Dr Nathan Lepora (Research Associate)
Contact
- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TP, UK.
- Tel: telephone number not specified in personal file
- Fax: +44 (0) 114 276 6515 (shared with department)
- Email: n.lepora/at/sheffield.ac.uk
Summary
- Website
Research Interests
- CARMEN
- electrophysiological estimates of neuron properties
- rapid fitting of neuron models to electrophysiological data
- BIOTACT
- decision making in robots inspired by...
- decision making in neuroscience
- CSN
Forthcoming work
Peer-reviewed print articles
2012
2011
- Motiwala A, Fox C, Lepora N and Prescott T. (2011), Sensing with artificial tactile sensors: An investigation of spatio-temporal inference, LNCS proceedings of Towards Autonomous robotic systems, 6856/2011:253-264.
- Fox C, Evans M, Lepora N, Pearson M, Hamm A and Prescott T (2011), Crunchbot: A mobile whiskered robot platform. , Springer LNCS proceedings of Towards Autonomous robotic systems (TAROS).
- Lepora N, Fox C, Evans M, Mitchinson B, Motiwala A, Sullivan J, Pearson M, Welsby J, Pipe T, Gurney K and Prescott T (2011), A general classifier of whisker data using stationary naïve Bayes: Application to BIOTACT robots, Springer LNCS proceedings of Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS), 6856/2011:13-23.
- Lepora N, Overton P and Gurney K (2011), Efficient fitting of conductance-based model neurons from somatic current clamp, Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
2010
- Lepora N, Porrill J, Yeo C and Dean P (2010), Sensory prediction or motor control? Application of Marr-Albus type models of cerebellar function to classical conditioning, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
- Anderson S, Lepora N, Porrill J and Dean P (2010), Nonlinear Dynamic Modelling of Isometric Force Production in Primate Eye Muscle , IEEE Trans Biomed Eng.
- Lepora N, Pearson M, Mitchinson B, Evans M, Fox C, Pipe T, Gurney K and Prescott T (2010), Naive Bayes novelty detection in a whiskered moving robot, IEEE procedings of International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2010).
- Evans M, Fox C, Pearson M, Lepora N and Prescott T. (2010), Whisker-object contact speed affects radial distance estimation, Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2010)..
- Lepora, N, M Evans, C. Fox, M.E. Diamond, K.N. Gurney and T.J. Prescott (2010), Naive Bayes texture classification applied to whisker data from a moving robot, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence.
2009
- Lepora N, Porrill J, Evinger LC, Yeo C and Dean P (2009), Recruitment in Retractor Bulbi muscle during eyeblink conditioning: EMG Analysis and Common-drive model, Journal of Neurophysiology.
- Humphries, M. D., Lepora, N., Wood, R. and Gurney, K. (2009), Capturing dopaminergic modulation and bimodal membrane behaviour of striatal medium spiny neurons in accurate, reduced models, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 3:26. [Code]
2007
- Lepora N, Mavritsaki E, Porrill J, Yeo CH, Evinger C, Dean P (2007), Evidence from retractor bulbi EMG for linearised motor control for the conditioned nictitating membrane response, Journal of Neurophysiology.
- Mavritsaki E, Lepora N, Porrill J, Yeo CH, Dean P. (2007), Response linearity determined by recruitment strategy in detailed model of nictitating membrane control, Biological Cybernetics.
Other work
- Javier A. Caballero, Nathan Lepora and Kevin N. Gurney (2011), Sequential tests and biologically grounded multi-alternative decision making, BMC Neuroscience, 12(Suppl 1):P137.
- Humphries, M.D., N. Lepora, R. Wood, and K.N. Gurney (2009), Reduced models of striatal neurons: dopamine modulation and dynamics, BMC Neuroscience, 10, (1) 321.
- Lepora, N,, P. Overton, and K.N. Gurney (2009), Efficient current-based optimization techniques for parameter estimation in multi-compartment neuronal models, BMC Neuroscience, 10 (1) 247.
- Hoyland, D.S., N Lepora, R Wood, P.G. Overton, and K.N. Gurney (2008), Integrated data collection and automated parameter estimation in the construction of conductance-based models of neostriatal neurons, SfN 2008, Washington, Neuroscience Meeting Planner, Poster 694.4/UU65.
