Sensory Processing: how the Past affects the Present (2013)

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titleSensory Processing: how the Past affects the Present
typeJournée
year2013
start_date2013/11/21
stop_date2013/11/22
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websitehttp://audition.ens.fr/ws3/
organisational_infoOrganized by Alain de Cheveigné, Daniel Pressnitzer, Israel Nelken, and Claire Chambers, with the assistance of Clémentine Fourrier-Eyraud.
summaryWhat we perceive at a given instant is to some extent influenced by past experience. However, the precise nature of this influence has still to be clarified. In one view of sensory processing, memory and context effects come after basic feature extraction, which is for the most part hardwired, and then modulate perceptual outcome. A different view is that rapid plasticity is pervasive in the system and shapes perception at many levels of processing, in an adaptive manner. In this workshop we plan to bring together psychophysicists, neurophysiologists, and theoreticians, in order to review the evidence for adaptive processing in sensory perception (audition, vision, whisker system) and extract some of its functional principles and benefits. Speakers: Merav Ahissar, Mathew Diamond, Emmanuel Dupoux, Kenneth Harris, Hynek Hermansky, Annika Linke, Lori Holt, Patrick Kanold, Leila Khoury, Yonatan Loewenstein, Andrew Oxenham, Daniel Pressnitzer, John Rinzel, Aaron Seitz. Invited discussants: Trevor Agus, Daniel Bendor, Samuele Carcagno, Rhodri Cusack, Laurent Daudet, Laurent Demany, Fred Dick, Jean-Marc Edeline, Mounya Elhilali, Bernhard Englitz, Jonathan Fritz, Makio Kashino Christian Lorenzi, Miguel Maravall, Pascal Mamassian, Ernest Montbriò, Maneesh Sahani, Jan Schnupp, Daniel Shulz, Shihab Shamma, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Daniel Tollin, Naftali Tishby.
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