Preliminary Program

9:00 - 10:30 Visual Cortex Dynamics

• James DiCarlo, MIT - Cambridge, MA
  Untangling object recognition in the ventral visual stream


• Mariano Sigman, Universidad de Buenos Aires
  Serial and parallel processing in the human brain: psychophysics, models and physiology.

9:00 - 10:30 Theoretical approaches to visual cortex

• James Bednar, University of Edinburgh
  Modeling development of topographically organized maps and circuitry in V1


• Christoph Kayser, MPI for Biological Cybernetics
  Sensory information coding using multiple and nested codes

11:00 - 12:30 The dynamics of perception

• Michael Herzog, EPFL, Lausanne
  Dynamics of perception


• Li Zhaoping, UCL - London
  Some fingerprints of the primary visual cortex as a bottom-up saliency map

11:00 - 12:30 ... and beyond

• Christian Machens, ENS - Paris
  In the absence of sensory stimulation: The intrinsic network dynamics of remembering a stimulus
  


• Daniel Kiper, ETH Zürich
  Integration of visual attributes in extrastriate cortex: form and color
  

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

12:30 - 13:00  Discussion

13:15 Lunch

14:30 End of Meeting

14:00 - 15:30 Modeling perception

• Gregory Francis, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
  Cortical dynamics of visual perception: Fundamental principles and computational bottlenecks


• Udo Ernst, Institute for Theoretical Physics - Bremen
  Creeping and crawling painfully through parameter space (and beyond): Evaluating models of visual perception on empirical data.

16:00 - 17:30 Perceptual learning and learned classification

• Max Riesenhuber, Georgetown University
  Computational mechanisms of object recognition in man and monkey: Modeling, experiments and translations to applications


• Bjoern Kampa, Brain Research Institute, Zurich
  Cortical feed-forward networks for binding different streams of sensory information

18:30  Dinner

20:00  Discussion: Challenges in Vision and Perception