Computational developmental neuroscience: emergence of synchrony, self-organised criticality in neuronal systems, and relation to motor control;
Motor development in infants and in machines: synergies, degree of freedom problem, freezing and freeing, developmental robotics;
Clinical applications of a dynamical systems approach to characterising infant movements (particularly in cerebral palsy).

Computational Neuroscience (820G5, MSc)
Neural Networks (G5015, UG3; 807G5, MSc)
Adaptive Systems (G5058, UG3; 825G5, MSc)

Student Consultation

Spring term 2013: Monday 12:00-13:00 and Thursday 16:00-17:00

Academic advisees: Please email me anytime.

Taylor, Timothy J, Hartley, Caroline, Simon, Peter L, Kiss, Istvan Z and Berthouze, Luc (2013) Identification of criticality in neuronal avalanches: I. A theoretical investigation of the non-driven case. Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience, 3 (4). p. 5. ISSN 2190-8567

Botcharova, M, Farmer, S F and Berthouze, L (2012) Power-law distribution of phase-locking intervals does not imply critical interaction. Physical Review E (PRE), 86 (5). 051920. ISSN 1539-3755

Berthouze, Luc and Farmer, Simon F (2012) Adaptive time-varying detrended fluctuation analysis. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 209 (1). pp. 178-188. ISSN 1872-678X

Kiss, Istvan Z, Berthouze, Luc, Taylor, Timothy and Simon, Péter L (2012) Modelling approaches for simple dynamic networks and applications to disease transmission models. Proceedings A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 468 (2141). pp. 1332-1355. ISSN 1471-2946

Hartley, Caroline, Berthouze, Luc, Mathieson, Sean R, Boylan, Geraldine B, Rennie, Janet M, Marlow, Neil and Farmer, Simon F (2012) Long-range temporal correlations in the EEG bursts of human preterm babies. PLoS ONE, 7 (2). e31543. ISSN 1932-6203

Berthouze, Luc and Mayston, Margaret (2011) Design and validation of surface-marker clusters for the quantification of joint rotations in general movements in early infancy. Journal of Biomechanics, 44 (6). pp. 1212-1215.

Berthouze, Luc, James, Leon M and Farmer, Simon F (2010) Human EEG shows long-range temporal correlations of oscillation amplitude in Theta, Alpha and Beta bands across a wide age range. Clinical Neurophysiology, 121 (8). pp. 1187-1197. ISSN 1388-2457

Corcoran, Thomas 'Greg', Farmer, Simon F and Berthouze, Luc (2010) Role of STDP and heterogeneity in the emergence of long-range temporal correlations and frequency scaling in networks of LIF neurons. In: BMC Neuroscience.

Ward, Nicholas, Farmer, Simon F and Berthouze, Luc (2010) Role of three key developmental variables in the emergence of LRTCs in a network of spiking neurons. In: BMC Neuroscience.

Berthouze, Luc and Goldfield, Eugene C (2008) Assembly, Tuning, and Transfer of Action Systems in Infants and Robots. Infant and Child Development, 17 (1). pp. 25-42. ISSN 1522-7227

Meyer, Friedrich, Spröwitz, Alexander and Berthouze, Luc (2006) Passive compliance for an RC servo-controlled bouncing robot. Advanced Robotics, 20 (8). pp. 953-961. ISSN 0169-1864

Berthouze, Luc and Tijsseling, Adriaan (2006) A neural model for context-dependent sequence learning. Neural Processing Letters, 23 (1). pp. 27-45. ISSN 1370-4621

Lungarella, Max and Berthouze, Luc (2004) Robot bouncing: On the synergy between neural and body-environment dynamics. In: International Seminar on Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Dagstuhl Castle, GAMBIA.

Berthouze, Luc and Lungarella, Max (2004) Motor skill acquisition under environmental perturbations: On the necessity of alternate freezing and freeing of degrees of freedom. Adaptive Behavior, 12 (1). pp. 47-64. ISSN 1059-7123

Lungarella, Max and Berthouze, Luc (2002) On the interplay between morphological, neural and environmental dynamics. Adaptive Behavior, 10 (3-4). pp. 223-241. ISSN 1059-7123