WS 2007

23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience

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Program:

Date Topic Speaker
16.10.07 Kick-off Meeting
23.10.07 What Is the Function of the Thalamus? Roland Schaette
30.10.07 What Is a Neuronal Map, How Does It Arise, and What Is It Good For? Richard Kempter
6.11.07 Can We Understand the Action of Brains in Natural Environments? Benjamin Bossan
Are Neurons Adapted for Specific Computations? Examples from Temporal Coding in the Auditory System Mathias Munz &
Anantha Krishna Sivasubramaniam
13.11.07 What is Fed Back? Jonas Kosten &
Titus von der Malsburg
20.11.07 How Does the Visual System Achieve Shift and Size Invariance? Laurenz Wiskott
27.11.07 What Is the Other 85 Percent of V1 Doing? Shankar Deepak Srinivasan
4.12.07 What Is the Neural Code? Saskia Helbling &
Bartosz Telenczuk
11.12.07 How General Are Neural Codes in Sensory Systems? Charlotte Pix
How Can the Brain Be So Fast? Antje Bock &
Gina Eom
18.12.07 Synesthesia: What Does It Tell Us about the Emergence of Qualia, Metaphor, Abstract Thought and Language? Holger Groth
What Are the Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness? Ivana Galinovic &
Ismini Papageorgiou
8.1.08 Are Single Neurons Soloists or Are They Obedient Members of a Huge Orchestra? Gidi Farhi &
Mathias Schulze-Kraft
15.1.08 What Is Reflected in Sensory Neocortical Activity: External Stimuli or What the Cortex Does with Them? Elisabeth Hopp,
Robert Becker &
Frank Freyer
22.1.08, 12am-2pm How is Time Represented in the Brain? Andreas Herz
29.1.08 What Are the Projective Fields of Cortical Neurons? Armin Bahl &
Eric Reifenstein
Where Are the Switches on This Thing? Evert Bosdriesz
5.2.08 How Does the Hearing System Perform Auditory Scene Analysis? Natalie Tkachenko &
Rui Wang
How Are the Features of Objects Integrated Into Perceptual Wholes That Are Selected By Attention? Jerome Edelmann

Henning Sprekeler, http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~sprekeler/