Quantitative Approaches to Central Auditory
Processing
From
reverse-correlation to information theoretic analysis
http://webhost5.nts.jhu.edu/xwang/cosyne05_workshop.html
Organizer: Xiaoqin
Wang (Johns Hopkins University) [ref]
Invited
Speakers:
Laurel
Carney (Syracuse University) [ref]
Bertrand
Delgutte (MIT) [ref]
Israel Nelken (Hebrew
Univ. of Jerusalem) [ref]
Jan Schnupp (Oxford University)
[ref]
Christoph
Schreiner (Univ. of CA, UCSF) [ref]
Shihab Shamma (University of
Maryland) [ref]
Eric Young (Johns Hopkins
University) [ref]
Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Lab) [ref]
Kechen Zhang (Johns Hopkins
University) [ref]
This workshop will bring together leading researchers working with
highly quantitative tools to discuss important issues concerning central
auditory system studies. The workshop will focus on a fundamental question in
this field: How to systematically and quantitatively characterize the
functionality of a central auditory neuron? Traditionally, this problem has
been approached by estimating the receptive field (RF) of a neuron using
methods based on reverse-correlation or spike-triggered averaging techniques.
More recently, information theoretic analysis has emerged as an additional
venue to approach these problems. Invited speakers will critically examine
these issues. The speakers work on a variety of model systems (rats, ferrets,
cats and primates) and different sub-modalities and structures of the auditory
system (from cochlear nucleus to auditory cortex). The workshop is of general
interest to auditory researchers as well as those working on other sensory
systems. Faculty, postdocs and graduate students are welcome to participate.
Program:
*Note from the organizer:
There will be slots for participants to give brief
(10-minutes) talks about their work that is highly relevant to the theme of
this workshop. If you are interested, please contact Dr. Xiaoqin Wang (xwang@bme.jhu.edu).
Monday, March 21, 2005 (Day-1)
Session
1 (AM):
8:00-8:15am
Introduction: “What do we need to know from a
central auditory neuron?”
Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins
University)
8:15-9:00am
"Studies of coding in the AVCN-Physiological and computational modeling studies motivated by psychophysical abilities"Laurel Carney (Syracuse University)
9:00-9:45am
“Receptive fields and information about sound localization in the inferior colliculus”
Eric Young (Johns
Hopkins University)
9:45-10:00am Break
10:00-10:45am
"Spectro-temporal processing: Impressions from the inferior colliculus to cortex"
Christoph
Schreiner (Univ. of CA, UCSF)
10:45-11:00am Ad-hoc talk: Frederic Theunissen (UC Berkeley)
Session 2 (PM):
4:30-5:15pm
“Linearity
of receptive fields in auditory cortex”
Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Lab)
5:15-6:00pm
“From stimulus to response to
ensemble coding: insights from information-theoretic measures”
Israel
Nelken (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)
6:00-6:15pm
Break
6:15-7:00pm
"Plausible biological substrates for auditory scene analysis"
Shihab
Shamma (University of Maryland)
7:00-7:15pm
Ad-hoc
talk: Sharba
Bandyopadhyay (Johns Hopkins University)
7:15-7:30pm
Ad-hoc
talk: Yi Zhou (Boston University)
Tuesday, March
22, 2005 (Day-2)
Session 3 (AM):
8:00-8:45am
“Is there always an optimal sound for an auditory neuron?”
Kechen
Zhang (Johns Hopkins University)
8:45-9:30am
"Neural mechanisms for processing pitch and binaural information"
Bertrand
Delgutte (MIT)
9:30-9:45am Break
9:45-10:30am
"On the representation of vocalizations in auditory cortex"
Jan
Schnupp (Oxford University)
10:30-10:45am Ad-hoc talk: Zhiyi Chi (University of Chicago)
10:45-11:00am Open Discussions
Location:
The workshop
will be held at The Snowbird Ski and Summer
Resort, which is located
approximately 30 miles from Salt Lake City. For information on registration,
financial aids, hotel and transportation, please visit CoSyNe05 web site:
Computational
and Systems Neuroscience (CoSyNe) 2005 Main Meeting
March
17-20, 2005 - Salt Lake City, Utah