Thursday, November 5, 2009
\nIla 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.
\nDuration: 47 minutes
\nDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)
\nMichael Farries (Post-doc Fellow, UTSA)
\nSalma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nRama Ratnam (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nFidel Santamaria (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nTodd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.