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Adaptive Brains and MachinesWhenJuly 26th-28th 2015WhereDowning College, University of Cambridge, UKDescription'Adaptive Brains and Machines' is an interdisciplinary conference, hosted by Professor Zoe PlenariesA keynote address by Professor Simon Laughlin will be given on Sunday, July 26th from 4-6pm at the Howard Building in Downing College. It will be followed by a drinks reception and BBQ. The lecture is Free to attend but registration is required. You do not need to attend the whole meeting in order to register for the keynote lecture (select option upon registration). Programme at a GlanceSunday, July 26th 15:30 Registration, (Howard building drawing room) 16:30-16:30 Opening address by John Mollon (Howard Building Assembly Room) The History of Vision Research in Cambridge 16:30-17:30 Keynote address by Simon Laughlin Adaptation – from neural phenomenon to phenomenal neuron 17:30-19:30 Drinks and BBQ, Fellows’ garden, Downing College
Monday, July 27th 09:00-12:30 Vision Classics and Advances, chaired by Andrew Welchman 08:45-09:15 Refreshments (Howard building drawing room) 09:15-09:20 Welcome from Zoe Kourtzi 09:20-10:00 Brian Rogers, Oxford University Issues and non-issues in 3-D vision 10:00-10:40 Julie Harris, University of St Andrews Counter-shading camouflage: does it really disguise 3D shape? 10:40-11:10 Refreshments (Howard building drawing room) 11:10-11:50 Alan Johnston, University College London Computing global motion from local signals 11:50-12:30 David Burr, University of Florence Adaptation and prediction in numerosity perception – and possible dysfunction in autism
12:30-13:30 Lunch (Howard building drawing room) 13:30 -17:30 Vision Development and Learning, chaired by Zoe Kourtzi 13:30-14:10 Lynne Kiorpes, New York University Neural limitations on the development of visual function: encoding Vs decoding 14:10-14:50 Marko Nardini, Durham University Learning perceptual inference 14:50-15:30 Ilona Kovacs, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary Adaptability in atypical human development 15:30-16:00 Refreshments (Howard building drawing room) 16:00-16:40 Barbara Dosher, UC Irvine Perceptual learning and models 16:40-17:20 Dennis Levi, University of Berkeley 17:30 – 18:30 Adaptive Brain Lab visit 19:00 Pre dinner drinks, Howard building drawing room, Downing College 19:30 Dinner, The West Lodge and Maitland Room, Downing College Tuesday, July 28th 09:00-12:30 Computational Approaches to Neuroscience, chaired by Andrew Welchman 09:00-09:20 Welcome and refreshments (Howard building drawing room) 09:20-10:00 Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Probabilistic models of sensorimotor control and decision making 10:00-10:40 Paul Bays, University College London Precision and binding in visual working memory 10:40-11:10 Refreshments (Howard building drawing room) 11:10-11:50 Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge A Bayesian approach to internal models: of ferret and men 11:50-12:30 Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Probabilistic machine learning 12:30-13:30 Lunch (Howard building drawing room) 13:30-17:30: Brain Imaging: Vision and Beyond, chaired by Zoe Kourtzi 13:30-14:10 Denis Schluppeck, University of Nottingham High-resolution fMRI of human visual & somatosensory cortex at 7 T 14:10-14:50 Tim Andrews, University of York Low-level image properties of natural images predict topographic patterns of neural response in the ventral visual pathway 14:50-15:30 Serge Dumoulin, Utrecht University Visual neuroscience: from receptive fields to numerosity and attention 15:30-16:00 Refreshments 16:00-16:40 John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge A core brain system in assembly of cognitive episodes 16:40-17:00 Closing address by Horace Barlow Is the computational goal of the visual cortex simpler than we thought? Back to top Directions
The Howard Building, Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1DQ Maps and directions Back to topRegistrationRegistration for this event is now closed.Back to top SponsorsEuropean Community Seventh Framework, Marie Curie Action, Initial Training Network. Back to topExhibitingN/A Back to topContactPlease contact Dr Dervila Glynn or Professor Zoe Kourtzi should you have any queries. Further eventsGo to the events index page. |