PROGRAMM

Participants are expected to arrive Dec 5^th  and leave Dec 12^th

The school is organized as a series of lectures, complemented with young scientist's short presentations, and a poster session too.

The young scientists’ short presentations and posters aim to encourage scientific discussions and informal interactions between all participants

Tentative schedule

BOOKLET OF ABSTRACTS can be downloaded here

Lecturers

Maria Marinaro

Opening remarks (from the age of E.R. Caianiello)

Leslie M. Kay
1. Neural processing in the olfactory bulb circuit
2. Distributed dynamics in the olfactory system and beyond

Michael Hasselmo
1. Oscillations and grid cells

2. Mechanisms of memory-guided behavior

Bruce McNaughton
1.The torroidal attractor model for grid cells, place cells and path integration

2.Offline Reprocessing of Recent Memory and the Trace Reactivation Theory of Memory Consolidation

Sonja Gruen
1. Higher-order correlations in massively parallel spike trains
2. Reflections of spike synchronization in local field potential

Nachum Ulanovsky
1. Echolocating bats: spatial orientation using biological sonar

2. Hippocampal neural activity in freely-moving echolocation bats: spatial cognition, place cells and theta oscillation

Naoyuki Sato

1. Computational theory of memory encoding with theta phase coding

2. Combined approach of a computational model and human brain activity analyses

Markus Diesmann

1. Spike synchronization in cortical neural networks

2. Interaction of synchronous spiking and background activity

Yoko Yamaguchi
1. Synchroization of theta rhythms in cortico-hippocampal system for memory encoding
2. Synchronization of EEG rhythms in the brain for perception and cognitive control

Silvia Scarpetta

1. Effects of STDP on encoding and replay of oscillatory spatio-temporal patterns

John O'Keefe 

1.Hippocampal place cells and the cognitive map
2.Functions of hippocampal theta

Wolf Singer

Titles under considerarion

TOPICS of lectures include:

Nonlinear Dynamics and neural networks

System dynamics in the olfactory system

Path integration in the Hippocampus

Hippocampus cognitive map theory and theta precession

Dynamical linking by synchronization in the brain

Theta rhythm in bat hippocampus

Cortical dynamics modelling

Computational theory of real time computing in the brain

Computational model of hippocampus and human memory

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