Processing in Parkinson’s Patients
12:00 pm
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Light Controlled Gene Expression
12:15 pm
Andrew Alexander, Cognitive Science
Behavioral and Neurophysiological Correlates of a Novel Rodent Spatial Insight Paradigm
12:30 pm
Yimin Zou, Neurobiology
Novel Signaling Mechanisms Regulating Glutamatergic Synapse Formation
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm
Larry Frank
Deciphering DTI Data
2:30 pm
Harvey Karten
Evolutionary connectomics: Conservation of Microcircuitry and Natural Selection
3:00 pm
Terrence Sejnowski
What is the precision of synaptic strengths
3:30 pm PM Break
3:45 pm INC Cognitive Neuroscience Fellows Blitz Talks
(5-minute presentations)
Chair: Terry Sejnowski
3:45 pm
Amanda Casale
State-dependent Synchronization of Specific Cell Types to Cortical Oscillatory Activity
3:50 pm
Neil Cohn
Electrophysiology of Prediction in Visual Event Comprehension
3:55 pm
Zhisen Urgolites
Neural Correlates of True and False Memories
4:00 pm
Monika Jadi
How SOM+ and PV+ Inhibitory Neurons Could Differentually Modulate Surround Suppression of Cortical Neurons.
4:05 pm
Branka Hrvoj-Mihic
Pyramidal Neurons in Social Brain Areas in Williams Syndrome
4:10 pm
Krista Perks
Mechanisms of Diverse, State-dependent Input Operations in Single Underlying Object-Recognition
4:15 pm
Thomas Sprague
Reconstructions of Information in Visual Spatial Working Memory Degrade with Memory Load
4:20 pm
Closing Remarks: Terrence Sejnowski