Sensory coding and the natural environment

感官编码与自然环境

• 批准号: 6463377
• 负责人: Bruno A. OLSHAUSEN
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-05-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6463377
• 关键词: environment; environmental exposure; international cooperation; meeting /conference /symposium; sensory mechanism; travel

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) This is a proposal to support a biennial international meeting on the topic of Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, along with a web resource that will provide a directory of people and publications in the field, as well as a medium for exchanging data and algorithms. The theme of the meeting is highly interdisciplinary, drawing upon expertise in systems and cognitive neuroscience, perceptual psychology, statistics, signal processing, and computer science. The aim is to model and understand sensory processes in relation to the statistical structure of the natural environment. This approach is broadly applicable to any sensory modality of any organism. A number of studies over the past decade have shown that the sensory coding strategies of many animals may be understood in terms of efficient coding strategies applied to natural scenes especially in the visual and auditory domains of both vertebrates and invertebrates. This approach is thought to have great potential for shedding light on neural information processing strategies, as well as advancing the development of neural prostheses capable of transforming natural images and sound into a format interpretable by the brain. Two previous meetings have been held on this topic, in 1997 and 2000, and the number of investigators now working in this field, not to mention those entering it, has outgrown these small, informal meetings. More importantly, there is a need to educate both students and current investigators about the techniques, methodologies, and types of results emerging from this field. Funding from this conference grant will enable us to invite experts in the field to a biennial Gordon Research Conference, as well as to provide travel grants and registration fee subsidies to students and post-docs interested in attending the meeting and learning about the field. The web site will complement this effort by providing continuity between the meetings as well as bringing work in the field to the attention of a wider audience.

描述：（由申请人提供）这是一项支持双年展的提案 主题为“感官编码与自然”的国际会议 环境，以及将提供人员目录的网络资源 和该领域的出版物，以及交换数据和信息的媒介 算法。会议的主题是高度跨学科的，借鉴了 系统和认知神经科学、知觉心理学方面的专业知识， 统计学、信号处理和计算机科学。目的是建模和 了解与统计结构相关的感觉过程 自然环境。这种方法广泛适用于任何感官 任何有机体的形态。过去十年的多项研究表明 许多动物的感觉编码策略可以用以下术语来理解 应用于自然场景的有效编码策略，特别是在 脊椎动物和无脊椎动物的视觉和听觉领域。这 该方法被认为具有揭示神经网络的巨大潜力 信息处理策略，以及促进发展 能够将自然图像和声音转化为神经假体 大脑可解释的格式。此前已就此事召开过两次会议 1997 年和 2000 年的主题，以及目前从事该主题工作的研究人员数量 领域，更不用说那些进入该领域的人，已经超出了这些小型、非正式的范围 会议。更重要的是，要对学生和学生进行教育。 当前研究人员关于技术、方法和结果类型的信息 从这个领域脱颖而出。本次会议赠款的资金将使我们能够 邀请该领域的专家参加两年一度的戈登研究会议 为学生提供旅费补助和注册费补贴 有兴趣参加会议并了解该领域的博士后。这 网站将通过提供各网站之间的连续性来补充这一努力 会议以及使该领域的工作引起更广泛的关注 观众。