NeuroHel Meetings

Spring 2005

Wed 12.1.2005, 12:15-14:15, T building, A346

Assembly meeting. We decided to start as a journal club. Everybody should think of a few articles from their field.

Wed 19.1.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Journal club: Kenji Doya, What are the computations of the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the cerebral cortex? Neural Networks, 12:961-974, 1999. Summary, full text and pdf available at Elsevier.

Wed 26.1.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Journal club: Jean Bullier, Integrated model of visual processing, Brain Research Reviews, 36:96-107, 2001. Summary, full text and pdf available at Elsevier.

Wed 2.2.2005, 14:15-16:00, Siltavuorenpenger 20D, Seminar room 340

Journal club: P. S. Churchland and T. J. Sejnowski, The Computational Brain, Ch. 2 (warning: the pdf file is 6.3 MB; there is a smaller file available but it requires an up-to-date Acroread)

Wed 9.2.2005, 14:15-16:00, TUAS House, Otaniementie 17, room 1593, 1st floor

Journal club: Emanuel Todorov, Optimality principles in sensorimotor control, Nature Neuroscience 7(9):907-915, 2004.

Wed 16.2.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Journal club: Jeff Hawkins, On Intelligence, Times Books, 2004. Harri Valpola will compile a summary of the book and present it in the Monday seminar organised jointly by LCE and BRU. The summary will be available here but everybody is also welcome to the Monday seminar which will be held on 14.2.2005 at 14:15 in the main building of TKK, room Y307, 3rd floor.

Wed 23.2.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Journal club: Alex M. Thomson and A. Peter Bannister, Interlaminar Connections in the Neocortex, Cerebral Cortex 13:5-14, 2003. This article was published in a special issue on computation in cortical columns.

Wed 2.3.2005, 14:15-16:00, Kumpula, Exactum, seminar room A118 (1st floor)

Journal club: plasticity and neural computation. There are six relatively short articles. You can have a look at all of them but everybody should read at least

• Destexhe & Marder: Plasticity in single neuron and circuit computations
• Tsodyks & Gilbert: Neural networks and perceptual learning

The papers are also available here.

Wed 9.3.2005, 14:15-16:00, Kumpula, Exactum, seminar room A118 (1st floor)

Journal club: Tsodyks & Gilbert, Neural networks and perceptual learning. Last time we had time only for the first paper so we are going discuss the second paper now.

Wed 16.3.2005, 14:15-16:00, Siltavuorenpenger 20D, Seminar room 340

Journal club: Montague et al., Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control. Again, this is one of the plasticity and neural computation papers and is also available here.

Wed 23.3.2005, Easter break

Wed 30.3.2005, 14:15-16:00, T building, A346

Journal club: Durstewitz et al., Neurocomputational models of working memory. The paper is also available here.

Wed 6.4.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Journal club: R. C. O'Reilly and M. J. Frank, Making working memory work.

Wed 13.4.2005, 14:15-16:00, Siltavuorenpenger 20D, Seminar room 340

Journal club: Engel, Fries and Singer, Dynamic predictions: oscillations and synchrony in top-down processing. The paper is also available here.

Wed 20.4.2005, 14:15-16:00, T building, A346

Journal club: Gustavo Deco and Edmund T. Rolls, Neurodynamical cortical model of visual attention and invariant object recognition. Also available here.

Wed 27.4.2005, 14:15-16:00, Cultivator II, Seminar room B105, Viikinkaari 4

Journal club: Matias Palva, Satu Palva and Kai Kaila, Phase Synchrony among Neuronal Oscillations in the Human Cortex. The article is also available here.

Wed 3.5.2005

No meeting (DSS seminar in T building, Otaniemi, 11:00-15:00)

Wed 11.5.2005

No meeting

Wed 18.5.2005, T building, A346

Journal club: F. Varela, J.-P. Lachaux, E. Rodriguez and J.Martinerie, The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2:229-239, 2001.

 

We discussed the format of future meetings and decided that we will now start discussing the work of participants and other researchers (we can still have journal clubs every now and then). We also discussed whether it would be possible to write something. The participants have diverse backgrounds and it might be possible to come up with an interesting synthesis.

 

Wed 8.6.2005, 14:15-16:00, AMI-Centre, 3rd floor, seminar room

Simo Vanni will introduce his research.