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CNS*2026 Halifax

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Javier Jiménez

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Escuela Politécnica Superior (VAT Q2818013A)

PhD Candidate

Spain

8:15am ADT

Registration Ballroom Salon

9:00am ADT

From Graphs to Foundation Models: Modern Approaches to Neural Population Analysis Room 502

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

3:00pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Welcome and Announcememts Ballroom B1

5:20pm ADT

Keynote 1: Bratislav Misic Ballroom B1

6:20pm ADT

Welcome Reception TBA

9:10am ADT

Keynote 2: Mac Shine, "The Neurobiological Basis of Consciousness" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO1: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B1

11:10am ADT

O1: Biologically plausible credit assignment via neuronal frequency multiplexing Ballroom B1

11:30am ADT

O2: A unifying account of rTMS and rTFUS neurostimulation effects based on calcium-dependent synaptic plasticity theory and an equivalent-energy principle Ballroom B1

11:50am ADT

O3: Compartmentalized learning through coupled electrochemical adaptation in cortical pyramidal neurons Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O4: Rewarding Control: Feedback-Phase-Dependent 2Hz Medial Frontal Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation Shifts the Expected Value of Control Ballroom B1

2:00pm ADT

FO2: Norepinephrine Restores Cortical Dynamics and Enables Machine Learning–Based Severity Mapping in a Multiscale Model of Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O5: Impact of EAAT2 Dysfunction on AMPA/NMDA-Mediated Excitability in Neuronal Activity Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

O6: Multiscale modeling of neural markers for adaptive deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B1

3:10pm ADT

O7: Decreased alpha/theta temporal ExSEnt of left prefrontal cortex: a robust biomarker of dementia Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

O8: Frequency-dependent modulation of cortical traveling waves during general anesthesia Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 1 Ballroom B2 P002: How Can Spiking Networks Remain Resilient Under Degeneration? Ballroom B2 P003: How long we live? Insights into neural ageing using fractional harmonic oscillator Ballroom B2 P006: Disentangling Sensory Drivers of Spatial Codes with Recurrent Audiovisual Models in VR Ballroom B2 P009: Optimal Self-Organization in Mean-Field Multi-Agent Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P011: Dendrites Learn to Detect Input Sequences Through Local Plasticity Ballroom B2 P014: Modeling box jellyfish obstacle avoidance behavior with evolutionary optimization and small feedforward neural networks Ballroom B2 P020: Prefrontal and Parietal Local Field Potentials Employ Different Visuospatial Codes for Reach: A Complex-Valued Network Classification Approach Ballroom B2 P024: Shared-input structure determines functional connectivity in neural oscillator networks Ballroom B2 P029: Modeling Emotional Contagion in Rats Using Dynamical State-Space Models Ballroom B2 P030: Scalable Modular Architectures for Naturalistic Behavior and Cognitive Mapping in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Ballroom B2 P032: AnalySim data and project sharing site: admin panel, notebook and CSV browser expansion Ballroom B2 P036: Inferring microcircuit aging from subject EEG and linking to cognitive decline Ballroom B2 P038: Cerebellar Isolation with Multi-Modality MRI Images Using Deep Learning Ballroom B2 P043: Modeling Network Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Ballroom B2 P045: A biophysical model of coil-orientation dependent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) evoked I-waves in the motor cortex Ballroom B2 P047: Feature Extraction of Neuronal Morphology with a Variational Auto-Encoder Ballroom B2

9:10am ADT

Keynote 3: Blake Richards, "Exponentiated gradients support effective learning in biologically relevant scenarios" Ballroom B1

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

10:40am ADT

FO3: Gene Gradients Reveal Directed Structural Connectivity Across Species Ballroom B1

11:10am ADT

O9: Low-Dimensional Communication Subspaces Reveal Distributed Information Across Neural Areas Ballroom B1

11:30am ADT

O10: A mathematical language for large-scale spike recordings from hundreds to thousands of neurons Ballroom B1

11:50am ADT

O11: SEM to Simulation: Bringing Ultrastructural Detail to Multiscale Modeling Ballroom B1

12:10pm ADT

O12: A new platform technology to explore and leverage the computational properties of biological neural cultures Ballroom B1

2:00pm ADT

FO4: Selective routing of spatial information in dentate granule cells emerges through disparate combinations of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity Ballroom B1

2:30pm ADT

O13: A Developmental Ring Attractor Model for the Head Direction System Ballroom B1

2:50pm ADT

O14: How synchronization, excitability, and variability shape CPG rhythmic bursting sequences across different time scales Ballroom B1

3:10pm ADT

O15: Exact mathematical description of computation with transient spatiotemporal dynamics in recurrent neural networks Ballroom B1

3:30pm ADT

O16: The role of cell types in critical neural activity Ballroom B1

3:50pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:20pm ADT

Poster Session 2 Ballroom B2 P053: Decoding decisions from neuronal activity in different animals with canonical correlation analysis Ballroom B2 P056: Hippocampus-Inspired Artificial Neural Network Enables Robust Classification under Sparsity: Structured versus Brute-Force Robustness Ballroom B2 P058: Direct Quantification of Stability for Linear Dynamical Systems on Networks Ballroom B2 P059: Whole-brain effective connectivity from residual-based ridge regression in resting-state fMRI Ballroom B2 P061: Learning Conduction Delay Distributions from Neural Activity to Study Stability in Delayed Nonlinear Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P065: Characterizing Epileptic Brain Dynamics Through Fractional-Order Modelling Ballroom B2 P068: A novel method to characterize spatiotemporal propagation Ballroom B2 P072: Event-based machine-learned reduction of biophysically detailed neuron models Ballroom B2 P074: Dynamic Functional Connectivity Resolves Brain Integration-Segregation Trade-off Under Costly Links Ballroom B2 P076: A Recurrent Circuit for Two Streams of Evidence Accumulation As a Decision-Making Model Ballroom B2 P078: Identifying Neural Markers of Chronic Pain in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using Electroencephalography and Machine Learning Ballroom B2 P089: Biologically plausible Dopamine-Modulated STDP Model of Pavlovian Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P093: Stabilizing Fractional Dynamical Networks Effectively Suppresses Epileptic Seizures Ballroom B2

9:00am ADT

Controlling Neural Network Stability Room 507 Social Neuro-AI Room 602 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience Room 604

10:30am ADT

2:10pm ADT

Keynote 4: Stephanie Jones (Brown University), "Uncovering the Mechanism and Meaning of EEG/MEG Measured Brain Dynamics with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver Software" Ballroom B1

3:20pm ADT

Conference Photo TBA

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

5:00pm ADT

Poster Session 3 Ballroom B2 P101: BrainSymphony Reveals Psilocybin-Induced Network Reorganization Ballroom B2 P106: Controlling the Speed–Accuracy Trade-Off in Brain–Computer Interfaces Ballroom B2 P129: Sequential variability of Steady State Visually Evoked Potentials and its relation with BCI performance Ballroom B2 P130: Burst-to-burst information resetting in Central Pattern Generators Ballroom B2 P131: Decreased alpha/theta temporal ExSEnt of left prefrontal cortex in dementia: a robust biomarker Ballroom B2 P137: A Spiking Neural Network Model of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in a Maze Navigation Task Ballroom B2 P138: The Functional Contribution of Synaptic Plasticity in the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei to Real-Time Adaptive Robot Control Ballroom B2 P140: Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of Extracellular Waveforms Ballroom B2 P142: Building neural manifolds from membrane biophysics and circuit topology Ballroom B2

9:30pm ADT

Party Garrison Brewing Company

8:15am ADT

Registration TBA

9:00am ADT

Evolution, Computation and the Origins of Nervous Systems: from Animal Models to Neuromorphic Engineering Room 505 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience Room 506/7

10:30am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon