Programme – December 16th 2022
08:00-08:55 Refreshments and Registration
08:55-09:00 Welcome from Tony Movshon
Session 1
09:00-09:45 Markus Meister, California Institute of Technology
Opening keynote: Horace Barlow: A neuroscientist ahead of his time
09:45-10:15 Fred Rieke, University of California, Berkeley
Retinal noise and absolute threshold
10:15-10:45 Denis Pelli, New York University
How many V1 neurons contribute to a perceptual decision?
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
Session 2
11:15-11:45 Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University
From Helmholtz to Barlow and beyond: Current concepts in colour perception
11:45-12:15 Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa
information, prediction and neuronal oscillations in perception
12:15-13:45 Lunch
Session 3
13:45-14:15 Eero Simoncelli, New York University
Redundancy guides the transformation of sensory images
14:15-14:45 Adrienne Fairhall, University of Washington
Building in efficiency
14:45-15:15 Stephanie Palmer, The University of Chicago
Efficiency revisited, for behaviourally important signals
15:15-15:45 Coffee break
Session 4
15:45-16:15 Doris Tsao, University of California, Berkeley
Principles underlying the transformations of sensory messages: Possible insights from the macaque visual system
16:15-16:45 Mike Shadlen, Columbia University
Direct representation in the accomplished statistical decision-making organ
16:45-17:30 Bill Bialek, Princeton University
Closing keynote: Efficient representation, far from the source
17:30-17:40 Closing Remarks from Tony Movshon
Evening Reception
18:00-19:30 Reception at the Zoology Museum
Scientific organisers
Bill Bialek, Zoe Kourtzi, Tony Movshon, Daniel Wolpert
