CCN GAC: "Is V1 a Cognitive Map?"

[Paul Linton]

Pleased to announce our Generative Adversarial Collaboration at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference:

“Is V1 a Cognitive Map?”

Paul Linton, David Heeger, Tony Movshon, Lars Muckli, Hendrikje Nienborg, Paolo Papale, Andrew Parker, Lucy Petro, Pieter Roelfsema, Petra Vetter, Li Zhaoping, Cheng Xue, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

A ‘Cognitive Map’ is an internal model of space upon which we can scaffold our judgments about the world. The question this GAC seeks to resolve is whether V1 acts as a ‘Cognitive Map’ in humans? In answering this question, our goal is to connect Cognitive Science back to the Computational Neuroscience of V1. There’s been a raft of suggestive evidence of ‘cognitive’ processing in V1 over the last 20 years, but comparatively little stepping back and asking ‘what does it all mean?’ By contrast, the goal of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience is not just to link neural processes with computational principles, but also to explore what they mean for our experience of the world.

And now we need YOUR help! 

Please visit the project page and let us know what you think about the proposal:

https://sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/gac2020/gacs-by-year/2024-gacs/2024-1?authuser=0

And please join us for the discussion at CCN in August!

https://2024.ccneuro.org/ 

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Dr Paul Linton
Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Columbia University
Fellow, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Visual Inference Lab, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University

https://linton.vision