Vassilis Cutsuridis's Page

Main areas of research:

Computational and mathematical models of:
1. Hippocampus, Microcircuits, Associative Memory
2. Spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)
3. Prefrontal cortex, dopamine, schizophrenia, antisaccade
4. Active visual search
5. Parkinson's disease, dopamine

Interests/keywords:

sensory-motor, neuromodulation, dopamine, STDP, hippocampus, visual search, antisaccade, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, microcircuits,

Current title/position:

Senior researcher

Current affiliation/employer:

Center for Memory and Brain,
Psychology Department
Boston University

Collaborators:

Michael Hasselmo (Boston University)
Ulrich Ettinger (Munich)
John G. Taylor (King's College, London)

Personal or laboratory homepage:

http://people.bu.edu/vcut/

Publications:

Selected publications:

1) V Cutsuridis. GABA inhibition modulates NMDA-R mediated spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) in a biophysical model. Neural Networks, in press

2) V. Cutsuridis, Stuart Cobb, Bruce P. Graham (2010)
"Encoding and retrieval in the hippocampal CA1 microcircuit model", Hippocampus, 20(3): 423-446

3) V. Cutsuridis, Thomas Wennekers (2009)
"Hippocampus, microcircuits and associative memory", Neural Networks, 22(8): 1120-8

4) V. Cutsuridis (2009). A cognitive model of saliency, overt attention and picture scanning. Cognitive computation, 1: 292-299

5) V. Cutsuridis, N. Smyrnis, I. Evdokimidis, S. Perantonis (2007)
"A Neural Network Model of Decision Making in an Antisaccade Task by the Superior Colliculus", Neural Networks, 20(6): 690-704

6) V. Cutsuridis, S. Perantonis (2006) "A Neural Model of Parkinson's Disease Bradykinesia", Neural Networks, 19(4):354-374