Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Computational Neuroscience: Vision Course Conference; Summer 2004, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

申请资金用于2004年6月18日至7月1日的计算神经科学：视觉冷泉港课程，以及2006年夏季课程。神经科学的计算方法在我们对神经处理的理解方面取得了重要进展。本课程强调对计算问题的理解与感知和生物数据的结合可以帮助指导神经科学的研究。通过结合讲座和计算机实验室的实践经验，本课程将涵盖：神经表示和编码；色觉、模式觉和视觉运动知觉的神经基础眼球运动的功能;以及视觉注意力/决策。在过去的12年中，这门课程已经被教授了6次，作为冷泉港神经生物学多个领域的综合课程的一部分。今年，将有一个新的重点放在视觉引导行为和决策的神经基础的理论和计算模型上，这是一个新兴的感觉和计算神经科学领域。课程的讲座将由组织者和在当前研究前沿工作并在其领域处于领先地位的特邀讲师进行。特约讲者包括：E. H. Adelson（麻省理工学院）、D. Brainard（宾夕法尼亚大学）、Matteo Carandini（史密斯·凯特韦尔眼科研究所）、E. J. Chichilniski（索尔克研究所）、Kathleen Cullen（麦吉尔大学）、Bruce Cummings（美国国家眼科研究所）、James DiCarlo（麻省理工学院）、D. J. Heeger（纽约大学）、Daniel Kersten（明尼苏达大学）、J. A. Movshon（纽约大学）、Pamela Reinagel（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）、F. Rieke（华盛顿大学）、Ruth Rosenholtz（美国宇航局）、S. Treue（哥廷根大学）、Preethi Verghese（史密斯·凯特韦尔眼科研究所）。

Funding is requested for a Cold Spring Harbor course on Computational Neuroscience: Vision from June 18 - July 1, 2004, and for the summer 2006 course. Computational approaches to neuroscience have produced important advances in our understanding of neural processing. The course emphasizes that an understanding of the computational problems in conjunction with perceptual and biological data can help guide research in neuroscience. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on computer laboratory experience, this course will cover: neural representation and coding; the neural basis of color vision, pattern vision, and visual motion perception; oculomotor function; and visual attention/decisionmaking. This course has now been taught 6 times over the past 12 years as part of an integrated set of courses at Cold Spring Harbor in a number of areas of neurobiology. This year, there will be a new emphasis on theories and computational models of the neural basis of visually-guided behavior and decision-making, a burgeoning area of sensory and computational neuroscience. Lectures in the course will be given by the organizers and by invited lecturers who are working on current research frontiers and are leaders in their field. Invited lecturers include: E. H. Adelson (MIT), D. Brainard (Penn), Matteo Carandini (Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute), E, J. Chichilniski (Salk Insitute), , Kathleen Cullen (McGill University), Bruce Cummings (National Eye Institute), James DiCarlo (MIT), D. J. Heeger (NYU), Daniel Kersten (Univ of Minnesota), J. A. Movshon (NYU), Pamela Reinagel (UCSD), F. Rieke (U. Washington), Ruth Rosenholtz (NASA), S. Treue (U. Gottingen), Preethi Verghese (Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute).