Annual Woods Hole Workshop on Computational Neuroscience (7th) Held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on 24-30 August 1991
Abstract
The Computational Neuroscience Workshop was held in Woods Hole at the Marine Biological Laboratory on August 24 to August 30, 1991, concurrently with the last week of the Computational Neuroscience Summer Course. The primary purpose of the workshop was to bring together the leading investigators interested in applying computational modeling techniques to problems in brain function. This was the seventh year in which this workshop was held at Woods Hole. There was a general feeding that the field of computational neuroscience had over this time started to live up to its early promise and the workshop has contributed significantly to this development. the impact of the workshop were apparent in the research papers that the participants circulated, many of which grew out of discussions between participants at earlier workshops. The existence of the summer course was an encouraging indication of the hopes for the future of the field. One of the central theme of this year's workshop was learning and memory in populations of neurons. This topic was introduced in talks by Terry Sejnowski on adaption of the vestibulo-ocular reflex, by Eric Knudsen on neural and behavioral plasticity during the development of sound localization in the barn owl, by Bob Desimone on habituation of neurons in the inferior temporal cortex to complex stimuli, and by Dana Ballard on reinforcement learning in the setting of planning.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 30, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA243462
Entities
Organizations
- Marine Biological Laboratory