Perception and Action - an Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Systems Theory - Agenda

Working Group

Tuesday, September 14

8:30—8:50	Breakfast
8:50 — 9:30	Bruno Olshausen, "Overview and introductions"
9:30 — 10:10	Jeff Hawkins, "Making Sense of Sensory-motor Integration"
10:10 — 10:20	Discussion
10:20 — 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 — 11:30	Murray Sherman, "The Role of Thalamus in Cortical Functioning"
11:30 — 11:40	Discussion
11:40 — 12:20	Ray Guillery, "Are All the ’Driver’ Inputs that Thalamus Sends to Cortex Copies of Motor Instructions?"
12:20 — 12:30	Discussion
12:30 — 1:30	Lunch
1:30 — 2:10	Ehud Ahissar, "Closed loop perception: Object localization via whisking"
2:10 — 2:20	Discussion
2:20 — 3:00	Marc A. Sommer, "A neuronal pathway that links action to perception"
3:00 — 3:10	Discussion
3:10 — 3:40	Coffee Break
3:40 — 4:20	Carol Colby, "Active Vision"
4:20 — 4:30	Discussion
4:30 — 5:10	Chris Moore, "The Hemo-Neural Hypothesis: A Novel Mechanism for Regulating Neocortical Dynamics"
5:10 — 5:20	Discussion
7:00	Conference dinner

Wednesday, September 15

8:00 — 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 — 10:10	Discussion of neuroscience talks
10:10 — 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 — 11:20	Josh Bongard, “Prediction and Morphological Computation in Robotics”
11:20 — 11:40	Discussion
11:40 — 12:20	Andy Clark, "Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science"
12:20 — 12:30	Discussion
12:30 — 1:30	Lunch
1:30 — 2:10	Ralf Der, “The playful machine”
2:10 — 2:20	Discussion
2:20 — 3:00	Nihat Ay, “On a mathematical foundation of embodiment”
3:00 — 3:10	Discussion
3:10 — 3:40	Coffee Break
3:40 — 4:20	Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, “Maximising information in the Sensori-Motor Loop”
4:20 — 4:30	Discussion
4:30 — 5:10	Fritz Sommer and Daniel Little, “Gaining navigational power in an unknown environment by unsupervised learning in embodied sensor-action loops”
5:10 — 5:20	Discussion

Thursday, September 16

8:00 00 — 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 00 — 9:40	J. Kevin O’Regan, “How to make a robot that feels”
9:40 00 — 9:50	Discussion
9:50 00 — 10:30	Daniel Polani, “Information in the Perception-Action Loop: Characterizing the Interaction between Agents and their Environment”
10:30 00 — 10:40	Discussion
10:40 00 — 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 00 — 11:50	Naftali Tishby, “On the Information Theory of the Perception-Action-Cycle”
11:50 00 — 12:00	Discussion
12:00 00 — 1:00	Lunch
1:00 00 — 2:10	Discussion of robotics and theory talks
2:10 00 — 3:00	Impromptu talks
3:00 — 3:30	Coffee Break
3:30 — 5:00	Wrap up discussion