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cybernetic
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models
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Posters II


thu 16 ︎︎︎ 14:30–16h00


1

fMRI-Based Cognitive State Classification and Informative Region Analysis via Classical ML and Information-Theoretic Approaches: Evidence from the Human Connectome Project


Valeriya Kirova 1,3, Dzerassa Kadieva 2, Isak B. Blank 2, Fedor Ratnikov 1
1 AI and Digital Sciences Institute, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
2 Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia
3 National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia




2

Measuring the effects of serotonergic psychedelics on the structure of neural population activity


Davide Crombie 1, Jaime Arlandis 1, Joana Catarino 2, Daniel McNamee 1, Guido Meijer 3, Martin Zuniga 4, Zachary
Mainen 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Karolinska Institute, Solna, SE
3. Donders Institute, Nijmegen, NL
4. Princeton University, Princeton, US




3

Cortico-subcortical dynamics during complex locomotion


Martín Esparza-Iaizzo1,2*, Ioana Lazar1*, Catia Fortunato1, Mostafa Safaie1, Juan Álvaro Gallego1.
1. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
2. INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L, Barcelona, Spain

*equal contribution



4

Decomposing natural stimulus-specific sensory neural information via diffusion models


Steeve Laquitaine 1, Simone Azeglio 1, Carlo Paris 1, Ulisse Ferrari 1, Matthew Chalk 1
1. Institut de la Vision Sorbonne Université, Paris, France




5

Eigenmode analysis of spherical brain activity via neural field theory


K. N. Mukta 1,2 , J. N. MacLaurin 1,2 , and P. A. Robinson 1, 2
1. School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
2. Center for Integrative Brain Function, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia




6

Freezing Duration in Drosophila Reflects Bounded Accumulation of Evidence about Safety


Marco Colnaghi 1, Juan Castiñeiras 1, Mirjam Heinemans 1, Clara Ferreira 2, Marta Moita 1, Alfonso Renart 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK




7

Contributions of the ACx to Fine Discriminations of Sound Lateralization


Mafalda Valente 1, Juan Castiñeiras 1, Raghavendra Kaushik Archak 1, Alfonso Renart 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




8

Motor Cortex Encodes Speed Through Temporal Scaling of Latent Population Dynamics


Kumar Neelabh 1, Andrea Colins Rodriguez 2, Mark D Humphries 3
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, CL
3. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK




9

A new fly accessory heart reveals dynamic freezing states and prepared the animal for action


Anna F Hobbiss 1,2; Mariana Franco 1; Alexandra M Medeiros 2; Charlie Rosher 1; César S Mendes 2; Marta A
Moita 1.
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Nova Medical School, Lisbon PT




10

Mouse lockbox: a sequential mechanical decision-making task for freely moving mice


Marcus Nicolaas Boon 1, 2; Niek Andresen 1, 2, 4; Sole Traverso 1, 2; Sophia Meier 1, 2; Friedrich Schuessler 1, 2; Olaf Hellwich 1, 3, 4; Lars Lewejohann 1, 3, 4; Christa Thöne-Reineke 1, 4; Katharina Hohlbaum 1, 3; Henning Sprekeler 1, 2

1. Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”, Berlin, Germany, DE
2. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, DE
3. German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin,
Germany, DE
4. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, DE




11

Dynamical Archetype Analysis: Autonomous Computation


Abel Sagodi 1, Il Memming Park 1
1. Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, PT




12

Facilitating cognitive synergy: AI’s ability to support collaborative cognitive search strategies


Eric Lacosse* 1, Mariana Duarte* 1, Graham Todd 2, Peter M. Todd 3, Daniel C. McNamee 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon PT
2. New York University, NYC
3. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

*equal contribution



13

Larval Zebrafish’s Sophisticated Short-term Memory Shares Key Features of Working Memory with Mammals


Catarina Matos 1, A. Lucas Martins 1, João C. Marques 1, Michael B. Orger 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




14

Head-body coordination for high-performance courtship pursuit in Drosophila


Nuno Rito 1, Martina Canova 1,2, Miguel Paço 1, Claire Rusch 1, Sofia Pinto 1, M.Eugenia Chiappe 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany




15

Planning to Learn: Active Inference of Latent Dynamics with Fisher Information


Hyungju Jeon 1, Isabel Rosário 1,2, Il Memming Park 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, PT




16

Exploring Human Information Processing in Virtual Reality during Physical Inverse Design


Daniel McNamee 1, Sara Monteiro 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




17

Forecasting motor cortical population activity during delayed reaching using XFADS


Mahmoud Elmakki 1, Matthew Dowling 1, 2, Yuan Zhao 3, Il Memming Park 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. New York University, New York, USA
3. National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, USA



18

Contextual reconfiguration of mouse V1 representations driven by top-down input


Dimitra Maoutsa 1, 2
1. School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, DE
2. Independent, DE




19

Altered States and Basic Taste Perception: Evaluating Detection and Recognition Thresholds Under Psychedelics


Zuzanna Dedyk 1,2,3; Razvan Sandru 1; Zachary Mainen 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, FR
3. Institut Lyfe Research & Innovation Center, Ecully, FR




20

The Rest of the Fish: Light-Sheet Microscopy Imputation with Transformers


Dean Rance 1, Aaron Ostrovsky 1, Lucas Martins 1, João Marques 1, Pedro Tomás Silva 1, Carolina Gonçalves 1,
Tiago Costa 1, Michael Orger 1, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




21

Exploring trade-offs between sequential and parallel computation in recurrent neural networks


Marcel Graetz 1, Caroline Haimerl 1, Daniel McNamee* 1, Alfonso Renart* 1
1 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
* equal contribution




22

Startle Responses and Behavioural State Switching


Charlie Rosher 1, Roian Egnor 2, Alice Robie 2, Violetta LaFranca 1, Matheus Farias 1, Kristin Branson 1, Marta
Moita 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA




23

Architecture as Neuro-Cybernetic Feedback: Designing Spaces That Regulate the Human Nervous System


Arianna Bavuso 1
1. AB+AC Architects, Lisbon, PT




24

Meta-learning three-factor learning rules for structured credit assignment in recurrent neural networks


Dimitra Maoutsa 1, 2
1. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, DE
2. Independent, DE




25

Multitasking Recurrent Networks Utilize Compositional Strategies for Control of Movement


John Lazzari 1, Shreya Saxena 1
1. Yale University, New Haven, USA




26

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to understand Cooperation in Animals


Amelia Johnson 1, S William Li 1, Henry W Kietzman 1, David Backer Peral 1, R. Allie Cauchon 1, Nina Pelias 1,
Jane R. Taylor 1, Shreya Saxena 1
1. Yale University, New Haven, US



27

Towards a Disease Model of Cerebellar Ataxia Using Supervised Learning


Latavia Thompson 1, Heather Snell 1
1. Yale University, New Haven, US




28

Adaptive behavioral strategies in Drosophila courtship pursuit


Miguel Paço 1, Nuno Rito 1, Roman Goulard 2, Barbara Webb 2, Eugenia Chiappe 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT
2. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK




29

Supervised Mechanisms for Locomotor Learning Driven by Climbing Fibers


Alice Geminiani 1*, Ana Gonçalves 1*, Hugo G. Marques 1*, Tatiana Silva 1, Francesco Costantino 1, Megan R.
Carey 1
1. Neuroscience Program, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, PT
* equal contribution




30

A unifying theory for hippocampal remapping through the lens of contextual inference


Changmin Yu 1, Máté Lengyel 1, 2
1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary




31

Deep reinforcement learning to mimic neuromechanical control: realistic locomotion in an embodied fly


Elliott T. T. Abe 1, Charles Zhang 2, Raveena Chhibber 1, Grant M. Chou 1, Dang P. Q. Truong 1, Bence P. Ölveczky
2, Nathan Sniadecki 1, John C. Tuthill 1, Talmo D. Pereira 3, Bing W. Brunton 1
1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2. Harvard University, Boston, USA
3 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA




32

Evolution Imposes an Inductive Bias that Alters and Accelerates Learning Dynamics


Benjamin Midler 1, Alejandro Pan Vazquez 1
1. Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, USA




33

A Transient Neural Code for Feedback-Driven Motor Corrections During Reaching


Nina Kudryashova [1], Cole Hurwitz [2], Matthew G. Perich [3-4], Matthias H. Hennig [1]
1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,
United Kingdom
2. Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University; 3227 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States
3. Département de neurosciences, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal; Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, 2900
Edouard Montpetit Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada
4. Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; 6666 Rue Saint-Urbain, Montréal, QC H2S 3H1, Canada




34

A Bio-Inspired Algorithm Enables Scalable Training of Spiking Neural Networks Using Feedback Control Across Layers


Jonathan Haag* 1; Christian Metzner* 1; Chiara De Luca 1, 2; Dmitrii Zendrikov 1; Giacomo Indiveri 1; Benjamin
Grewe 1, 3; Matteo Saponati 1
1. Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, CH
2. Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Zürich, CH
3. ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Zürich, CH
*equal contribution




35

From Principles to Production: How Visual Design Shapes Understanding


Ágota Végső 1, Paulo Nuno Vicente 1, Ana Figueiras 2
1. ICNOVA, NOVA FCSH University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
2. CICANT, Lusófona University, Lisbon, PT




36

Dynamic Scale Equivariance in Retinal Neural Codes Supports Object Tracking


S. Azeglio* 1. 2., R. Baroux* 1., U. Ferrari 1., O. Marre 1.
1. Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, 17 Rue Moreau, 75012, Paris, FR
2. Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, FR

*equal contribution



37

Computational and Representational contributions to intensity invariance in Weber’s Law


Raghavendra Kaushik Archak 1, Mafalda Valente 1, Juan R. Castiñeiras de Saa 1, Alfonso Renart 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




38

Bridging scales between chemical space and behavioral phenotype


Adrien Jouary 1, Dean Rance 1, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja 1, Christian K. Machens 1, Michael B. Orger 1
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT




39

Learning What Matters: An Episodic Memory Perspective on Video-Language Models


Inês Baptista 1, Daniel MacNamee 1 
1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT