Dr. Olaf Sporns
Associate Department Chair
Professor of Psychology
Contact Information
Office: PY 367
Office Phone: 812-855-2772
Lab: PY A308
Lab Phone:812-856-5986
E-mail:
Web site: The
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Educational Background
- 1986 - B.A., Universitat Tubingen (Germany)
- 1990 - Ph.D., Rockefeller University
Areas of Study
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
Research Topics
- Computational and cognitive neuroscience
- Functional integration and binding in the cortex
- Neural models of perception and action
- Network structure and dynamics
- Applications of information theory to the brain
- Embodied cognitive science
- Robotics
Representative Publications
2004 - Sporns, O. and Kötter, R.. Motifs in brain networks. PLoS Biology 2, e369.
2004 - Sporns, O., Chialvo, D., Kaiser, M., and Hilgetag, C.C.. Organization, development and function of complex brain networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8, 418-425.
2003 - Tnoni, G., and Sporns, O.. Measuring information integration. BMC Neuroscience 4, 31.
2002 - Sporns, O., and Alexander, W.H.. Neuromodulation and plasticity in an autonomous robot. Neural Networks 15, 761-774.
2001 - Weng, J., McClelland, J., Pentland, A., Sporns, O., Stockman, I., Sur, M., and Thelen, E.. Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. Science 291, 599-600.
2000 - Sporns, O., Tononi, G., and Edelman, G.M.. Theoretical neuroanatomy: Relating anatomical and functional connectivity in graphs and cortical connection matrices. Cerebral Cortex 10, 127-141.
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