Tutorials

- What is a neuron, anyway? A post on neurdon.com, in collaboration with Robert Kozma, that describes a very basic neuron spiking neuron model and provides MATLAB code for download [2009]

- The CNS Tech Lab software repository. Provides a number of software for download, ranging from machine vision, to machine learning, to neural modeling, completed of MATLAB source code and documentation. [2009]

Papers

- Running as fast as it can: how spikes form object groupings in the laminar circuits of visual cortex? Leveille, J., Versace, M., Grossberg, S. In press, Journal of Computational Neuroscience. [2009] Download the PDF version.

- Spikes, synchrony, and attentive learning by laminar thalamocortical circuits. Grossberg, S., and Versace, M. Brain Research, 1218, 278 – 312. Download the PDF version. [2008]

- A model of STDP based on spatially and temporally local information: Derivation and combination with gated decay. Gorchetchnikov A, Versace M, and Hasselmo M. Neural Networks, 2005 Jun-Jul;18(5-6):458-66. Download the PDF version. [2005]

- Spatially and Temporally Local Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Rule. Gorchetchnikov, Versace and Hasselmo. Oral presentation and proceedings, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2005). Download the PDF version. [2005]

Abstracts

- How to build a brain on a nanochip. Versace, M., Gorchetichnikov, A., Chandler, B., Kozma, R.T., Ames, H.M., and Mingolla, E. NSF CELEST site visit, Boston, MA, March 2010. [2010]

- How do object reference frames and motion vector decomposition emerge in laminar cortical circuits? Leveille, J., Versace, M., Grossberg, S. (2010). ICCNS 2010, Boston, MA, USA. [2010] See abstract.

- From motion to object: From motion to object: How Visual Cortex Does Motion Vector Decomposition to Create Object-Centered Reference Frames? Leveille, J., Versace, M., Grossberg, S. (2010). Vision Science Society (VSS 2010), Naples, USA. [2010]

- How do object reference frames and motion vector decompositions emerge from multiple moving targets? Jasmin Leveille, Massimiliano Versace, Stephen Grossberg. ECVP 2009, Germany [2009] See abstract.

- How can computational neuroscience benefit real world technological
applications. Heather Ames, Massimiliano Versace, and Anatoli Gorchetchnikov.  iSLC 2009, Seattle, WA, USA [2009]

- After-hyperpolarization Currents Control Sigmoid Transfer Functions in a Spiking Cortical Model. Jesse Palma, Massimiliano Versace and Stephen Grossberg.  ICCNS 2009, Boston, MA, USA [2009] See abstract.

- Perceptual grouping in a spiking laminar cortical model. Jasmin Leveille, Stephen Grossberg, Ennio Mingolla, and Massimiliano Versace.  VSS 2008, Naples, FL, USA [2008]

- Spiking dynamics of perceptual grouping in the laminar circuits of visual cortex. Jasmin Leveille, Stephen Grossberg, Ennio Mingolla, and Massimiliano Versace.  See abstract. ICCNS 2008, Boston, MA, USA [2008]

- Spikes, synchrony and attentive learning by thalamocortical circuits . Versace M, and Grossberg, S. CCNC, San Diego, CA, November 2007, Poster. [2007]

- Spikes, synchrony and attentive learning by thalamocortical circuits . Versace M, and Grossberg, S. COBENN, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, October 2007, Poster. [2007]

- From spikes to interareal synchrony: how attentive matching and resonance control learning and information processing by laminar thalamocortical circuits. Versace, M. and Grossberg, S. Society for Neuroscience Abstract, Atlanta, GA., Program No. 65.11/Z12. [2006]

- Learning and Cognitive Information Processing in Thalamocortical Assemblies: Unifying Spikes, Synchronous Oscillations, and Resonance. Versace M, and Grossberg, S. ICCNS , May 2006, Oral Presentation. See abstract. [2006]

- From Spikes to Objects: How Multiple Levels of Thalamic and Cortical Interactions Control Visual Learning, Attenion and Recognition. Versace M, Grossberg, VSS, Poster, May 2006. See abstract. [2006]

- Temporal binding and resonance in thalamocortical assemblies: learning and cognitive information processing in a spiking neuron model . Versace M, Grossberg, S. Society for Neuroscience, Poster, October 2005. See abstract. [2005]

PhD dissertation and presentations

- Plastic synapses in a stable brain. Versace, M. (2010) Invited talk, Qualcomm, CA, USA. [2010] Link to the talk.

- Laminar circuits for synchronous thalamocortical information processing and attentive stable learning by spiking neurons. PhD Thesis, Boston University. [2007]

Code

- SMART networks and stimuli. Supplementary material to Brain Research, submitted in December 2007 [2007]