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Ronald van Elburg |
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Dr Ronald A.J. van Elburg Auditory Cognition Group tel: +31-50-363 6824 |
At present I am a Post-Doc in the Auditory Cognition Group at the department of Artificial Intelligence of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. My work focusses on neuroscience derived computational principles for cognitive functions. When valid, such computational principles should allow for the construction of systems which implement the associated cognitive function. Based on this idea I am at present addressing two scientific challenges: multimodal concept formation in the neocortex and sound processing in the auditory brainstem. My approach of these subjects is strongly influenced by ideas from reservoir computing and experience with computational auditory scene analysis. An important step in this research is to find biologically inspired improvements of the networks used in reservoir computing. Another important step is to establish in a working model that neural synchrony can be used for multimodal concept formation.
Next to the above line of research I am involved in several collaborations and projects in which I work on such diverse topics as the biophysics of neuronal bursting, the influence of GABAA-receptor maturation on cortical network dynamics, dendritic branching, a reservoir based gait controler for bipedal robots, behavioral tracking of rodents, the evolution of nervous systems, robust vowel recognition based on reservoir computing, auditory grouping and the derivation of the link from cognitive models/modules (ACT-R) to experimentally measured evoked responses.
2004-2007 Post-Doc at the
Experimental
Neurophysiology group at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam.
2000-2004 Software Engineer at Compuware Europe B.V.
for the Uniface
product.
1996-2000 PhD-position at the Institute
for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam, leading to my PhD-thesis:
`Quasi-Particles for Fractional Quantum Hall Systems'.
1995-1996
Training for liable officer.
1988-1995 Theoretical Physics at the
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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