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

Working Group

Tuesday, September 14

8:300—8:50 AM	Breakfast
8:50 — 9:30 AM	Bruno Olshausen, "Overview and introductions"
9:30 — 10:10 AM	Jeff Hawkins, "Making Sense of Sensory-motor Integration"
10:10 — 10:20 AM	Discussion
10:20 — 10:50 AM	Coffee Break
10:50 — 11:30 AM	Murray Sherman, "The Role of Thalamus in Cortical Functioning"
11:30 — 11:40 AM	Discussion
11:40 — 12:20 PM	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