Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York
June 12 - 25, 2013
The purpose of this course is to bring together students and faculty for in depth and high level discussions of modern approaches for probing how specific cell types and circuits give rise to defined categories of perception and action. It is also designed to address novel strategies aimed at overcoming diseases that compromise sensory function. The visual system is the most widely studied sensory modality. Recently, three major shifts have occurred in the field of neuroscience. First, owing to the large array of genetic techniques available in mice and the relative ease of imaging and recording from the cortex of small rodents, the mouse visual system has become a premiere venue for attacking the fundamental unresolved question of how specific cells and circuits relate to visual performance at the receptive field and whole-animal level. Second, genetic and viral methods have evolved to the point where neurophysiologists can directly probe the role of defined circuits in species such as macaque monkeys, thus bridging the mechanism-cognition gap. Third, the field of visual neuroscience is rapidly paving the way for widespread clinical application of stem cell, gene therapy and prosthetic devices to restore sensory function in humans. TOPICS
Introduction & Background
Retina I (cell types/circuits)
Retina II (coding/repair/prostheses)
Subcortical-Cortical II (receptive field transformations)
Cortex I (mapping circuits/alternate pathways)
Cortex II (coding and processing)
Circuit Plasticity/Repair
Cortical Mechanisms of Attention
Model Systems
Cortical Responses, Perception and Decisions
Genetic and Psychophysical Approaches to Curing Blindness
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Invited Speakers:
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Invited Speakers Kevin Briggman, NIH/NINDS
David Berson, Brown University
EJ Chichilnisky, Salk Institute
Rachael Pearson, University College London, UK
Jianhua Cang, Northwestern University
Bill Guido, University of Louisville
Cris Niell, University of Oregon
Marty Usrey, University of California, Davis
Ed Callaway, Salk Institute
Greg Horwitz, University of Washington
Matteo Carandini, University College London, UK
David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute
Sunil Ghandi, University of California, Irvine
John Maunsell, Harvard Medical School
Doris Tsao, Caltech
Tom Clandinin, Stanford University
Herwig Baier, Max Planck Institute
Anne Churchland, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tony Movshon, New York University
Botond Roska, Friedrich Miescher Institute
Maureen Nietz, University of Washington
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