Modelling the auditory system: theory and experiments

›9:00 (30min)

Welcoming coffee & croissant

›9:30 (20min)

Welcome by participants

›9:50 (3h10)

Receptive fields and beyond

›9:50 (40min)

Studying adaptation and plasticity can improve models of auditory cortical processing
Andrew King

›10:30 (40min)

From Sound to Meaning in the Mammalian Auditory Cortex
Shihab Shamma

›11:10 (30min)

Coffee break

›11:40 (40min)

Linking the cortical code with auditory perception
Brice Bathellier

›12:20 (40min)

Integrating behavioral state into neural encoding models
Stephen David

›13:00 (1h)

Lunch break on site

›14:00 (4h)

Dynamics of the auditory system

›14:00 (40min)

Experiments and models of gain modulation by network state in primary auditory cortex
Alain Destexhe & Mavi Sanchez-Vives

›14:40 (40min)

Insights into auditory representations from sparse coding of natural sounds.
Mike Deweese

›15:20 (40min)

Coffee break

›16:00 (40min)

The role of songbird auditory cortex in building vocal motor programs: a hypothesis
Michale Fee

›16:40 (40min)

A cortico-collicular amplification mechanism for gap detection.
Michael Wehr

›17:20 (40min)

Time for discussion