Neural Basis of Active Sensation and Navigation
The computational problem posed by the use of moving sensors is that sensation and motor control are intertwined. The gathering of information requires that sensors scan the environment to obtain as comprehensive a map of sensory input as possible, while perception and decision making involves uncoupling incoming sensory information from sensation that is generated by self-motion. This conference will explore active sensing in natural and laboratory environments, with a goal of formulating experiments to reveal nature¹s algorithms and their realization in terms of neuronal circuits.
Organizers
David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego
Jill Leutgeb, University of California, San Diego
Karel Svoboda, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Invited Participants
Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute of Science
Dmitriy Aronov, Princeton University
Vincent Bonin, Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders
Elizabeth Buffalo, University of Washington School of Medicine
Matteo Carandini, University College London
Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Kathleen Cullen, McGill University
Martin Deschênes, Centre de Recherche Universite Laval Robert-Giffard
Mathew Diamond, International School for Advanced Studies
Shigeyoshi Fujisawa, RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Lisa Giocomo, Stanford School of Medicine
Daniel Goldman, Georgia Institute of Technology
Keren Haroush, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Georg Keller, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
James Knierim, Johns Hopkins University
Julija Krupic, University College London
Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Stefan Leutgeb, University of California, San Diego
Troy Margrie, University College London
Mayank Mehta, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University
Dmitry Rinberg, New York University Medical School
Vanessa Ruta, Rockefeller University
Elad Schneidman, Weizmann Institute of Science
Charles Schroeder, Nathan Kline Institute and Columbia University Medical Center
Mandyam Srinivasan, University of Queensland
Jeffrey Taube, Dartmouth College
Gowan Tervo, Janelia Research Campus/HHMI
Nao Uchida, Harvard University
Nachum Ulanovsky, Weizmann Institute of Science
Massimo Vergassola, University of California, San Diego
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