PUBLICATIONS
2009
Sporns O (2009) From complex networks to intelligent
systems. In: Creating Brain-Like
Intelligence, Sendhoff, B et al. (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, pp 15-30, Springer, Berlin.
Honey CJ, Sporns O, Cammoun L, Gigandet X, Thiran JP, Meuli
R, Hagmann P (2009) Predicting human resting-state functional connectivity from
structural connectivity. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. USA 106, 2035-2040.
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/6/2035.full.pdf+html?sid=bc3166cf-dddc-4a40-a539-21698cfe9386
Bullmore, E.T, Sporns, O. (2009) Complex brain networks:
graph-theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10, 186-198.
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v10/n3/pdf/nrn2575.pdf
2008
Pfeifer, R, Lungarella, M, Sporns O (2008) The synthetic
approach to embodied cognition: A primer.
Handbook of Cognitive Science: An Embodied Approach, Calvo, O and
Gomila, A, (eds), pp. 121-137, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Yaeger, L, Griffith, V, Sporns O (2008) Passive and driven
trends in the evolution of complexity. Artificial Life XI. Proceedings of the
Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living
Systems, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hagmann, P., Cammoun, L., Gigandet, X., Meuli, R., Honey,
C.J., Wedeen, V.J., Sporns, O. (2008) Mapping the structural core of human
cerebral cortex. PLoS Biology 6, e159.
http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060159
Honey, CJ, Sporns, O (2008) Dynamical consequences of lesions
in cortical networks. Human Brain
Mapping 29, 802-809.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118902625/PDFSTART
2007
Pfeifer, R., Lungarella, M., Sporns, O., Kuniyoshi, Y.
(2007) On the information theoretic implications of embodiment – principles and
methods. In: Lungarella, M, Iida, F,
Bongard, J., Pfeifer, R, (eds), 50 Years of AI, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence 4850, pp 76-86, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Polani, D., Sporns, O., Lungarella, M. (2007) How
information and embodiment shape intelligent information processing. In: Lungarella, M, Iida, F, Bongard, J.,
Pfeifer, R, (eds), 50 Years of AI, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
4850, pp 99-111, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Kötter, R, Reid, A.T., Krumnack, A., Wanke, E., Sporns, O.
(2007) Shapley ratings in brain networks.
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 1:2 doi: 10.3398/neuro.11/002.2007.
Sporns, O. (2007) Complexity. Scholarpedia, p. 24234.
Sporns, O. (2007) Brain Connectivity. Scholarpedia, p.24184.
Sporns, O., Honey, C.J., and Kötter, R. (2007)
Identification and Classification of Hubs in Brain Networks. PLoS ONE 2, e1049.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2013941&blobtype=pdf
Sporns, O., and Tononi, G. (2007) Structural determinants of
functional brain dynamics. In: Jirsa,
V., and McIntosh, A.R. (eds.) Handbook of Brain Connectivity,
Da Costa, L., and Sporns, O. (2007) Diversity of cortical
states at non-equilibrium simulated by the ferromagnetic Ising model under
Metropolis dynamics. J. Bifurc. Chaos
17, 2387-2398.
Da Costa, L., Sporns, O., Antiqueira, L., das Gracas Volpe
Nunes, M., and Oliveira, O.N. (2007) Correlations between structure and random
walk dynamics in directed complex networks.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 054107.
Honey, C.J., Kötter, R., Breakspear, M., Sporns, O. (2007)
Network structure of cerebral cortex shapes functional connectivity on multiple
time scales. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
104, 10240-10245.
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/24/10240.full.pdf+html?sid=bf90841b-c492-4f18-8ec8-fa8f51f05c82
Sporns, O. (2007) What neuro-robotic models can tell us
about neural and cognitive development.
In: “Neuroconstructivism: Perspectives and Prospects”, pp. 179-204,
Mareschal, D., Sirois, S., Westermann, G. & Johnson, M.H., eds., Oxford
University Press, Oxford, UK.
2006
Lungarella, M., and Sporns, O. (2006) Mapping information flow in sensorimotor networks. PLoS Comp. Biol. 2, 1301-1312.
Sporns, O. and Lungarella, M. 2006. Evolving coordinated behavior
by maximizing information structure. In Rocha, L. et al. eds. Artificial Life
X.
Yaeger, L., and Sporns, O. (2006) Evolution of neural structure and complexity
in a computational ecology. In Rocha, L. et al. eds. Artificial Life X.
Sporns, O. (2006) Small-world connectivity, motif composition, and complexity
of fractal neuronal connections. BioSystems 85, 55-64.
Chadderdon, G., Sporns, O. (2006) A Large-Scale Neurocomputational Model of
Task-Oriented Behavior Selection and Working Memory in Prefrontal Cortex.
J. Cogn. Neurosci. 18, 242-257.
Da F. Costa, L., and Sporns, O. (2006) Hierarchical features of large-scale cortical connectivity. Eur. Phys. J. B 48, 567-573.
2005
Sporns, O., Tononi, and Kötter, R. (2005) The human connectome: A structural description of the human brain. PLoS Computational Biology 1, 245-251.
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Seth, A., Sporns, O. and Krichmar, J. (2005) Neurorobotic models in
neuroscience and neuroinformatics. Neuroinformatics 3, 167-170.
Lungarella, M., Pegors, T., Bulwinkle, D., and Sporns, O. (2005) Methods for
quantifying the informational structure of sensory and motor data.
Neuroinformatics 3, 243-262.
Lungarella, M., Sporns, O. (2005) Information self-structuring: key principle
for learning and development. Proceedings 2005 IEEE Intern. Conf.
Development and Learning, pp. 25-30.
Sporns, O. (2005) Complex neural networks as future tools in imagery
analysis. In: Emerging Technologies and Applications for Imagery Pattern
Recognition, Mericsko, R., ed., pp. 67-72, IEEE Computer Society,
Sporns, O. (2005) Principles and methods in the analysis of
brain networks. In: Reeke, G.N., Poznanski, R.R., Lindsay, K.A.,
Sporns, O.
(2005) Toward neural robotics: From synthetic models to neuromimetic
implementations. In: Reeke, G.N., Poznanski, R.R., Lindsay, K.A.,
Reeke, G.N., Poznanski, R.R., Lindsay, K.A.,
2004
Sporns, O., and Kötter, R. (2004) Motifs in brain
networks. PLoS Biology 2, 1910-1918.
Sporns, O., Chialvo, D., Kaiser, M., and Hilgetag, C.C. (2004) Organization,
development and function of complex brain networks. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences 8, 418-425.
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Alexander, W.H., and Sporns, O. (2004) Interactions of environment, behavior
and synaptic patterns in a neuro-robotic model. Proceedings SAB 2004.
Sporns, O., and Pegors, T.K. (2004) Information-theoretical aspects of embodied artificial intelligence. In: Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Iida, F., Pfeifer, R., Steels, L., and Kuniyoshi, Y. (eds.), pp. 74-85, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Sporns, O., and Zwi, J. (2004) The small world of the cerebral cortex. Neuroinformatics 2, 145-162.
Sporns, O. (2004) Complex neural dynamics. In: Coordination Dynamics: Issues
and Trends, Jirsa, V.K. and Kelso, J.A.S., (eds.), pp. 197-215,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
2003
Brenner, C.A., Sporns, O., Lysaker, P.H., and O’Donnell, B.F. (2003) EEG synchronization to modulated auditory tones in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and schizotypal personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 160, 2238-2240.
Tononi, G.,
and Sporns, O. (2003) Measuring information integration. BMC Neuroscience 4,
31.
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Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H. (2003) Neuromodulation in a learning robot: interactions
between neural plasticity and behavior. Proceedings IJCNN 2003, 2789-2794.
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2002
Sporns, O.
(2002) Network analysis, complexity and brain function. Complexity 8, 56-60.
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Sporns, O. (2002) Embodied Cognition. In: MIT Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, M. Arbib, Ed., pp. 395-398, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Sporns, O.
(2002) Graph theory methods for the analysis of neural connectivity patterns.
Kötter, R. (ed.) Neuroscience Databases. A Practical Guide, pp. 171-186,
Klüwer, Boston, MA.
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Sporns, O.,
Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M. (2002) Theoretical neuroanatomy and the
connectivity of the cerebral cortex. Behavioural Brain Research 135, 69-74.
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Sporns, O.,
and Alexander, W.H. (2002) Neuromodulation and plasticity in an autonomous
robot. Neural Networks 15, 761-774.
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Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H. (2002) Dopamine, reward conditioning, and robot behavior. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning, pp. 265-270, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA.
Alexander, W.H., and Sporns, O. (2002) Timed delivery of reward signals in an autonomous robot. In: Animals to Animats 7: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pp. 195-204, Hallam, B., Floreano, D., Hallam, J., Hayes, G. and Meyer, J.-A. (Editors), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Hilgetag, C.C., Kötter, R., Stephan, K.E. and Sporns, O. (2002) Computational methods for the analysis of brain connectivity. In: Giorgio Ascoli (ed.) Computational Neuroanatomy: Principles and Methods, pp. 295-335, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.
Sporns, O., and Tononi, G. (2002) Classes of network connectivity and dynamics. Complexity 7, 28-38.
2001
Sporns, O. (2001) Neural dynamics and cognitive synthesis. Theoria et Historia Scientiarium 7:293-305.
Almassy, N., and Sporns, O. (2001) Perceptual invariance and categorization in an embodied model of the visual system. In Biorobotics. Methods and Applications, Webb, B., and Consi, T.R., eds., pp.123-143, AAAI Press/MIT Press, Menlo Park, CA.
Weng, J.,
McClelland, J., Pentland, A., Sporns, O., Stockman, I., Sur, M., Thelen, E.
(2001) Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. Science 291,
599-600.
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2000
Sporns, O., Almassy, N., and Edelman, G.M. (2000) Plasticity in value systems and its role in adaptive behavior. Adaptive Behavior 8, 129-148.
Krichmar, J.L.; Snook, J.A.; Edelman, G.M.; Sporns, O. (2000) Experience-dependent perceptual categorization in a behaving real-world device. In: Animals to Animats 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Meyer, J.A.; Berthoz, A.; Floreano, D.; Roitblat, H.; Wilson, S.W., (Editors), MIT Press: Cambridge, MA. p. 41-50.
Sporns, O.,
Tononi, G., and Edelman, G. (2000) Connectivity and complexity: the
relationship between neuroanatomy and brain dynamics. Neural Networks 13,
909-922.
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Sporns, O. (2000) Synthetic approaches to cognitive neuroscience. Brain and Behavioral Sciences 23, 548-549.
Sporns, O.,
Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M. (2000) Theoretical neuroanatomy: Relating
anatomical and functional connectivity in graphs and cortical connection
matrices. Cerebral Cortex 10, 127-141.
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1999 and earlier
Tononi, G.,
Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1999) Measures of degeneracy and redundancy in
biological networks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 3257-3262.
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Bradley, J., and Sporns, O. (1999) BDNF-dependent enhancement of exocytosis in cultured cortical neurons requires translation but not transcription. Brain Research 815, 140-149.
Tononi, G., Edelman, G.M., and Sporns, O. (1998) Complexity and coherency: Integrating information in the brain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2, 474-484.
Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1998) Bernstein’s dynamic view of the brain: The current problems of modern neurophysiology (1945) Motor Control 2, 283-305.
Edelman, G.M., Sporns, O., and Tononi, G. (1998) Reductionism and selection. In: Mazur, G.O. (Ed.) Twenty Year Commemoration to the Life of A.R. Luria, Semenenko Foundation, Paris.
Almassy, N., and Sporns, O. (1998) Role of behavior in the development of complex neuronal properties. Proceedings SAB98, pp. 312-320, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Almassy,
N., Edelman, G.M., and Sporns, O. (1998) Behavioral constraints in the
development of neuronal properties: A cortical model embedded in a real world
device. Cerebral Cortex 8, 346-361.
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Sporns, O. (1998) Biological variability and brain function. In: Consciousness and Human Identity, pp. 38-56, ed. J. Cornwell, Oxford University Press.
Sporns, O. (1997) Deconstructing neural constructivism. Brain Behav. Sci. 20, 576-577.
Sporns, O., and Jenkinson, S. (1997) Potassium ion- and nitric oxide-induced exocytosis from populations of hippocampal synapses during synaptic maturation in vitro. Neuroscience 80, 1057-1073.
Sporns, O. (1997) Variation and selection in neural function. Trends Neurosci. 20, 291.
Tononi, G.,
Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1996) A complexity measure for selective
matching of signals by the brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 3422-3427.
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Verschure, P.F.M.J., Wray, J., Sporns, O., Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M. (1995) Multilevel analysis of a behaving real world artifact: An illustration of synthetic neural modeling. Robotics and Autonomous Systems 16, 247-265.
Friston, K.J., Tononi, G., Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1995) Characterizing the complexity of neuronal interactions. Human Brain Mapping 3, 302-314.
Krushel, L.A., Sporns, O., Cunningham, B.A., Crossin, K.L., and Edelman, G.M. (1995) The neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) inhibits astrocyte proliferation after injury to different regions of the adult rat brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 4323-4327.
Sporns, O., G.M. Edelman and K.L. Crossin (1995) The neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) inhibits proliferation in primary cultures of rat astrocytes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92, 542-546.
Sporns, O. (1995) Neural Models of Perception and Behavior. 1993 Lectures in Complex Systems, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lec. Vol X, Eds. D. Stein and L. Nadel, pp. 1-56, Addison-Wesley.
Sporns, O., G. Tononi, and G.M. Edelman (1994) Reentry and dynamical interactions of cortical networks. In Models of Neural Networks II eds. E. Domany, J.L. van Hemmen, and K. Schulten, pp. 315-341, Springer-Verlag, New York etc.
Sporns, O. (1994) Selectional and instructional ideas in neuroscience. Int. Rev. Neurosci. 37:3-26.
Alber, R., Sporns, O., Weikert, T., Willbold, E., and Layer, P.G. (1994) Cholinesterases and peanut agglutinin binding related to cell proliferation and axonal growth in embryonic chick limbs. Anat. Embryol. 190, 429-438.
Horwitz, B., and Sporns, O. (1994) Neural Modeling and Functional Neuroimaging. Human Brain Mapping 1, 269-283.
Sporns, O., Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M. (1994) Neural models of cortical integration. In Functional Neuroimaging: Technical Foundations, R.W. Thatcher, M. Hallett, T. Zeffiro, E.R. John, and M. Huerta (Eds.), pp. 1-7, Academic Press, San Diego.
Tononi, G.,
Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1994) A measure for brain complexity: Relating
functional segregation and integration in the nervous system. Proc. Natl. Acad.
Sci. USA 91, 5033-5037.
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Friston, K.J., Tononi, G., Reeke, G.N., Jr., Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1994) Value-dependent selection in the brain: Simulation in a synthetic neural model. Neuroscience, 59, 229-243.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., Sporns, O., Gall, W.E., Tononi, G. and Edelman, G.M. (1994) A biologically based synthetic nervous system for a real-world device. In Neural Networks for Speech and Vision, R.J. Mannone (Ed.), pp. 457-473, Chapman & Hall, London etc.
Sporns, O., and G.M. Edelman (1993) Solving Bernstein's problem: A proposal for the development of coordinated movement by selection. Child Development 64, 960-981.
Sporns, O., G. Tononi, and G.M. Edelman (1993) Correlated neuronal activity and behavior. In ICANN'93 Proccedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Stan Gielen and Bert Kappen (Eds.), pp. 125-130, Springer-Verlag, London etc.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., and Sporns, O. (1993) Behaviorally based modeling and computational approaches to neuroscience. Ann. Rev. Neuroscience 16, 597-623.
Tononi, G, Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1992) Reentry and the problem of integrating multiple cortical areas: Simulation of dynamic integration in the visual system. Cerebral Cortex 2, 310-335.
Edelman, G.M., Reeke, G.N. Jr., Gall, W.E., Tononi, G., Williams, D., and Sporns, O. (1992) Synthetic neural modeling applied to a real-world artifact. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89, 7267-7271.
Tononi, G., Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1992) The problem of neural integration: Induced rhythms and short-term correlations. In Induced Rhythms in the Brain eds. E. Basar and T.H. Bullock, pp. 367-395, Boston:Birkhäuser.
Sporns, O., Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M. (1991) Modeling perceptual grouping and figure-ground segregation by means of active reentrant circuits. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 129-133.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., and Sporns, O. (1991) Neural Darwinism and selective recognition automata: How selection shapes perceptual categories. In Self-Organization, Emerging Properties, and Learning ed. A. Babloyantz (Plenum Press, New York), pp. 199-218.
Sporns, O., G. Tononi, and G.M. Edelman (1991) Dynamic interactions of neuronal groups and the problem of cortical integration. In Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuronal Networks ed. H.G. Schuster (VCH, Weinheim), pp. 205-240.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1990) Synthetic neural modeling: The "Darwin" series of recognition automata. Proc. IEEE 78, 1498-1530.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., Finkel, L.H., Sporns, O. and Edelman, G.M. (1990) Synthetic neural modeling: A multilevel approach to the analysis of brain complexity. In Signal and Sense: Local and Global Order in Perceptual Maps eds. Edelman, G.M., Gall, W.E. & Cowan, W.M. (Wiley, New York), pp. 607-707.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., and Sporns, O. (1990) Selectionist models of perceptual and motor systems and implications for functionalist theories of brain function. Physica D 42, 347-364.
Sporns, O., J.A. Gally, G.N. Reeke, Jr., and G.M. Edelman (1989) Reentrant signaling among simulated neuronal groups leads to coherency in their oscillatory activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 7265-7269.
Reeke, G.N., Jr., Sporns, O., and Edelman, G.M. (1989) Synthetic neural modelling: Comparisons of population and connectionist approaches. In Connectionism in Perspective, R. Pfeiffer, Z. Schreter, F. Fogelman-Soulié, L. Steels (eds.), pp. 113-139, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Layer, P.G., and Sporns, O. (1987) Spatiotemporal relationship of embryonic cholinesterases with cell proliferation in chicken brain and eye. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 284-288.
Layer, P.G., Alber, R. and Sporns, O. (1987) Quantitative development and molecular forms of Acetyl- and Butyrylcholinesterase during morphogenesis and synaptogenesis of chick brain and retina. J. Neurochem. 49, 175-182.
Sporns, O., S. Roth, and F. F. Seelig (1987) Chaotic dynamics of two coupled biochemical oscillators. Physica D 26, 215-224.
Sporns, O., and F.F. Seelig (1986) Turing structures in an enzyme-induction system with gap junction-mediated non-linear diffusion. BioSystems 19, 237-245.
Sporns, O., and F.F. Seelig (1986) Oscillations in theoretical models of induction. BioSystems 19, 83-89.