James A. Bednar
Postdoctoral Alumni, Ph.D. Alumni, Masters Alumni, Undergraduate Alumni
Jim's work focuses on computational modeling of cortical maps. He did his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral dissertations with the NNRG, and was a postdoc here for a couple of years before joining the faculty at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a co-author of the "Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex" book, and the lead author of the Topographica software package for simulating cortical maps. He was also a co-advisor for Judah De Paula's dissertation.
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Developing Complex Systems Using Evolved Pattern Generators Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation:181-198, 2007. 2007

Joint Maps for Orientation, Eye, and Direction Preference in a Self-Organizing Model of V1 James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen Neurocomputing, 69:1272--1276, 2006. 2006

Prenatal Development of Ocular Dominance and Orientation Maps in a Self-Organizing Model of V1 Stefanie Jegelka, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen Neurocomputing, 69:1291--1296, 2006. 2006

Establishing an Appropriate Learning Bias Through Development Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2006),... 2006

Constructing Visual Function Through Prenatal and Postnatal Learning James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Denis Mareschal and Mark H. Johnson and Sylvain Sirois and Michael Spratling and Michael S. C. Th... 2005

Self-organization of color opponent receptive fields and laterally connected orientation maps James A. Bednar, Judah B. De Paula, and Risto Miikkulainen Neurocomputing, 65--66:69-76, 2005. 2005

Constructing Good Learners Using Evolved Pattern Generators Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen In H.-G. Beyer and others, editors, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Confe... 2005

Prenatal and Postnatal Development of Laterally Connected Orientation Maps James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2004, 58-60, 985-992, 2004. 2004

Modeling Cortical Maps with Topographica James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Judah De Paula, Risto Miikkulainen, Jefferson Provost, and Tal Tvers... In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2004, 1129-1135, 2004. 2004

Learning Innate Face Preferences James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen Neural Computation, 15(7):1525-1557, 2003. 2003

The Role of Internally Generated Neural Activity in Newborn and Infant Face Preferences James A. Bednar In Olivier Pascalis and Alan Slater, editors, Face Perception in Infancy and Early Childhood,... 2003

Self-Organization of Spatiotemporal Receptive Fields and Laterally Connected Direction and Orientation Maps James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 2003, 52--54, 473-480, 2003. 2003

Neonatal Learning Of Faces: Environmental And Genetic Influences James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 107-112, 2002. 2002

Modeling Large Cortical Networks With Growing Self-Organizing Maps James A. Bednar, Amol Kelkar, and Risto Miikkulainen In Computational Neuroscience, 44--46, 315-321, 2002. 2002

Learning to See: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Visual Development James A. Bednar PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2002. Also Techn... 2002

Scaling Self-Organizing Maps To Model Large Cortical Networks James A. Bednar, Amol Kelkar, and Risto Miikkulainen Neuroinformatics:275-302, 2001. 2001

Self-Organization Of Innate Face Preferences: Could Genetics Be Expressed Through Learning? James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 12th Annual Con... 2000

Tilt Aftereffects In A Self-Organizing Model Of The Primary Visual Cortex James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen Neural Computation, 12:1721-1740, 2000. 2000

Internally-Generated Activity, Non-Episodic Memory, and Emotional Salience in Sleep James A. Bednar In S. Harnad and E. Pace-Schott and M. Blagrove and M. Solms, editors, Sleep and Dreaming: Scient... 2000

Pattern-Generator-Driven Development In Self-Organizing Models James A. Bednar and Risto Miikkulainen In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1998, 317-323, 1998. 1998

A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model of the Primary Visual Cortex Risto Miikkulainen, James Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh In S. Usui, T. Omori, editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Neural Inform... 1998

Self-Organization, Plasticity, and Low-Level Visual Phenomena in a Laterally Connected Map Model of the Primary Visual Cortex Risto Miikkulainen, James A. Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, and Joseph Sirosh In R. L. Goldstone and P. G. Schyns and D. L. Medin, editors, Perceptual Learning, Psychology... 1997

Tilt Aftereffects in a Self-Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex James A. Bednar Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 1997... 1997

Self-Organization of Orientation Maps, Lateral Connections, and Dynamic Receptive Fields in the Primary Visual Cortex Joseph Sirosh, Risto Miikkulainen and James A. Bednar In Joseph Sirosh and Risto Miikkulainen and Yoonsuck Choe, editors, {P}roceedings of the {I}nter... 1996

Multi-Level Neural Network Language Translator James A. Bednar Technical Report HR-93-01, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993. 1993

LISSOM

The LISSOM package contains the C++, Python, and Scheme source code and examples for training and testing firing-rate...

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