Workshop: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Computational Neuroscience: Vision Course

该奖项支持在冷泉港实验室开设的计算神经科学-视觉课程。神经科学的计算方法在理解神经处理方面取得了重要进展。CSHL课程强调，结合知觉和生物数据对计算问题的理解可以导致神经科学研究的突破。通过讲课和计算机实验室实践经验相结合，本课程涵盖：神经表示和编码；适应的神经基础、颜色视觉、图案视觉、形状视觉和视觉运动感知；自然场景的统计和神经编码；视觉注意；以及决策。课程的重点是视觉信息的编码和解码，包括自然场景的处理，这是感官和计算神经科学的一个新兴领域。该课程将由J.Demb(密歇根大学)、E.Simoncelli(纽约大学)和S.Treue(哥廷根大学)组织。课程中的讲座将由三个组织者和特邀演讲者进行，这些演讲者致力于当前的研究前沿，并在各自领域处于领先地位。特邀演讲者包括：L.Abbott(哥伦比亚)D.Brainard(宾夕法尼亚大学)，M.Carandini(史密斯-凯特尔韦尔眼科研究所)，M.Carrasco(纽约大学)，E.J.Chichilnisky(索尔克研究所)，Y.Dan(加州大学伯克利分校)，J.Gallant(加州大学伯克利分校)，W.Geisler(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校)，P.Glimcher(纽约大学)，D.Heeger(纽约大学)，N.Kanwisher(麻省理工学院)，M.Lesicki(卡内基梅隆大学)，J.A.Movshon(纽约大学)，P.Reinagel(UCSD)，D.Ringach(加州大学洛杉矶分校)这门课程的密集性质使科学家能够迅速沉浸在所教授的各种概念和技术中，并使高级科学家和初级教师以及研究生和博士后研究员能够参加。然后，这些课程的学生可以将这些技术迅速传播给自己实验室里的其他人。这些课程由一名教师教授，他们对所研究的领域充分活跃，并做出了重大贡献。这些课程的价值体现在申请学生的数量和质量上。每年，申请的人数远远超过可能容纳的人数，以前的学生继续推荐自己的学生或博士后研究员入学。

This award supports a course on Computational Neuroscience - Vision given at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Computational approaches to neuroscience have produced important advances in the understanding of neural processing. The CSHL course emphasizes that an understanding of computational problems in conjunction with perceptual and biological data can lead to breakthroughs in neuroscience research. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on computer laboratory experience, this course covers: neural representation and coding; the neural basis of adaptation, color vision, pattern vision, form vision, and visual motion perception; statistics and neural encoding of natural scenes; visual attention; and decision making. There will be an emphasis on encoding and decoding of visual information, including processing of natural scenes, a burgeoning area of sensory and computational neuroscience. The course will be organized by J. Demb (Univ Michigan), E. Simoncelli (NYU) and S. Treue (Univ Gottingen). Lectures in the course will be given by the three organizers and by invited speakers who are working on current research frontiers and are leaders in their field. Invited speakers include: L. Abbott (Columbia) D. Brainard (Univ Penn), M. Carandini (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute), M. Carrasco (NYU), E.J. Chichilnisky (Salk Institute), Y. Dan (UC Berkeley), J. Gallant (UC Berkeley), W. Geisler (UT-Austin), P. Glimcher (NYU), D. Heeger (NYU), N. Kanwisher (MIT), M. Lewicki (Carnegie Mellon), J.A. Movshon (NYU), P. Reinagel (UCSD), D. Ringach (UCLA).The short, intensive nature of the course enables scientists to become rapidly immersed in the various concepts and techniques being taught and makes it possible for senior scientists and junior faculty as well as graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to attend. The students in the courses can then rapidly disseminate the techniques to others in their own laboratories. The courses are taught by a faculty who are fully active in and have made significant contributions to the areas under study. The value of these courses is reflected in the numbers and quality of the students who apply. Each year, far more applicants apply than can possibly be accommodated, and former students continue to recommend their own students or postdoctoral fellows for enrollment.