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Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems
- BICS2004
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
August 29 – September 1, 2004
Workshop
Information coding in early sensory stages1. ObjectiveTo discuss how information is
coded in early sensory stages, emphasizing the differences as well as similarities among the sensory systems. 2. Motivation Information Coding in early sensory stages deals with the general problem concerning
with how the brain transforms the external signals into internal representations. The understanding of such codes would have a tremendous impact not only to discover the mechanisms underlying the processing of sensory
information, but also to predict the processing requirements imposed to subsequent processing stages. Currently, there are several open issues deserving the attention of the research community:
- Which type of coding (compact, redundant, etc.) is performed in early sensory stages?
- What is the relationship between single and population neural codes?
- Which stimulus aspects are encoded through firing rate? Which ones through bursting discharge?
- How membrane and synaptic mechanisms participate in neural coding?
- Is synchronization fundamental for information coding?
- How spatiotemporal codes can contribute to understand the neural activity?
3. Topics The workshop welcomes both experimental and computational work, emphasizing multidisciplinary papers, in order to present new experimental evidences and discuss the proposed theoretical
frameworks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Models and experimental results in early stages of sensory systems
- Synchronization mechanisms underlying neural coding
- Population coding
- Redundant versus compact codes
- Specificity versus generality of neural codes among sensory systems
- Spatiotemporal coding
4. Co-chairs
- Carolina Varela Rodríguez
. E-mail:
carolina.varela-rodriguez@st-antoine.inserm.fr.
Eduardo Sánchez Vila. Department of Electronics and Computer Science. School of Physics. University of Santiago de Compostela. E-mail: eduardos@usc.es.
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