Sensory coding and the natural environment

描述：（由申请人提供）这是一项支持两年期 感官编码与自然语言学国际会议 环境，沿着一个Web资源，该资源将提供人员目录 和出版物，以及交换数据和 算法会议的主题是高度跨学科的，借鉴 在系统和认知神经科学，知觉心理学， 统计学、信号处理和计算机科学。目的是建模并 了解感觉过程与统计结构的关系， 自然环境这种方法广泛适用于任何感官 任何有机体的形态。过去十年的大量研究表明， 许多动物的感觉编码策略可以理解为 应用于自然场景的高效编码策略，特别是在 脊椎动物和无脊椎动物的视觉和听觉领域。这 这种方法被认为具有很大的潜力， 信息处理策略，以及推进发展 神经假体能够将自然图像和声音转换成 大脑可以理解的格式。此前已就此举行了两次会议 1997年和2000年，研究这一问题的调查员人数 这个领域，更不用说那些进入它，已经超过了这些小的，非正式的， 会议.更重要的是，有必要教育学生， 目前的研究人员对技术，方法和结果的类型 从这一领域涌现出来。这次会议的拨款将使我们能够 邀请该领域的专家参加两年一度的戈登研究会议， 为学生提供车船赠款及注册费资助， 有兴趣参加会议并了解该领域的博士后。的 该网站将通过提供 会议，并将实地工作提请更广泛的 观众

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) This is a proposal to support a biennial international meeting on the topic of Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, along with a web resource that will provide a directory of people and publications in the field, as well as a medium for exchanging data and algorithms. The theme of the meeting is highly interdisciplinary, drawing upon expertise in systems and cognitive neuroscience, perceptual psychology, statistics, signal processing, and computer science. The aim is to model and understand sensory processes in relation to the statistical structure of the natural environment. This approach is broadly applicable to any sensory modality of any organism. A number of studies over the past decade have shown that the sensory coding strategies of many animals may be understood in terms of efficient coding strategies applied to natural scenes especially in the visual and auditory domains of both vertebrates and invertebrates. This approach is thought to have great potential for shedding light on neural information processing strategies, as well as advancing the development of neural prostheses capable of transforming natural images and sound into a format interpretable by the brain. Two previous meetings have been held on this topic, in 1997 and 2000, and the number of investigators now working in this field, not to mention those entering it, has outgrown these small, informal meetings. More importantly, there is a need to educate both students and current investigators about the techniques, methodologies, and types of results emerging from this field. Funding from this conference grant will enable us to invite experts in the field to a biennial Gordon Research Conference, as well as to provide travel grants and registration fee subsidies to students and post-docs interested in attending the meeting and learning about the field. The web site will complement this effort by providing continuity between the meetings as well as bringing work in the field to the attention of a wider audience.