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Friday, April 25, 2025

8:30 AM Sign In/Registration
9:15 AM Welcome and Introduction (Hayhoe)
  Session:  Natural Behavior in Humans
9:30 AM Constantin Rothkopf
  Computational elements of goal-directed sensorimotor behavior
10:15 AM Avniel Ghuman
   Neural encoding of real world face perception
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM Rowan Candy
  The statistics of the natural visual experience selected by infants
12:15 PM Discussion: Chen Yu
12:45 PM Lunch
  Session:  Modeling of Natural Tasks
2:00 PM Xue-Xin Wei
  Normative models of natural tasks
2:45 PM Sven Dickinson
  Symmetry in human and computer vision: a case study in scene perception
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM Andreas Tolias
  Foundation models of the brain
4:45 PM Discussion: Robbe Goris
5:15 PM Reception: Patio
 

Saturday, April 26, 2025

 

Session: Neurophysiology of Perceptual Tasks
9:00 AM Mark Churchland
  Neurobiology of flexible deductive reasoning
9:45 AM Kohitij Kar
  From independent snapshots to integrated streams: Probing Neural Mechanisms of Dynamic Scene Perception in the Primate Brain 
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM Emily Oby
  Structure and flexibilty of neural population activity
11:45  AM Arash Afraz
  Navigating perceptual space with neural perturbations
12:30 PM Discusson: Alex Huth
1:00 PM Lunch
2:30-4 PM Poster Session
4 PM Lab Tours
 

Sunday, April 27, 2025

  Session: Neurophysiology of Behaving Animals
9:00 AM Jude Mitchell
  Neural mechanisms of active foveal vision in marmoset monkeys
9:45 AM Julio Martinez-Trujillo
  Why do primates have view cells instead of place cells?
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM SueYeon Chung
  Computing with neural manifolds: Towards a multi-scale understanding of biological and artificial neural networks
11:45 PM Discussion:  Thom Elston
12:30 PM Lunch
  Session: Neurophysiology of Cognitive Tasks
2:00 PM Liberty Hamilton
  Modulation of neural responses during self-generated speech using intracranial recordings
2:45 PM Ben Hayden
  Neuronal basis of syntax and semantics in natural speech
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM David Freedman
  Primate oculomotor networks are recruited by abstract cognition
4:45 PM Discussion:  Lori Holt

 

 

 

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