Publications
Journal Papers
2009
Koepsell K, Wang X, Vaingankar V, Wei Y, Wang Q, Rathbun DL, Usrey W, Hirsch J and Sommer FT (2009) Retinal oscillations carry visual information to cortex. Front Syst Neurosci 3:4 pdf
Knoblauch A, Palm G, Sommer FT: Memory capacities for synaptic and structural plasticity. Neural Computation, in press (2009) pdf
2008
Koepsell K, Sommer FT (2008) Information transmission in oscillatory neural activity. Biological Cybernetics 99:403–416 abstract pdf
Teeters JL, Harris KD, Millman KJ, Olshausen BA, Sommer FT: Data sharing for computational neuroscience. Neuroinformatics (2008) pdf
2007
Rehn M, Sommer FT: A network that uses few active neurones to code visual input predicts the diverse shapes of cortical receptive fields. J. Comp. Neurosci. 22 (2) 135-146 (2007). pdf (Earlier online prepublication SpringerLink DOI 10.1007/s10827-006-003-9 (2006))
Sommer FT (2007) Bunte Theorien für graue Zellen. Gehirn und Geist, Juni 70-76
Wang X, Wei Y, Vaingankar V, Wang Q, Koepsell K, Sommer FT, Hirsch JA (2007) Feedforward excitation and inhibition evoke dual modes of firing in the cat’s visual thalamus during naturalistic viewing. Neuron 55 (2007) 465-478. See also the preview about this paper: P. Reinagel: The inner life of bursts. Neuron 55 339-341
2006
Bethge M (2006) Factorial coding of natural images: how effective are linear models in removing higher-order dependencies? J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 23(6): 1253-1268.
Rehn M, Sommer FT (2006) Storing and restoring visual input with collaborative rank coding and associative memory. Neurocomputing 69 (10-12) 1219-1223 pdf
Sommer FT, Kanerva P (2006) Can neural models of cognition benefit from the advantages of connectionism? Behavoral and Brain Sciences 29 (1) 86-87 pdf
2005
George D, Sommer FT (2005) Computing with inter-spike inverval codes in networks of integrate and fire neurons. Neurocomputing 65-66, 414 - 420. pdf
Johnson JS, Olshausen BA (2005) The recognition of partially visible natural objects in the presence and absence of their occluders. Vision Research, 45, 3262-3276. pdf
Johnson JS, Olshausen BA (2005) The earliest EEG signatures of object recognition in a cued-target task are postsensory. Journal of Vision, 5, 299-312. link
Martinez LM, Wang Q, Reid RC, Pillai C, Alonso J-M, Sommer FT, Hirsch JA (2005) Receptive field structure varies with layer in the primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 8 , 372 - 379 pdf
Olshausen BA, Field DJ (2005) How close are we to understanding V1? Neural Computation, 17, 1665-1699. pdf
Sommer FT, Wennekers T (2005) Synfire chains with conductance-based neurons: internal timing and coordination with timed input. Neurocomputing 65-66, 449 - 454. pdf
Refereed Conference Proceedings
2009
Cadieu C.F., Olshausen B.A., (2009) Learning Transformational Invariants from Natural Movies, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21, D. Koller and D. Schuurmans and Y. Bengio and L. Bottou, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. pdf
2008
Garrigues P.J., El Ghaoui L., An Homotopy Algorithm for the Lasso with Online Observations, to appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS 2008). pdf
Monaci G., Sommer F. T. and Vandergheynst P., Learning Sparse Generative Models of Audiovisual Signals, Proc. of European Conf. on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO08), 2008 pdf
2007
Garrigues P.J. Olshausen B.A. (2007) Learning Horizontal Connections in a Sparse Coding Model of Natural Images. To appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 (NIPS 2007) pdf
2005
Bell A.J., Parra L.C. (2005) Maximising Sensitivity in a Spiking Network, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, Saul L.K. and Weiss Y. and Bottou L., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA pdf
Technical Reports
Charles CF, Koepsell K (2009) A multivariate phase distribution and its estimation. abstract pdf
Talks and Posters
Koepsell K (2009) Phase coupling estimation from multivariate phase statistics. Seminar talk, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California.
Koepsell K (2009) Phase coupling estimation in coupled oscillator systems. Seminar talk, Mathematical Biology Seminar, UC Davis.
Charles CF, Koepsell K (2009) A multivariate phase distribution and its estimation. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
Huth A, Cadieu CF, Dale CL, Weber D, Pantazis D, Darvas F, Leahy R, Simpson GV, Koepsell K (2009) Detecting functional connectivity in networks of phase-coupled neural oscillators. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
Koepsell K (2008) Spike timing in the context of network dynamics from retina to cortex. Conference talk, Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
Koepsell K, Blanche TJ, Swindale N, Olshausen BA (2008) Modeling the influence of local network activity on neuron spiking responses in primary visual cortex. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blanche TJ, Koepsell K, Swindale N, Olshausen BA (2008) Predicting response variability in the primary visual cortex. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blanche TJ (2007) The influence of cortical dynamics on spike timing precision in cat V1. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California.
Koepsell K (2007) The hidden clock in LGN -- is phase coding employed in early vision?. Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany
Garrigues PJ, Olshausen BA (2007) Learning Horizontal Connections from the Statistics of Natural Images. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2006) Retinal oscillations carry visual information to cortex. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Blanche TJ (2007) How active is the cortex? COSYNE workshop, The Canyons, Utah.
Blanche TJ, Koepsell K (2007) Spike timing precision and the influence of cortical dynamics. Grand Challenges in Neural Computation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Blanche TJ, Freiwald WA, Swindale NV (2006) Neural sparseness in cat and monkey visual cortex studied with silicon polytrode arrays. Society for Neuroscience.
Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2006) Two channels for visual information to travel from thalamus to cortex. Society for Neuroscience.
Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2005) Ongoing retinal activity explains variability of thalamic responses. Society for Neuroscience.
Lauritzen TZ, Shenhav, Silver MA (2007) fMRI coherency analysis reveals feedforward progression of visual responses in human early visual cortex OSA fall vision meeting, Berkeley, CA.
Lauritzen TZ (2007) Functional networks underlying top-down visual spatial attention in the human brain IMM, Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark.
Lauritzen TZ (2007) Neural mechanisms of sustained visual spatial attention ENS, Paris, France.
Lauritzen TZ (2006) Attention modulation mediated through correlations in the local field potential Annual cognitive neuroscience soc meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Lauritzen TZ (2005) Correlations in the local field potential yield non-linear neural response changes Society for Neuroscience, Abstract 274.25.
Lauritzen TZ (2005) Contribution of physiological noise to dendritic non-linearities COSYNE, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Redwood Neuroscience Institute
An incomplete list of publications from the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (2002-2005) is available here (will be updated soon).