Cell Assemblies: The Basis of Thought

Various versions of CANT23 and CABot.
Prototype CANT 2.0 system. Please report any problems to me.
Prototype CANT 1.8 system old version.
Grants
- Modelling Cell Assemblies as Neuro-Psychological Phenomena and for Practical Applications. Grant proposal for EPSRC. in postscript in tex personal description in postscript personal description in tex
- An EPSRC grant has been awarded entitled Natural Language Parsing with Cell Assemblies: computational linguistics with attractor nets
Talks that I've done on this.
- Developing AI with Simulated Neurons, a talk I gave at the University of York in May 2012.
- A Cognitive Model of Natural Language Parsing, a talk I gave at Birkbeck College University of London in July 2011.
- Getting Fundamental Aspects of Language Understanding To Work in a Neuromorphic Framework, a talk I gave at the Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop July 2011.
- Biological Parameters for FLIF Neurons, a talk I gave at Middlesex to the AI Group in December 2010.
- Cell Assemblies for Physical Robots, a talk I gave at Middlesex in September 2010.
- Cell Assembly Robots: Vision and Cognitive Modelling A talk I gave at the University of Groningen in April 2009.
- Cell Assembly Robots A talk I gave at Middlesex for the School Research Seminar in March 2009.
- A Pyscholinguistic Model of Natural Language Parsing Implemented in Simulated Neurons A talk I gave at the U of Sheffield in March 2009.
- CABot2: a neural agent that is a step toward AI A talk I gave at the BCS Dorset's meeting in Feb 2009.
- AI via Neural Processing A talk I gave at the U. of Manchester in October 2008.
- CABot1: a Videogame Agent Implement in fLIF neurons given at Middlesex September 2008
- Models of Cell Assembly Decay given at Middlesex September 2008
- Implementation of Finite State Automata using fLIF Neurons given at Middlesex September 2008
- Talk at Middlesex Nov. 2006 on current Cell Assembly Issues
- Vision in an Agent based on Fatiguing Leaky Integrate and Fire Neurons at Advances in Cybernetic Systems 2006 in Sheffield
- EPSRC Sponsored Cell Assembly Agent Grant talk at Middlesex May 2006
- Counting with Neurons: Rule Application with Fatiguing LIF Neurons A talk I gave at the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling in Trieste in April 2006.
- Variable Binding of Cell Assemblies with Binding Areas and Spontaneous Neural Activation A talk I gave at the 22nd annual workshop of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems in July 2005.
- Cell Assemblies A talk I gave at the U. of Manchester in May 2005.
- Cell Assemblies A talk I gave at UCL in August 2004.
- Cell Assemblies A talk I gave at York in June 2004.
- Cell Assemblies A talk I gave at the MDX SCS weekly seminar in April 2004. Similar to the Sussex talk below.
- Talks for Grand Challenges Mind and Brain Architecture
- Cell Assemblies: . A talk I gave to the COGS group at Sussex in February 2004
- Cell Assemblies: Bridging the Gap Between Neurons and Psychological Phenomena. A talk I gave to the Psychology department at Middlesex in October 2003
- Developing Artificial Intelligence by Modelling the Brain. A talk I was invited to give in Montenegro at the IPSI-2003 VIP Forum.
- Dual Trace and Dual Stable State Memory. A talk I gave at the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems 20th annual workshop.
- Simulating Neural Cell Assemblies as a Basis for Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, and Variable Binding. A talk I gave at the British Psychological Society in London
- Cell Assemblies, Self Organising Maps and Hopfield Nets. A poster I gave at the 6th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
- Cell Assemblies and Research in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University A talk I gave at the weekly research seminar at Middlesex in march 2002.
- Cell Assemblies from Correlation. A talk I gave at the U of Plymouth's Centre for Neural and Adaptive Sytems
- Describing Low Level Psychological Phenomena Through Cell Assemblies. A talk I gave at the 7th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop in Brighton in September 2001.
- Spontaneous Neural Firing in Biological and Artificial Neural Systems. A talk I gave in Maastricht in May 2001.
- Natural Language Parsing with Cell Assemblies: A Model of Nonconscious Human Language Processing.. A talk I gave at the AISB conference in York March 2001.
- Natural Language Parsing with Cell Assemblies. A talk I gave at U. of Sheffield in November 2000.
- Cell Assemblies for Rapid Recognition and Disambiguation. Talk from EPSRC Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Nets and Neuroscience in Durham August 2000.
- Modelling Cell Assemblies . Talk from ICAI 2000 in Las Vegas June 2000.
- Cells Assemblies and the Necker Cube. This is a talk I gave at the Middlesex Research Seminar on May 3rd 2000.
- Hebb, Cells Assemblies and How We Think. This is a relatively simple talk I gave at the Middlesex Research Seminar on March 3rd 1999.
My Papers
- Parameter Values and Fatigue Mechanisms for FLIF neurons (submitted) the paper in pdf the page for the paper.
- Papers from the CABot grant
- Hierarchical Cell Assemblies, from Connection Science 2006. in postscript in tex in pdf
- Information Retrieval and Categorisation using a Cell Assembly Network. A paper submitted to Neural Computing and Applications Journal. in postscript in word in tex
- Overlapping Cell Assemblies From Correlators. A paper from Neural Computing Letters 2004. in postscript in pdf in tex
- Spontaneous Neural Firing in Biological and Artificial Neural Systems, submitted to the Journal of Cognitive Systems in postscript in text in tex.
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- It is not Evolution but a Better Game Would Need a Better Agent. A paper from Behaviour and Brain Science 2005. in word
- CABot3: A Simulated Neural Games Agent from NeSY11 in Barcelona in pdf
- Cell Assemblies for Query Expansion from IJCNN 2011 in pdf
- Parameter Values for FLIF Neurons from IMCIC 2011 in Orlando in pdf
- Papers from the CABot grant
- Vision in an Agent based on Fatiguing Leaky Integrate and Fire Neurons, from at Advances in Cybernetic Systems 2006 in Sheffield in postscript in tex in pdf
- Counting with Neurons, Rule Application with Nets of Fatiguing Leaky Integrate and Fire Neurons, from the Cognitive Modelling Conference 2006 in Trieste in postscript in tex in pdf
- Developing Artificial Intelligence by Modelling the Brain. An invited paper from the IPSI VIP forum (2003) in Montengro. in postscript in pdf in tex
- Cell Assemblies, Self Organising Maps and Hopfield Networks. An abstract from 6th conference on cognitive and neural systems in word format
- Neural Cell Assemblies for Practical Applications. A paper from the 6th multi conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Inforrmatics in word format
- Describing Low Level Psychological Phenomena throuch Cell Assemblies. A paper from the 7th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop 2001. in postscript in tex
- Natural Language Parsing with Cell Assemblies, for the 2001 AISB conference in postscript in tex
- Cell Assemblies as an Intermediate Level Model of Cognition. A chapter from Emerging Neural Architectures based on Neuroscience. in postscript in pdf in tex This appears in Emergent Neural Computational Architectures Based on Neuroscience
- Modelling Cell Assemblies. A paper from the Las Vegas AI conference for 2000. in postscript in tex
- Cell Assemblies for Rapid Recognition and Disambiguation. A draft of a paper presented at the third International Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Nets and Neuroscience (Durham 2000). in postscript in tex snoopy curve ps ambiguous curve eps
- Modelling Cell Assemblies. This is a Middlesex technical report in postscript in tex in adobe pdf.
- Middlesex Technical report on Cell Assemblies and Neural Network Theory: from Correlators to CAs in postscript in pdf in latex
Pages General
- Human Physiological Brain Maps
- Psychological Datasets
- Questions on Hebbs Essay of Mind chpt. 6
- Usenet neuralnets newsgroup
- Yahoo's Neural Nets Page
- Cal Tech's Computaionl and Neural Systems Page
- Jim Bower at Cal Tech and the Genesis simulator.
- NIMHs neuroinformatics home page.
- Neurosciences on the internet
- List of Pages
- Brunel Centre for Neural Computing Applications
- UCLs Neural Computation Page
- UCLs Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
- UCL ICN talks
- Biological Cybernetics
- EPSRC home page
- The ACT home page (John R. Anderson)
- A page on Maturana and Varela. It's Autopoietic Theory and was recommended by Colin Tully
- Foresight project a multi-disciplinary cognitive systems project sponsored by a range of bodies including EPSRC
Conferences
Specific Pages
- Chris's Grand Challenges Architecture of Brain and Mind page
- The Neuroinformatics site.
- EmerNet Homepage (at sunderland with Wermter).
- Grand Challenges.
- Mirror Bot.
- Pearson's Correlation Coefficient for measuring CA similarities (via Hetherington).
- Antwerp Theoretical Neurobiology for studies of a single neuron.
- Parallel Distributed Processing Techniques and Application Conference
- Cortical Columns, Modules and Hebbian Cell Assemblies
- Hebbian CAs: Recurrent NNs as attractor nets
- Webs, Cell Assemblies and Chunking in Neural Nets
- Steve Harnad's papers Symbol Grounding, Philosophical foundations, etc.
- Middlesex Psychology Dept.
- King's Neural Nets and Disordered Systems Group
- Barry Drakes page on Synfire Chains
Fellow Researchers
- Igor Aleksander Imperial College Neural Net Prof.
- Angelo Cangelosi Neural Net and Psych lecturer at U of Plymouth's Centre for Neural and Adaptive Sytems
- Gail Carpenter Boston Universities Department of Cognitive and Neural Sytems
- Eric Chown a SESAME member interested in Cell Assemblies and Cognitive Maps
- Bob French a SESAME member interested in basic learning mechansims. At the U of Liege.
- Chriso Panchev U of Sunderland Looking at CA models
- Friedmann Pulvermuller Cambridge Psych. Prof. buys into CAs.
- Loekendra Shastri U of Berkeley Computational Neuroscientist
- Murray Shanahan GC 5, Robotics
- Walter Freeman U of Berkeley Neuroscientist, interested in chaotic attractors
- Richard Shillcock's home page U of Edinburg Psychologist
- Jacques Sougne At the U of Liege. Working on spiking neural models. Interested in binding, Hebbian learning and is working on a large (500,000 neuron) model.
- Marius Usher: Birkbeck Psych Lecturer, Recurrent Nets
- Prof. Stefan Wermter, U of Sunderland. Connectionist, and Natural Language Connectionism.
- Thomas Wennekers at Max Plank Leipzig. CA modeller, but now at Plymouth.
- Richard Bowles a PhD at Middlesex student working on CAs.
- Ali Minai dynamic neural models of cognition
- Chris Eliasmith Computational Neuroscience, vector processing
Questions
- To what degree does neuron and synapse death facilitate learning? (Wolffe)
- What's a good mechanism for measuring the presence of CAs?
- Are CAs only important in certain parts of the brain? Is V1 mostly feedforward and thus no reverberation?
- Are there different time courses in different parts of the brain? (Faster closer to input output)
- Is firing rate/pattern the way the brain solves the binding problem? How could you show that it does?
- What do brain (cortical) layers have to do with reverberation?
- How big are CAs? (30,000 neurons from Ramin Assadollahi)
- What are the ramifications of modelling 1 spike at 10ms vs. a series of spikes over that period?
- Are there different types of CAs?
- Can we create (not learn) a net with 10,000 neurons and 100 CAs that has neurons participating in multiple CAs? (eg. each neuron participates in (at least) 2 CAs.)

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