| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE SESSION |
| Keynote Chair: Yang Dan (Neurobiology, UC Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Roger Shepard (Psychology, Stanford)
"Internal Representation of Universal Structures of the Natural Environment" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Albert Bregman (Psychology, McGill)
"The perceptual organization of sound in a natural environment" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | VISUAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Jack Gallant (Psychology, UC Berkeley)
Introduction |
| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | Michael Berry (Molecular Biology, Princeton)
"Retinal Responses During Natural Viewing" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Mike Weliky (Brain & Cogn., U. Rochester)
"Population coding of natural scenes in primary visual cortex" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | David Sheinberg (Neuroscience, Brown)
"Learning to see a complex world:
Evidence from physiology and psychophysics" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ADAPTATION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Rob de Ruyter (NEC Research Inst)
Introduction |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Norberto Grzywacz (Biomed Engineering, USC)
"A Bayesian Framework for Sensory Adaptation." |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Adrienne Fairhall (Molecular Biology, Princeton)
"Adaptive spike coding and information processing" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PROBABILISTIC MODELS |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Eero Simoncelli (Center for Neural Science, NYU)
Introduction |
| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | David Donoho (Statistics, Stanford)
"Relating Recent Innovations in Harmonic Analysis to the
Statistics of Natural Scenes" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Aapo Hyvarinen (Center for Neural Networks, Helsinki)
"Beyond sparse coding: modelling topography and temporal coherence" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Bill Freeman (AI Lab, MIT )
"Learning low-level vision" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | IMAGE STATISTICS AND GROUPING |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: David Field (Psychology, Cornell)
Introduction |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | James Elder (Psychology, York University)
"Ecological Statistics of Gestalt Laws for the Perceptual Organization of Contours" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Aude Oliva (Harvard Medical School)
"Spatial and spectral regularities in scene recognition:
psychophysics and modeling" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | AUDITORY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Michael Lewicki (Ctr. Neural Basis Cognition, CMU)
Introduction |
| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | Andreas Herz (ITB, Humboldt University Berlin)
"Acoustic communication and sexual selection:
What a single neuron tells about potential mates..." |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion
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| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Xiaoqin Wang (Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Med)
"A statistical approach to neural coding of communication sounds" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Christoph Schreiner (Otolaryngology, UCSF)
"Auditory Contrast: Natural Statistics and Neuronal Encoding" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ACTIVE SENSES |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Pam Reinagel (Neurobiology, Harvard Med)
Introduction |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Rolf Muller (Biosonar Lab, Tuebingen)
"The stimulus ensemble of biosonar" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Mark Nelson (Beckman Inst., U. Illinois)
"Spatiotemporal processing of natural electrosensory images
in electric fish" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | COLOR |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Michael Webster (Psychology, U. Nevada, Reno)
Introduction |
| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | Don MacLeod (Psychology, UCSD)
"Environmental perspectives on color discrimination and color constancy" |
| 10:00 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 am - 11:20 am | Serguei Endrikhovskij (Eastman Kodak)
"Color Categorization and Color Statistics of Natural Images" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Thomas Wachtler (Neurobiology, U. Freiburg)
"Learning codes for color from photoreceptor responses to natural scenes" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session 4 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | VISUAL SEARCH AND RECOGNITION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Bruno Olshausen (Psychology, UC Davis)
Introduction |
| 7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Dan Kersten (Psychology, U. Minnesota)
"Learning to See Camouflaged Objects" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Simon Thorpe (CHRS, Toulouse, France)
"Rapid processing of natural images with a wave of spikes" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 pm | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |