With the sponsorship of: SICC
SIF
Neuroscience today: neuronal functional diversity and collective behaviors
in the framework of COST ACTION B27
“ELECTRIC NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS AND COGNITION (ENOC)
CONFERENCE VENUE:
Firenze, Accademia dei Georgofili (Logge degli Uffizi) DATE: 26-28 March, 2007
Scientific committee:
F.Tito.Arecchi, Department of Physics, University of Firenze, (Italy)
Luigi Fortuna, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e dei Sistemi, University of Catania (Italy)
Ljupco Kocarev, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Skopje, Skopje (Macedonia)
Juergen Kurths, Department of Physics, University of Potsdam (Germany)
Walter G. Sannita, Department of Motor Science, University of Genova (Italy) and Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA)
Organizing committee:
Riccardo Meucci, CNR-INOA, Firenze (Italy), chairperson riccardo.meucci@inoa.it
Alessandro Farini, CNR-INOA, Firenze (Italy)
Mattia Frasca, University of Catania (Italy)
Stefano Mancuso, International Laboratory for Vegetal Neurobiology (LINV), University of Firenze (Italy)
Non-temporal information can be carried by time patterns in neuronal
spiking and neural assemblies can be identified by collective
(synchronous) firing rather than only by transient change in the firing
rate. According to models and experiments, this arrangement would allow
fast dynamics, robustness, flexibility, and coexistence of several
assemblies in the same cortical region. Synchronization, spiking
accuracy, modulation of spiking rate, and spatiotemporal coherent
patterning may therefore represent distinct but interacting
computational codes for functionally diverse neurons. The issue is
crucial in neuroscience, especially when neuronal functions are related
to high-order brain processes or signals recorded in man. A close
scrutiny of the available conventional and non-conventional models and
their extension to high-order neuronal operations, including
“cognitive” processes, is now in order.
Purposes of the Conference are: 1- to focus on the integration of
diverse neurons (e.g. segregated and selective for sensory input or
motor organization) into networks behaving as functional assemblies; 2-
to set research guidelines for the combination of (sub)cellular and
system brain research; 3-to promote integrated approaches.
The Conference is sponsored by COST and is organized in the framework of COST Action B27 action "ELECTRIC NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS AND COGNITION (ENOC)". It will provide unique opportunities to learn on new trends in neuroscience. Interested researchers are invited to attend and contribute to it.
The main objective of the COST Action B27 (www.manu.edu.mk/costb27) is"to increase the knowledge of the electric neuronal oscillations correlated to memory and attention as the basis for neuronal regulation aimed at enhancing the human performance and health".
Poster Submission
Poster submission (File format: PDF; 4 pages maximum).
Please send your contribution by e-mail to: Riccardo Meucci, CNR-INOA, Firenze (Italy), riccardo.meucci@inoa.it
Deadline for poster submission: March 1, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2007
The Conference is sponsored by COST and is organized in the framework of COST Action B27 action "ELECTRIC NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS AND COGNITION (ENOC)". It will provide unique opportunities to learn on new trends in neuroscience. Interested researchers are invited to attend and contribute to it.
The main objective of the COST Action B27 (www.manu.edu.mk/costb27) is"to increase the knowledge of the electric neuronal oscillations correlated to memory and attention as the basis for neuronal regulation aimed at enhancing the human performance and health".
Poster Submission
Poster submission (File format: PDF; 4 pages maximum).
Please send your contribution by e-mail to: Riccardo Meucci, CNR-INOA, Firenze (Italy), riccardo.meucci@inoa.it
Deadline for poster submission: March 1, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2007