2008 Sensory Coding and The Natural Environment Gordon Research Conference

2008年感官编码与自然环境戈登研究会议

• 批准号: 7540097
• 负责人: MICHAEL J BERRY
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7540097
• 关键词: Advanced Development; Animals; Auditory; Brain; Brain region; Code; Collaborations; Complex; Discipline; Environment; Fees; Funding; Grant; Image; International; Learning; Light; Methodology; Modality; Modeling; Neurosciences; Numbers; Organism; Prosthesis; Psychology; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Sensory; Sensory Process; Stimulus; Structure; Students; System; Techniques; Thinking; Travel; Visual; cognitive neuroscience; computer science; computerized data processing; cost; forging; insight; interest; neural information processing; neural prosthesis; relating to nervous system; response; sensory system; sound; statistics; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to support a biennial international meeting on the topic of Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment. 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 statistical structure of the natural world is complex, but rather similar across environments and sensory modalities. Furthermore, sensory coding strategies of many animals are often well-adapted to their natural sensory environment, especially in the visual and auditory domains. Characterizing natural scene statistics and the complex, adaptive neural responses they elicit 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 sound and images into a format interpretable by the brain. 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. Five previous meetings have been held on this topic, in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006. Starting in 2002, the meetings have been held as Gordon Research Conferences. 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 conference fees and/or travel costs to young scientists, students and -postdocs interested in attending the meeting and learning about the field. This grant will partially fund a biennial international meeting on Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, which will bring together a group of researchers, students, and postdocs from across scientific disciplines and from across sensory modalities to learn about the statistical structure of the natural world and how sensory systems are adapted to process these signals. Characterizing the complex neural responses evoked by naturalistic stimuli is essential for advancing the development of prostheses capable of transforming natural sound and images into a format interpretable by the brain. The meeting fulfills a key niche between large neuroscience meetings with sessions divided according to brain region and computational meetings that do not focus strongly on the natural environment, and the small format provides excellent opportunities for students and researchers to be exposed to unanticipated insights and forge new collaborations.

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一项支持两年一度的关于感觉编码和自然环境主题的国际会议的提案。会议的主题是高度跨学科的，利用了系统和认知神经科学、感知心理学、统计学、信号处理和计算机科学方面的专业知识。其目的是模拟和理解与自然环境的统计结构有关的感觉过程。这种方法广泛适用于任何有机体的任何感官形式。过去十年的一些研究表明，自然界的统计结构是复杂的，但在不同环境和感觉模式下相当相似。此外，许多动物的感觉编码策略经常很好地适应它们的自然感觉环境，特别是在视觉和听觉领域。表征自然场景统计数据及其引发的复杂、适应性神经反应被认为具有巨大的潜力，有助于揭示神经信息处理策略，并推动能够将自然声音和图像转换为大脑可解释格式的神经假体的开发。更重要的是，有必要对学生和当前的研究人员进行关于这一领域产生的技术、方法和结果类型的教育。此前曾在1997年、2000年、2002年、2004年和2006年就这一主题举行了五次会议。从2002年开始，这些会议一直以戈登研究会议的形式举行。这笔会议赠款将使我们能够邀请该领域的专家参加两年一次的戈登研究会议，并向有兴趣参加会议和了解该领域的年轻科学家、学生和博士后提供会议费和/或旅费。这笔赠款将部分资助一次关于感觉编码和自然环境的两年一次的国际会议，该会议将汇集来自不同科学学科和不同感觉模式的一群研究人员、学生和博士后，以了解自然世界的统计结构以及感觉系统如何适应处理这些信号。表征由自然刺激引起的复杂神经反应对于推动假体的开发至关重要，这些假体能够将自然声音和图像转换为大脑可以解释的格式。这次会议实现了大型神经科学会议和计算会议之间的一个关键利基市场，大型神经科学会议根据大脑区域进行划分，计算会议并不强烈地关注自然环境，而小型会议为学生和研究人员提供了接触到意想不到的见解并建立新合作的绝佳机会。