Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!aurora!labrea!agate!ucbvax!TRACTATUS.BELLCORE.COM!jose From: jose@TRACTATUS.BELLCORE.COM (Stephen J. Hanson) Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Conference - Connectionist Modeling and Brain Function (Princeton) Message-ID: <8802011913.AA02833@tractatus.bellcore.com> Date: 1 Feb 88 19:13:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 100 Approved: ailist@kl.sri.com Connectionist Modeling and Brain Function: The Developing Interface February 25-26, 1988 Princeton University Lewis Thomas Auditorium This symposium explores the interface between connectionist modeling and neuroscience by bringing together pairs of collaborating speakers or researchers working on related problems. The speakers will consider the current state and future prospects of four fields in which convergence between experimental and computational approaches is developing rapidly. Thursday Friday Associative Memory and Learning Sensory Development and Plasticity 9:00 am 9:00 am Introductory Remarks Preliminaries Professor G. A. Miller Announcements 9:15 am 9:15 am Olfactory Process and Associative Role of Neural Activity in the Memory: Cellular and Modeling Development of the Central Visual Studies System: Phenomena, Possible Mechanism and a Model Professor A. Gelperin Professor Michael P. Stryker AT&T Bell Laboratories University of California, San Francisco Princeton University 10:30 am 10:30 am Simple Neural Models of Towards an Organizing Principle for a Classical Conditioning Perceptual Network Dr. G. Tesauro Dr. R. Linsker, M.D., Ph.D. Center for Complex Systems Research IBM Watson Research Lab Noon-Lunch Noon-Lunch 1:30 pm 1:30 pm Brain Rhythms and Network Memories: Biological Constraints on a Dynamic I. Rhythms Drive Synaptic Change Network: Somatosensory Nervous System Professor G. Lynch Dr. T. Allard University of California, Irvine University of California, San Francisco 3:00 pm 3:00 pm Brain Rhythms and Network Memories: Computer Simulation of Representational II. Rhythms Encode Memory Plasticity in Somatosensory Cortical Hierarchies Maps Professor R. Granger Professor Leif H. Finkel University of California, Irvine Rockefeller University The Neuroscience Institute 4:30 pm General Discussion 4:30 pm General Discussion 5:30 pm Reception 5:30 pm Reception Green Hall, Langfeld Lounge Green Hall, Langfeld Lounge Organizers Sponsored by Stephen J. Hanson Bellcore & Department of Psychology Princeton U. Cognitive Science Laboratory Carl R. Olson Princeton U. Human Information Processing Group George A. Miller, Princeton U. Travel Information Princeton is located in central New Jersey, approximately 50 miles southwest of New York City and 45 miles northest of Philadelphia. To reach Princeton by public transportation, one usually travels through one of these cities. We recommend the following routes: By Car >From NEW YORK - - New Jersey Turnpike to Exit #9, New Brunswick; Route 18 West (approximately 1 mile) to U.S. Route #1 South, Trenton. From PHILADELPHIA - - Interstate 95 to U.S. Route #1 North. From Washington - - New Jersey Turnpike to Exit #8, Hightstown; Route 571. Princeton University is located one mile west of U.S. Route #1. It can be reached via Washington Road, which crosses U.S. Route #1 at the Penns Neck Intersection. By Train Take Amtrak or New Jersey Transit train to Princeton Junction, from which you can ride the shuttle train (known locally as the "Dinky") into Princeton. Please consult the Campus Map below for directions on walking to Lewis Thomas Hall from the Dinky Station. For any further information concerning the conference please contact our conference planner: Ms. Shari Landes Psychology Department Princeton University, 08544 Phone: 609-452-4663 Elec. Mail: shari@mind.princeton.edu