Working Memory in Jerusalem

September 18-19, 2008

Workshop Program

Thursday, September 18 (Feldman 2)

08:30 Registration

09:00-10:30 Chairperson: M. Tsodyks

S. Funahashi: Neural mechanisms of working memory in the prefrontal cortex

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Chairperson: Y. Loewenstein

N. Brunel : Can attractor network models account for the statistics of firing during persistent activity in prefrontal cortex?

C. van Vreeswijk : The computational limitations of balanced networks

D. Hansel : Balanced spatial working memory

G. Mongillo : Active memory maintenance with short-term synaptic facilitation

13:00-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:30 Chairperson: C. van Vreeswijk

S. Barash : Working memory for saccadic eye movements in the parietal cortex

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-19:30 Chairperson: D. Golomb

E. Fransen : Mechanisms of mGluR mediated plateau potentials in entorhinal cortex neurons

C. Machens : Low-dimensional network models for data from the prefrontal cortex

Y. Loewenstein : The computational principles and neural mechanisms underlying contraction bias

A. Compte : Mechanism for Top-down Control of Working Memory Capacity

D. Durstewitz : Title TBA

20:00 Dinner (invited speakers only)

Friday, September 19 (Feldman 2)

09:00-10:30 Chairperson: M. Ahissar

D. Sagi : Memory blends

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Chairperson: M. Shamir

V.A.M. Daelli : Short-term memory effects on visual perception

S. Ganguli : Short term memory traces in neural networks

Y. Trisch : The costs of visual working memory

M. Rigotti : Mixed neuronal selectivity is important in recurrent neural networks implementing context dependent tasks

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:00 Chairperson: D. Hansel

J. Haynes : Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

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