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D-PHYS - IT Services of ETH Zurich
D-PHYS Department of Physics uni Kolloquium Wednesday, November 8, 16:45 h, HPV G4 The principles of song control: From the physics of the vocal organ to single-neuron dynamics in the brain Richard Hahnloser, ETH Zurich Questions of song production and song learning in the songbird can appeal to a physicist's mind: Does the vocal organ of songbirds - the syrinx - function more like a violin or like a trumpet? Can we understand the organizational principles of how neurons in higher brain areas generate the rhythms and notes of a song? How are songs perceived by the ear and by which mathematical operation does the juvenile brain compare its own songs to the memorized songs heard earlier in life? In my talk I will introduce the neuroinformatics-related questions of neural song control, highlight experimental methods for answering these questions, and try to convey our current understanding of principles of song production and song learning. October 25, 2006 December 13, 2006 Dominik Zumbühl, Universität Basel Yannick Mellier, Institut d’Astrophysique, France November 1, 2006 December 20, 2006 Michael Köhl, ETH Zurich Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and November 8, 2006 Richard Hahnloser, ETH Zurich November 15, 2006 Moses Chan, Penn State University, USA November 22, 2006 Theodor W. Hänsch, Nobelpreisträger 2005, Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Deutschland November 29, 2006 Niko Grigorieff, Brandeis University, USA December 6, 2006 Ehud Altman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Technology, USA January 10, 2007 Sami Solanki, Max-Planck Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Deutschland January 17, 2007 Simon Lilly, ETH Zurich January 24, 2007 Michelangelo Mangano, CERN January 31, 2007 Artur Ekert, Cambridge University, UK