Topic: Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: what is there?  and who is there?
Presenters: Camille Gomez and/or Gabriel Kreiman (work with Rick Born and JoJo Nassi).

Abstract:
In the Jeopardy/Watson effort  every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We begin here a series of weekly discussions and reports on  each CBMM challenge question [e.g. what is there? what will happen next? what are they doing? etc] describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Today the discussion is about types of models  used for answering the what and who questions and in particular about whether they can be approximated as bottom-up architectures. Camille Gomez and Gabriel Kreiman will introduce the discussion by describing preliminary data from  V1 recordings after inactivating V2.