Day I. Thursday, November 13, 2014
08:45: registration and breakfast
09:15 - 09:30: introduction and welcome
Session 1: Decision Making (Chair: Gabriel Kreiman)
09:30 - 109:00: Sameer Sheth (Columbia): The Physiology of Human Cognitive Control: Investigations in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex
10:00 - 10:30: Kareem Zaghoul (NIH): Single unit activity in the human subthalamic nucleus during decision making
10:30 - 11:00: Ziv Williams (MGH/Harvard): Prefronal recordings in relation to cognitive control
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:00: Itzhak Fried (UCLA, Tel-Aviv University)
Session 2: Perception, Recognition, Faces (Chair: Ueli Rutishauser)
12:00 - 12:30: Katalin Gothard (U. Arizona): Naturalistic social stimuli elicit eye-selective neural responses in the monkey amygdala
12:30 - 13:00: Moran Cerf (Northwestern and NYU): Single neuron correlates of emotion regulation in natural sensory content
12:50 - 13:00: Group photo
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
Flash poster presentation (Chair: Moran Cerf)
14:00 - 14:05: Shaun Patel (MGH): Rapid intermittent Deep Brain Stimulation biases behavior in financial decision-making task
14:05 - 14:10: Juri Minxha (Caltech): Fixation-aligned single cell responses in human and non-human primate amygdala
14:10 - 14:15: Taufik Valiante (University of Toronto): Laminar specific specialization in regular spiking neurons in superficial and deep cortical laminae of human cortex maintained in vitro.
14:15 - 14:20 Shaun Aibel Weiss (UCLA): Searching for synchrony: a microelectrode study of neuronal spike firing during human seizures
14:20 - 16:00: Posters
Session 3: Clinical neuroscience (Epilepsy, Seizures, DBS) (Chair: Gabriel Kreiman)
16:00 - 16:30: Catherina Schevon (Columbia): Unraveling the electrophysiology of human seizures
16:30 - 17:00: Nathan Crone (Hopkins): Neural population dynamics in human cortical function
17:00 - 17:30: Stan Anderson (Hopkins): Clinical and therapeutic implications of cortical neural network modeling
17:30 - 18:00: Helen Mayberg (Emory): Therapeutic Modulation of Cingulate-Cortical Oscillations in Major Depression: Groundwork for next-generation closed-loop technologies
19:00 - 22:00: Conference dinner for all speakers
Conferece Final program:
Align
Day II. Friday, November 14, 2014
09:00 - 09:15: Welcome
Session 4: Memory I (Chair: Moran Cerf)
09:15 - 09:45: Elizabeth Buffalo (Seattle): Neural activity related to visual exploration and navigation in primates
09:45 - 10:15: Ueli Rutishauser (Cedars-Sinai/Caltech): Neural population dynamics during declarative memory/retrieval
10:15 - 11:00: Larry Squire (UCSD): Conscious and unconscious memory systems of the mamalian brain
11:00 - 11:15: Break
Session 5: Memory II (Chair: Ueli Rutishauser)
11:15 - 11:45: John Wixted (UCSD): Sparse and Distributed Coding of Episodic Memory in Neurons of the Human Hippocampus
11:45 - 12:15: Florian Mormann (Bonn): Single unit activity during perception and memory in the human medial temporal lobe
12:15 - 12:45: Andreas Schulze-Bonhage (Freiburg) and Michael Kahana (U. Penn): The spatial context of retrieved memories is reflected by neural activity in the human hippocampal formation
12:45 - 13:45: Lunch
Session 5: Memory II (Continue)
13:45 - 14:15: Josh Jacobs (Drexel): Entorhinal neuronal representations in human spatial navigation
Session 6: Neural prosthesis (Chair: Moran Cerf)
14:15 - 14:45: Richard Andersen (Caltech): Decoding motor imagery from the Posterior Parietal Cortex of a tetraplegic human
14:45 - 15:15: Carlos Vargas-Irwin (Brown): Exploring the neural representation of attempted, imagined, and observed actions in human motor cortex using spike train similarity analysis
15:15 - 15:30: Technology presentation (Designated by primary sponsor; Neuralynx)
15:30 - 15:45: Break
Session 7: Special topics (Chair: Gabriel Kreiman)
15:45 - 16:15: Josef Parvizi (Stanford): Intracranial EEG and Electrical Brain Stimulation
16:15 - 17:00: Ed Lein and Jonathan Ting (Allen institute): Multimodal interrogation of the cellular and local circuit architecture of the human neocortex
17:00 - 17:30: Dion Khodagholy (NYU): NeuroGrid. Recording action potentials from the surface of the brain
17:30: Conclusion