James
S. McDonnell Foundation
Workshop Organized by Marcus Raichle and Debra Gusnard
Brain Energetics and Information Processing:
What's your brain doing when you're just sitting there?
November 20-22, 2003
Palisades, New York
Agenda
| Wednesday, November 19 | |
| 6:30 -- 8:00 p.m.: | Dinner for any participants arriving early, Hearth Dining Room |
| Thursday, November 20 | |
| 6:30 -- 8:30 p.m.: | Opening Reception and Dinner, Water's Edge |
| Friday, November 21 | |
| 7:00 -- 8:30 a.m.: | Breakfast, Hearth Dining Room |
| All meeting activities are being held in Room A330 (Third Floor). Coffee and refreshments available in Coffee Pavilion A300. | |
| 8:30 a.m.: | Introduction and Overview, Marcus Raichle |
| 9:00 -- 10:00 a.m.: | The Cost of Spontaneous or Intrinsic Activity |
| Simon Laughlin (20 min.) -- Analysis of the costs of ongoing neuronal activity and coding strategies for efficient energy use. | |
| Fahmeed Hyder (20 min.) -- Metabolic approaches to information processing and spontaneous activity. | |
| Questions (20 min.) | |
| 10:00 -- 11:00 a.m.: | Forms of Spontaneous or Intrinsic Activity |
| Nikos Logothetis (20 min.) -- Relationships between BOLD signals and electrophysiological measures with particular attention to large ampitude, low frequency fluctuations. | |
| Amiram Grinvald (20 min.) -- The nature of spontaneous activity viewed from the perspective of optical imaging. | |
| Questions (20 min.) | |
| 11:00 -- 11:30 a.m.: | Features of Spontaneous or Intrinsic Activity |
| David McCormick (20 min.) -- Persistent activity in vivo, its relationship to recurrent excitation and inhibition and its functional significance. | |
| Questions (10 min.) | |
| 11:30 a.m.: | Discussion |
| Discussion leaders: Charles Anderson, Jeff Binder, Doug Rothman, Bob Shulman | |
| Discussion time includes opportunities for anyone who may want to present a slide or make a special point. | |
| 12:30 -- 2:00 p.m.: | Lunch, Hearth Dining Room |
| 2:00 -- 3:00 p.m.: | Spontaneous Activity and Development |
| Michael Weliky (20 min.) -- Spontaneous activity in development. | |
| Michael Stryker (20 min.) -- Plasticity and development - extension of these issues to the adult brain. | |
| Questions (20 min.) | |
| 3:00 -- 4:00 p.m.: | Systems Level Considerations |
| Pierre Maquet (20 min.) -- Insights from 'altered states' - sleep, vegetative states, etc. | |
| Stan Dehaene (20 min.) -- A comprehensive neurobiological model and its relationship to intrinsic or spontaneous activity. | |
| Questions (20 min.) | |
| 4:00 -- 5:00 p.m.: | Discussion |
| Discussion leaders: Debra Gusnard, Andreas Kleinschmidt, Giulio Tononi | |
| Discussion time includes opportunities for anyone who may want to present a slide or make a special point. | |
| 6:30 -- 8:30 p.m.: | Reception and Dinner, Water's Edge |
| Saturday, November 22 | |
| 7:00 -- 8:30 a.m.: | Breakfast, Hearth Dining Room |
| All meeting activities are being held in Room A330 (Third Floor). Coffee and refreshments available in Coffee Pavilion A300. | |
| 8:30 -- 10:00 a.m.: | Thomas Metzinger (20 min.) -- Philosophy |
| Eve Marder (20 min.) -- Neurobiology | |
| Bruno Olshausen (20 min.) -- Modeling | |
| Questions (30 min.) | |
| 10:00 -- 12:00 noon: | Opportunity to revisit topics incompletely covered or developed. |
| 12:00 -- 1:00 p.m.: | Lunch, Hearth Dining Room |
| 1:00 -- 3:00 p.m.: | Final discussion and future directions. |
