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BICS 2010 Program

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TIME JULY 14th JULY 15th JULY 16th

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8:30-9:00REGISTER BICSREGISTER BICSREGISTER BICSSymposia

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9:00-9:30KEYNOTE PLENARY David Gamez KEYNOTE PLENARY Andree Ehresmann BIS

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9:30-10:15COFFE

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10:15:10:30Conference PresentationCOFFE COFFE CNS

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10:30:11:00Supervised Architectures for Internal Simulation of Perceptions and ActionsInformational Theories of Consciousness: A Review and ExtensionMental Causation In a Physical Brain? NC

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Magnus JohnssonIgor AleksanderIgor Farkas

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11:00-11:30The role of feedback in a hierarchical model of object perception STDP Pattern Onset Learning Depends on Background ActivityCorrelation between Eye Movements and Mouth Movements to Detect Driver Cognitive DistractionMoC

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Salvador Dura-BernalJames HumbleAfizan Azman

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11:30-12:00Adaptive perception-action-based cognitive modelling of human driving behavior using control, gaze and signal inputs A sparse implementation of dynamic competition in continuous neural fields Self-Conscious Robotic System Design Process - from Analysis to Implementation

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Affan ShaukatJean-Charles QuintonAntonio Chella - Valeria Seidita

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12:00-12:30The emergence of feature sensitivity in a recurrent model of auditory cortex with spike timing dependant plasticity Emergence of small-world structure in networks of spiking neurons through STDP learning Machine free will: is free will a necessary ingredient of machine consciousness?

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Martin CoathGleb BasalygaAntonio Chella - Riccardo Manzotti

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12:30-13:55LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH

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14:00-14:30A psychological and neurophysiological plausible model for emulating human behavior in decision making tasks Oscillatory Neural Network for Image Segmentation with Biased Competition for AttentionMachine Consciousness: A Computational Model

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Ángel IglesiasTapani RaikoDilip K. Prasad

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14:30-15:00A Generic Framework for the Analysis of Emotion Mechanisms in Autonomous AgentsAiding conceptual development by grounding spoken words: an infant inspired modelTowards the Generation of Visual Qualia in Artificial Cognitive Architectures

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Timothy RumbellAneesh Chauhan Raul Arrabales

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15:00-15:30Learning Saliency. An ICA based model using Bernoulli mixturesA bio-inspired neural model to discriminate visual sequencesCrude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness

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Andrea CarboneMauricio CerdaJoanna J. Bryson

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15:30-16:00Dense crowd analysis through bottom-up and top-down attention Hippocampal Categories: a mathematical foundation for navigation and memoryA computational modelling approach to investigate alpha rhythm slowing associated with Alzheimer's Disease

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Matei MancasJaime GómezBasabdatta Bhattacharya

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16:00-16:30BREAKBREAKBREAK

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16:30-17:00Fuzzy-4D/RCS for Unmanned Aerial VehiclesThe Ouroboros Model, Selected Facets Building Neurocognitive Networks with a Distributed Functional Architecture

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Miguel A. Olivares-MendezKnud Thomsen Marmaduke Woodman

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17:00-17:30The effects of working memory load on negative priming in an n-back taskSelf-organization of neural maps using a modulated BCM rule within a multimodal architectureThe Way We Get Bio-Inspired: A Critical Analysis

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Ewald NeumannMathieu LefortAndreas Schierwagen

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17:30-18:00NEMO: Need-inspired Emotional Expressions within a Task-independent FrameworkEvolutionary Path to Biological Kernel MachinesFINAL Panel Discussion

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Syaheerah L. LutfiMagnus Jändel

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18:00-18:30Dynamical System Approach in Modeling AddictionOOP: Object-Oriented-Priority for Motion Saliency Maps

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Selin MetinAnna Belardinelli

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18:30-19:00Panel Discussion Day

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21:30DINNER