12^th 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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