Biological vision and perception comprises effects on different temporal scales, ranging from a few milliseconds (as evidenced by masking experiments), or hundreds of millisecond (as evidences by saccades or visual search) to hours of days (as seen during perceptual learning) or weeks (in rewiring and developmental learning). Similar observations can be made with respect to other sensory systems such as the rodent whisking system or the olfactory system.
  • Can we link neuronal activity to perceptual effects studied in psychophysics?
  • Under the assumption that computing power is not a problem - what would it need for models to account for broad range of phenomena on all the time scales (rather than just one effect at the time)?
  • Can we come up with a list of 50 phenomena that a model of V1 should explain?
  • What are the universal principles that make cortex so versatile?

These are the questions that we would like to address in this brainstorming meeting.

This workshop is by invitation only. Registration is closed, all seats are taken.