James A. Bednar's Publications

Books

Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh. Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex. Springer, Berlin, 2005.

Journal Articles

James A. Bednar. Building a mechanistic model of the development and function of the primary visual cortex. Journal of Physiology (Paris), 2012. In press.
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Development of maps of simple and complex cells in the primary visual cortex. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 5:17, 2011.
Stuart P. Wilson, James A. Bednar, Tony J. Prescott, and Ben Mitchinson. Neural computation via neural geometry: A place code for inter-whisker timing in the barrel cortex?. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(10):e1002188, 2011.
Chen Zhao, Peggy Seriès, Peter J. B. Hancock, and James A. Bednar. Similar neural adaptation mechanisms underlying face gender and tilt aftereffects. Vision Research, 51(18):2021-2030, 2011.
Stuart P. Wilson, Judith S. Law, Ben Mitchinson, Tony J. Prescott, and James A. Bednar. Modeling the emergence of whisker direction maps in rat barrel cortex. PLoS One, 5(1):e8778, 2010.
James A. Bednar. Topographica: Building and analyzing map-level simulations from Python, C/C++, MATLAB, NEST, or NEURON components. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 3:8, 2009.
Marina Papoutsi, Jacco A. De Zwart, J. Martijn Jansma, Martin Pickering, James A. Bednar, and Barry Horwitz. From phonemes to articulatory codes: An fMRI study of the role of Broca's area in speech production. Cerebral Cortex, 19:2156-2165, 2009.
James A. Bednar. Understanding neural maps with Topographica. Brains, Minds, and Media, 3:bmm1402, 2008.
Vinod Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Developing complex systems using evolved pattern generators. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 11(2):181-198, 2007.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Joint maps for orientation, eye, and direction preference in a self-organizing model of V1. Neurocomputing, 69(10-12):1272-1276, 2006. Presented at the 2005 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
Stefanie Jegelka, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Prenatal development of ocular dominance and orientation maps in a self-organizing model of V1. Neurocomputing, 69:1291-1296, 2006. Presented at the 2005 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar, Judah B. De Paula, and Risto Miikkulainen. Self-organization of color opponent receptive fields and laterally connected orientation maps. Neurocomputing, 65-66:69-76, 2005. Presented at the 2004 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Prenatal and postnatal development of laterally connected orientation maps. Neurocomputing, 58-60:985-992, 2004. Presented at the 2003 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Judah De Paula, Risto Miikkulainen, Jefferson Provost, and Tal Tversky. Modeling cortical maps with Topographica. Neurocomputing, pages 1129-1135, 2004. Presented at the 2003 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar, Amol Kelkar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Scaling self-organizing maps to model large cortical networks. Neuroinformatics, 2:275-302, 2004.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Learning innate face preferences. Neural Computation, 15(7):1525-1557, 2003.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Self-organization of spatiotemporal receptive fields and laterally connected direction and orientation maps. Neurocomputing, 52-54:473-480, 2003. Presented at the 2003 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar, Amol Kelkar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Modeling large cortical networks with growing self-organizing maps. Neurocomputing, 44-46:315-321, 2002. Presented at the 2002 Computational Neuroscience Meeting.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Tilt aftereffects in a self-organizing model of the primary visual cortex. Neural Computation, 12(7):1721-1740, 2000.

Book Chapters

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Constructing visual function through prenatal and postnatal learning. In Denis Mareschal, Mark H. Johnson, Sylvain Sirois, Michael Spratling, Michael S. C. Thomas, and Gert Westermann, editors, Neuroconstructivism, Vol. 2: Perspectives and Prospects, pages 13-37. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2007.
James A. Bednar. The role of internally generated neural activity in newborn and infant face preferences. In Olivier Pascalis and Alan Slater, editors, Face Perception in Infancy and Early Childhood, pages 133-142. NOVA Science Publishers, New York, 2003.
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh. Modeling self-organization in the visual cortex. In Erkki Oja and Samuel Kaski, editors, Kohonen Maps, Amsterdam, 1999. Elsevier.
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh. Self-organization, plasticity, and low-level visual phenomena in a laterally connected map model of the primary visual cortex. In R. L. Goldstone, P. G. Schyns, and D. L. Medin, editors, Perceptual Learning, volume 36 of Psychology of Learning and Motivation, pages 257-308. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1997.
Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and James A. Bednar. Self-organization of orientation maps, lateral connections, and dynamic receptive fields in the primary visual cortex. In Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe, editors, Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function. The UTCS Neural Networks Research Group, Austin, TX, 1996. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/web-pubs/htmlbook96.

Conference Papers

Gaurav Malhotra, Martin Pickering, Holly P. Branigan, and James Bednar. On the persistence of structural priming: Mechanisms of decay and influence of word-forms. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, and V. M. Sloutsky, editors, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 657-662. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2008.
Vinod Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Establishing an appropriate learning bias through development. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2006), 2006.
Vinod Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Constructing good learners using evolved pattern generators. In H.-G. Beyer et al., editors, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2005, pages 11-18. New York: ACM, 2005.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Neonatal learning of faces: Environmental and genetic influences. In Wayne Gray and Christian Schunn, editors, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 107-112, Hillsdale, NJ, 2002. Erlbaum.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Self-organization of innate face preferences: Could genetics be expressed through learning?. In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 12th Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pages 117-122, Menlo Park, CA, 2000. AAAI Press.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Pattern-generator-driven development in self-organizing models. In J. M. Bower, editor, Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998, pages 317-323. New York: Plenum Press, 1998.
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh. A self-organizing neural network model of the primary visual cortex. In Shiro Usui and Takashi Omori, editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Information Processing, volume 2, pages 815-818. Tokyo: IOS Press, 1998.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. A neural network model of visual tilt aftereffects. In Michael G. Shafto and Pat Langley, editors, Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 37-42. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1997.

PhD Theses Written or Supervised

Stuart P. Wilson. Figuring Time by Space: Representing Sensory Motion in Cortical Maps. PhD thesis, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 2011. Co-supervised with Tony J. Prescott.
Chen Zhao. Neural Mechanisms for Face and Orientation Aftereffects. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2011.
Jan Antolik. Unified Developmental Model of Maps, Complex Cells and Surround Modulation in the Primary Visual Cortex. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2010.
Judith S. Law. Modeling the Development of Organization for Orientation Preference in Primary Visual Cortex. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.
Christopher M. Palmer. Topographic and Laminar Models for the Development and Organisation of Spatial Frequency and Orientation in V1. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.
Marina Papoutsi. Phonetic Encoding, Verbal Working Memory, and the Role of Broca's Area. PhD thesis, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 2008.
Judah Ben De Paula. Modeling the Self-Organization of Color Selectivity in the Visual Cortex. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2007.
James A. Bednar. Learning to See: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Visual Development. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2002. Technical Report AI-TR-02-294.

MSc Theses Written or Supervised

Gautham Ganapathy. Reconciling models of visual cortex development with anatomical patterns of lateral connectivity. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
Bilal Khan. Modelling the pathway to auditory cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
Konstantin Kudryavtsev. High performance cortical simulator. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
Ravikiran Mattaparthi. User interface with real-world units. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
Philipp Rüdiger. Estimating simple and complex cell receptive fields from natural image stimuli and 2-photon imaging recordings of V1 in ferrets. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
Jean-Luc Stevens. A temporal model of neural activity and VSD response in the primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2011.
John Jacob. Enhancing the performance of a cortical simulator by running it on a graphics processing unit. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2009.
Kateryna Gerasymova. Computational model of all known feature maps in the primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany, 2008.
Stuart Wilson. Self-organisation can explain the mapping of angular whisker deflections in the barrel cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2007.
Veldri Kurniawan. Self-organizing visual cortex model using a homeostatic plasticity mechanism. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2006.
Chok Ming Ng. Topographica model of somatosensory cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2006.
Tikesh Ramtohul. A self-organizing model of disparity maps in the primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2006.
Christopher Ball. Motion aftereffects in a self-organizing model of primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2005.
Julien Ciroux. Simulating the McCollough effect in a self-organizing model of the primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2005.
James A. Bednar. Tilt aftereffects in a self-organizing model of the primary visual cortex. Master's thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1997. Technical Report AI97-259.

Commentaries

James A. Bednar. Internally generated activity, non-episodic memory, and emotional salience in sleep. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23:908-909, 2000. Commentary on the Sleep and Dreaming issue. Reprinted in S. Harnad et al., editors, Sleep and Dreaming: Scientific Advances and Reconsiderations (2003), Cambridge University Press, 119-120.

Conference Abstracts and Posters

Judith S. Law, Jan Antolik, and James A. Bednar. Stable and robust development of orientation maps and receptive fields. In BMC Neuroscience, volume 12(Suppl 1), page S23, 2011. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2011).
Laurent Perrinet, David Fitzpatrick, and James A. Bednar. Edge statistics in natural images versus laboratory animal environments: Implications for understanding lateral connectivity in V1. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2011. Program No. 530.04.
Stuart P. Wilson, James A. Bednar, Tony J. Prescott, and Ben Mitchinson. Neural computation via neural geometry: A place code for inter-whisker timing in the barrel cortex? In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2011. Program No. 495.22.
Christopher E. Ball, Julien B. Ciroux, and James A. Bednar. Orientation-contingent color aftereffects (the McCollough efffect) can arise through Hebbian synaptic adaptation of horizontal connections. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2010. Program No. 892.15.
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Modeling the development of maps of complex cells. In BMC Neuroscience, volume 9(Suppl 1), page P96, 2009. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2009).
Jan Antolik, Judith S. Law, and James A. Bednar. Reconciling models of V1 development and adult function. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2009. Program No. 765.5.
Christopher E. Ball and James A. Bednar. A self-organizing model of color, ocular dominance, and orientation selectivity in the primary visual cortex. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2009. Program No. 756.9.
Judith S. Law, Jan Antolik, and James A. Bednar. Homeostatic and gain control mechanisms in a developmental model of orientation map formation in V1. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2009. Poster presented at the 2009 Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting (COSYNE 09). doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.06.2009.03.341.
Stuart P. Wilson, B. Mitchinson, M. Pearson, J. A. Bednar, and T. J. Prescott. Learning multi-whisker spatial-temporal cortical receptive fields from robotic whisker input. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2009. Program No. 174.4.
Stuart P. Wilson, Ben Mitchinson, Martin Pearson, James A. Bednar, and Tony J. Prescott. Learning cortical representations from multiple whisker inputs. In BMC Neuroscience, volume 10(Suppl 1), page P334, 2009. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2009).
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Developing maps of complex cells in a computational model. In FENS Abstracts vol 4, A054.1. www.fens.org, 2008.
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Developing maps of complex cells in a computational model of V1. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2008. Program No. 811.5.
Chen Zhao, Peter J. B. Hancock, and James A. Bednar. Modelling face adaptation aftereffects. Perception, 37 ECVP Abstract Supplement:158, 2008.
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Modeling the development of maps of complex cells in V1, 2007. Neurons on the Map: The 5th Neuron Satellite Meeting.
Jan Antolik and James A. Bednar. Modelling surround modulation in the LGN. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2007. Program No. 395.10.
Judah De Paula, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Modeling self-organizing tri-chromatic color selective regions in primary visual cortex. In BMC Neuroscience, volume 8(Suppl 2), page S24, 2007. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2007).
Judith S. Law and James A. Bednar. Reconciling models of surround modulation and V1 feature map development. In BMC Neuroscience, volume 8(Suppl 2), page S23, 2007. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2007).
Judith S. Law, Veldri Kurniawan, and James A. Bednar. Homeostatic plasticity in a model of V1 orientation map development. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2007. Program No. 395.6.
Christopher M. Palmer and James A. Bednar. Topographic and laminar organization of spatial frequency and orientation in a developmental model of V1 using natural images. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2007. Program No. 395.13.
Marina Papoutsi, Jacco De Zwart, Martijn Jansma, Martin Pickering, James A. Bednar, and Barry Horwitz. The processing of low frequency pseudowords by Broca's area. In Abstracts of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (Chicago, IL). Organization for Human Brain Mapping, www.humanbrainmapping.org, 2007.
Stuart P. Wilson, Charles W. Fox, Tony J. Prescott, and James A. Bednar. A self-organizing model of whisker deflection maps in the barrel cortex. In Barrels XX (SfN Satellite Meeting), 2007.
Christopher Ball and James A. Bednar. Motion aftereffects in a self-organizing model of the primary visual cortex. In Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2006), 2006.
Judith S. Law and James A. Bednar. Surround modulation by long-range lateral connections in an orientation map model of primary visual cortex development and function. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2006. Program No. 546.4.
Christopher M. Palmer and James A. Bednar. Modeling the development of topographic and laminar organization for orientation and spatial frequency in the primary visual cortex. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, www.sfn.org, 2006. Program No. 546.3.
James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Judah De Paula, Risto Miikkulainen, and Jefferson Provost. Modeling the visual cortex using the Topographica cortical map simulator. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, 2005.
James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Judah De Paula, Risto Miikkulainen, and Jefferson Provost. The Topographica cortical map simulator. Perception, 2005. Poster and abstract presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception (A Coruña, Spain).
Judah Ben De Paula, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen. Modeling self-organization of color-opponent receptive fields and laterally connected orientation maps and color blobs in V1. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Program No. 174.11.
Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, and Yoonsuck Choe. Sparse, redundancy-reduced visual coding through self-organized lateral connections. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Program No. 490.3.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. Joint maps for orientation, ocular dominance, and direction preference in a self-organizing laterally connected model of primary visual cortex. In Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Society for Neuroscience, 2003. Program No. 701.2.
James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen. A neural network model of visual tilt aftereffects. Perception, 26 Supplement:20, 1997. Abstract presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception (Helsinki, Finland).

Patents

Tim Hayles and James A. Bednar. Attribute-based system and method for configuring and controlling a data acquisition task, 2000. U.S. patent 6067584, National Instruments Corporation.

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