Thursday, November 5, 2009

Ila  Fiete (Assistant Professor, Center for Learning & Memory, UT  Austin) discusses the "how" and the "why" of rate coding, the principles  of sparseness, capacity and optimality, drawing on her work on temporal  coding of song in HVC and hippocampal grid cells.

Duration: 47 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Michael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Rama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Fidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.