PROGRAMME
9h20-9h30 M VERGASSOLA : Introduction and a few words on QBio.
9h30-10h Clément LENA
10h-10h30 Ralitsa TODOROVA
Pause
11h-11h30 Chistoph SCHMIDT-HIEBER
11h30-12h Alex CAYCO-GAYJIC.
12h-12h30 Rava AZEREDO da SILVEIRA
14h-14h30 Gisella VETERE
14h30-15h Jean-Rémi KING
15h30-16h Auriane DUCHEMIN
16h-16h30 Philippe FAURE
TITLES AND ABSTRACT
Rava AZEREDO DA SILVEIRA (LPENS)
Cognitive Biases and Compressed Mental Representations
In the past decades, auditory models have been very successful in connecting the physiology of hearing to its functionality. Models were pivotal in understanding differences between normal and hearing-impaired sound processing and have thereby inspired numerous hearing prosthetic algorithms. Because auditory models come in different flavors (fast, computational, functional, nonlinear or biophysical), it is important to be aware of their respective limitations for your study or application.
Deux parcours entre art et sciences
Alex Cayco Gajic is a junior professor at the Group for Neural Theory. She is interested in how different brain regions coordinate for flexible motor control.
Project:
We try to understand the learning dynamics that structure the emergence of auditory perception, particularly of speech. For this, the laboratory relies on in-vivo (ferret hearing) and in-silico (artificial networks of the latest generations) models.
About the HOPLA project
Artists have been doing experiments on vision longer than neurobiologists. Some major works of art have provided insights as to how we see; some of these insights are so fundamental that they can be understood in terms of the underlying neurobiology. For example, artists have long realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual perception.
Language is the most powerful social tool any species has evolved - we can use it to share any idea we can think of with the minds of those around us: from poetry, Shakespeare, and physics, to internet memes it underpins what defines us as a species. But despite centuries of thought and study we still have very little idea of how and why language evolved. As a field primatologist at the University of St Andrews, I have spent 15 years living and working with wild apes in the rainforests and mountains of Uganda.
