Do we know what the early visual system does? This question was the topic of a workshop at the SFN meeting ten years ago. Over the last decade, there has been tremendous progress in understanding the computations performed in the visual system, and how they are implemented by the neural circuitry.

The purpose of this workshop is to gather both theoreticians and experimentalists in the field to take stock and debate about the current challenges when trying to understand the computations performed by the early visual system, and how they result from both bottom-up and top-down processes.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Philipp Berens, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Laura Busse, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Matteo Carandini, UCL, UK
Frédéric Chavane, INT, Marseille, France
Karl Farrow, NERF, Belgium
Yves Frégnac, UNIC laboratory, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
Charles Gilbert, Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Tim Gollisch, University of Gottingen, Germany
Peter Neri, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Elad Schneidman, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
Andreas Tolias, Baylor College of Medicine, Austin, USA
Shimon Ullman, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel

REGISTRATION

This workshop will take place in the European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience ( http://www.eitn.eu/ ), Paris, January 19th and 20th. Registration is free but mandatory. We have a few slots for posters that will be presented during the meeting. If you are interested in presenting a poster.