Selected Publications

James A. Bednar, Judah B. De Paula, and Risto Miikkulainen (2005). Self-Organization of Color Opponent Receptive Fields and Laterally Connected Orientation Maps, Neurocomputing 65-66, p. 69-76.

David Pardoe, Michael Ryoo, and Risto Miikkulainen (2005). Evolving Neural Network Ensembles for Control Problems, To appear in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005).

Yiu Fai Sit and Risto Miikkulainen (2005). Learning Basic Navigation for Personal Satellite Assistant Using Neuroevolution, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005).

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (in press) Constructing Visual Function Through Prenatal and Postnatal Learning, In Neuroconstructivism, Mareschal, Sirois, Westermann, and Johnson (eds), Oxford University Press.

Stefanie Jegelka, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen (in press). Prenatal Development of Ocular Dominance and Orientation Maps in a Self-Organizing Model of V1, Neurocomputing.

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (in press). Joint Maps for Orientation, Eye, and Direction Preference in a Self-Organizing Model of V1, Neurocomputing.

Yiu Fai Sit and Risto Miikkulainen (2006). Self-Organization of Hierarchical Visual Maps with Feedback Connections, To appear in Neurocomputing 2006.

Miikkulainen, R., Bednar, J. A., Choe, Y., and Sirosh, J. (2004). Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex. New York: Springer (to appear).

Bednar, J. A., and Miikkulainen, R. (2004). Constructing Visual Function Through Prenatal and Postnatal Learning. In Mareschal, Sirois, Westermann, and Johnson (editors) Neoconstructivism. Oxford University Press (to appear).

Bednar, J. A. and Miikkulainen, R. (2004). Prenatal and Postnatal Development of Laterally Connected Orientation Maps In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2004 (CNS 2003, Alicante, Spain) (in press).

Bednar, J. A., Choe, Y., De Paula, J. B., Miikkulainen, R., Provost, J., Tversky, T. (2004). Modeling Cortical Maps with Topographica. In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2004 (CNS 2003, Alicante, Spain) (in press).

Bednar, J. A. and Miikkulainen, R. (2003). Self-Organization of Spatiotemporal Receptive Fields and Laterally Connected Direction and Orientation Maps. Neurocomputing, 52-54:473-480.

Choe, Y. and Miikkulainen, R. (in press). The Role of Postsynaptic Potential Decay Rate in Neural Synchrony. Neurocomputing, 52-54:707-712.

Bednar, J. A., and Miikkulainen, R. (2003). Learning Innate Face Preferences. Neural Computation, 15:1525-1557.

Chaput, H. H., Kuipers, B. and Miikkulainen, R. (2003). Constructivist Learning: A SOM-based reimplementation of the Schema Mechanism. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM'03, Kitakyushu, Japan).

Bednar, J. A., Kelkar, A., and Miikkulainen, R. (2002). Modeling Large Cortical Networks with Growing Self-Organizing Maps. Neurocomputing 44-46:315-321.

Tversky, T. and Miikkulainen, R. (2002). Modeling Directional Selectivity Using Self-Organizing Delay-Adaptation Maps. Neurocomputing 44-46:679-684.

Bednar, J. A. and Miikkulainen, R. (2002). Neonatal Learning of Faces: Environmental and Genetic Influences. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI-02, Fairfax, VA). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Choe, Y., Cormack, L., and Miikkulainen, R. (2000). Effects of Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Resource Redistribution in Hebbian Weight Adaptation. Neurocomputing, 32-33:77-82.

Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen (2000). Contour Integration and Segmentation with Self-Organized Lateral Connections . Technical Report AI2000-286.

Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen (2000). A Self-Organizing Neural Network for Contour Integration through Synchronized Firing In Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000, Austin, TX), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 123-128.

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (2000). Self-Organization of Innate Face Preferences: Could Genetics Be Expressed Through Learning? In Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000, Austin, TX), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 117-122.

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (2000). Tilt Aftereffects in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. Neural Computation, 12(7):1721-1740.

Igor Farkas and Risto Miikkulainen (1999). Modeling the Self-Organization of Directional Selectivity in the Primary Visual Cortex. To appear in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'99, Edinburgh, UK).

Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen (1998). Self-Organization and Segmentation in a Laterally Connected Orientation Map of Spiking Neurons. Neurocomputing, 21:51-60.

Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh (1998). A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex. In Usui, S., and Omori, T., editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'98, Kitakyushu, Japan), vol. 2, 815-818. Tokyo; Burke, VA; Amsterdam: IOS Press.

James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen (1998). Pattern-generator-driven Development in Self-organizing Models . In James M. Bower, editor, Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998, 317-323. New York: Plenum.

Yoonsuck Choe and Risto Miikkulainen (1997). Self-Organization and Segmentation with Laterally Connected Spiking Neurons. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97, Nagoya, Japan), 1120-1125. San Francisco: Kaufmann.

James A. Bednar (1997). Tilt Aftereffects in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. Masters Thesis; Technical Report AI97-259, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.

Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh (1997). 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), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, volume 36: Perceptual Learning, 257-308. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1997). Topographic Receptive Fields and Patterned Lateral Interaction in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. Neural Computation, 9:577-594.

Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and Yoonsuck Choe (1996). Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96.

Risto Miikkulainen and Joseph Sirosh (1996). Introduction: The Emerging Understanding of Lateral Interactions in the Cortex. In J. Sirosh, R. Miikkulainen, and Y. Choe (editors), Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96.

Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen, and James A. Bednar (1996). Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex. In J. Sirosh, R. Miikkulainen, and Y. Choe (editors), Lateral Interactions in the Cortex: Structure and Function. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1996). Self-Organization and Functional Role of Lateral Connections and Multisize Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex. Neural Processing Letters, 3:39-48.

Joseph Sirosh (1995) A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. PhD Dissertation; Technical Report AI95-237, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1995). Modeling Cortical Plasticity Based On Adapting Lateral Interaction. In James M. Bower (editor), The Neurobiology of Computation: Proceedings of the Third Annual Computation and Neural Systems Conference (CNS*94, Monterey, CA), 305-310. Boston; Dordrecht; London: Kluwer.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1995). Ocular Dominance and Patterned Lateral Connections in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex. In G. Tesauro, D. S. Touretzky, and T. K. Leen (editors), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7 (NIPS'94, Denver, CO), 109-116. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1994). Self-Organizing Feature Maps with Lateral Connections: Modeling Ocular Dominance. In M. C. Mozer and P. Smolensky and D. S. Touretzky and J. L. Elman and A. S. Weigend (eds.) Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School (CMSS-93, Boulder, CO), 31-38. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen (1994). Cooperative Self-Organization of Afferent and Lateral Connections in Cortical Maps. Biological Cybernetics 71:66-78.