Publications
2011
R. V. Florian (2012), Reinforcement learning in spiking neural networks. In Norbert Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer.
R. V. Florian (2012), Supervised learning in spiking neural networks. In Norbert Seel (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, Springer.
O.F. Jurjuţ, D. Nikolic, W. Singer, S. Yu, M.N. Havenith, R.C. Mureşan (2011), Timescales of multineuronal activity patterns reflect temporal structure of visual stimuli. PLoS One, 6 (2), e16758.
V. V. Moca, I. Ţincaş, L. Melloni, R. C. Mureşan (2011), Visual exploration and object recognition by lattice deformation. PLoS One 6 (7), e22831.
M. F. Danca, M. Romera, G. Pastor, and F. Montoya (2011), Finding attractors of continuous-time systems by parameter switching, Nonlinear Dynamics.
M. F. Danca (2011), Numerical approximation of a class of discontinuous systems of fractional order, Nonlinear Dynamics, 66 (1), pp. 133-139.
G. Pastor, M. Romera, A. Orue, A. Martin, M. F. Danca. F. Montoya (2011), Calculation of the structure of a shrub in the Mandelbrot set, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society (2011), 837262.
M. F. Danca (2011), Approach of a class of discontinuous systems of fractional order: Existence of solutions, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, accepted.
M. F. Danca, D. Lai (2011), Parrondo's game model to find numerically the stable attractors of a tumor growth model, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, accepted.
M. F. Danca (2011), Synthesizing the Lü attractor by parameter-switching. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 21 (1), pp. 323-331.
M. F. Danca, C. Morel (2011), Attractors synthesis of a class of networks. Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete & Impulsive Systems, B, in press.
L. C. Cremene, D. Dumitrescu, R. Nagy, M. Cremene (2011), Game theoretic modelling for dynamic spectrum access in TV whitespace, 6th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications - CrownCom 2011, Osaka, Japan.
C. V. Rusu, H.-S. Ahn (2011), Optimal network localization by particle swarm optimization. Proceedings of the 2011 Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Denver, CO.
2010
M. F. Danca, Q. Wang (2010), Synthesizing attractors of Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal systems, Nonlinear Dynamics 62 (1-2), pp. 437-446.
M. F. Danca (2010), Chaotic behavior of a class of discontinuous dynamical systems of fractional-order. Nonlinear Dynamics, 60 (4), pp. 525-534.
R. V. Florian (2010), Challenges for interactivist-constructivist robotics, New Ideas in Psychology, 28 (3), pp. 350-353.
Y. Mao, W.K.S. Tang, M. F. Danca (2010), An averaging model for chaotic system with periodic time-varying parameter, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 217 (1), 355-336.
M. F. Danca (2010), Attractors synthesis for a Lotka-Volterra-like system. Applied Mathematics and Computation, 216 (7), pp. 2107–2117.
M. F. Danca (2010), Finding stable attractors of a class of dissipative dynamical systems by numerical parameter switching. Dynamical Systems, 25 (2), pp. 189-201.
M. F. Danca (2010), On the uniqueness of solutions to a class of discontinuous dynamical systems, Nonlinear Analysis Series B: Real World Applications, 11 (3), pp. 1402-1412.
M. F. Danca, K. Diethlem (2010), Fractional-order attractors synthesis via parameter switchings, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, 15 (12), pp. 3745–3753.
C. V. Rusu, R. V. Florian (2010), A new spike train metric, Nineteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2010. BMC Neuroscience 2010, 11 (suppl. 1), p. 169.
A. Martin, G. Pastor, M. Romera, A. B. Orue, M. F. Danca and F. Montoya (2010), Dendritas de Misiurewicz en el conjuncto de Mandelbrot, Proceedings of NoLineal 2010, F. Balibrea et al. (eds), p. 108, Cartagena (Murcia), Spain, 8-11 June 2010.
G. Pastor, M. Romera, A. B. Orue, A. Martin, M. F. Danca and F. Montoya (2010), Dibujo de los rayos externos de Douady and Hubbard, Proceedings of NoLineal 2010, F. Balibrea et al. (eds) p. 110, Cartagena (Murcia), Spain, 8-11 June 2010.
2009
V. V. Moca, B. Scheller, R. C. Mureşan, M. Daunderer, G. Pipa. (2009), EEG under anesthesia - feature extraction with TESPAR. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 95 (3), pp. 191-202.
O. F. Jurjuţ, D. Nikolic, G. Pipa, W. Singer, D. Metzler, and R. C. Mureşan (2009), A color-based visualization technique for multi-electrode spike trains. Journal of Neurophysiology 102, pp. 3766-3778.
Publications of the Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies, prior to its affiliation to RIST
2010
S. P. Paşca, W. Singer, D. Nicolic (2010), Surround modulation of neuronal responses in V1 is as stable over time as responses to direct stimulation of receptive fields, Cortex 46 (9), pp. 1199-1203.
M. Dronca, S. P. Paşca (2010). Paraoxonase 1 status, environmental exposures and oxidative stress in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In A. Chauhan, V. Chauhan, T. Brown (editors), Autism: Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Immune Abnormalities, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL.
M. F. Danca (2010), On the uniqueness of solutions to a class of discontinuous dynamical systems. Nonlinear Analysis Series B: Real World Applications, 11 (3), pp. 1402-1412.
Paşca S.P., Dronca E., Nemes B., Kaucsár T., Endreffy E., Iftene F., Benga I., Cornean R., Dronca M. (2010), Paraoxonase 1 activities and polymorphisms in autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 14 (3), 600-607.
2009
G. Esposito, S. P. Paşca (2009). Disruption of social development in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In "Social Development", Nova Science Publishers.
M. F. Danca (2009), Alternated Julia sets and connectivity properties, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 19 (6), pp. 2123-2129.
S. P. Paşca, E. Dronca, B. Nemes, T. Kaucsár, E. Endreffy, F. Iftene, I. Benga, R. Cornean, M. Dronca (2009), One carbon metabolism disturbances and the C667T MTHFR gene polymorphism in children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine 13 (10), pp. 4229–4238.
R. V. Florian, C. V. Rusu (2009), Temporal difference learning does not always lead to STDP. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: Computational and systems neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.06.2009.03.205
C. V. Rusu, R. V. Florian (2009), Exploring the link between temporal difference learning and spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Eighteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2009. BMC Neuroscience 2009, 10 (suppl. 1), p. 201.
Ţincaş, I., Visu-Petra, L. A., & Benga, O. (2009). Regulation and anxiety in preschoolers: Contributions from temperament and attentional control. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA.
2008
R.C. Mureşan, O.F. Jurjuţ, V.V. Moca, W. Singer, D. Nikolic (2008), The oscillation score: An efficient method for estimating oscillation strength in neuronal activity. Journal of Neurophysiology 99, pp. 1333-1353.
D. Nikolic, V.V. Moca, W. Singer and R.C. Mureşan (2008), Properties of multivariate data investigated by fractal dimensionality. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 172 (1), pp. 27-33.
Dronca M., Paşca S.P., Nemes B., Vlase L., Vlăduţiu D. (2008), Serum paraoxonase 1 activities and homocysteinemia in hemodialysis patients. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 46 (6), pp. 880-881.
Paşca S.P., Nesse R.M. (2008), Vomiting is not an adaption for glaucoma (and Darwinian medicine is difficult). Medical Hypotheses 71 (3), pp. 472-473.
R. V. Florian (2008), Tempotron-like learning with ReSuMe. In V. Kurkova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2008), Prague, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5164, pp. 368-375, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg.
R.C. Mureşan, W. Singer, D. Nikolic (2008), The InfoPhase method or how to read neurons with neurons. In V. Kurkova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2008), Prague, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5164, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg.
V.V. Moca, D. Nikolic, R.C. Mureşan (2008), Real and modeled spike trains: Where do they meet? In V. Kurkova et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2008), Prague, Czech Republic. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5164, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg.
R. C. Mureşan (2008), Dynamics of self-sustained microcircuits examined with regular-spiking readouts. BMC Neuroscience 9 (Suppl 1), p. 37.
O. F. Jurjuţ, D. Nikolic, W. Singer, D. Metzler, R. C. Mureşan (2008), Multidimensional patterns of neuronal activity: how do we see them?.BMC Neuroscience 9 (Suppl 1), p. 128.
R. V. Florian (2008), Relating reinforcement learning and STDP. Cosyne workshop on Spiking Networks and Reinforcement Learning, Snowbird, UT, USA.
2007
R. C. Mureşan and C. Savin (2007), Resonance or integration? Self-sustained dynamics and excitability of neural microcircuits. Journal of Neurophysiology 97, pp. 1911-1930.
R. V. Florian (2007), Reinforcement learning through modulation of spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity. Neural Computation 19 (6), pp. 1468-1502.
A. Lazar, R. Mureşan, E. Stadtler, M. Munk, G. Pipa (2007), Importance of electrophysiological signal features assessed by classification trees. Neurocomputing 70 (10-12), pp. 2017-2021.
R. V. Florian (2007), Challenges for interactivist-constructivist robotics. Interactivist Summer Institute 2007, Paris, France.
R. V. Florian (2007), Neuromodulation of STDP and reinforcement learning, in K. Josic, M. Matias and J. Rubin (eds.), International Workshop on Coherent Behavior in Neuronal Networks, Mallorca, Spain, p. 33.
2006
I. Goga, A. Billard (2006), Development of goal-directed imitation, object manipulation and language in humans and robots. In M. A. Arbib (ed.), Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System, Cambridge University Press.
S. P. Paşca, B. Nemes, L. Vlase, C.E. Gagyi, E. Dronca, A.C. Miu, M. Dronca (2006), High levels of homocysteine and low serum paraoxonase 1 arylesterase activity in children with autism, Life Sciences 78 (19), pp. 2244-2248.
R. V. Florian and R. Mureşan (2006), Phase precession and recession with STDP and anti-STDP. In S. Kollias et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4131, pp. 718-727, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
R. V. Florian (2006), Spiking neural controllers for pushing objects around. In S. Nolfi et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB'06), Rome, Italy. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4095, pp. 570-581, 2006. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
A. Lazăr, G. Pipa, J. Triesch (2006), The combination of STDP and intrinsic plasticity yields complex dynamics in recurrent spiking networks. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN 2006).
R. V. Florian (2006), Modulation of STDP by a global reward signal leads to reinforcement learning. In D. Terman et al., Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience (Neuromath06), Andorra, pp. 45-46.
I. Goga and A. Billard (2006), Visual attention modeling as constraint satisfaction. Sixth International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics, Paris, France.
I. Goga and A. Billard (2006), Attention mechanisms for goal-directed action in cognitive agents. Second Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS 2006), Guildford, UK.
R. V. Florian (2006), Reinforcement learning for spiking neural networks with modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, p. 126. Boston University, Boston, MA.
C. Savin, I. Ignat, R. Mureşan (2006), Resonance as an effective mechanism of dynamical stability in large microcircuits of spiking neurons. Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2006), Edinburgh, UK.
A. Lazăr, R. Mureşan, E. Stadtler, M. Munk, G. Pipa (2006), Importance of electrophysiological signal features assessed by classification trees. Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2006), Edinburgh, UK.
A. Lazar, G. Pipa, J. Triesch, Dynamics and robustness of recurrent spiking networks with STDP and intrinsic plasticity. Fifteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2006), Edinburgh, UK.
2005
R. C. Mureşan, G. Pipa, D.W. Wheeler (2005), Single-unit recordings revisited: Activity in recurrent microcircuits. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3696, Eds. W. Duch, J. Kacprzyk, E. Oja, et al., pp. 153-160.
R. V. Florian (2005), A reinforcement learning algorithm for spiking neural networks. In D. Zaharie, D. Petcu, V. Negru, T. Jebelean, G. Ciobanu, A. Cicortas, A. Abraham and M. Paprzycki (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC 2005), pp. 299-306. IEEE Computer Society.
R. C. Mureşan, G. Pipa, R. V. Florian, and D. W. Wheeler (2005), Coherence, memory and conditioning: A modern viewpoint, Neural Information Processing - Letters and Reviews 7 (2), pp. 19-28.
R. V. Florian (2005), An evolved spiking neural controller for alternate object pushing by a simulated embodied agent. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, p. 27. Boston University, Boston, MA.
2004
R. C. Mureşan (2004), Scale independence in the visual system, in Rajapakse, J. C. & Wang, L. (Eds.), Neural information processing: Research and development, pp. 1-18. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
R. C. Mureşan (2004), The coherence theory: Simple attentional modulation effects, Neurocomputing 58-60C, pp. 949-955, Special Issue: Computational neuroscience: Trends in research.
2003
R. C. Mureşan (2003), RetinotopicNET: An efficient simulator for retinotopic visual architectures, Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belgium, pp. 247-254.
R. C. Mureşan (2003), Pattern recognition using pulse-coupled neural networks and discrete Fourier transforms, Neurocomputing 51, pp. 487-493.
R. V. Florian (2003), Exploitation of environmentally-derived sensorimotor isomorphisms. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, p. 50. Boston University, Boston, MA.
2002
R. V. Florian (2002), Why it is important to build robots capable of doing science. In C. G. Prince, Y. Demiris, Y. Marom, H. Kozima, & C. Balkenius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, UK. Lund University Cognitive Studies 94, pp. 27-34.