DAY 1     Session 2

MODERATOR  
CHRIS ROZELL 

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 PANELISTS

ALAN EMANUEL    Transformation and Integration of Sensory Signals to Support Behaviorally Relevant Perception

Keywords: sensory neurons, signal processing, efficiency, flexibility

CHRIS RODGERS    How sensation guides action and action guides sensation

Keywords: sensorimotor integration, active sensing, embodied perception 

Relevant reference: Philip R L Parker, Morgan A Brown, Matthew C Smear, Cristopher M Niell: Movement-Related Signals in Sensory Areas: Roles in Natural Behavior 

KAREN QUIGLEY   The Role of Interoception in Making Meaning

Keywords: metabolism, vagus

Relevant reference:  Clare Shaffer, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Karen S. Quigley: Signal processing in the vagus nerve: Hypotheses based on new genetic and anatomical evidence

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QUESTIONS OF INTEREST

Vast resources (genetic material/energy) are spent to ensure sensory neurons collect a broad range of sensory information with high fidelity, but the breadth and fidelity of sensory signals degrade as they are sent to and used within the brain. Why is this?

What is the role of movement in sensory processing?

Can we usefully distinguish between a computational explanation and a mechanistic explanation of a process, such as the function of a neural circuit?

Metabolism and efficient energy regulation are key to making meaning and the operation of the mind.

Signals from the body constrain or shape what the brain does in the next moment.