Towards a
mechanistic interpretation of neural data
NCCD17 is the third in a series of meetings focusing on
topics in theoretical and experimental neuroscience.
Techniques for recording and manipulating large-scale
neural activity in awake behaving animals are developing
at an accelerating pace. Identifying the principles of
neural processing requires a mechanistic interpretation of
the large amounts of collected data. The aim of this
workshop is to make progress in that direction by bringing
together three different communities: (i) experimentalists
performing large-scale recordings in behaving animals;
(ii) modelers specialized in statistical data-analysis;
(iii) theorists working with mechanistic network models.
We are looking for talks that build bridges across these
different approaches.
As with previous workshops, our goal is to foster the
strong interactions we believe are so important for this
field. So the meeting will be small (~70 people).