Lab Publications: Journal Articles:
Niebur, E. (2008). Electrical properties of cell membranes. Scholarpedia. Scholarpedia, 3(6), 7166.

Deppmann, C. D., Mihalas, S., Sharma, N., Lonze, B. E., Niebur, E., and Ginty, D. D. (2008). A model for neuronal competition during development. Science, in press.

Dong, Y., Mihalas, S., Qiu, F., Heydt, R., and Niebur, E. (2008). Synchrony and the binding problem in macaque visual cortex. Journal of {V}ision, in press.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2008). Exact Solutions for Rate and Synchrony in Recurrent Networks of Coincidence Detectors. Neural Computation, in press.

Ray, S., Niebur, E., Hsiao, S. S., Sinai, S., and Crone, N. E. (2008). High-frequency gamma activity (80-150 {Hz}) is increased in human cortex during selective attention. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119(1), 116--33.

Niebur, E. (2008). Neuronal cable theory. Scholarpedia. Scholarpedia, 3(5), 2674.

Roy, A., Steinmetz, P. N., Hsiao, S. S., Johnson, K. O., and Niebur, E. (2007). Synchrony: A Neural Correlate of Somatosensory Attention. J. Neurophysiology, 98, 1645--61.

Niebur, E. (2007). Generation Of Synthetic Spike Trains With Defined Pairwise Correlations. Neural Computation, 19, 1720--38.

Craft, E., Sch{\"u}tze, H., Niebur, E., and Heydt, R. (2007). A neural model of figure-ground organization. J. Neurophysiology, 97(6), 4310--26.

Niebur, E. (2007). Saliency map. Scholarpedia, 2(8):2675. Scholarpedia, 2(8), 2675.

Shimazaki, H., and Niebur, E. (2006). Correlated multiplicative modulation in coupled oscillator systems: a model of selective attention. Progress of Theoretical Physics Suppl., 161, 336--9.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2006). A novel method for visualizing functional connectivity using Principal Component Analysis. Intern. J Neuroscience, 116(4), 419--429.

Garcia, K., and Niebur, E. (2005). A computational model of developing schizophrenia: Progressive disconnectivity and the limits of compensatory mesostriatal dopamine. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 31(2), 452--453.

Shimazaki, H., and Niebur, E. (2005). Phase transitions in multiplicative competitive processes. Physical Review E, 72, 01192--1 -- 01192--4.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2005). Rate and Synchrony in Feedforward Networks of Coincidence Detectors: Analytical Solution. Neural Computation, 14(4), 881--902.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2004). Correlated inhibitory and excitatory inputs to the coincidence detector: analytical solution. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 15(5), 957--962.

Parkhurst, D., and Niebur, E. (2004). Texture contrast attracts overt visual attention in natural scenes. European J. Neuroscience, 19(3), 783--789.

Parkhurst, D., and Niebur, E. (2003). Scene Content Selected by Active Vision. Spatial Vision, 16(2), 125--54.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2003). Synaptic depression leads to nonmonotonic frequency dependence in the coincidence detector. Neural Computation, 15(10), 2339--58.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2003). The Effects of Input Rate and Synchrony on a Coincidence Detector: Analytical Solution. Neural Computation, 15, 539--47.

Parkhurst, D., and Niebur, E. (2002). Variable resolution displays: a theoretical, practical and behavioral evaluation. Human Factors, 44(4), 611--29.

Niebur, E. (2002). Electrophysiological correlates of synchronous neural activity and attention: a short review. Biosystems, 67(1-3), 157--66.

Niebur, E., Hsiao, S. S., and Johnson, K. O. (2002). Synchrony: a neuronal mechanism for attentional selection?. Current Opinion In Neurobiology, 12(2), 190--194.

Parkhurst, D., Law, K., and Niebur, E. (2002). Modelling the role of salience in the allocation of visual selective attention. Vision Research, 42(1), 107--123.

Niebur, E. (2001). Sensorimotor contingencies do not replace internal representations, and mastery is not necessary for perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 994--995.

Niebur, E., et al. (2001). Research, Robots, and Reality: A Statement on Current Trends in Biorobotics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(6), 1072--1073.

Steinmetz, P. N., Roy, A., Fitzgerald, P., Hsiao, S. S., Johnson, K. O., and Niebur, E. (2000). Attention Modulates Synchronized Neuronal Firing in Primate Somatosensory Cortex. Nature, 404, 187--190.

Roy, A., Steinmetz, P. N., Johnson, K. O., and Niebur, E. (2000). Model-free detection of synchrony in neuronal spike trains, with an application to primate somatosensory cortex. Neurocomputing, 32-33, 1103--1108.

Roy, A., Steinmetz, P. N., and Niebur, E. (2000). Rate Limitations of Unitary Event Analysis. Neural Computation, 12(9), 2063--2082.

Itti, L., Koch, C., and Niebur, E. (1998). A model of saliency-based fast visual attention for rapid scene analysis. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 20(11), 1254--1259.

Niebur, E., and Usher, M. (1997). 'Tis all in pieces: (separate RFs and CFs, and) all coherence's gone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20(4), 693.

Niebur, E. (1997). From Living Eyes to Seeing Machines (book review). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1(5), 195--196.

Maeder, A., Diederich, J., and Niebur, E. (1996). Limiting human perception for image sequences. Proceedings of the SPIE, 2657, 330--337.

Usher, M., and Niebur, E. (1996). A neural model for parallel, expectation-driven attention for objects. J. Cognitive Neuroscience, 8(3), 305--321.

Schuster, H. G., Niebur, E., Hunt, E. R., Johnson, G. A., and L{\"o}cher, M. (1996). Parametric Feedback Resonance in Chaotic Systems. Physical Review Letters, 76, 400--403.

Stemmler, M., Usher, M., and Niebur, E. (1995). Lateral Interactions in Primary Visual Cortex: A Model Bridging Physiology and Psychophysics. Science, 269, 1877--1880.

Brettle, D., and Niebur, E. (1994). A detailed simulator of a biological neural network. IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, 1(4), 31--43.

Niebur, E., and W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F. (1994). Design principles of columnar organization in visual cortex. Neural Computation, 6, 602--614.

Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1994). A model for the neuronal implementation of selective visual attention based on temporal correlation among neurons. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 1(1), 141--158.

Niebur, E. (1994). Kognitive {M}odellierung. {K\"unstliche} Intelligenz, 4, 41--42.

Niebur, E. (1994). Computational Neuroscience. {K\"unstliche} Intelligenz, 4, 46--47.

Usher, M., Schuster, H. G., and Niebur, E. (1993). Dynamics of populations of integrate-and-fire neurons, partial synchronization and memory. Neural Computation, 5, 570--586.

W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., and Niebur, E. (1993). Cortical column design: a link between maps of preferred orientation and orientation tuning strength. Biological Cybernetics, 70, 1--13.

Niebur, E., Koch, C., and Rosin, C. (1993). An oscillation-based model for the neural basis of attention. Vision Research, 33, 2789--2802.

Niebur, E., and Erd{\H{o}}s, P. (1993). Theory of the locomotion of nematodes: control of the somatic motor neurons by interneurons. Mathematical Biosciences, 118, 51--82.

Niebur, E., and Erd{\H{o}}s, P. (1993). Modeling Locomotion and its neural control in nematodes. Comments in Theoretical Biology, 3(2), 109--139.

W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1992). Generation of direction selectivity by isotropic intracortical connections. Neural Computation, 4(2), 332--340.

Erd\H{o}s, P., and Niebur, E. (1992). Fonalfergek helyvaltoztatasanakk neuralis lapja (in {H}ungarian; {E}nglish title as translated by journal: {T}he neural basis of nematode worms' creeping). Fizikai szemle, 42(7), 257--263.

W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1991). Isotropic connections generate functional asymmetrical behavior in visual cortical cells. J. Neurophysiol., 66(2), 444--459.

Niebur, E., Schuster, H. G., and Kammen, D. (1991). Collective frequencies and metastability in networks of limit cycle oscillators with time delay. Physical Review Letters, 67(20), 2753--2756.

Niebur, E., Schuster, H. G., Kammen, D., and Koch, C. (1991). Oscillator phase coupling for different two-dimensional network connectivities. Physical Review A, 44(10), 6895--6904.

Niebur, E., and Niebur, D. (1991). Numerical Implementation of Sealed-End Boundary Conditions in Cable Theory. IEEE-Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 38(2), 1266--1271.

Niebur, E., and Erd\H{o}s, P. (1991). Theory of the Locomotion of Nematodes: Dynamics of undulatory progression on a solid surface. Biophysical Journal, 60, 1132--1146.

Niebur, E. (1989). Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le {'X'} sans jamais avoir os{\'e} le demander (in {F}rench). Computer Forum, 6, 33--38.

Niebur, E., and Solyom, J. (1988). Improved mean-field-like renormalisation group approach for {Z(q)} symmetric spin models. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 21, 539--546.

Niebur, E., and Solyom, J. (1987). Mean-field-like variational and renormalisation group studies of (1+1)-dimensional spin models. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 20, 2949--2959.

Book Chapters:
Steinmetz, P. N., Niebur, E., Hsiao, S. S., and Johnson, K. O. (2005). Attention to tactile stimuli increases neural synchrony in somatosensory cortex. In Itti, L., Rees, G., and Tsotsos, J.eds, Neurobiology of Attention, CH 88, pgs. 534--7. Academic Press/Elsevier.

Parkhurst, D., and Niebur, E. (2005). Stimulus-driven guidance of visual attention in natural scenes. In Itti, L., Rees, G., and Tsotsos, J.eds, Neurobiology of Attention, CH 39, pgs. 240--5. Academic Press/Elsevier.

Niebur, E., Itti, L., and Koch, C. (2001). Controlling the Focus of Visual Selective Attention. In Van Hemmen, J. L., Cowan, J. D., and Domany, E.eds, Models of Neural Networks IV: Early Vision and Attention, pgs. 247--276. Springer Verlag, New York.

Usher, M., and Niebur, E. (1999). Mental Representations: A computational-neuroscience scheme. In Riegler, A., and Peschl, M.eds, Understanding Representation in the Cognitive Sciences, pgs. 135--143. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA.

Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1998). Computational architectures for attention. In Parasuraman, R.ed, The Attentive Brain, CH 9, pgs. 163--186. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Usher, M., Stemmler, M., and Niebur, E. (1996). The role of lateral connections in visual cortex: dynamics and information processing. In Sirosh, J., Mikkulainen, R., and Choe, Y.eds, Lateral Interactions in the Cortex. The UTCS Neural Networks Research Group, Austin, Texas. Electronic book, ISBN 0-9647060-0-8, http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/nn/web-pubs/htmlbook96.

Niebur, E., and Erd{\H{o}}s, P. (1995). Control of the undulatory motion of vermiform robots. In Zobrist, G., and Ho, C. V.eds, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, vol 3, CH 2, pgs. 51--84. Ablex Publ. Co., Norwood NJ.

Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1994). Models for the neurophysiological basis of attention based on the temporal structure of neural signals. In Elbert, T., {L\"utkenh\"oner}, B., and Pantev, C.eds, Oscillatory event related brain dynamics, pgs. 295--309. Plenum Press, London.

Niebur, E., Schuster, H. G., and Kammen, D. M. (1992). Systems of Relaxation Oscillators with time-delayed coupling. In Taylor, J., Caianiello, E., Cotterill, R., and Clark, J.eds, Neural Network Dynamics, pgs. 226--233. Springer Verlag, London-Berlin-New York.

Niebur, E., {W\"org\"otter}, F., and Koch, C. (1991). The {C}altech {C}omputer {C}at: a fine-grain simulator of the primary visual system of cat. Annales du CARNAC, 4, 1--7.

Niebur, E., Kammen, D. M., and Koch, C. (1991). Phase locking in {1-D} and {2-D} Networks of Oscillating Neurons. In Schuster, H.ed, Nonlinear Dynamics and Neuronal Networks, pgs. 173--204. VCH Verlag, Weinheim.

W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1990). Modeling visual cortex: Hidden anisotropies in an isotropic inhibitory connection scheme. In Eckmiller, R.ed, Advanced Neural Computers, pgs. 87--94. Elsevier Science Publ. B.V.

Erd{\H{o}}s, P., and Niebur, E. (1990). The neural basis of the locomotion of nematodes. In Garrido, L.ed, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 368, pgs. 253--267. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg.

Niebur, E., and Erd{\H{o}}s, P. (1988). Computer simulation of networks of electrotonic neurons. In Cotterill, R.ed, Computer Simulation in Brain Science, pgs. 148--163. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Czycholl, G., Keiter, H., and Niebur, E. (1982). Infinite order {B}rillouin-{W}igner perturbation theory of the mixed valent impurity. In Wachter, P.ed, Valence Instabilities. North Holland, Amsterdam.

Recent Abstracts, Conference Proceedings, Theses:
Technical Reports and other unpublished papers are not listed. Abstracts are not listed except those that appeared in the last three years.

Niebur, E., Craft, E., Sch{\"u}tze, H., and Heydt, R. (2006). A computational model of figure-ground organization. Perception, 35 Supplement, 122--123.

Dong, Y., Heydt, R., and Niebur, E. (2006). Synchrony and the binding problem in macaque visual cortex. In Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, pg 734.8. Washington, DC.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2005). Effects of rate and cross-correlation in recurrent networks of coincidence detectors. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 283.12.

Parkhurst, D. J., and Niebur, E. (2004). A feasibility test for perceptually adaptive level of detail rendering on desktop systems. In Proceedings of the Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization Symposium, pgs. 49--56. ACM, New York, NY. [PDF]

Niebur, E., and Mikula, S. (2003). Rate and Synchrony Propagation through a Feedforward Multi-Layered Network of Coincidence Detectors: Analytical Solutions. In Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., vol 29. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans.

Indiveri, G., Horiuchi, T., Niebur, E., and Douglas, R. (2001). A competitive network of spiking {VLSI} neurons. In Rattay, F.ed, World Congress on Neuroinformatics. Vienna.

Mikula, S., and Niebur, E. (2001). Large-scale cortical organization of the macaque. In Rattay, F.ed, Proceedings of World Congress on Neuroinformatics. Vienna.

Niebur, E. (2000). Separate but equal: Different kinds of information require different neural representations. In Bothe, H.ed, Proceedings of the International Congress on Intelligent Systems and Applications (ISA-BIS), pgs. 1544--9 Wetaskiwin, Canada. ICSC Academic Press.

Parkhurst, D., Culurciello, E., and Niebur, E. (2000). Intact visual search performance with variable resolution displays: Effects of low resolution in the peripheral visual field. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 94a(suppl.), 36--37.

Parkhurst, D., Culurciello, E., and Niebur, E. (2000). Evaluating Variable Resolution Displays with Visual Search: Task Performance and Eye Movements. In Proceedings of the ACM Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium, pgs. 105--109 New York, NY. ACM.

Domanski, Z., Erd{\H{o}}s, P., Haley, S. B., and Niebur, E. (2000). Chemotactic Aggregation of an Ensemble of Identical Living Organisms in One Dimension. In 16th IMACS WORLD CONGRESS 2000 on Scientific Computation, Applied Mathematics and Simulation, pgs. 1--8 Lausanne, Switzerland. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Horiuchi, T., and Niebur, E. (1999). Conjunction Search Using a 1-D Analog {VLSI}-based Attentional Search/Tracking Chip. In Wills, S.ed, Proceedings of the 1999 Conference in Advanced Research in VLSI., pgs. 276--90 Georgia Tech, Atlanta. IEEE.

Usher, M., and Niebur, E. (1997). Active neural representations: neurophysiological data and theoretical implications. In Peschl, M., and Riegler, A.eds, New Trends in Cognitive Science. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1996). Control of Selective Visual Attention: Modeling the ``Where'' Pathway. In Touretzky, D. S., Mozer, M. C., and Hasselmo, M. E.eds, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol 8, pgs. 802--808. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Usher, M., and Niebur, E. (1995). Stimulus-dependent synchronization in a model of orientation-tuned spiking neurons. In Bower, J. M.ed, Computation and Neural Systems, vol 3, pgs. 341--346. Kluwer, Norwell, MA.

Niebur, E., and Koch, C. (1995). Modeling The ``Where'' Visual Pathway. In Sejnowski, T. J.ed, Proceedings of 2nd Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, Caltech--UCSD, vol 5, pgs. 26--35. Institute for Neural Computation, La Jolla.

Niebur, E., and Brettle, D. (1994). Efficient Simulation of Biological Neural Networks on Massively Parallel Supercomputers with Hypercube Architecture. In Cowan, J., Tesauro, G., and Alspector, J.eds, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol 6, pgs. 904--910. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo.

Niebur, E., and Olshausen, B. (1994). Neurophysiology, Psychophysics and Computational Models of Visual Attention. In Cowan, J., Tesauro, G., and Alspector, J.eds, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol 6, pgs. 1167--1168. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo.

Niebur, E., and W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F. (1993). Orientation column structures from first principles. In Bower, J. M.ed, Computation and Neural Systems, CH 62, pgs. 409--414. Kluwer, Norwell, MA.

Niebur, E., W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., and Koch, C. (1992). Simulating the cat visual system on the {Connection Machine}. In Advanced Computing Laboratory, pgs. 80--81. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos.

Niebur, E., Kammen, D., Koch, C., Ruderman, D., and Schuster, H. G. (1991). Phase coupling in two-dimensional networks of interacting oscillators. In Touretzky, D., and Lippman, R.eds, Advances in Neural Informations Processing Systems 3, pgs. 123--129. Morgan-Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA.

Niebur, E., and W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F. (1991). Influence of the column structure on intracortical long range interactions. In Sayegh, S.ed, Proceedings of the 3rd Mid-Western Conference on Neural Networks, pgs. 67--74. Purdue Univ. Press, W. Lafayette.

Niebur, E., and W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F. (1990). Circular inhibition: a new concept in long-range interactions in the mammalian visual cortex. In Proc. of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks-San Diego, pgs. II--367 -- II--372. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ.

Niebur, E., and W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F. (1990). Sharpening of orientation selective receptive fields in the mammalian visual cortex by long-range interactions. In Marburger, H.ed, German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, pgs. 125--133. Springer Verlag, Berlin-NewYork.

Niebur, E., W{\"o}rg{\"o}tter, F., and Koch, C. (1990). Structure and function of orientation columns in cat visual cortex: A theoretical study. In Sayegh, S.ed, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Neural Networks and Parallel Distributed Processing, pgs. 67--74. Purdue Research Foundation Press, West Lafayette, IN.

Niebur, E. (1988). {Th\'eorie du syst\`eme locomoteur et neuronal des Nematodes}. Ph.D. thesis, Universit\'e de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Niebur, E. (1982). {B}rillouin-{W}igner {St\"orungsrechnung} in zwischenvalenten {S}ystemen. Master's thesis, Universit{\"a}t Dortmund, Dortmund, W. Germany.