All talks will be streamed via Zoom. If you'd like to watch virtually at any time, please use the following link: https://umn.zoom.us/j/97845647112
August 20th, 2024
Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center
Registration/Breakfast
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Welcome
Time: 9:00 - 9:15 AM
Keynote
Time: 9:15 - 10:00 AM
Speaker: Jonathan Winawer, PhD - Understanding Circuits in the Human Visual Cortex through Analysis of Field Potentials
Break
Time: 10:00 - 10:15 AM
Session 1: Speech/Language Decoding/Auditory
Session Chair: Gordon Smith, PhD
Intro: 10:15 - 10:20 AM
- 10:20 AM: Cross-lingual semantic representations in the human brain - Fatma Deniz, PhD
- 10:40 AM: Deep Neural Networks Explain Spiking Activity in Auditory Cortex - Joseph Makin, PhD
- 11:00 AM: Neural Speech Decoding Leveraging Deep Learning and Speech Synthesis - Yao Wang, PhD
- 11:20 AM: Auditory computation is constrained and organized by diverse, specialized, and time-limited integration windows - Samuel Norman-Haigneré, PhD (Virtual)
Lunch
Time: 11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Session 2: Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation
Session Chair: Alexander Opitz, PhD
Session Intro: 12:40 - 12:45 PM
- 12:45 PM: Single pulse white matter stimulation modulates neural responses in human visual cortex - Dora Hermes, PhD
- 1:05 PM: Understanding the function of state-regulated cholinergic neuromodulation for hippocampal memory consolidation - Sara Aton, PhD
- 1:25 PM: Brain Stimulation Modeling at the Microscopic Scale - Gregory Noetscher, PhD
- 1:45 PM: NeMo-TMS: Multiscale Neuron Modeling for TMS, from field induction to electrical and biochemical cellular responses - Gillian Queisser, PhD
Break
Time: 2:05 - 2:35 PM
Session 3: Vision
Session Chair: Dora Hermes, PhD
Session Intro: 2:35 - 2:40 PM
- 2:40 PM: Deciphering the evolution of cell type in the vertebrate retina - Karthik Shekhar, PhD
- 3:00 PM: Population encoding of stimulus features: cortex and retina - Steven Zucker, PhD
- 3:20 PM: Increase in dimensionality and sparsification of neural activity over development across diverse cortical areas - Matthias Kaschube, PhD
- 3:40 PM: Understanding the time course and spatial biases of natural scene segmentation - Ruben Coen-Cagli, PhD
Break
Time: 4:00 - 4:30 PM
Poster Session + Reception
Time: 4:30 - 7:00 PM