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