12th Granada* Seminar

Physics, Computation and the Mind — Advances and Challenges at Interfaces

Institute Carlos I, University of Granada

*in La Herradura, Granada, Spain, 17−21 September 2012

(last update 15/09/2012)

 


Oral Contributions

·         Acedo, L.  THE NEURONA@HOME PROJECT: SIMULATING A LARGESCALE CELLULAR AUTOMATA BRAIN IN A DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT, Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

·         Agnes, E.J.  STRATEGIES TO ASSOCIATE MEMORIES BY UNSUPERVISED LEARNING IN NEURAL NETWORKS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

·         Almeida-Filho, D.G.  Neuronal spike time-series show self-affinity, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

·         Battaglia, D.  FUNCTION FOLLOWS DYNAMICS, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Germany

·         Brooke, J.  DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS WITH PARAMETERS, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

·         Chialvo, D.  The Brain is critical, University of California (UCLA), U.S.A.

·         Chvátal, V.  CAN BRAINS GENERATE RANDOM NUMBERS?, Concordia University, Canada

·         d’Angelo, E.  FROM SINGLE NEURON TO NETWORK MODELS: REALISTIC LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF A CENTRAL NETWORK, University of Pavia, Italy   LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION

·         de Arcangelis, L.  Spontaneous Neuronal Activity as a Self-Organized Critical Phenomenon, University of Naples II, Italy

·         Dolev, S.  Towards Holographic ``Brain" Memory Based on  Randomization and Walsh-Hadamard Transformation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

·         Duggins, A.J.  Pure State Consciousness And Its Local Reduction To Neuronal Space, University of Sydney, Australia

·         Goltsev, A.V.  CRITICAL AND RESONANCE PHENOMENA IN NEURAL NETWORKS, University of Aveiro, Portugal

·         Gómez-Marin, A.  FROM SENSORY INPUT TO MOTOR OUTPUT AND BACK: CLOSING THE LOOP IN DROSOPHILA LARVA CHEMOTAXIS, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain

·         Goñi, J.  INFORMATION, SPACE AND STRUCTURE IN THE HUMAN BRAIN RESTING STATE, Indiana University, U.S.A.

·         Gonzalo-Cogno, X.S.  EFFECT OF INPUT NOISE ON NEURONAL FIRING RATE, Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro, Argentina

·         Gregory-Brunnet, L.  UNSUPERVISED LEARNING IN NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SHORT RANGE SYNAPSES, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

·         Grollier, J.  MEMRISTORS AND NOVEL NANO-DEVICES FOR NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING, Unite Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, France

·         Gros, C.  Observing scale-invariance in non-critical dynamical systems, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

·         Grossberg, S.  Linking mind to brain through resonant and complementary computing: unifying vision, cognition and action, Boston University, U.S.A.

·         Grytskyy, D.  UNIFYING PROPAGATORS AND COVARIANCES OF NETWORK MODELS BY ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK-PROCESSES, Research Center Jülich

·         Hansard, T. AN OSCILLATION-BASED MODEL OF THE AWAKE AND ANAESTHETIZED BRAIN Lancaster University, United Kingdom

·         Huerta, R.  Models of the insect brain for odor discrimination and decision making, University of California (UCSD), U.S.A.

·         Iglesias-Parro, S.  EEG fractal characterization of contents of consciousness, Universidad de Jaen, Spain

·         Jaramillo, J.J.  Coordination of Phase Precession in the Hippocampus, Humboldt Universitaet, Germany

·         Johnson, S.  Interplay between structure and dynamics in neural networks, Imperial College, United Kingdom

·         Kato, H.  Modeling of spontaneous zero-lag and propagating synchronization in cat spinal cord, Inst. de Física Interdisciplinar CSIC-UIB, Spain

·         Kuzmin, D.A.  Optimization of the Wilson-Cowan Model with Data from Optogenetically Controlled Gamma Oscillations, University College London, United Kingdom  LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION

·         Lee, K.E.  NEURAL NETWORKS WITH DYNAMICAL SYNAPSES: FROM MIXED-MODE OSCILLATIONS AND SPINDLES TO CHAOS, University of Aveiro, Portugal

·         Lin, K.K. Lin  Spike-time reliability of layered neural oscillator networks, University of Arizona, U.S.A.

·         Livi, R.  Quasi-synchronous dynamics as an effect of noise and short-term plasticity, Universita di Firenze, Italy

·         Lopes, M.  STOCHASTIC RESONANCE AS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF NEURAL NETWORKS, University of Aveiro, Portugal

·         López-García, A.  ALGORITHMS FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF HUMAN FACE   LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION

·         Maia, L.P.  Information flow in a network of excitable units

·         Marinazzo, D.  Information flow in the brain: shortcuts and bottlenecKs, Ghent University, Belgium

·         Marro, J.  Complex networks in the brain - function vs. wiring and excitability, Universidad de Granada, Spain

·         McNaughton, B.L.  A Toroidal Attractor Theory of the Cognitive Map, University of Lethbridge, Canada

·         Mehta, A.  COMPETING SYNAPSES WITH TWO TIMESCALES: A BASIS FOR LEARNING AND FORGETTING, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India – LAST MINUTE CANCELLATION

·         Mejías, J.  Short-term synaptic plasticity: implications for information transmission and network dynamics, University of Ottawa, Canada

·         Molina, R.  Bayesian localization of EEG sources with generalized Gaussian priors, Universidad de Granada, Spain

·         Muñoz, M.A., Universidad de Granada, Spain

·         Orlandi, J.G.  THE EMERGENCE OF SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY IN NEURONAL CULTURES, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

·         Papo, D.  Length of time’s arrow in spontaneous brain activity and during the execution of cognitive tasks, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

·         Paradisi, P.  SCALING AND INTERMITTENCY OF BRAIN EVENTS AS A MANIFESTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Italy

·         Petkioski, S.  INTRODUCING TIME-VARYING PARAMETERS IN THE KURAMOTO MODEL FOR BRAIN DYNAMICS, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

·         Pimentel-Mizusaki, B.E.  SPIKE TIMING ANALYSIS IN NEURAL NETWORKS WITH UNSUPERVISED SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

·         Rathore, S.  Oscillatory Dynamics in an Attractor Network with Spike Frequency Adaptation, UCL, United Kingdom

·         Ros, E.  Behavioral experiments with brain-body models. Cerebellar models in manipulating tasks, Universidad de Granada, Spain

·         Sánchez-Vives, M.V.  Slow and fast rhythms in the cerebral cortex, Institut d'Investigatcions Biomèdiques CSIC, Spain

·         Scarpetta, S.  Critical behaviour near a phase transition between retrieval and non-retrieval regimes in an IF network with phase-coded spatiotemporal patterns", University of Salerno

·         Selingardi Matias, F.  Anticipated Synchronization Between Neuronal Populations, Inst. de Física Interdisciplinar CSIC-UIB, Spain

·         Soriano, J.  INTERPLAY ACTIVITY-CONNECTIVITY:DYNAMICS IN PATTERNED NEURONAL CULTURES, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

·         Spagnolo, B.  Spike Train Statistics and Regularity for Consonant and Dissonant Musical Accords in a Simple Auditory Sensory Model, Universitµa di Palermo and CNISM, Italy

·         Stühmer, W.  Optoelectronic coupling in the resting state of neurons, Max Planck Institute, Spain

·         Teller, S.  EXPERIMENTS ON CLUSTERED NEURONAL NETWORKS, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

·         Tokuda, K.  Modeling the state transiton of the hippocampal local field potential between theta rhythm and large irregular amplitude activity by a bifurcation between limit cycle attractor and a chaotic dynamics, University of Tokyo, Japan

·         Ushakov, Y.V.  THE RESEMBLANCE OF AN AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION TO A POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY FOR A SPIKE TRAIN OF AN AUDITORY MODEL, Lobachevsky State University, Russia

·         Young, L-S  Emergent dynamics in a model of visual cortex, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, U.S.A.

 

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