Publications
The eCortex team has published extensively in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. Below is a representative sample of our work. For publications tied directly to our typical research areas, see that section of this site.
We welcome inquiries about related research topics that fit with our expertise and interests.
We welcome inquiries about related research topics that fit with our expertise and interests.
- Integrated Biologically-Based Cognitive Architecture
- Our thinking on how brain areas work together to perform complex tasks. Much of this work is in collaboration with Christian Lebiere at Carnegie Mellon University, and incorporates the ACT-R high-level cognitive architecture.
- Working Memory and Cognitive Control in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia
- Our research incorporates Dr. O'Reilly's groundbreaking models of how working memory interacts with the dopamine system to accomplish goal-directed cognition.
- Learning and Memory in the Hippocampus and Neocortex
- Dr. O'Reilly's early model of the hippocampus, and how it interacts with cortical learning, has been supported by a good deal of empirical research in the 25 years since its initial formulation.
- Basic Mechanisms of Cortical Function
- While the cortex is complex, we believe that the basic principles by which it works can be encapsulated in reasonably simple theories and models. These theories are the basis of our models of perception.
- Visual Processing/Object Recognition/Prosopagnosia
- Our Leabra Vision model is our principle proof-of-concept of our theories of cortical learning.
- The Leabra Architecture: Specialization Without Modularity
- Why the brain is not really an assembly of modules despite having localized functions.
- SAL - An Explicitly Pluralistic Cognitive Architecture
- Our epistemological approach to understanding phenomena at different levels of description, and an application in conceptually unifying the Leabra and ACT-R cognitive architectures. This synthesis of theories is the basis of our work on complex cognition.
For a full listing of Dr. O'Reilly's publications, visit http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/pubs-online.html
