1: Neuronal Modelling (Town Hall)

09:30

Magnus RICHARDSON, Wulfram Gerstner (Lausanne-CH)
"Conductance versus current-based integrate-and-fire neurons: is there qualitatively new behaviour?"

10:00

Mike DENHAM (Plymouth-UK)
"Characterising neuronal representation in terms of cell membrane activity: an approach using differential geometry"

10:30

John RINZEL (New York,NY-US)
"Dynamic effects of subthreshold conductance gating (g_KLT and g_Na) and inhibition on coincidence detection in MSO neurons"

11:30

Laura SACERDOTE, Roberta Sirovich, Alessandro E.P. Villa (Torino-IT, Grenoble-FR)
"Multimodality of the interspike interval distribution of a leaky integrate and fire model with jumps"

12:00

Petr LÁNSKY (Prague-CZ), Priscilla E. Greenwood (Tempe,AZ-USA)
"Fisher information in a simple neuron model with signal dependent noise"

12:30

Florentin WÖRGÖTTER, Bernd Porr, Ausra Saudargiene (Stirling-UK)
"A biophysical model of spike timing dependent plasticity"

2: Coding of Quality  (Fortezza della Brunella)

15:00

Brigitte QUENET, Adrien Wohrer, Ginette Horcholle-Bossavit, Gérard Dreyfus (Paris-FR)
"Biological counterpart of a multistate neuron matrix synapse"

15:30

R.P. MORSE, D. Allingham, N.G. Stocks (Liverpool-UK, Coventry-UK)
"Suprathreshold stochastic resonance in physiological systems"

16:00

Patricia DUCHAMP-VIRET (Lyon-FR)
"Single olfactory sensory neurons integrate simulatneously several components of an odor mixture"

16:30

Jean-Pierre ROSPARS, Petr Lánsky, André Duchamp, Patricia Duchamp-Viret (Versailles-FR, Prague-CZ, Lyon-FR)
"Coding of odour quality in olfactory receptor neurons"

17:30
19:30

Poster session 1.   (Municipal Library - Town Hall)
Posters (100 cm width X 150 cm height) will stay on display during all the time.

Ariane RAMAEKERS, Nanae Gendre, Reinhard Stocker (Fribourg-CH)
"Olfactory discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster larvae: from behavior to neurons"

Olga K. CHIBIROVA, Tetyana I. Aksenova, Alim-Louis Benabid, Stephan Chabardes, Steeve Larouche, Jean Rouat, Alessandro E. P. Villa (Grenoble-FR, Kiev-UA, Sherbrooke-CA)
"Unsupervised spike sorting of extracellular electrophysiological recording in Subthalamic Nucleus of Parkinsonian patients"

Yoshinobu MAEDA, Shinji Doi, Hideo Makino (Niigata-JP, Osaka-JP)
"Acceleration Phenomena of Hardware Coupled Oscillators for Cardiac Purkinje Fiber Cells"

David ALLINGHAM, Nigel Stocks, Robert Morse (Coventry-UK, Liverpool-UK)
"Modelling physiological data from the sciatic nerve of the toad Xenopus laevis: integrate-and-fire and beyond"

Michele BARBI, L. Reale (Pisa-IT)
"Stochastic Resonance in the LIF models with input or threshold noise"

Chris HARRIS, Mike J. Denham (Plymouth-UK)
"The statistics of membrane potentials using a bilinear model"

Eduard KURISCAK, Z. Wünsch (Prague-CZ)
"Transmission of information along arborised myelinated axon"

Alexander NIKITIN, Nigel G. Stocks (Coventry-UK)
"The application of Gaussian channel theory to the estimation of information transmission rates in neural population"

Jamie L. Riedenhour, Charles E. SMITH (Raleigh,NC-US)
"Effect of a learning rule in a model for a cortical network"

Laura Sacerdote, Alessandro E.P. Villa, Cristina ZUCCA (Torini-IT, Grenoble-FR)
"On the classification of experimental data modeled via a stochastic leaky integrate and fire model through boundary values"

Shigeru SHINOMOTO, Keiji Miura, Shinsuke Koyama (Kyoto-JP)
"Categorization of neurons according to in vivo spiking statistics"

Yakov KAZANOVICH, Roman Borisyuk (Puschino-RU, Plymouth-UK)
"An oscillatory model of attention-guided selection of moving objects"

Guido BUGMANN and John G. Taylor (Plymouth-UK, London-UK)
"A model of visual backward masking"

Christoph Zeztsche, Ulrich NUDING (München-DE)
"Natural scene statistics and nonlinear neural interactions between frequency selective mechanisms"

Maria Paula BONOMINI, M. Bongard, J.M. Ferrandez, F. Pelayo, E. Fernández (Alicante-ES, Granada-ES)
"Population coding in simultaneously recorded retinal ganglion cells"

Antonio DI CRESCENZO, Barbara Martinucci, Enrica Pirozzi (Salerno-IT, Napoli-IT)
"A simulation approach to neuronal activity"

Michele BEZZI (Paris-FR)
"Maximally informative coding in Hippocampus and Lateral Septum"

Javier IGLESIAS, Jan Eriksson, François Grize, Marco Tomassini, Alessandro E.P. Villa (Lausanne-CH, Grenoble-FR, Torino-IT)
"Dynamic properties of synfire chains embedded in simulated large-scale spiking neural networks"

Ramin PICHEVAR, Jean Rouat (Sherbrooke-CA, Chicoutimi-CA)
"Oscillatory dynamic link matching for pattern recognition"

Liz STUART, M. Walter, Roman Borisyuk (Plymouth-UK)
"Analysis of multi-dimensional Spike Trains using VISA"

Sue DENHAM (Plymouth-UK)
"A model of the representation of timbre"

Peter MARSALEK, Jiri Kofranek (Preague-CZ)
"Sound localization and the underlying neural code"

Jan L. ERIKSSON, Alessandro E.P. Villa (Lausanne-CH, Torino-IT)
"Event related potentials in an auditory oddball paradigm in the rat"

3: Excitatory/Inhibitory Balance (Town Hall)

09:00

Maria Teresa GIRAUDO, Laura Sacerdote (Torino-IT)
"Effect of periodic stimulus on a neuronal diffusion model with signal-dependent noise"

09:30

Angelo DI GARBO, Santi Chillemi, Alessandro Panarese, Mario Galarreta, Shaul Hestrin (Pisa-IT, Stanford,CA-US)
"Gap junctions promote synchronous activities in networks of inhibitory interneurons"

10:00

David TERMAN, Tiaza Bem, John Rinzel (Columbus,OH-US, Warsaw-PL, New York,NY-US)
"Dynamics of a neuronal network with inhibitory and electrical coupling"

11:00

Maurizio MATTIA, Paolo del Giudice (Roma-IT)
"Dynamic mean-field predictions for interacting excitatory and inhibitory populations of spiking neurons"

11:30

Silvio P. SABATINI, Fabio Solari, Luca Secchi (Genova-IT, Cagliari-IT)
"Emergence of oscillations and spatio-temporal coherence states in a continuum-model of excitatory and inhibitory neurons"

12:00

Wofgang MAAS, Thomas Natschläger, Henry Markram (Graz-AT, Lausanne-CH)
"Emergent neural coding in neural microcircuit models"

 
4: Information transmission (Town Hall)

09:00

Tooru NAKAMURA, H. Horio, S. Miyashita, Y. Chiba, and S. Sato (Osaka-JP)
"Identification of autonomic nerve activity from heart rate variability"

09:30

Eugene IZHIKEVICH (San Diego,CA-US)
"Bursts as a unit of neural information"

10:00

Reinhard ECKHORN, M. Eger, M. Wilms, T. Schanze, L. Hesse (Marburg-DE)
"Retino-cortical information transmission achievable with a retina implant"

11:00

Hans BRAUN, Bastian Wollweber, Karlheinz Voigt, Martin T. Huber (Marburg-DE)
"Neuronal cold sensitivity: A computational study about discrepancies between spontaneously active receptors and transiently discharging somata"

11:30

Dante CHIALVO (Chicago,IL-US)
"How sensory neurons code what isn't out there?"

12:00

Maurice J. CHACRON, André Longtin, Brent Doiron, Leonard Maler, Joseph Bastian (Ottawa,ON-CA, Norman,OK-US)
"Differential coding of prey and communication stimuli by sensory neurons"

12:30

Frank MOSS, Sonya Bahar (St. Louis,MO-US, New York,NY-US)
"Synchronization and frequency doubling in the crayfish mechano-photoreceptor system"

 
5: Cell Assemblies and beyond (Town Hall)

14:00

Tetyana I. AKSENOVA, Vladimir Volkovych, Alessandro E.P. Villa (Grenoble-FR, Kiev-UA)
"On-line disharmony detection for early prediction of epilepsy seizure onset"

14:30

Taishin NOMURA, Shunsuke Sato (Osaka-JP)
"A model of spinal network with a huge degree of freedom"

15:00

Giorgio ASCOLI, John Atkeson (Fairfax,VA-US)
"Incorporating anatomically realistic cellular-level connectivity in neural network models of the rat hippocampus"

16:00

Roman BORISYUK (Plymouth-UK)
"Synchronisation of neural activity and information coding"

16:30

Günther PALM (Ulm-DE)
"What is signal and what is noise in the brain?"

17:00

Corrado BÖHM (Roma-IT)
"Information coding by ambiguous formal entities"

Guest Lecture (Town Hall)

18:00-19:00

Rita LEVI MONTALCINI (Roma)
"Perspectives and Challenges in the Neurosciences"

6: Auditory Coding (Town Hall)

09:30

Nigel G. STOCKS, D. Allingham, A. Nikitin, R. P. Morse (Coventry-UK, Liverpool-UK)
"Modelling and estimation of information transmission in auditory nerve fibres with applications to cochlear implants"

10:00

Tsai-Chang Rong, Pau-Choo Chung, T.W. Chiu, Paul W.F. POON (Tainan-TW)
"Spectro-temporal receptive field of frequency-modulation sensitive neurons after adjustment for response jitter"

10:30

Peter CARIANI (Boston,MA-US)
"Representation of pitch in population-wide interspike interval statistics"

11:30

Ricardo VELLUTI, Marisa Pedemonte (Montevideo-UY)
"Experimental approach to auditory sensory processing in sleep and wakefulness"

12:00

Diego MINCIACCHI (Firenze-IT)
"The translation from neurobiological data to musical parameters"

17:00
19:00

Poster session 2.  (Municipal Library - Town Hall)
Posters (100 cm width X 150 cm height) will stay on display during all the time.

7: Motor & Cognition (Town Hall)

09:30

Isabella SILKIS, Alessandro E.P. Villa (Moskow-RU, Grenoble-FR)
"A possible mechanism of selective function of the basal ganglia"

10:00

Jianfeng FENG (Brighton-UK)
"Some recent results on optimal neuron and movement control"

10:30

Philippe FAURE, Henri Korn (Paris-FR)
"Symbolic analysis reveals scale invariance of fish trajectories and provides a new model for motor behavior"

11:30

Mike ORAM (St. Andrews-UK)
"Integrating neural coding into cognitive models of behaviour"

12:00

Alessandro E.P. VILLA (Grenoble-FR, Torino-IT)
"Preferred firing sequences and brain dynamics"

12:30

Almo FARINA (Urbino-IT)
"Information and cognition in landscape ontogenesis: a new theory to investigate the ecological complexity"