I develop brain models of vision and visual object recognition; audition, speech, and language; development; attentive learning and memory; cognitive information processing; reinforcement learning and motivation; cognitive-emotional interactions; navigation; sensory-motor control and robotics; and mental disorders. These models involve many parts of the brain, ranging from perception to action, and multiple levels of brain organization, ranging from individual spikes and their synchronization to cognition. I also carry out analyses of the mathematical dynamics of neural systems, and transfer biological neural models to applications in neuromorphic engineering and technology.
My Interests and Theoretical Method
The Grossberg lectures were given on May 19-22, 2004, at the Eighth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS'04) on the topic:
LINKING MIND TO BRAIN: A tutorial Lecture Series
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07) plenary talk
Reflections on the founding of INNS and IJCNN. Featured story at IJCNN'07
Link to MBI 2002 Workshop lecture
Anticipatory brain dynamics in perception, cognition, and action (PowerPoint - CNS Department only)
Stephen Grossberg and Ennio Mingolla. How the Brain Sees: Fundamentals and Recent Progress in Modeling Vision. Presentation to the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society on May 6, 2005, Sarasota, Florida.
Grossberg CELEST Lectures Spring 2006 (available to CNS & CELEST community only)
Most papers here are in PDF or postscript format (compressed with the gzip utility). If you have problems dealing with these formats, or if you wish to obtain a copy of another technical report not available on-line, you may send a request by e-mail to amos@cns.bu.edu to receive a copy by regular mail.
Huang, T.-R., & Grossberg, S. (2010). Cortical dynamics of contextually-cued attentive visual learning and search: Spatial and object evidence accumulation. Psychological Review, in press. Available in PDF (HuangGrossberg2010PR.pdf) (8,735 Kb).
Leveille, J., Versace, M., and Grossberg, S. (2010). Running as fast as it can: How spiking dynamics form object groupings in the laminar circuits of visual cortex. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, in press. (LevVerGroJOCN10TR.pdf) (1,983 Kb).
Pilly, P., Grossberg, S., & Seitz. A. (2010). Low-level sensory plasticity during task-irrelevant perceptual learning: Evidence from conventional and double training procedures. Vision Research, Special Issue on Perceptual Learning, 50, 424-432. Available in PDF (PillyGroSeitzVR2009.pdf)(834 Kb).
Seitz, A., Protopapas, A., Tsushima, Y., Vlahou, E., Gori, S., Grossberg, S., and Watanabe, T. (2010). Unattended exposure to components of speech sounds yields same benefits as explicit auditory training. Cognition, in press. (SeitzetalCog2010.pdf) (3,358 Kb).
Browning, A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, M. (2009). A neural model of how the brain computes heading from optic flow in realistic scenes. Cognitive Psychology, 59, 320-356. Available in PDF (BroGroMin2009.pdf) (1,450 Kb).
Browning, A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, M. (2009). Cortical dynamics of navigation and steering in natural scenes: Motion-based object segmentation, heading, and obstacle avoidance. Neural Networks, 22, 1383-1398. Available in PDF (BroGroMinNN2009.pdf) (803 Kb).
Elder, D., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, M. (2009). A neural model of visually guided steering, obstacle avoidance, and route selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 35, 1501-1531. Available in PDF (EldGroMin2009.pdf) (1,494 Kb).
Fang, L. and Grossberg, S. (2009) From stereogram to surface: How the brain sees the world in depth. Spatial Vision, 22, 45-82, special issue "Unresolved Questions in Stereopsis". Available in PDF (FanGro2007FromStereoSV.pdf) (831Kb)
Fazl, A., Grossberg, S., and Mingolla, E. (2009). View-invariant object category learning, recognition, and search: How spatial and object attention are coordinated using surface-based attentional shrouds. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 1-48. Available in PDF (FazGroMin2008.pdf) (1,130 Kb).
Grossberg, S. (2009). Beta oscillations and hippocampal place cell learning during exploration of novel environments. Hippocampus, 19, 881-885. Available in PDF (GrosHIP09.pdf) (141 Kb).
Grossberg, S., & Huang, T.-R. (2009). ARTSCENE: A neural system for natural scene classification. Journal of Vision, 9, 1-19, http://journalofvision.org/9/4/6/, doi:10.1167/ 9.4.6. Available in PDF (GroHuang2009JOV.pdf) (7,190 Kb).
Srihasam, K., Bullock, D., and Grossberg, S. (2009). Target selection by frontal cortex during coordinated saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1611-1627. Available in PDF (SriBulGro2009JOCN.pdf) (1,019 Kb).
Ajemian, R., Green, A., Bullock, D., Sergio, L., Kalaska, J., and Grossberg, S. (2008). Assessing the function of motor cortex: Single-neuron models of how neural response is modulated by limb biomechanics. Neuron, 58, 414-428. Available in PDF (AjeGreBulSerKalGro2008.pdf) (1024 Kb).
Ames, H. and Grossberg, S. (2008). Speaker normalization using cortical strip maps: A neural model for steady state vowel categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124, 3918-3936. Available in PDF (AmesGros2008.pdf) (760 Kb).
Dranias, M., Grossberg, S., and Bullock, D. (2008). Dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic value systems in conditioning and outcome-specific revaluation. Brain Research, 1238, 239-287. Available in PDF (DraGroBulBR2008.pdf) (2374 Kb).
Gnadt, W. and Grossberg, S. (2008) SOVEREIGN: An autonomous neural system for incrementally learning planned action sequences to navigate towards a rewarded goal.Neural Networks, 21, 699-758. Available in PDF (GnaGroSovereign2007.pdf)(14Mb) Video of a run in the virtual reality maze
Grossberg, S. (2008). The art of seeing and painting.Spatial Vision, 21(3-5), 463-486. Available in PDF (Gro2006ArtofSeeingandPaintingSV.pdf) (1110 Kb).
Grossberg, S. and Pearson, L. (2008). Laminar cortical dynamics of cognitive and motor working memory, sequence learning and performance: Toward a unified theory of how the cerebral cortex works.Psychological Review, 115, 677-732 . Available in PDF (GroPea2008.pdf) (945 Kb), Supplementary material available in PDF (GroPeaSupMat.pdf) (111 Kb).
Grossberg, S. and Pilly, P. (2008). Temporal dynamics of decision-making during motion perception in the visual cortex. Vision Research, 48, 1345-1373. Available in PDF (GroPilly2008DecisionMakingVR.pdf) (10,885 Kb).
Grossberg, S. and Versace, M. (2008). Spikes, synchrony, and attentive learning by laminar thalamocortical circuits. Brain Research, 1218, 278-312. Available in PDF (GroVer2008BR.pdf) (2,300Kb).
Grossberg, S., Yazdanbakhsh, A., Cao, Y., and Swaminathan, G. (2008). How does binocular rivalry emerge from cortical mechanisms of 3-D vision? Vision Research, 48, 2232-2250. Available in PDF (GroYazCaoSwaVR2008.pdf) (1,603 Kb).
Grossberg, S. (2007). Form Perception. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, U. Windhorst, M.D. Binder and N. Hirokawa (Eds.) Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. Available in PDF (GrossbergFormPerception2007.pdf)(530 Kb).
2003
2002
Grossberg, S. (1978). Communication, Memory, and Development. In R. Rosen and F. Snell (Eds.), Progress in theoretical biology, Volume 5. New York: Academic Press, pp. 183-232. Available in PDF (Gro1978Communication.pdf) (1,313Kb).
Grossberg, S. (1978). A theory of human memory: Self-organization and performance of sensory-motor codes, maps, and plans. In R. Rosen and F. Snell (Eds.), Progress in theoretical biology, Volume 5. New York: Academic Press, pp. 233-374. Available in PDF (Gro1978HumanMemory.pdf)(25,410Kb).
neural networks, computational neuroscience, connectionism, connectionist cognitive science, neuromorphic engineering, vision, audition, speech, learning, cognition, emotion, cognitive-emotional interactions, sensory-motor control, eye movements, arm movements, walking and running, handwriting, decision making under risk, sensory-motor control, eye movements, arm movements, handwriting, imitation, navigation, robotics, self-organization, development, perceptual, grouping, 3D vision, motion perception, classification, categorization, figure-ground perception, Adaptive Resonance Theory, ART, competitive learning, self-organizing maps, surface perception, filling-in, visual cortex, auditory cortex, amygdala, basal ganglia, hippocampus, frontal cortex, parietal cortex, cerebellum, superior colliculus, reticular formation, spinal cord, biological rhythms, mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism
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