2008 Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment Gordon Conference

感官编码和自然环境戈登会议该奖项支持一个关于复杂自然环境刺激特性以及生物系统对这些刺激的编码和处理的国际会议。会议的主题是高度跨学科的，组织者试图吸引来自不同背景的与会者来促进交叉受精，包括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。会议有三个基本组成部分，对鲁棒机器智能的发展至关重要：复杂（即非高斯）源模型的发展；识别、整理和利用各种复杂感官模式的生物处理原理；神经解码——直接从单个细胞或细胞群的尖峰活动中提取有关感官世界的信息。本课题对脑机接口和机器人运动控制具有直接的应用价值。会议将有助于满足教育学生和当前的研究人员关于技术、方法和从这个领域出现的结果类型的需要。

Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment Gordon ConferenceThis award supports an international meeting on the properties of complex natural environmental stimuli, and the encoding and processing of these stimuli by biological systems. The theme of the meeting is highly interdisciplinary, and the organizers seek to draw attendees from a variety of backgrounds to promote cross-fertilization, including systems and cognitive neuroscience, perceptual psychology, statistics, signal processing, and computer science.The meeting has three fundamental components that are of central importance to the development of robust machine intelligence: the development of sophisticated (i.e., non-Gaussian) source models; identification, codification, and exploitation of principles for biological processing of diverse and complex sensory patterns; and neural decoding-- the extraction of information about the sensory world directly from the spiking activity of single cells or populations of cells. This topic has direct application to brain-computer interfaces and robotic control of movement. The meeting will help fulfill the need to educate both students and current investigators about the techniques, methodologies, and types of results emerging from this field.