[vslist] SfN satellite symposium "The Senses"

[Karl Gegenfurtner]

The Journal of Physiology is sponsoring a satellite symposium to this
year’s Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego. “The
Senses” will take place on October 22nd, 2004 (the day before the
SfN meeting) from 10 am to 6 pm at the San Diego Marriott Hotel &
Marina, marina ballroom Salon D.

This event is free of charge to all interested scientists.
Registration is NOT required, but please do note that a limited number
of 350 seats is available on a first come - first served basis. Up to
date information can be found at
http://jp.physoc.org/misc/symposia.shtml.

Organisers: Karl R Gegenfurtner, Corné J Kros

Speakers:
Karl R Gegenfurtner (The Journal of Physiology Editorial Board)
Introduction

David McAlpine (University College London)
Hear, there and everywhere: creating a sense of auditory space

Frank Bremmer (Marburg, Germany)
Multisensory encoding of motion and space in posterior parietal cortex

1130 Coffee break

Miguel A L Nicolelis (Durham, NC, USA)
Computing with neural ensembles

Michael N Shadlen (Seattle, WA, USA)
Deciphering the visual cortex: a neural mechanism for decision making

1315 Lunch break

Linda B Buck (Seattle, WA, USA)
Olfactory coding/processing

Edward M Callaway (La Jolla, CA, USA)
Functional organization of achromatic and colour-opponent inputs to
primary visual cortex

1545 Tea break

Paul A Fuchs (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Time and intensity coding at the hair cell’s ribbon synapse

Peter Mombaerts (New York, NY, USA)
Olfaction targeted


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Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone:  +49 641 9926100	  mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de
fax:    +49 641 9926119	  http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl