Neurocomputing Project 4: (due Thuesday November 23 in class)

This final project will be the major project for CSCI6508. You can choose between one of the following topics:

1. Biologically realistic SOMs

Lead paper: D. J. Willshaw and C. Von Der Malsburg, How Patterned Neural Connections Can Be Set Up by Self-Organization, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 194, No. 1117. (Nov. 12, 1976), pp. 431-445.

2. Cortico-Hippocampal interactions

Lead Paper: Szabolcs Káli, Peter Dayan Off-line replay maintains declarative memories in a model of hippocampal-neocortical interactions, Nature Neuroscience 7, 286 - 294 ( 01 Mar 2004 ) Article

3. Interacting recurrent networks

Lead Paper: Rolls ET and Stringer SM., A model of the interaction between mood and memory.Network. 2001 May;12(2):89-109.

The project should be written up following the instructions for IJCNN’05: http://faculty.uwb.edu/ijcnn05/author-instructions.html