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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(January 2008 – )

 

  1. Ames, H.M. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Speaker normalization using cortical strip maps: A neural model for steady state vowel identification. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  2. Amis, G. and Carpenter, G.A. (2008). Default ARTMAP 2. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  3. Anderson, E.R. and Bullock, D. (2008). Modeling calcium signaling in substantia nigra dopamine neurons. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 107.

  4. Bhattacharyya, R., Srinivasa, N., and Grossberg, S. (2008). Bio-inspired planning and reaching in complex environments. To appear in Proceedings of the AAAI 2008 fall symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington DC, November.

  5. Billimoria, C.P., Maddox, R., Graña, G., and Sen, K. (2008). Compensation for natural timing variations and time warping in cortical discrimination of complex sounds. In Abstracts of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting .

  6. Brandon, M.P., Griffin, A.L., Eichenbaum, H., and Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Uniform spatial representation between task phases of dorsal CA1 neurons in a continuous non-match to position task on the T-maze. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 37.

  7. Browning, N.A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, E. (2008). Computing heading and optic flow in MT-MST: A neural model of primate motion processing. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  8. Browning, N.A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, E. (2008). Visually guided navigation and steering: Motion-based object segmentation and heading estimation in primate. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 67.

  9. Buschman, T.J. and Miller, E.K. (2008). Serial and parallel mechanisms underlying visual search. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 14.

  10. Cao, Y., Grossberg, S., and Zaydens, E. (2008). A laminar cortical model of stereopsis and 3D surface perception of complex natural scenes. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples Fl, May.

  11. Cao, Y., Grossberg, S., and Zaydens, E. (2008). Laminar cortical dynamics of stereopsis and 3D representation of natural scenes. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 20. 

  12. Cao, Y., Grossberg, S., and Zaydens, E. (2008). A laminar cortical model of stereopsis and 3D surface perception of complex natural scenes. Poster. Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Knowledge: Where Vision Meets Memory, Tufts University, May

  13. Carpenter, G.A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, E. (2008). CELEST. Poster at DARPA SyNAPSE Proposer's Workshop, Reston, VA, March.

  14. Carpenter, G.A. (2008). Large-scale neural systems for vision and cognition. Plenary Lecture. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 13.

  15. Eichenbaum, H., and Lipton, P. (2008) Towards a functional organization of the medial temporal lobe (MTL) memory system. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 5.

  16. Fazl, A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, E. (2008). view-invariant object category learning and recognition: How spatial and object attention are coordinated using surface-based attentional shrouds. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  17. Fazl, A. and Mingolla, E. (2008). Predicting eye movement trajectories in a multiple object tracking (MOT) task with free viewing. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples Fl, May.

  18. Franklin, D.J. (2008). CELEST scientist-educator approach to curriculum content and delivery. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  19. Franklin, D.J. (2008). CELESTIAL education: The CELEST interactive approach to learning. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 57.

  20. Franklin, D.J. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Cognitive-emotional learning by neocortex, amygdala, and hippocampus: Timing, neurotrophins, amnesia, and consciousness. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 46.

  21. Franklin, D.J. (2008). Inquiry-based, interactive curriculum and pedagogy based on models of mind and brain. Workshop presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Learning, Chicago IL, June.

  22. Giocomo, L.M. and Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Differences in subthreshold oscillations of stellate cells map to differences in peridocity of grid cells. Winner of the CELEST award for experimental neuroscience of brain and behavior. Science and Engineering Research Symposium, Boston University, March.

  23. Giocomo, L.M. and Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Differences in subthreshold oscillations map to differences in periodicity of grid cells. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 33.

  24. Gorchetchnikov, A., Ames, H., and Versace, M. (2008). Simulating biologically realistic neural models on graphic processing units. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 111.

  25. Gorchetchnikov, A., and Grossberg, S. (2008). From entorhinal grid cell to hippocampal place cell: Learning population codes for behavioral control for both spatial and temporal behaviors. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  26. Gori E., Gori S., Yazdanbakhsh A., and Mingolla E. (2008). A predictive model for the Accordion Grating illusion. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), August 24-28, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

  27. Grossberg, S. (2008). Cortical dynamics of attentive object recognition, scene understanding, and decision making. Invited lecture. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 9.

  28. Grossberg, S. (2008). How does the brain learn what an object is? A synthesis of visual perception, attention, search, and category learning. Plenary lecture. Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Knowledge: Where Vision Meets Memory, Tufts University, May.

  29. Grossberg, S. (2008). Spatial and object attention coordinate view-invariant object learning during eye movement search. Lecture at annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Indiana University, April.

  30. Grossberg, S. (2008). St. Louis workshop on the Neurobiology of Consciousness, St. Louis, October.

  31. Harvey, R.C., Dembro, K.A., Rajagopalan, K., Mutebi, M.M., and Kantak, K.M. (2008). Differential effects of cocaine on neurocognitive functioning of the orbitofrontal cortex in adolescent vs. adult rats.  In the College on Problems of Drug Dependence annual meeting, Puerto Rico, June.

  32. Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Oscillations, grid cells and episodic memory. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 3.

  33. Huang, T.R. and Grossberg, S. (2008). ARTSCENE: A neural system for natural scene classification. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  34. Huang, T.-R. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Scene understanding using attentional control of gist and texture information. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples FL, May.

  35. Ivey, R., Bullock, D.B., and Grossberg, S. (2008). A neuromorphic model of spatial lookahead planning. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 90.

  36. Keliris, G.A., Tolias, A.S., and Logothetis, N.K. (2008). Binocular flash suppression in area V1 of the macaque. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  37. Koene, R.A. and Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Pyramidal membrane currents that enable order-sustaining persistent firing that is synchronized with theta rhythm. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 93.

  38. Kong, L., Streeter, T., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2008). Different degrees of visual cues enhance speech recognition in complex auditory scenes. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 27.

  39. Larson, E., Billimoria, C.P., and Sen, K. (2008). Song discrimination using a biologically plausible circuit that implements a spike distance metric. In Abstracts of the Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting.

  40. Leveille, J., Grossberg, S., Mingolla, E., and Versace, M. (2008). Spiking dynamics of perceptual grouping in the laminar circuits of visual cortex. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 19.

  41. Leveille, J., Grossberg, S., Mingolla, E., and Versace, M. (2008). Perceptual grouping and fast synchronization in a spiking laminar cortical model. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples Fl, May.

  42. Lin, I.-F., Streeter, T., Durlach, N., and Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2008). A model for remapping auditory spatial cues. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May.

  43. Livitz G., Mingolla E., Yazdanbakhsh A. (2008). Perceiving non-Herring mixtures in neon colour spreading configurations. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), August 24-28, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

  44. Maddox, R., Alvarez, R., Streeter, T., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Top- down attention modulates bottom-up streaming based on pitch and location. Mid-Winter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, AZ, February.

  45. Maryott, J. and Sekuler, R. (2008). Age-related changes in the ability to imitate viewed actions. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  46. Miller, E.K. (2008). Invited talk, conference on Emotions, Memories, Consciousness, and Attention: Biological Approaches to Cognitive Problems , Columbia University , March.

  47. Miller, E.K. (2008). Invited talk, Shire Biopharmaceuticals Advisory Board Meeting on "Guanfacine Mechanism of Action in ADHD" , New York City , April.

  48. Miller, E.K. (2008). Invited talk, conference on Memory and Neural Networks , Longyearbyen, Svalbard , Norway , June.

  49. Mingolla, E., Browning, N.A., and Grossberg, S. (2008). Neural dynamics of visually-based object segmentation and navigation in complex environments. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples FL, May.

  50. Okatan, M., MacDonald, C.J., and Eichenbaum, H. (2008). Exploring the sensory and motor attributes of ensemble neural spiking activity using a network likelihood model. Fourth International Workshop for Statistical Analysis of Neuronal Data, Pittsburgh.

  51. Pilly, P.K. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Temporal dynamics of decision-making during motion perception in the visual cortex. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  52. Pilly, P.K. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Temporal dynamics of decision-making during motion perception in the visual cortex. Winner of the CELEST award for computational modeling of brain and behavior. Science and Engineering Research Symposium, Boston University, March.

  53. Quiroz, Y.T., Schon, K., and Stern, C.E. (2008). Neural systems involved in working memory for semantically related objects: An fMRI study. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  54. Quiroz, Y.T., Schon, K., and Stern, C.E. (2008). Neural systems involved in working memory for semantically related objects: An fMRI study. In Abstracts of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco CA, April.

  55. Quiroz, Y.T., Schon, K., and Stern, C.E. (2008). Different activation patterns for working memory of semantically related and unrelated objects. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 92.

  56. Ravindran, A. and Carpenter, G.A. (2008). Unifying multiple knowledge domains using the ARTMAP information fusion system. To appear in Proceedings of the Fusion 2008 conference, Cologne, Germany, July.

  57. Rice, N.J. and Sekuler, R. (2008). Teaching a sequence in chunks impairs ability to form compound cues to recall: Effects on skill learning, retention, and transfer. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 81.

  58. Satyavarta and Shinn-Cunningham, B. (2008). Binaural speech segregation by hierarchical grouping. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 72.

  59. Schon, K., Ross, R.S., Olofson, J.M., Quiroz, Y.T., Hasselmo , M.E. , and Stern, C.E. (2008). Working memory for novel but not familiar trial-unique complex visual scenes recruits the medial temporal lobes. To appear in Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Washington, DC, November.

  60. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Attending to sound in a complex world. Invited speaker at special session on Auditory Attention, Thirty-third annual interdisciplinary conference, Jackson Hole, WY, February.

  61. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Object formation versus auditory attention. Invited talk at Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

  62. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Listening in complex environments. Invited keynote speaker at International Hearing Aid Conference, Lake Tahoe, CA, August.

  63. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). How we communicate in social settings. Invited speaker at National Conference of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science, October.

  64. Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. and Hoover, T. (2008). How does spatial auditory perception impact how we enjoy surround sound? Invited talk at Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

  65. Silver, M.R., Bullock, D.B., Grossberg, S. (2008). A neural model of how eye movement sequences are stored in spatial working memory. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 91.

  66. Srinivasa, N., Bhattacharyya, R., and Grossberg, S. (2008). A redundant robot that learns to reach for targets amidst obstacles in complex environments. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 83.

  67. Srinivasa, N., Bhattacharyya, R., and Grossberg, S. (2008). A redundant robot that learns to reach for targets amidst obstacles in complex environments. To appear at IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September.

  68. Srinivasa, N., Bhattacharyya, R., and Grossberg, S. (2008). A bio-Inspired kinematic controller for obstacle avoidance during reaching tasks with redundant robots. To appear at IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, September.

  69. Srinivasa, N. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Learning invariant sensory-motor transforms for fault-tolerant control of redundant robots. To appear in Proceedings of the AAAI 2008 fall symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington DC, November.

  70. Tsushima, Y., Seitz, A., and Watanabe, T. (2008). Task-irrelevant learning occurs only when the irrelevant feature is weak. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  71. Tsushima, Y., Seitz, A., and Watanabe, T. (2008). Task-irrelevant learning occurs only when the irrelevant feature is weak. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota FL, May.

  72. van Vugt, M.K., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Litt, B., and Kahana, M.J. (2008). Differences in functional connectivity and oscillatory power related to interference in visual working memory. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  73. van Vugt, M., Schulze-Bonhage, A., Litt, B., and Kahana, M.J. (2008). Decreases of intracranial gamma oscillations with memory load. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 15.

  74. Versace, M., Ames, H., Leveille, J., Fortenberry, B., and Gorchetchnikov, A. (2008). KInNeSS: A modular framework for computational neuroscience. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 112.

  75. Visscher, K.M. and Sekuler, R. (2008). Pre-stimulus neural activity associated with ignoring. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 96.

  76. Visscher, K.M. and Sekuler, R. (2008). Pre-stimulus neural activity predicts success in ignoring. To be presented at Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008, Salt Lake City UT.

  77. Vladusich, T. (2008). Brightness, darkness and the perception of surface material. In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) , Naples Fl, May.

  78. Xia, J. and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Effects of visually guided endogenous and exogenous spatial attention on auditory identification. Mid-Winter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Phoenix, AZ, February.

  79. Xia, J., Colburn, H.S., and Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2008). Modeling the precedence effect in inferior colliculus neurons using converging excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

  80. Yazdanbakhsh, A. and Gori, S. (2008). Why does the rotating tilted lines illusion rotate? In Abstracts of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples Fl, May.

  81. Yazdanbakhsh, A. and Livingstone, M. (2008). V1 cells provide low-level cues for figure-ground segregation. In Proceedings of the first annual inter-Science of Learning Center (iSLC) student and postdoc conference, Pittsburgh PA, February.

  82. Yazdanbakhsh, A. and Livingstone, M. (2008). Spatio-temporal dynamics of V1 receptive fields provides a range of surface representation. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 65.

  83. Yoshida, M., Fransén, E., and Hasselmo, M.E. (2008). Cholinergic-independent persistent firing in entorhinal layers III and V neurons. In Proceedings of the 12th international conference on cognitive and neural systems (ICCNS), Boston MA, May, p. 85.

 

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