Homepage of Marc de Kamps

 

 

Who?

I am a lecturer at the Biosystems Group of the School of Computing at the University of Leeds since September 2006. Before that I worked at the Chair for Robotics and Embedded Systems at the Technical University Munich where I was deputy coordinator of nEUro-IT.net.

 

Contact

Marc de Kamps

School of Computing

University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JT

United Kingdom

 

Tel: +44(0)113 343 5322

Email: dekamps ‘AT’ comp. leeds.ac.uk

 

Research Interests

 

  • Combinatorial productivity in neural networks. A tutorial can be found here. A rather technical overview of most of the work in this are is our recent BBS paper.
  • Efficient simulation of groups of spiking neurons using population density techniques
  • Visual attention and visual search
  • Neuroinformatics

 

Open Positions

I have no open positions at the moment. For outstanding students from the EU or the UK the School of Computing has a limited number of studentships. If you are interested in one of my projects and consider applying to the School of Computing, please contact me.

 

Projects

My project page.

 

Teaching

 

In 2007 and 2008 I have taught the modules ‘Bio-inspired Computing’: one at the undergraduates level and one for master’s students. In 2008/2009 I will teach them again.

 

Recent Publications

 

 

  • Marc de Kamps, Volker Baier, Johannes Drever, Melanie Dietz, Lorenz Mösenlechner and Frank van der Velde (2008)

The State of MIIND

Submitted to Neural Networks

 

  • Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps

Learning of control in a neural architecture of grounded language processing

Submitted to Cognitive Systems Research

 

  • Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps, (2008),

A neural architecture for grounded cognition: Representation Structure Dynamics and Learning

Proceedings of IJCNN2008 (WCCI2008), 2008, Hong-Kong

 

 

  • Frank van der Velde and  Marc de Kamps, (2007).

A neural model of global visual saliency.

In S. Vosniadou, D. Kayser and A. Protopapas (eds),

 Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007, pp 383-388. New York, Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

  • de Kamps, M., Knoll, AC

A Roadmap for NeuroIT: Challenges for the next decade, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology,

vol.  26(3), pp. 42-46, 2007

 

  • Marc de Kamps and Volker Baier

Multiple Interacting Instantiations of Neuronal Dynamics (MIIND):
a Library for Rapid Prototyping of Models in Cognitive Neuroscience

Proceedings of IJCNN2007, 2007, Florida

 

  • Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps

Neural Blackboard Architectures of Combinatorial Structures in Cognition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2006), 29, 37-70

 

  • Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps

From Neural Dynamics to True Combinatorial Structures

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2006), 29, 88-108

(yes, the same PDF, this is the author’s response)

 

  • Marc de Kamps and Frank van der Velde

Neural Blackboard Architectures: the Realization of Compositionality and Systematicity in Neural Networks

Journal of Neural Engineering (2006), 3, R1-R12

 

  • Marc de Kamps

An Analytic Solution of the Reentrant Poisson Master Equation and its Application in the Simulation of Large Groups of Spiking Neurons

Proceedings of IJCNN2006 (WCCI2006), 2006, Vancouver

 

 

Old but good

 

            Frank van der Velde, Gwendid van der Voort van der Kleij and Marc de Kamps

Lack of combinatorial productivity in language processing with Simple Recurrent Networks
Connection Science, 16, 2004, 21-46

 

            Marc de Kamps

            A Simple and Stable Numerical Solution for the Population Density Equation

            Neural computation, 2003, 15(9), 2129-2146

 

            Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps

            Synchrony in the eye of the beholder: an analysis of the role of neural synchronization in cognitive processes

            Brain and Mind, 2002, 3, 291-312.

 

            Frank van der Velde and Marc de Kamps

            From Knowing What to Knowing Where: Modeling Object-Based Attention with Feedback Disinhibition of Activation

            Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, (2001), 13(4), 479-491

 

            Marc de Kamps and Frank van der Velde

            From Artificial Neural Networks to Spiking Neuron Populations and Back Again

            Neural Networks, (2001), 14(6-7), 941-953

 

Much more old stuff

 

            Here is a complete publication list