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25th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS-2016

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A1 Functional advantages of cell-type heterogeneity in neural circuits

Tatyana O. Sharpee

A2 Mesoscopic modeling of propagating waves in visual cortex

Alain Destexhe

A3 Dynamics and biomarkers of mental disorders

Mitsuo Kawato

F1 Precise recruitment of spiking output at theta frequencies requires dendritic h-channels in multi-compartment models of oriens-lacunosum/moleculare hippocampal interneurons

Vladislav Sekulić, Frances K. Skinner

F2 Kernel methods in reconstruction of current sources from extracellular potentials for single cells and the whole brains

Daniel K. Wójcik, Chaitanya Chintaluri, Dorottya Cserpán, Zoltán Somogyvári

F3 The synchronized periods depend on intracellular transcriptional repression mechanisms in circadian clocks.

Jae Kyoung Kim, Zachary P. Kilpatrick, Matthew R. Bennett, Kresimir Josić

O1 Assessing irregularity and coordination of spiking-bursting rhythms in central pattern generators

Irene Elices, David Arroyo, Rafael Levi, Francisco B. Rodriguez, Pablo Varona

O2 Regulation of top-down processing by cortically-projecting parvalbumin positive neurons in basal forebrain

Eunjin Hwang, Bowon Kim, Hio-Been Han, Tae Kim, James T. McKenna, Ritchie E. Brown, Robert W. McCarley, Jee Hyun Choi

O3 Modeling auditory stream segregation, build-up and bistability

James Rankin, Pamela Osborn Popp, John Rinzel

O4 Strong competition between tonotopic neural ensembles explains pitch-related dynamics of auditory cortex evoked fields

Alejandro Tabas, André Rupp, Emili Balaguer-Ballester

O5 A simple model of retinal response to multi-electrode stimulation

Matias I. Maturana, David B. Grayden, Shaun L. Cloherty, Tatiana Kameneva, Michael R. Ibbotson, Hamish Meffin

O6 Noise correlations in V4 area correlate with behavioral performance in visual discrimination task

Veronika Koren, Timm Lochmann, Valentin Dragoi, Klaus Obermayer

O7 Input-location dependent gain modulation in cerebellar nucleus neurons

Maria Psarrou, Maria Schilstra, Neil Davey, Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, Volker Steuber

O8 Analytic solution of cable energy function for cortical axons and dendrites

Huiwen Ju, Jiao Yu, Michael L. Hines, Liang Chen, Yuguo Yu

O9 C. elegans interactome: interactive visualization of Caenorhabditis elegans worm neuronal network

Jimin Kim, Will Leahy, Eli Shlizerman

O10 Is the model any good? Objective criteria for computational neuroscience model selection

Justas Birgiolas, Richard C. Gerkin, Sharon M. Crook

O11 Cooperation and competition of gamma oscillation mechanisms

Atthaphon Viriyopase, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Stan Gielen

O12 A discrete structure of the brain waves

Yuri Dabaghian, Justin DeVito, Luca Perotti

O13 Direction-specific silencing of the Drosophila gaze stabilization system

Anmo J. Kim, Lisa M. Fenk, Cheng Lyu, Gaby Maimon

O14 What does the fruit fly think about values? A model of olfactory associative learning

Chang Zhao, Yves Widmer, Simon Sprecher,Walter Senn

O15 Effects of ionic diffusion on power spectra of local field potentials (LFP)

Geir Halnes, Tuomo Mäki-Marttunen, Daniel Keller, Klas H. Pettersen,Ole A. Andreassen, Gaute T. Einevoll

O16 Large-scale cortical models towards understanding relationship between brain structure abnormalities and cognitive deficits

Yasunori Yamada

O17 Spatial coarse-graining the brain: origin of minicolumns

Moira L. Steyn-Ross, D. Alistair Steyn-Ross

O18 Modeling large-scale cortical networks with laminar structure

Jorge F. Mejias, John D. Murray, Henry Kennedy, Xiao-Jing Wang

O19 Information filtering by partial synchronous spikes in a neural population

Alexandra Kruscha, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda, Benjamin Lindner

O20 Decoding context-dependent olfactory valence in Drosophila

Laurent Badel, Kazumi Ohta, Yoshiko Tsuchimoto, Hokto Kazama

P1 Neural network as a scale-free network: the role of a hub

B. Kahng

P2 Hemodynamic responses to emotions and decisions using near-infrared spectroscopy optical imaging

Nicoladie D. Tam

P3 Phase space analysis of hemodynamic responses to intentional movement directions using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) optical imaging technique

Nicoladie D.Tam, Luca Pollonini, George Zouridakis

P4 Modeling jamming avoidance of weakly electric fish

Jaehyun Soh, DaeEun Kim

P5 Synergy and redundancy of retinal ganglion cells in prediction

Minsu Yoo, S. E. Palmer

P6 A neural field model with a third dimension representing cortical depth

Viviana Culmone, Ingo Bojak

P7 Network analysis of a probabilistic connectivity model of the Xenopus tadpole spinal cord

Andrea Ferrario, Robert Merrison-Hort, Roman Borisyuk

P8 The recognition dynamics in the brain

Chang Sub Kim

P9 Multivariate spike train analysis using a positive definite kernel

Taro Tezuka

P10 Synchronization of burst periods may govern slow brain dynamics during general anesthesia

Pangyu Joo

P11 The ionic basis of heterogeneity affects stochastic synchrony

Young-Ah Rho, Shawn D. Burton, G. Bard Ermentrout, Jaeseung Jeong, Nathaniel N. Urban

P12 Circular statistics of noise in spike trains with a periodic component

Petr Marsalek

P14 Representations of directions in EEG-BCI using Gaussian readouts

Hoon-Hee Kim, Seok-hyun Moon, Do-won Lee, Sung-beom Lee, Ji-yong Lee, Jaeseung Jeong

P15 Action selection and reinforcement learning in basal ganglia during reaching movements

Yaroslav I. Molkov, Khaldoun Hamade, Wondimu Teka, William H. Barnett, Taegyo Kim, Sergey Markin, Ilya A. Rybak

P17 Axon guidance: modeling axonal growth in T-Junction assay

Csaba Forro, Harald Dermutz, László Demkó, János Vörös

P19 Transient cell assembly networks encode persistent spatial memories

Yuri Dabaghian, Andrey Babichev

P20 Theory of population coupling and applications to describe high order correlations in large populations of interacting neurons

Haiping Huang

P21 Design of biologically-realistic simulations for motor control

Sergio Verduzco-Flores

P22 Towards understanding the functional impact of the behavioural variability of neurons

Filipa Dos Santos, Peter Andras

P23 Different oscillatory dynamics underlying gamma entrainment deficits in schizophrenia

Christoph Metzner, Achim Schweikard, Bartosz Zurowski

P24 Memory recall and spike frequency adaptation

James P. Roach, Leonard M. Sander, Michal R. Zochowski

P25 Stability of neural networks and memory consolidation preferentially occur near criticality

Quinton M. Skilling, Nicolette Ognjanovski, Sara J. Aton, Michal Zochowski

P26 Stochastic Oscillation in Self-Organized Critical States of Small Systems: Sensitive Resting State in Neural Systems

Sheng-Jun Wang, Guang Ouyang, Jing Guang, Mingsha Zhang, K. Y. Michael Wong, Changsong Zhou

P27 Neurofield: a C++ library for fast simulation of 2D neural field models

Peter A. Robinson, Paula Sanz-Leon, Peter M. Drysdale, Felix Fung, Romesh G. Abeysuriya, Chris J. Rennie, Xuelong Zhao

P28 Action-based grounding: Beyond encoding/decoding in neural code

Yoonsuck Choe, Huei-Fang Yang

P29 Neural computation in a dynamical system with multiple time scales

Yuanyuan Mi, Xiaohan Lin, Si Wu

P30 Maximum entropy models for 3D layouts of orientation selectivity

Joscha Liedtke, Manuel Schottdorf, Fred Wolf

P31 A behavioral assay for probing computations underlying curiosity in rodents

Yoriko Yamamura, Jeffery R. Wickens

P32 Using statistical sampling to balance error function contributions to optimization of conductance-based models

Timothy Rumbell, Julia Ramsey, Amy Reyes, Danel Draguljić, Patrick R. Hof, Jennifer Luebke, Christina M. Weaver

P33 Exploration and implementation of a self-growing and self-organizing neuron network building algorithm

Hu He, Xu Yang, Hailin Ma, Zhiheng Xu, Yuzhe Wang

P34 Disrupted resting state brain network in obese subjects: a data-driven graph theory analysis

Kwangyeol Baek, Laurel S. Morris, Prantik Kundu, Valerie Voon

P35 Dynamics of cooperative excitatory and inhibitory plasticity

Everton J. Agnes, Tim P. Vogels

P36 Frequency-dependent oscillatory signal gating in feed-forward networks of integrate-and-fire neurons

William F. Podlaski, Tim P. Vogels

P37 Phenomenological neural model for adaptation of neurons in area IT

Martin Giese, Pradeep Kuravi, Rufin Vogels

P38 ICGenealogy: towards a common topology of neuronal ion channel function and genealogy in model and experiment

Alexander Seeholzer, William Podlaski, Rajnish Ranjan, Tim Vogels

P39 Temporal input discrimination from the interaction between dynamic synapses and neural subthreshold oscillations

Joaquin J. Torres, Fabiano Baroni, Roberto Latorre, Pablo Varona

P40 Different roles for transient and sustained activity during active visual processing

Bart Gips, Eric Lowet, Mark J. Roberts, Peter de Weerd, Ole Jensen, Jan van der Eerden

P41 Scale-free functional networks of 2D Ising model are highly robust against structural defects: neuroscience implications

Abdorreza Goodarzinick, Mohammad D. Niry, Alireza Valizadeh

P42 High frequency neuron can facilitate propagation of signal in neural networks

Aref Pariz, Shervin S. Parsi, Alireza Valizadeh

P43 Investigating the effect of Alzheimer’s disease related amyloidopathy on gamma oscillations in the CA1 region of the hippocampus

Julia M. Warburton, Lucia Marucci, Francesco Tamagnini, Jon Brown, Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

P44 Long-tailed distributions of inhibitory and excitatory weights in a balanced network with eSTDP and iSTDP

Florence I. Kleberg, Jochen Triesch

P45 Simulation of EMG recording from hand muscle due to TMS of motor cortex

Bahar Moezzi, Nicolangelo Iannella, Natalie Schaworonkow, Lukas Plogmacher, Mitchell R. Goldsworthy, Brenton Hordacre, Mark D. McDonnell, Michael C. Ridding, Jochen Triesch

P46 Structure and dynamics of axon network formed in primary cell culture

Martin Zapotocky, Daniel Smit, Coralie Fouquet, Alain Trembleau

P47 Efficient signal processing and sampling in random networks that generate variability

Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Isao Nishikawa, Kazuyuki Aihara, Taro Toyoizumi

P48 Modeling the effect of riluzole on bursting in respiratory neural networks

Daniel T. Robb, Nick Mellen, Natalia Toporikova

P49 Mapping relaxation training using effective connectivity analysis

Rongxiang Tang, Yi-Yuan Tang

P50 Modeling neuron oscillation of implicit sequence learning

Guangsheng Liang, Seth A. Kiser, James H. Howard, Jr., Yi-Yuan Tang

P51 The role of cerebellar short-term synaptic plasticity in the pathology and medication of downbeat nystagmus

Julia Goncharenko, Neil Davey, Maria Schilstra, Volker Steuber

P52 Nonlinear response of noisy neurons

Sergej O. Voronenko, Benjamin Lindner

P53 Behavioral embedding suggests multiple chaotic dimensions underlie C. elegans locomotion

Tosif Ahamed, Greg Stephens

P54 Fast and scalable spike sorting for large and dense multi-electrodes recordings

Pierre Yger, Baptiste Lefebvre, Giulia Lia Beatrice Spampinato, Elric Esposito, Marcel Stimberg et Olivier Marre

P55 Sufficient sampling rates for fast hand motion tracking

Hansol Choi, Min-Ho Song

P56 Linear readout of object manifolds

SueYeon Chung, Dan D. Lee, Haim Sompolinsky

P57 Differentiating models of intrinsic bursting and rhythm generation of the respiratory pre-Bötzinger complex using phase response curves

Ryan S. Phillips, Jeffrey Smith

P58 The effect of inhibitory cell network interactions during theta rhythms on extracellular field potentials in CA1 hippocampus

Alexandra Pierri Chatzikalymniou, Katie Ferguson, Frances K. Skinner

P59 Expansion recoding through sparse sampling in the cerebellar input layer speeds learning

N. Alex Cayco Gajic, Claudia Clopath, R. Angus Silver

P60 A set of curated cortical models at multiple scales on Open Source Brain

Padraig Gleeson, Boris Marin, Sadra Sadeh, Adrian Quintana, Matteo Cantarelli, Salvador Dura-Bernal, William W. Lytton, Andrew Davison, R. Angus Silver

P61 A synaptic story of dynamical information encoding in neural adaptation

Luozheng Li, Wenhao Zhang, Yuanyuan Mi, Dahui Wang, Si Wu

P62 Physical modeling of rule-observant rodent behavior

Youngjo Song, Sol Park, Ilhwan Choi, Jaeseung Jeong, Hee-sup Shin

P64 Predictive coding in area V4 and prefrontal cortex explains dynamic discrimination of partially occluded shapes

Hannah Choi, Anitha Pasupathy, Eric Shea-Brown

P65 Stability of FORCE learning on spiking and rate-based networks

Dongsung Huh, Terrence J. Sejnowski

P66 Stabilising STDP in striatal neurons for reliable fast state recognition in noisy environments

Simon M. Vogt, Arvind Kumar, Robert Schmidt

P67 Electrodiffusion in one- and two-compartment neuron models for characterizing cellular effects of electrical stimulation

Stephen Van Wert, Steven J. Schiff

P68 STDP improves speech recognition capabilities in spiking recurrent circuits parameterized via differential evolution Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Richard Veale, Matthias Scheutz

P69 Bidirectional transformation between dominant cortical neural activities and phase difference distributions

Sang Wan Lee

P70 Maturation of sensory networks through homeostatic structural plasticity

Júlia Gallinaro, Stefan Rotter

P71 Corticothalamic dynamics: structure, number of solutions and stability of steady-state solutions in the space of synaptic couplings

Paula Sanz-Leon, Peter A. Robinson

P72 Optogenetic versus electrical stimulation of the parkinsonian basal ganglia. Computational study

Leonid L. Rubchinsky, Chung Ching Cheung, Shivakeshavan Ratnadurai-Giridharan

P73 Exact spike-timing distribution reveals higher-order interactions of neurons

Safura Rashid Shomali, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Hideaki Shimazaki, S. Nader Rasuli

P74 Neural mechanism of visual perceptual learning using a multi-layered neural network

Xiaochen Zhao, Malte J. Rasch

P75 Inferring collective spiking dynamics from mostly unobserved systems

Jens Wilting, Viola Priesemann

P76 How to infer distributions in the brain from subsampled observations

Anna Levina, Viola Priesemann

P77 Influences of embedding and estimation strategies on the inferred memory of single spiking neurons

Lucas Rudelt, Joseph T. Lizier, Viola Priesemann

P78 A nearest-neighbours based estimator for transfer entropy between spike trains

Joseph T. Lizier, Richard E. Spinney, Mikail Rubinov, Michael Wibral, Viola Priesemann

P79 Active learning of psychometric functions with multinomial logistic models

Ji Hyun Bak, Jonathan Pillow

P81 Inferring low-dimensional network dynamics with variational latent Gaussian process

Yuan Zaho, Il Memming Park

P82 Computational investigation of energy landscapes in the resting state subcortical brain network

Jiyoung Kang, Hae-Jeong Park

P83 Local repulsive interaction between retinal ganglion cells can generate a consistent spatial periodicity of orientation map

Jaeson Jang, Se-Bum Paik

P84 Phase duration of bistable perception reveals intrinsic time scale of perceptual decision under noisy condition

Woochul Choi, Se-Bum Paik

P85 Feedforward convergence between retina and primary visual cortex can determine the structure of orientation map

Changju Lee, Jaeson Jang, Se-Bum Paik

P86 Computational method classifying neural network activity patterns for imaging data

Min Song, Hyeonsu Lee, Se-Bum Paik

P87 Symmetry of spike-timing-dependent-plasticity kernels regulates volatility of memory

Youngjin Park, Woochul Choi, Se-Bum Paik

P88 Effects of time-periodic coupling strength on the first-spike latency dynamics of a scale-free network of stochastic Hodgkin-Huxley neurons

Ergin Yilmaz, Veli Baysal, Mahmut Ozer

P89 Spectral properties of spiking responses in V1 and V4 change within the trial and are highly relevant for behavioral performance

Veronika Koren, Klaus Obermayer

P90 Methods for building accurate models of individual neurons

Daniel Saska, Thomas Nowotny

P91 A full size mathematical model of the early olfactory system of honeybees

Ho Ka Chan, Alan Diamond, Thomas Nowotny

P92 Stimulation-induced tuning of ongoing oscillations in spiking neural networks

Christoph S. Herrmann, Micah M. Murray, Silvio Ionta, Axel Hutt, Jérémie Lefebvre

P93 Decision-specific sequences of neural activity in balanced random networks driven by structured sensory input

Philipp Weidel, Renato Duarte, Abigail Morrison

P94 Modulation of tuning induced by abrupt reduction of SST cell activity

Jung H. Lee, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Stefan Mihalas

P95 The functional role of VIP cell activation during locomotion

Jung H. Lee, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Christof Koch, Stefan Mihalas

P96 Stochastic inference with spiking neural networks

Mihai A. Petrovici, Luziwei Leng, Oliver Breitwieser, David Stöckel, Ilja Bytschok, Roman Martel, Johannes Bill, Johannes Schemmel, Karlheinz Meier

P97 Modeling orientation-selective electrical stimulation with retinal prostheses

Timothy B. Esler, Anthony N. Burkitt, David B. Grayden, Robert R. Kerr, Bahman Tahayori, Hamish Meffin

P98 Ion channel noise can explain firing correlation in auditory nerves

Bahar Moezzi, Nicolangelo Iannella, Mark D. McDonnell

P99 Limits of temporal encoding of thalamocortical inputs in a neocortical microcircuit

Max Nolte, Michael W. Reimann, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram

P100 On the representation of arm reaching movements: a computational model

Antonio Parziale, Rosa Senatore, Angelo Marcelli

P101 A computational model for investigating the role of cerebellum in acquisition and retention of motor behavior

Rosa Senatore, Antonio Parziale, Angelo Marcelli

P102 The emergence of semantic categories from a large-scale brain network of semantic knowledge

K. Skiker, M. Maouene

P103 Multiscale modeling of M1 multitarget pharmacotherapy for dystonia

Samuel A. Neymotin, Salvador Dura-Bernal, Alexandra Seidenstein, Peter Lakatos, Terence D. Sanger, William W. Lytton

P104 Effect of network size on computational capacity

Salvador Dura-Bernal, Rosemary J. Menzies, Campbell McLauchlan, Sacha J. van Albada, David J. Kedziora, Samuel Neymotin, William W. Lytton, Cliff C. Kerr

P105 NetPyNE: a Python package for NEURON to facilitate development and parallel simulation of biological neuronal networks

Salvador Dura-Bernal, Benjamin A. Suter, Samuel A. Neymotin, Cliff C. Kerr, Adrian Quintana, Padraig Gleeson, Gordon M. G. Shepherd, William W. Lytton

P107 Inter-areal and inter-regional inhomogeneity in co-axial anisotropy of Cortical Point Spread in human visual areas

Juhyoung Ryu, Sang-Hun Lee

P108 Two bayesian quanta of uncertainty explain the temporal dynamics of cortical activity in the non-sensory areas during bistable perception

Joonwon Lee, Sang-Hun Lee

P109 Optimal and suboptimal integration of sensory and value information in perceptual decision making

Hyang Jung Lee, Sang-Hun Lee

P110 A Bayesian algorithm for phoneme Perception and its neural implemen