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CAM colloquium - Friday, November 3
3:30 p.m.
253 Rhodes Hall (Note room change)
Speaker: Jonathan D. Victor, Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical
College
Title: Neural Coding and Representation of Visual Information
Abstract: Information theory forms a natural framework
for the analysis of how neurons encode and represent the sensory world.
However, direct calculation of information-theoretic quantities from
laboratory data is fraught with difficulty. To circumvent these difficulties,
we introduce an indirect approach, that relies on construction of
families of metrics based on alignments of labelled temporal sequences.
This approach, applied to electrophysiologic recordings in the visual
cortex, leads to quantitative and qualitative insights concerning
neural representation of visual information.
Refreshments at 4:30 in 657 Rhodes Hall.
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