Olaf Sporns
Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Neuroscience
Office: Psychology 367
TEL: 855-2772
Email: osporns@indiana.edu
Education
- 1990 - Ph.D., Rockefeller University
Research Interests
- Computational and cognitive neuroscience
- Functional integration and binding in the cortex
- Neural models of perception and action
- Network structure and dynamics
- Applications of information theory to the brain
- Embodied cognitive science
- Robotics
Representative Publications
- Chadderdon G. and Sporns, O. (2005 in press) A large-scale neurocomputational model of task-oriented behavior selection and working memory in prefrontal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Sporns, O., Tononi and Kotter, R. (2005) The human connectome: A structural description of the human brain. PLoS Computational Biology, 1(4):e42.
- Reeke, G.N., Poznanski, R.R., Lindsay, K.A., Rosenberg, J.R. and Sporns, O. (2005) Modeling in the Neurosciences. From Biological Systems to Neuromimetic Robotics. 2nd edition, CRS Press, London.
- Sporns, O. and Kotter, 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 rain networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8:418-425.
- Alexander, W.H. and Sporns, O. (2003) An embodied model of learning, plasticity and reward. Adaptive Behavior, 10:141-159.
