Latin American Summer School in Computational Neuroscience and Biomedical Applications, Valparaiso, Chile 2010

List of Faculty

Frederic Alexandre  (INRIA-CORTEX, France) The overall goal is to propose a generic model of cortical map, valid for any region of the cortex and including functioning and learning mechanisms.

 

Michael Berry  (Princeton U, USA) Models of the retina: cellular and circuit mechanisms. Temporal pattern recognition in retinal ganglion cells.

 

Laurent Bougrain (INRIA-CORTEX, France) Artificial Neural networks, EEG spatio-temporal models, Brain-Computer Interface.

 

Ruben Budelli (Inst Biologia, U Republica, Uruguay) Electric imaging, analysis of complex scenes, Coding, uncertainty and information.

 

Angel Caputi (IIBC, Uruguay) Electric organ discharge, Waveform model generation, Coding, uncertainty and information

 

Bruno Cessac (INRIA-LJAD, France) Dynamical analysis of neural networks, Spike coding, Learning in complex biological systems, Interplay between synaptic graph structure and topology.

 

Diego Cosmeli (PUC, Dept Psychology, Chile) Neurodynamics in electroencephalographic recordings: Evaluation of different measures of functional connectivity using a neural mass model.

 

Jean-Philippe Lachaux (INSERM U821 Dynamique Cérébrale et Cognition, France): Cognitive neuroscience.

 

Markus Diesmann (RIKEN Brain Science Inst, Japan) The mechanisms and functional consequences of spike synchronization and plasticity in biologically realistic models of the cortical network.

 

Sonja Gruen (RIKEN Brain Science Inst, Japan) Development of analysis strategies that detect the concerted activity in the brain to explore the relevance of the observed activity for behavior and cognition

 

David Hansel (U Paris Decartes-CNRS, France) Models of visual cortex. Models of functions and dysfunctions of the Basal Ganglia. Mechanisms of working memory.

 

Axel Hutt (INRIA-CORTEX, France) Neural population models for sensory processing. E_ects of multiple time scales of synapses on the spatio-temporal activity

 

Juan Carlos Letelier (U Chile, Chile) Autopoiesis; (M,R) systems; Circularity; Metabolism; Closure; TuringChurch hypothesis.

 

Andre Longtin (Center for Neural Dynamics, U of Ottawa, Canada) Biophysics of sensory transduction and information processing. Influences of delayed visual feedback on balance neuronal control activity.

 

Pedro Maldonado (CENI, U Chile, Chile) Microscopic organization of orientation preferences in striate cortex. Temporal Dynamics of Neuronal Activity in the Striate Cortex.

 

German Mato (CAB and Inst Balseiro, Argentina) Existence and stability of persistent states in large neuronal networks. Information theory in biological systems.

 

Jean-Pierre Nadal (ENS, Lab Physics Statistic, France) Statistical Physics of Information Processing in Biology

 

Sergio Neuenschwander (Max-Planck Inst for Brain Research, Frankfurt) Synchronization of neuronal activity: From the retina to the visual cortex.

 

Miguel Nicolelis (Duke U Medical Center, USA, ELS-IINN, Brazil) Neural ensemble recordings in behaving animals. Distributed processing of tactile information.

 

Patricio Orio (CNV, U Valparaiso, Chile) Computational Neuroscience, Modeling the activity and response of cold-sensitive nerve terminals.

 

Adrian Palacios (CNV-ISCV, U Valparaiso, Chile) Sensory biology, retina anatomy and physiology of color vision from neurons to models.

 

John Rinzel (New York U, USA) The nonlinear dynamics of neuronal excitability. Intrinsic mechanisms for repetitive firing and bursting oscillations of individual cells: Collective rhythms

of neurons in biological networks.

 

Javier Ruiz del Solar (Dept Ing Electric, U Chile, Chile) Soft-Computing and Computer Vision, Robotics and Autonomous Systems .

 

Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest U, USA) Dynamical properties of spiking networks: mechanisms by which neurons represent and transform sensory information.

 

Roberto Toro (Institute Pasteur, France) Models and tools to perform metanalyses of cognitive neuroimaging.

 

Soledad Torres (Dept Statistic, U Valparaiso, Chile) Stochastic processes, Bayesian approaches.

 

Thierry Vieville (INRIA-CORTEX, France) Computational Neuroscience and Adaptive Mechanisms in Visual Motion Perception.

 

Carl van Vreeswijk (U Paris Decartes-CNRS, France) The dynamics of large populations of neurons and on how these dynamical aspects inuence computation in the brain.

 

Fred Wolf (Max Planck Inst for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goottingen) Self-organization in the dynamics of cortical networks: Neuronal plasticity of the visual cortex.