CNS*2026 Halifax

CNS*2026 Halifax

8:15am ADT

Registration Ballroom Salon

9:00am ADT

From Graphs to Foundation Models: Modern Approaches to Neural Population Analysis Room 502 Multiscale modeling with MOOSE and Jardesigner Room 505 OCNS Board Meeting Room 508 Building mechanistic biophysical models using NEURON and NetPyNE: from molecules to circuit dynamics to LFP/EEG measures Room 501

10:10am ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

1:00pm ADT

From single-cell modeling to large-scale network dynamics with NEST Simulator Room 505 Let there be Neulite: A short introduction to a light-weight neuron simulator Room 502

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

8:15am ADT

Registration TBA

9:00am ADT

Announcements Ballroom B1

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

12:30pm ADT

Program Commitee Meeting TBA

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 P001: Blind identification of sleep spindles through trispectral modulation analysis 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 P004: Beyond Optimality: Neural Mechanisms of Heuristic Decision-Making Ballroom B2 P005: A Brain-Wide Atlas of Intrinsic Neural Timescales in Mice Ballroom B2 P006: Disentangling Sensory Drivers of Spatial Codes with Recurrent Audiovisual Models in VR Ballroom B2 P007: Spatial attention shapes the pupillary light response Ballroom B2 P008: Movement representations for classification and perception: posture dominates over dynamics Ballroom B2 P009: Optimal Self-Organization in Mean-Field Multi-Agent Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P010: Computing Motor Error with Inhibition: A Minimal Excitatory-Inhibitory Circuit Motif Ballroom B2 P011: Dendrites Learn to Detect Input Sequences Through Local Plasticity Ballroom B2 P012: Integrating Neuroimaging and Omics to Characterize Parkinson’s Disease Progression Ballroom B2 P013: Relationships Between Connectivity and Longitudinal Memory Decline Using Network Analysis and Partial Least Squares Ballroom B2 P014: Modeling box jellyfish obstacle avoidance behavior with evolutionary optimization and small feedforward neural networks Ballroom B2 P015: A biologically grounded spiking model of feedback-gated prediction broadcasting in cortical Layer 5 Ballroom B2 P016: Vestibular predictions during maternal gait help shape development of neural of timekeeping Ballroom B2 P017: Adapting the reconstruction of the cerebellar cortex to the shape of the brain Ballroom B2 P018: Digital Twins in stroke and spreading depression Ballroom B2 P019: A Unified Deep Oscillatory Network Model of the Hippocampal Sharp Wave Ripples Ballroom B2 P020: Prefrontal and Parietal Local Field Potentials Employ Different Visuospatial Codes for Reach: A Complex-Valued Network Classification Approach Ballroom B2 P021: Local dendritic voltage provides a reliable read-out of global synaptic activity Ballroom B2 P022: Electrophysiological and computational analysis of burst generation in Drosophila class III cold nociceptors Ballroom B2 P023: Low-Dimensional Projections of Neural Population Activity in M1, PMd, and PMv Hand Representations Demonstrate Differences in Effector Dependence Ballroom B2 P024: Shared-input structure determines functional connectivity in neural oscillator networks Ballroom B2 P025: A Conductance-Based Whole-Brain Modeling Framework for Isolating Pharmacological Effects on Excitation-Inhibition Dynamics Ballroom B2 P026: Compartment-specific calcium dynamics drive local, co-dependent excitatory and inhibitory plasticity in cortical networks Ballroom B2 P027: Adaptive Homeostasis: Coupling Synaptic Plasticity, Homeostatic Scaling, and Intrinsic Plasticity Ballroom B2 P028: Reliability of Eigenspectra Decay and Variance Scaling in 3T and 7T fMRI 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 P031: Pathway-Specific Temporal Structure of Behavior-Predictive Modeling from Dopaminoceptive Striatal Activity Ballroom B2 P032: AnalySim data and project sharing site: admin panel, notebook and CSV browser expansion Ballroom B2 P033: Greater segregation, not integration, accompanies increasing working memory load Ballroom B2 P034: Rising threat, merging networks: dynamic heat pain lowers segregation and turns S2, a core pain region, into an integrative hub Ballroom B2 P035: Chronic Pain Uncouples Functional Brain Network Segregation From Cognitive Performance in Aging Ballroom B2 P036: Inferring microcircuit aging from subject EEG and linking to cognitive decline Ballroom B2 P037: The effects of reduced somatostatin interneuron inhibition in depression on multilayered human cortical microcircuit activity. Ballroom B2 P038: Cerebellar Isolation with Multi-Modality MRI Images Using Deep Learning Ballroom B2 P039: The Self-Organization of Serotonergic Axons at the Surface of a Vertebrate Brain: A Myopic Self-Avoiding FBM Model Ballroom B2 P040: Dendritic calcium dynamics shape functionally relevant human E-/MEG ~20Hz beta events: a biophysical modeling study Ballroom B2 P041: Predicting natural video motion from spiking activity across the mouse visual pathway Ballroom B2 P042: Neural Heterogeneity Controls Neural Network Development Ballroom B2 P043: Modeling Network Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Ballroom B2 P044: Discovering the dynamics of evoked responses to near-threshold tactile stimuli: A layer-specific neural mass model of the somatosensory microcircuit Ballroom B2 P045: A biophysical model of coil-orientation dependent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) evoked I-waves in the motor cortex Ballroom B2 P046: Phase-Dependent Deep Brain Stimulation to Suppress Pathological Neural Oscillations in Parkinson’s Disease Ballroom B2 P047: Feature Extraction of Neuronal Morphology with a Variational Auto-Encoder Ballroom B2 P048: Noise-Driven Spiking Dynamics and Synchronization Transitions in an Ensemble of Neuromorphic Oscillators Ballroom B2

8:15am ADT

Registration TBA

9:00am ADT

Announcements Ballroom B1

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

12:30pm ADT

OCNS Board Meeting TBA

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 P049: Extracellular dipole and quadrupole fields from axonal branching patterns Ballroom B2 P050: Fano-like information filtering profiles in coupled neuronal models. Ballroom B2 P051: Stimulation Induced Effects on the Collective Dynamics of a Recurrently-Connected Excitatory-Inhibitory Network Ballroom B2 P052: Recurrent Inhibition Drives Frequency-Selective Deep Brain Stimulation Efficacy via Bistability and Hopf Bifurcation in a Continuous Attractor Network Ballroom B2 P053: Decoding decisions from neuronal activity in different animals with canonical correlation analysis Ballroom B2 P054: Single-cell adaptation makes heterogeneity a dynamic feature of neural networks Ballroom B2 P055: Thalamocortical myelination controls cortical states Ballroom B2 P056: Hippocampus-Inspired Artificial Neural Network Enables Robust Classification under Sparsity: Structured versus Brute-Force Robustness Ballroom B2 P057: Input-side Competition Predicts Action Selection and Switching in The Basal Ganglia 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 P060: Biological Reservoir Computing in Modular Human iPSC-Derived Neuronal Networks Ballroom B2 P061: Learning Conduction Delay Distributions from Neural Activity to Study Stability in Delayed Nonlinear Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P062: Mutual information of time sequences in working memory is maximized by parametric heterogeneity in response adaptation and threshold Ballroom B2 P063: Shared dynamics between active sensing movements and rate-based sensory sampling in electric fish Ballroom B2 P064: Complementary roles of neuronal and synaptic adaptation in regulating network stability Ballroom B2 P065: Characterizing Epileptic Brain Dynamics Through Fractional-Order Modelling Ballroom B2 P066: Variability and Degeneracy In Simulations of Primary Motor Cortex Pyramidal Tract Neurons Ballroom B2 P067: Modeling spreading depolarization in neocortical microcircuits Ballroom B2 P068: A novel method to characterize spatiotemporal propagation Ballroom B2 P069: EFFECT OF Ca2+ BUFFERS WITH MULTIPLE BINDING SITES ON SHORT-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY Ballroom B2 P070: Modeling of Cross-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Mice Cortical Region Ballroom B2 P071: Balanced E–I gain sets spike predictability from synaptic history Ballroom B2 P072: Event-based machine-learned reduction of biophysically detailed neuron models Ballroom B2 P073: Evaluating parameter space stiffness of maximum entropy models and departure from criticality Ballroom B2 P074: Dynamic Functional Connectivity Resolves Brain Integration-Segregation Trade-off Under Costly Links Ballroom B2 P075: Simulating bilingual naming in laterally-connected self-organizing maps Ballroom B2 P076: A Recurrent Circuit for Two Streams of Evidence Accumulation As a Decision-Making Model Ballroom B2 P077: Homophily-informed generative models of brain maps Ballroom B2 P078: Identifying Neural Markers of Chronic Pain in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using Electroencephalography and Machine Learning Ballroom B2 P079: Competitive dynamics in a biophysical model of rat somatosensory cortex Ballroom B2 P080: The Synapse-Pairing Tradeoff: How Clustering, Bursts, and Dendritic Location Enable Robust Plasticity In-Vivo Ballroom B2 P081: Estimating spiking activity of cerebellar projections to the substantia nigra dopaminergic neurons during a Pavlovian task Ballroom B2 P082: Balancing stability and flexibility: a meta-learning algorithm for behavioral adaptation in mice Ballroom B2 P083: Biophysical model of auditory thalamocortical circuit reveals GABAB-dependent control of N1 deficits in Schizophrenia Ballroom B2 P084: Mapping excitation-inhibition balance in schizophrenia with white-matter-microstructure informed modeling Ballroom B2 P085: Effect of visual distortion on the perception of straight lines and reaching trajectories Ballroom B2 P086: Examining mnemonic discrimination performance in a hippocampus model using the mnemonic similarity task Ballroom B2 P087: High‑Order Interactions Predict the Dimensionality of Recurrent Hidden Dynamics Across Cognitive Tasks Ballroom B2 P088: From Pixels to Percepts: Understanding Texture Discrimination in the Mouse Visual Cortex Ballroom B2 P089: Biologically plausible Dopamine-Modulated STDP Model of Pavlovian Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Ballroom B2 P090: Modeling and Analytical Characterization of Neuronal Networks Constructed from Reservoir Computing Based Model Ballroom B2 P091: The Drosophila connectome reveals axo-axonic synapses on descending neurons Ballroom B2 P092: A Proposed Etiological, Pathophysiological, and Rehabilitative Framework for Focal Task-Specific Dystonia: A Theoretical-Empirical Approach Ballroom B2 P093: Stabilizing Fractional Dynamical Networks Effectively Suppresses Epileptic Seizures Ballroom B2 P094: Neuron–Astrocyte Coupling Regulates Ion Homeostasis and Neuronal Excitability in a Multi-Compartment Model Ballroom B2 P095: Universal rules for growing artificial astrocytes at electron microscopy resolution Ballroom B2

7:45pm ADT

Banquet Dinner TBA

8:15am ADT

Registration TBA

9:00am ADT

Building clinically impactful models in computational psychiatry: A worked example using induced pluripotent stem-cell derived neuronal data Room 506 Constraining large-scale models of brain dynamics with local biological properties: Methods and applications Room 504 Controlling Neural Network Stability Room 507 Mapping extracellular waveforms produced by the three neuronal compartments Room 505 Modeling Ion Dynamics in the Brain: From Cells to Networks and Global (Dys)-Functional States Room 502 Neuronal heterogeneity’s role in network dynamics and computation Room 501 Social Neuro-AI Room 602 Evolution, Computation and the Origins of Nervous Systems: from Animal Models to Neuromorphic Engineering Room 603 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience Room 604

2:10pm ADT

Keynote 4 Ballroom B1

3:20pm ADT

Conference Photo TBA

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon

4:00pm ADT

Member's meeting Ballroom B1

5:00pm ADT

Poster Session 3 Ballroom B2 P096: Toward Auditory-Like Sparse Representations: Adaptive Central Frequencies Locally Competitive Algorithm for Efficient Neuromorphic Speech Recognition Ballroom B2 P097: How Axon Refractory Dynamics and Ionic Excitability Shape Peripheral Nerve Stimulation Responses Ballroom B2 P098: CompNeuroVis: Connecting Existing Computational Neuroscience Workflows to Interactive Applications Ballroom B2 P099: Hierarchical Multi-Timescale learning in a mushroom body network model Ballroom B2 P100: JARDESIGNER: Installation-free in-browser modeling of multiscale models with signaling and conductances in multicompartment neurons. Ballroom B2 P101: BrainSymphony Reveals Psilocybin-Induced Network Reorganization Ballroom B2 P102: Long-timescale Plasticity Mediated by ER-Dependent Synaptic Stabilization Ballroom B2 P103: Pathological cortical oscillations disrupted by the cholinergic response to vagus nerve stimulation Ballroom B2 P104: Characterization of nontrivial voltage noise in electrosensory pyramidal neurons Ballroom B2 P105: Gamma Oscillations in Conductance-Based QIF Networks: A Three-Stage Progression and Its Limits Ballroom B2 P106: Controlling the Speed–Accuracy Trade-Off in Brain–Computer Interfaces Ballroom B2 P107: Resonance-Driven Phase Locking and Temporal Coding in CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Ballroom B2 P108: Computational Phenotyping of Neurotrauma Using High-Throughput Actigraphy-Derived Sleep Signatures Ballroom B2 P109: Imperfectly synchronous dynamics of gamma rhythms and its response to network inputs Ballroom B2 P110: The thalamocortical spiking model demonstrating the kinetics of sleep spindle suppression upon noradrenergic neuromodulation Ballroom B2 P111: VIP-Mediated Attentional Modulation of Persistent Activity in a Cortical Microcircuit Model Ballroom B2 P112: Biologically Realistic Models of Synaptic Release at Human Cortical Synapses Ballroom B2 P113: Model of Mossy Fiber Bouton (MFB) in hippocampus- the detonator synapse with vesicle release in realistic EM morphology Ballroom B2 P114: The effect of weak electric deep brain stimulation fields on the synchronization of multi-compartment neuron models Ballroom B2 P115: Digital Twins Enable Early Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Ballroom B2 P116: Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-expressing neurons (VIPs) as a mechanism for flexible cognitive control Ballroom B2 P117: Neurite heterogeneity controls signal propagation in a model of the ctenophore syncytial nerve net Ballroom B2 P118: Development and Validation of a Multi-scale Model of Cerebellar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Ballroom B2 P119: Low-Effort Attention as Free-Energy Optimization via Cingulo–Autonomic Control Ballroom B2 P120: Adaptive Multisensory Support for Low-Effort Attention in Embodied Agents Ballroom B2 P121: Optogenetic WiChR based seizure control in a potassium driven epilepsy model Ballroom B2 P122: Computational modeling of ultrasonic neuromodulation in realistic cortical cells Ballroom B2 P123: Population-based Functional Source Separation enables identification of cortical sources in new individuals Ballroom B2 P124: Power Spectrum Harmonics Provide a Signature of Balanced Excitation-Inhibition Across Cortical Scales Ballroom B2 P125: Learning Barrel Cortex Representations from Whisker Dynamics and Multimodal Convergence Ballroom B2 P126: Remapping Convolutional Layers to Fit Cortical Connectivity Ballroom B2 P127: Distinguishing between fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder using diffusion modelling and spiking neurons Ballroom B2 P128: Ion Channels Tune Population-Level Intrinsic Biophysical Heterogeneity 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 P132: A Knowledge Integration Workflow to Define Functional Interactomes in Neural Systems Ballroom B2 P133: A Learning-Rule-Independent Method for Evaluating Memory Capacity in Biophysical Neuron Models Ballroom B2 P134: Coupling TMS induced electric fields to neural state variables Ballroom B2 P135: A Dendritic Brunel Network for Studying NMDA-Driven Working Memory Ballroom B2 P136: Implementation of Dendritic Hierarchial Scheduling for the Neulite kernel 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 P139: Spatial neuroaesthetics in perception of topological and visual characteristics of natural landscapes and in route decision-making Ballroom B2 P140: Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of Extracellular Waveforms Ballroom B2 P141: Different training paradigms yield distinct learned structures in recurrent neural network models Ballroom B2 P142: Building neural manifolds from membrane biophysics and circuit topology Ballroom B2

9:30pm ADT

8:15am ADT

Registration TBA

9:00am ADT

Computational modeling of neuromodulation technologies Room 502 Detailed models of brain microcircuit activity and signals in clinical applications Room 501 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 The 4D Connectome: Development, Structure, Function and Dynamics Room 503

10:30am ADT

Coffee Break Ballroom Salon

3:30pm ADT

Coffee break Ballroom Salon