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| Rodney J DouglasSummaryAffiliation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Country: Switzerland Publications
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Mapping the matrix: the ways of neocortexRodney J Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH ETH, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Neuron 56:226-38. 2007..We conclude that the structure and function of cortex honors two major computational principles: "just-enough" and "just-in-time."..
Behavioral architecture of the cortical sheetRodney J Douglas
Institute for Neuroinformatics, UZH ETHZ, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland Electronic address
Curr Biol 22:R1033-8. 2012..In mammals, the exuberant expansion of this forebrain is dominated by the growth of their cortex - the two-dimensional sheet that is the major source of their intelligent behavior, especially for primates...- Neuronal circuits of the neocortexRodney J Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University ETH Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
Annu Rev Neurosci 27:419-51. 2004.... - A quantitative map of the circuit of cat primary visual cortexTom Binzegger
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurosci 24:8441-53. 2004.... - Stereotypical bouton clustering of individual neurons in cat primary visual cortexTom Binzegger
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurosci 27:12242-54. 2007..The lateral spread of clustered axons may thus support a spoke-like network architecture that routes signals to localized sites, thereby reducing signal correlation and redundancy... - Axons in cat visual cortex are topologically self-similarTom Binzegger
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 15:152-65. 2005..We show that a simple random branching model (Galton-Watson process) predicts with reasonable accuracy the bifurcation ratio, length ratio and collateral length distribution of the axonal arbors... - The butterfly and the loomRodney J Douglas
Insitute of Neuroinformatics, UniZ ETH, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Brain Res Rev 55:314-28. 2007..Both men wrote poetically about their discoveries and so provided neuroscience with a rich vocabulary, vivid and memorable images, and concepts that remain part of the currency of 21st century neuroscience... 
Embedding of cortical representations by the superficial patch systemDylan Richard Muir
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 21:2244-60. 2011..We conclude that the superficial patch system is the physical encoding of self-consistent cortical states, and that a set of concurrently labeled patches participate in a network of mutually consistent representations of cortical input...- From neural arbors to daisiesDylan R Muir
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 21:1118-33. 2011..Information shared across the population of patch-projecting neurons is required for the patch system to reach its adult state... - TrakEM2 software for neural circuit reconstructionAlbert Cardona
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 7:e38011. 2012..The output is a neural circuit of 3d arbors and synapses, encoded in NeuroML and other formats, ready for analysis... - Self-correction mechanism for path integration in a modular navigation system on the basis of an egocentric spatial mapRegina Mudra
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Neural Netw 16:1373-88. 2003..The robot's position is continuously compared against its visual input, and mismatches between the visually perceived goal position and its spatial representation are corrected... - The self-construction and -repair of a foraging organism by explicitly specified development from a single cellFabian Roth
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Artif Life 13:347-68. 2007..The developed structure continuously feeds back to the development process, and so the system is also capable of self-repair... - What's black and white about the grey matter?Rodney J Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics, UZH ETH, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Neuroinformatics 9:167-79. 2011..Without their equivalent we will inevitably struggle to make sense of our 21st century observations within the 19th and 20th century conceptual framework we have inherited... - Environmentally mediated synergy between perception and behaviour in mobile robotsPaul F M J Verschure
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Nature 425:620-4. 2003..This external, environmentally mediated feedback matches the perceptual system to the emerging behavioural structure, so that the behaviour is stabilized... - Recurrent neuronal circuits in the neocortexRodney J Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland
Curr Biol 17:R496-500. 2007 - Chance or design? Some specific considerations concerning synaptic boutons in cat visual cortexJohn C Anderson
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
J Neurocytol 31:211-29. 2002..Quite simple rules can explain these distributions and the connections between the different classes of neurons... - Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space 'Ada'Kynan Eng
Institute of Neuroinformatics, University ETHZurich, Switzerland
Rev Neurosci 14:145-80. 2003..She' received 553,700 visitors over 5 months during the Swiss Expo.02 in 2002. In this paper we present the broad motivations, design and technologies behind Ada, and discuss the construction and analysis of the system... - Neuromorphic walking gait controlSusanne Still
Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
IEEE Trans Neural Netw 17:496-508. 2006..It provides a compact and low power solution for walking gait control in robots... - Fast oscillations trigger bursts of action potentials in neocortical neurons in vitro: a quasi-white-noise analysis studyKaspar A Schindler
University Hospital Zurich, Department of Epileptology and EEG, Frauenklinikstrasse 26, Zurich, Switzerland
Brain Res 1110:201-10. 2006.... - Attentional recruitment of inter-areal recurrent networks for selective gain controlRichard H R Hahnloser
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Neural Comput 14:1669-89. 2002..The computational implications of attentional recruitment are that cortical circuits can behave as winner-take-all mechanisms of variable strength and can achieve close to optimal signal discrimination in the presence of external noise...