Jean-Philippe Thivierge, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Psychology McGill University, 2006
B.A. Hons. Psychology University of Ottawa, 2000
Certificate in Business Management, Commission Scolaire des Draveurs, 2001.

Contact Information Département de Physiologie Université de Montréal C.P.6128 Succ. Centre-ville Montréal, Québec Canada H3T 1J4 Phone : (514) 343-6111 x3302 Fax: (514) 343-6113 j e a n - p h i l i p p e [DOT] t h i v i e r g e @ u m o n t r e a l . c a

Research fields

Theoretical neuroscience, visual system development, synaptic plasticity, cognitive processes, statistical analysis of neuroimaging and cellular data.

Selected Publications

Shultz, T.R., Rivest, R., Egri, L., Thivierge, J.P., & Dandurand, F. Could knowledge-based neural learning be useful in developmental robotics? The case of KBCC. (in press). Intetnational Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

Thivierge, J.P., & Marcus, G.F. (in press). The Topographic Brain: From Neural Connectivity to Cognition. Trends in Neurosciences.

Thivierge, J.P., Rivest, F., & Monchi, O (in press). Spiking Neurons, Dopamine, and Plasticity: Timing Is Everything, But Concentration Also Matters. Synapse.

Thivierge, J.P., & Balaban, E. (in press). Getting into shape: Optimal ligand gradients for axonal guidance. BioSystems.

Shultz, T. R., Rivest, F., Egri, L., & Thivierge, J. P. (2006). Knowledge-based learning with KBCC. Proc ICDL.

Thivierge, J.P., & Marcus, G.F. (2006). Computational Developmental Neuroscience: Exploring the Interactions Between Genetics and Neural Activity. IEEE IJCNN.

Thivierge, J.P., & Shultz, T.R. (2005). Roughness Penalty Regularization in Knowledge Transfer Networks. IASTED CIC.

Thivierge, J.P., & Shultz, T.R. (2005). Information Maximization in Knowledge-Based Networks. ICANN.

Thivierge, J.P., Titone, D., & Shultz, T.R. (2005). Simulating frontotemporal pathways involved in lexical ambiguity resolution. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Thivierge, J.P., & Shultz, T.R. (2006). Dynamic Networks of Healthy and Pathological Memory Formation. Brain and Cognition, 60, 320.

Thivierge, J.P., & Balaban, E. (2005). Hebbian-based Servomechanical Guidance with Local Optimal Rules. IEEE IJCNN.

Thivierge, J.P., Shultz, T.R., & Balaban, E. (2005). A unified model of thalamocortical axon guidance. 18th Conference of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, Canadian AI 2005. Correlation Learning workshop. Victoria, Canada, May 2005 (pp.3-14).

Thivierge, J.P., Dandurand, F., & Shultz, T.R. (2004). Transferring Domain Rules in a Constructive Network: Introducing RBCC. IJCNN. 1403-1409.

Thivierge, J.P., & Shultz, T.R. (2003). Information networks with modular experts. M.H. Hamza (Ed.) IASTED AIA. (pp. 753-758). Zurich.

Thivierge, J.P., Rivest, F., & Shultz, T.R. (2003). A dual-phase technique for pruning constructive networks. IJCNN.(pp. 559-564).

Thivierge, J.P., & Shultz, T.R. (2002). Finding relevant knowledge: KBCC applied to DNA splice-junction determination. IJCNN, pp. 1401-1405.

Thivierge, J.P., Plowright, C.M.S., & Chan, T. (2002). Visual recognition of half-patterns by bumblebees. Journal of Behavioral Processes, 59, 185-191.

Plowright, C.M.S., Landry, F., Church, D., Heyding, J., Dupuis-Roy, N., Thivierge, J.P., & Simonds, V. (2000). A change in orientation: Recognition of rotated patterns by bumblebees. Journal of Insect Behaviour, 14, 113-127.

Grants

· FQRNT (Québec) Postdoctoral scholarship

· FCAR (Québec) PhD scholarship

· Tomlinson scholarship (McGill University)

· FCAR (Québec) Master's scholarship

· MRST industrial research grant

· Alma Mater (McGill University) travel grant

· NSERC summer research grant