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Anthony N. Burkitt - Recent Publications

A number of my papers are available in the CogPrints Electronic Archive.
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Burkitt, A. N. (2006)
A review of the integrate-and-fire neuron model: I. Homogeneous synaptic input.
Biological Cybernetics 95, 1-19. [ Full text ] (PDF, 317 Kb, 20 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. (2006)
A review of the integrate-and-fire neuron model: II. Inhomogeneous synaptic input and network properties.
Biological Cybernetics 95, 97-112. [ Full text ] (PDF, 322 Kb, 15 pages)

Meffin, H., Besson, J., Burkitt, A. N., and Grayden, D. B. (2006)
Learning the structure of correlated synaptic subgroups using stable and competitive spike-timing dependent plasticity.
Physical Review E 73, 041911. [ Full text ] (PDF, 743 Kb, 14 pages)

Meffin, H., Burkitt, A. N., and Grayden, D. B. (2005)
Dynamically Adjustable Contrast Enhancement from Cortical Background Activity.
Neurocomputing 65-66, 633-639. [ Full text ] (PDF, 200 Kb, 10 pages)

Clarey, J. C., Paolini, A. G., Grayden, D. B., Burkitt, A. N., and Clark, G. M. (2004)
Ventral cochlear nucleus coding of voice onset time in naturally spoken syllables with an initial stop consonant.
Hearing Research 190 (1-2) 37-59.

Burkitt, A. N., Meffin, H., and Grayden, D. B. (2004)
Spike timing-dependent plasticity: The relationship to rate-based learning for models with weight dynamics determined by a stable fixed-point.
Neural Computation 16 (5), 885-940 [ Full text ] (PDF, 424 Kb, 50 pages)

Meffin, H., Burkitt, A. N., and Grayden, D. B. (2004)
An analytical model for the 'large, fluctuating synaptic conductance state' typical of neocortical neurons in vivo.
Journal of Computational Neuroscience 16, 159-175 [ Full text ] (PDF, 439 Kb, 37 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., and van Hemmen, L. J. (2003)
How synapses in the auditory system wax and wane: Theoretical perspectives.
Biological Cybernetics 89, 318-332 [ Full text ] (PDF, 347 Kb, 15 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., Meffin, H., and Grayden, D. B. (2003)
Study of neuronal gain in a conductance-based leaky integrate-and-fire neuron model with balanced excitatory and inhibitory synaptic input.
Biological Cybernetics 89, 119-125 [ Full text ] (PDF, 168 Kb, 15 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., Meffin, H., and Grayden, D. B. (2003)
Gain modulation and balanced synaptic input in a conductance-based neural model.
Neurocomputing 52-54, 221-226 [ Full text ] (PDF, 118 Kb, 6 pages)

Kuhlmann, L., Burkitt, A. N., Paolini, A. G. and Clark, G.M. (2002)
Summation of spatiotemporal input patterns in leaky integrate-and-fire neurons: Application to neurons in the cochlear nucleus receiving converging auditory nerve fiber input.
J. Comput. Neurosci. 12, 55-73 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 251 Kb, 33 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. (2002)
An information-theoretic analysis of the coding of a periodic synaptic input by integrate-and-fire neurons.
Neurocomputing 44-46, 69-74 [ Full text ] (PostScript, 253 Kb, 6 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., and Clark, G. M. (2001)
Synchronization of the neural response to noisy periodic synaptic input.
Neural Computation 13(12), 2639-2672 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 223 Kb, 31 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. (2001)
Balanced neurons: Analysis of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with reversal potentials.
Biological Cybernetics 85, 247-255 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 108 Kb, 18 pages)

Hohn, N. and Burkitt, A. N. (2001)
Shot noise in the leaky integrate-and-fire neuron.
Phys. Rev. E 63, 031902 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 263 Kb, 12 pages)

Fitzgerald, J. V., Burkitt, A. N., Clark, G.M., and Paolini, A. G. (2001)
Delay analysis in the auditory brainstem of the rat: Comparison with click latency.
Hearing Research 159 (1-2) 85-100.

Paolini, A. G., Fitzgerald, J. V., Burkitt, A. N. and Clark, G.M. (2001)
Temporal processing from the auditory nerve to the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body in the rat.
Hearing Research 159 (1-2) 101-116.

Burkitt, A. N., and Clark, G. M. (2000)
Calculation of interspike intervals for integrate-and-fire neurons with Poisson distribution of synaptic inputs.
Neural Computation 12(8), 1789-1820 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 136 Kb, 29 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. and Clark, G. M. (2000)
Analysis of synchronization in the response of neurons to noisy periodic synaptic input.
Neurocomputing 32-33, 67-75 [ Full text ] (PostScript, 186 Kb, 10 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. (2000)
Interspike interval variability for balanced networks with reversal potentials for large numbers of inputs.
Neurocomputing 32-33, 313-321 [ Full text ] (PostScript, 216 Kb, 9 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., and Clark, G. M. (1999)
Analysis of integrate-and-fire neurons: synchronization of synaptic input and spike output.
Neural Computation 11(4), 871-901 [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 125 Kb, 27 pages)

Burkitt, A. N., and Clark, G. M. (1999)
Modelling the responses of neurons to auditory stimuli: differences between acoustical and electrical stimulation.
In Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Conference, 22-23 February 1999, Monash University, Australia, pp.46-49.
[ Full text ] (PostScript, 119 Kb, 4 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. and Clark, G. M. (1999)
New technique for analyzing integrate-and-fire neurons.
Neurocomputing 26-27 (1999) 93-99. [ Full text ] (PostScript, 151 Kb, 10 pages)

Burkitt, A. N. and Clark, G. M. (1998)
New method for analyzing the synchronization of synaptic input and spike output in neural systems.
Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems 5, 50-54. [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 43 Kb, 5 pages)

Paolini, A. G., Clark, G. M., and Burkitt, A. N. (1997)
Intracellular responses of the rat cochlear nucleus to sound and its role in temporal processing.
NeuroReport 8, 3415-3421.

Burkitt, A. N. (1997)
Retrieval properties of attractor neural networks incorporating biological features - a self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis.
In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1997, Ed. Bower, J. M., pp.267-272, Plenum Press, New York.
[ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 33 Kb, 6 pages)

Burkitt, A.N. (1996)
Retrieval properties of attractor neural networks that obey Dale's law using a self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis.
Network: Computation in Neural Systems 7, 517-532. [ Full text ] (Compressed PostScript, 58 Kb, 17 pages)

P. Bartlett, A. N. Burkitt, and R. C. Williamson (1996)
Editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks.

Burkitt, A. N. (1996)
A self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis of the retrieval properties of attractor neural networks.
In Proceedings of the Seventh Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Eds. P. Bartlett, A. N. Burkitt, and R. C. Williamson, pp.56-61.

Burkitt, A. N. (1995)
Study of analogue neural networks that obey Dale's law using mean-field theory.
In Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, pp.2583-2586, IEEE Press.

Burkitt, A. N. (1995)
Self-consistent signal-to-noise analysis of attractor neural networks.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Eds. M. Charles and C. Latimer, pp.102-105.

Burkitt, A. N. (1995)
Towards biological attractor neural network models using mean-field theory.
In Proceedings of the Sixth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Eds. M. Charles and C. Latimer, pp.37-40.

Burkitt, A.N. (1994)
Attractor neural networks with excitatory neurons and fast inhibitory interneurons at low spike rates.
Network: Computation in Neural Systems 5, 437-448.

Burkitt, A.N., and Ueberholz, P. (1993)
Refined Pruning Techniques for Feed-forward Neural Networks.
Complex Systems 6, 479-494.

Burkitt, A. N. (1993)
Optimised attractor neural networks with external inputs.
In New Trends in Neural Computation, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 686, pp.167-172, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Burkitt, A. N. (1993)
External stimuli in optimised attractor neural networks for sparsely coded patterns.
In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pp.262-266, IEE.

Burkitt, A. N., and Ueberholz, P. (1993)
Pruning feed-forward neural networks.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Eds. P. Leong and M. Jabri, pp.185-188.

Burkitt, A. N. (1993)
External stimuli in biased attractor neural networks.
In Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Eds. P. Leong and M. Jabri, pp.30-33, 1993.

Burkitt, A. N. (1993)
External inputs to attractor neural networks.
In Complex Systems: from biology to computation, Proceedings of the Complex Systems Conference, ANU, Eds. D. Green and T. Bossomaier, pp.341-350, IOS Press, Amsterdam.



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