People
Affiliated Faculty
Stephen Grossberg Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Psychology
Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Director, Center for Adaptive Systems
Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Primary appointment, CNS
Ph.D., Mathematics, Rockefeller University
CV: Link to Curriculum Vitae
phone: (617) 353-7858
fax: (617) 353-7755
email: steve@bu.edu
website: www.cns.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg
office hours: by appointment
Research Interests
Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications.
Current Research
My colleagues and I have pioneered and developed a number of the fundamental principles, mechanisms, and architectures that form the foundation for contemporary neural network research, particularly those which enable individuals to adapt successfully in real-time to unexpected environmental changes. Such models have been used both to analyse and predict interdisciplinary data about mind and brain, and to suggest novel architectures for technological applications. Current research ranges from perception through cognition and cognitive-emotional interactions to sensory-motor planning and control, in both normal individuals and mental patients. Recent models quantitatively link the neurophysiologically recorded dynamics of neurons, in anatomically validated networks, to the behaviors that their interactions control. Applications are made as spinoffs of these novel biological designs.
Selected Recent Publications
Grossberg, S., Swaminathan, G. "A laminar cortical model for 3D perception of slanted and curved surfaces and of 2D images: development, attention and bistability" Vision Research 44: 1147-1187 (2004)
Grossberg , S., Govindarajan, K.K., Wyse, L.L., Cohen, M.A. "ARTSTREAM: A neural network model of auditory scene analysis and source segregation" Neural Networks 17: 511-536 (2004)
Brown, J.W., Bullock, D., Grossberg, S. "How laminar frontal cortex and basal ganglia circuits interact to control planned and reactive saccades" Neural Networks 17: 471-510 (2004)
Pack, C., Grossberg, S., Mingolla, E. "A neural model of smooth pursuit control and motion perception by cortical area MST" Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 13: 102-120 (2003)
Raizada, R., Grossberg, S. "Towards a Theory of the Laminar Architecture of Cerebral Cortex: Computational Clues from the Visual System" Cerebral Cortex 13: 100-113 (2003)
Grossberg, S. "Resonant neural dynamics of speech perception" Journal of Phonetics 31: 423-445 (2003)
