[news.announce.conferences] Conference on neural networks and vestibular systems.

glenn@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Glenn Meyer) (02/17/88)

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         NEURAL NETWORK MODELS AND THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM

A conference on neural network models and the vestibular system
will be held on Monday, April 18 and Tuesday, April 19, 1988 at
NASA Ames Research Center.  The conference is sponsored by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Office of
Naval Research.

The meeting will provide a forum for interactions between neural
network theoreticians and modelers, and vestibular physiologists.
A round table discussion among the speakers and other conference
participants will define aspects of the vestibular system which
can be productively modeled using current neural network theory.

The speakers include:

 John Hopfield, Neural Networks
 Christof Koch, Neural Models
 David Rumelhart, Parallel Distributed Processing
 Tomaso Poggio, Visual Processing
 David Van Essen, Visual System Models
 Fred Guedry, Vestibular Systems Overview
 Charles Oman, Semicircular Canal Biophysics
 A.J. Hudspeth, Transduction in Hair Cells
 Manning Correia, Peripheral Vestibular Synaptic Function
 Jay Goldberg, Neural Coding
 Stephen Highstein, Comparative Aspects of Vestibular Projections
 Joel Gallagher, Central Pharmacology of the Vestibular System
 Charles Markham, Vestibular Reflexes
 Laurence Young, Visual-Vestibular Interactions

Preregistration is requested to expedite badge distribution.
There is no registration fee.  For registration forms and further
information please contact Muriel Ross, Mail Stop 261-2
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA  94035.
Telephone (415) 694-4825.
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