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“The brain of man being torn apart by the environment it has created”
Drawing by: S. Carcassonne(Copied without permission)
From: Neuronal Man by:Jean-Pierre Changeux
“Neuronal Apocalypse”
• Ofra Spira• Since 1992 in the ISF (coordinator of
programs in Medical and life sciences)
• Since 2000 - ISF director.
• PhD in medical sciences, Twenty six years of
scientific work in the medical school of the
Hebrew University.
• Studied history arts, engaged in dance and
Folklore, active in voluntary missions, in
particular Diaspora- Israel rations
ד"ר עופרה ספירא• מרכזת תחום 1992בקרן הלאומית למדע מ-•
מדעי החיים והרפואה .מנהלת הקרן הייתה 2000מאז שנת •במדעי הרפואה, מדענית במחלקה דוקטורט•
ס לרפואה, "לרפואה ניסויית וחקר הסרטן בביהבמשך עשרים ושש שנים.
למדה בחוג לתולדות האמנות של •.האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים
עסקה בפעילות התנדבותית, בעיקר בתחום קשרי •ישראל-תפוצות (ב"פורום הישראלי" ובפרויקט
") והן בפעילות אמנותית, בעיקר 2000"שותפות בתחומי המחול והפולקלור.
The center for motor research
•Moshe Abeles•Hagai Bergman•Haim Sompolinsky•Naftali Tishby•Eilon Vaadia
Thursday, December 18, 2003Session I: Movement Control: Neural Representations and Mechanisms-I
10:00 - 11:00Moshe Abeles Brain activity associated with binding along time and in
parallel
11:00 - 12:00Yifat Prut Transforming descending command to motor action:
Activity of spinal interneurons in primates performing voluntary movements
12:00 - 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 - 13:30Michale Fee Vocal control in the songbird: Neural mechanisms of
sequence generation
13:30 - 15:00 Light lunch on site
Session II: Learning in motor systems
15:00 - 16:00Sebastian Seung Of songs and synapses: The neural basis of avian vocal
learning
16:00 - 17:00Eilon Vaadia Learning induced improvement of internal representations
in motor cortex
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:30 Dan Lee Learning algorithms for artificial sensorimotor systems
Friday Dec-19-2003
Session III: Complex movements
09:30 -10:30 Tamar Flash On trajectory formation in complex movements
10:30 - 11:30Naftali Tishby Coding and segmentation of complex movements and their
neuronal representation
11:30 - 12:00 Brunch on-site
12:00– 13:00 Haim Sompolinsky How the brain generates movement
Sunday Dec-21-2003Session IV: Movement Control: Neural Representations and Mechanisms-II
09:30 - 10:30 Hagai Bergmann
Spike synchronization in the cortex-basal ganglia network of Parkinsonian primates reflects global dynamics of the local field potentials
10:30 - 11:30Amir Karniel Feedback, adaptation, learning or evolution: How does the brain
coordinate and time movements?
11:30 - 13:00 Light lunch on-site
13:00 - 14:00Ad Aertsen Inference of arm movements from spikes and local field
potentials in monkey motor cortex
14:00-15:00 Andrew Schwartz Useful signals from motor cortex
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion, Concluding Remarks, Farewell.