Jean-Marc Fellous
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Professor of Psychology
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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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Professor, Applied Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
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Professor, Neuroscience Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
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Professor, Cognitive Science Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
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Professor, Physiological Sciences Graduate Interdisciplinary Program
Degrees
- Ph.D. Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- A Neural Code for Face Representation: from V1 Receptive Fields to IT 'Face Cells'
Work Experience
- National Institute of Mental Health (2019 - 2020)
- Departent of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering (2017 - Ongoing)
- Department of Psychology - University of Arizona (2007 - 2017)
- Duke University (2004 - 2006)
Interests
Teaching
Computational neuroscience, Neurobiology, Data analyses
Research
Computational neuroscience, Neurobiology, Artificial Intelligence
Courses
Honors Independent Study
BME 299H (Fall 2019)
MCB 399H (Fall 2020)
NSCS 399H (Spring 2021)
NSCS 399H (Fall 2020)
NSCS 399H (Spring 2018)
NSCS 399H (Fall 2017)
NSCS 399H (Fall 2016)
NSCS 499H (Fall 2018)
PSY 499H (Fall 2016)
Mind and Brain
PSY 300 (Spring 2023)
Intro to Biopsychology
PSY 302 (Fall 2023)
PSY 302 (Fall 2022)
PSY 302 (Spring 2022)
PSY 302 (Fall 2017)
PSY 302 (Fall 2016)
Preceptorship
PSY 391 (Fall 2023)
PSY 391 (Fall 2022)
Directed Research
BME 492 (Spring 2018)
BME 492 (Fall 2017)
MCB 792 (Fall 2020)
NSCS 392 (Spring 2019)
NSCS 392 (Spring 2016)
PSYS 392 (Spring 2024)
PSYS 392 (Fall 2023)
PSYS 392 (Spring 2023)
PSYS 492 (Spring 2024)
PSYS 492 (Fall 2019)
Independent Study
NROS 399 (Fall 2023)
NSCS 399 (Spring 2018)
PSY 399 (Spring 2024)
PSY 499 (Spring 2017)
PSY 599 (Fall 2020)
PSY 599 (Fall 2016)
Intro Computatnl Neurosc
PSY 403C (Fall 2022)
PSY 403C (Fall 2020)
PSY 503C (Fall 2022)
PSY 503C (Fall 2020)
Comp. Neurosci: Multi Units
PSY 435 (Fall 2024)
Honors Directed Research
NROS 492H (Spring 2024)
PSYS 492H (Spring 2023)
Intro Neural Data Anlys
PSY 496L (Fall 2018)
PSY 596L (Spring 2022)
PSY 596L (Fall 2018)
Honors Thesis
NROS 498H (Spring 2024)
NROS 498H (Fall 2023)
NSCS 498H (Spring 2023)
NSCS 498H (Fall 2022)
NSCS 498H (Spring 2021)
NSCS 498H (Fall 2020)
NSCS 498H (Spring 2019)
NSCS 498H (Fall 2018)
NSCS 498H (Spring 2018)
NSCS 498H (Fall 2017)
NSCS 498H (Spring 2016)
PSY 498H (Spring 2018)
Comp Neurosci - Multi Units
PSY 535 (Fall 2024)
Systems Neuroscience
NRSC 560 (Spring 2024)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2023)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2022)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2021)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2020)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2019)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2018)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2017)
NRSC 560 (Spring 2016)
Rsrch Meth Biomed Engr
BME 592 (Fall 2023)
Journal Club
APPL 595B (Spring 2018)
APPL 595B (Spring 2017)
APPL 595B (Fall 2016)
APPL 595B (Spring 2016)
Rsrch Meth Psio Sci
PS 700 (Fall 2020)
PS 700 (Fall 2018)
Methods In Neuroscience
NRSC 700 (Spring 2021)
NRSC 700 (Fall 2017)
Research
PS 900 (Spring 2021)
PS 900 (Spring 2020)
PS 900 (Fall 2019)
PS 900 (Spring 2019)
PSY 900 (Spring 2016)
Master's Report
PSY 909 (Fall 2016)
Thesis
BME 910 (Fall 2024)
BME 910 (Spring 2024)
BME 910 (Spring 2023)
PSY 910 (Spring 2017)
PSY 910 (Fall 2016)
Dissertation
PSY 920 (Fall 2019)
PSY 920 (Spring 2019)
PSY 920 (Fall 2018)
PSY 920 (Spring 2018)
PSY 920 (Fall 2017)
PSY 920 (Spring 2017)
Selected Publications
Chapters
- Harland, B., Contreras, M., & Fellous, J. (2018). A Role for the Longitudinal Axis of the Hippocampus in Multiscale Representations of Large and Complex Spatial Environments and Mnemonic Hierarchies. In Hippocampus: Plasticity and Functions. IntechOpen. doi:10.5772/intechopen.68877
- Fellous, J., Canavier, C., & Hasselmo, M. (2015). Neuromodulation: Increasing Computational Power. In From Brain to Cognition via Computational Neuroscience.
- Fellous, J., Ledoux, J. E., & Fellous, J. M. (2012). Toward Basic Principles for Emotional Processing. In Who Needs Emotions.(pp -). -: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780195166194.003.0004
- Fellous, J., & Fellous, J. M. (2009). Emotion: Computational Modeling. In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier Ltd. doi:10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01845-3
- Fellous, J., Sejnowski, T. J., Sejnowski, T. J., Navratilova, Z., & Fellous, J. M. (2009). Intrinsic and Network Contributions to Reverberatory Activity: Reactive Clamp and Modeling Studies. In Dynamic Clamp. Springer, New York, NY. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-89279-5_11
- Fellous, J., & Ledoux, J. E. (2005). Toward basic principles for emotional processing: What the fearful brain tells the robot. In Who Needs Emotions. Oxford University Press.
- Fellous, J., Arbib, M. A., Arbib, M. A., & Fellous, J. M. (2005). "Edison" and "Russell". In Who Needs Emotions. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780195166194.003.0001
- Fellous, J., Jonhston, T., Segal, M. R., Lisman, J., Lisman, J. E., & Fellous, J. M. (1998). Carbachol-induced rhythms in the hippocampal slice: slow (.5-2HZ), theta (4-10HZ) and gamma (80-100HZ) oscillations. In Computational Neuroscience. Plenum Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4831-7_61
- Arbib, M. A., Arbib, M. A., & Fellous, J. (1996). A neural code for face representation: from v1 receptive fields to it 'face' cells. In Thesis. University of Southern California.
Journals/Publications
- Fellous, J., Sharpee, T., Metzner, C., Jolivet, R. B., Haas, J. S., Albada, S. J., & Nowotny, T. (2022). Editorial: Advances in Computational Neuroscience. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fncom.2021.824899
- Fellous, J., Weitzenfeld, A., & Scleidorovich, P. (2022). Adapting hippocampus multi-scale place field distributions in cluttered environments optimizes spatial navigation and learning. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fncom.2022.1039822
- Lindner, B., Thomas, P. J., Fellous, J. M., & Tiesinga, P. (2021). Biological Cybernetics: 60 years and more to come. Biological cybernetics, 115(1), 5-6.
- Souder, M., Harland, B., Fellous, J. M., & Contreras, M. (2021). Dorsal CA1 hippocampal place cells form a multi-scale representation of megaspace.. BioArchives, 31(10), 2178-2190.e6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.003
- Souder, M., Harland, B., Fellous, J. M., & Contreras, M. (2021). Dorsal CA1 hippocampal place cells form a multi-scale representation of megaspace.. Current biology : CB, 31(10), 2178-2190.e6. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.003
- Chou, Y., Rapcsak, S., Fellous, J., Wilson, R. C., Sundman, M. H., Lim, K., Ton That, V., Mizell, J., Ugonna, C., Rodriguez, R., Chen, N., Fuglevand, A. J., & Liu, Y. (2020). Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals diminished homoeostatic metaplasticity in cognitively impaired adults. Brain Communications, 2(2). doi:10.1093/braincomms/fcaa203
- Fellous, J. M., Dominey, P., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2020). Complex spatial navigation in animals, computational models and neuro-inspired robots. Biological cybernetics, 114(2), 137-138.
- Fellous, J., Lin, K., & Xiao, Z. (2020). Conjunctive reward-place coding properties of dorsal distal CA1 hippocampus cells. Biological Cybernetics, 114, 285-301. doi:10.1007/s00422-020-00830-0
- Scleidorovich, P., Llofriu, M., Fellous, J. M., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2020). A computational model for spatial cognition combining dorsal and ventral hippocampal place field maps: multiscale navigation. Biological cybernetics.
- Sundman, M. H., Lim, K., Ton That, V., Mizell, J. M., Ugonna, C., Rodriguez, R., Chen, N. K., Fuglevand, A. J., Liu, Y., Wilson, R. C., Fellous, J. M., Rapcsak, S., & Chou, Y. H. (2020). Transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals diminished homoeostatic metaplasticity in cognitively impaired adults. Brain communications, 2(2), fcaa203.
- Thomas, P. J., Fellous, J. M., & Benjamin, L. (2020). A Renewed Vision for Biological Cybernetics.. Biological cybernetics, 114(3), 315-316. doi:10.1007/s00422-020-00837-7
- Cazin, N., Llofriu Alonso, M., Scleidorovich Chiodi, P., Pelc, T., Harland, B., Weitzenfeld, A., Fellous, J. M., & Dominey, P. F. (2019). Reservoir computing model of prefrontal cortex creates novel combinations of previous navigation sequences from hippocampal place-cell replay with spatial reward propagation. PLoS computational biology, 15(7), e1006624.
- Fellous, J. M., Sapiro, G., Rossi, A., Mayberg, H., & Ferrante, M. (2019). Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Neuroscience: Behavioral Neurostimulation. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 1346.
- Harper, B., & Fellous, J. M. (2019). Ground truth construction and parameter tuning for the detection of sleep spindle timing in rodents. Journal of neuroscience methods, 313, 13-23.
- Contreras, M., Pelc, T., Llofriu, M., Weitzenfeld, A., & Fellous, J. M. (2018). The ventral hippocampus is involved in multi-goal obstacle-rich spatial navigation. Hippocampus, 28(12), 853-866.
Proceedings Publications
- Weitzenfeld, A., Scleidorovich, P., Llofriu, M., & Fellous, J. M. (2020). A Computational Model for Latent Learning based on Hippocampal Replay. In 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 1-8.
- Weitzenfeld, A., Tejera, G., Scleidorovich, P., Pelc, T., Llofriu, M., Fellous, J. M., & Contreras, M. (2019). A Computational Model for a Multi-Goal Spatial Navigation Task inspired by Rodent Studies. In 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
- Lester, A. W., Howard, M. D., Fellous, J., Bhattacharyya, R., & , . (2013, 2013). A Computational Model of Perirhinal Cortex: Gating and Repair of Input to the Hippocampus. In 2013 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN).
- Howard, M. D., Bhattacharyya, R., O'reilly, R. C., Ascoli, G. A., & Fellous, J. (2011). Adaptive Recall in Hippocampus.. In SFN.
- Fellous, J., Suri, R. E., & Fellous, J. M. (2002). A Roles of Dopamine. In SFN.
- Wiskott, L., Fellous, J., Kruger, N., Malsburg, C. V., Fellous, J. M., & Malsburg, C. V. (1999). Face recognition by elastic bunch graph matching. In sfn.
- Ledoux, J. E., Fellous, J., & Fellous, J. M. (1998, -). Emotion and computational neuroscience. In ScholarPedia, -, -.
- Wiskott, L., Malsburg, C. V., Kruger, N., & Fellous, J. M. (1997, -). Face Recognition by Elastic Bunch Graph Matching. In sfn, -, 456-463.
Poster Presentations
- Fellous, J., Scleidorovich, P., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2019, Oct). A Computational Model Combining Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampal Place Field Maps: An Analysis of Multiple-Scale Contributions. Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL.
- Llofriu, M., Scleidorovich, P., Tejera, G., Contreras, M., Pelc, T., Fellous, J., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2019, jul). Computational Model for a Multi-Goal Spatial Navigation Task inspired by Rodent Studies. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. Budapest, Hungary.
- Souder, M., Rogers, M., Qin, Y., Scleidorovich, P., Weitzenfeld, A., & Fellous, J. (2019, Oct). The role of objects during complex spatial navigation in the rat. Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL.
- Xiao, Z., Nagl, S., Lin, K., & Fellous, J. (2019, oct). Continuous reward-place coding properties of dorsal distal CA1 hippocampus cells. Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL.
- Fellous, J., & Contreras, M. (2018, Oct). Involvement of the anterior insular cortex in empathic response in rats. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
- Harland, B., Contreras, M., Scleidorovich, P., Weitzenfeld, A., & Fellous, J. (2018, Oct). Dorsal-Ventral place cell representations in multi-scale environments. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
- Harper, B., & Fellous, J. (2018, Oct). A method for the precise detection and validation of spindle timing in rodents. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
- Howard, E., Contreras, M., Harper, B., Armstrong, E., Padgett, R., & Fellous, J. (2018, Oct). Targeted memory reactivation during sleep facilitates spatial memory consolidation in rats. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
- Scleidorovich, P., Harland, B., Fellous, J., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2018, Oct). Modeling of Multi-Scale Spatial Navigation in Complex Environments. Society for Neuroscience. San-Diego, CA.
- Contreras, M., Hatfield, A., Cummings, J., Cruz, K., & Fellous, J. (2017, 11). Understanding the neural basis of empathy in rodents. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC.
- Greene, P., Fellous, J., & Lin, K. (2017, 11). Spike sorting via source localization. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC.
- Harland, B., Contreras, M., Scleidorovich, P., Llofriu, M., Cazin, N., Weitzenfeld, A., Dominey, P., & Fellous, J. (2017, 11). Complex rodent spatial navigation optimization in a large-scale environment. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC.
- Harper, B., Contreras, M., & Fellous, J. (2017, 11). Effects of learning on the co-occurrence of hippocampal sharp-wave ripples and prefrontal cortical spindles in the rat. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC.
- Malerba, P., Nagl, S., Fellous, J., & Bazhenov, M. (2017, 11). Reactivation of interfering memories in the hippocampus shapes memory performance: a computational study. Society for Neuroscience. Washington DC.
- Scleidorovich, P., Cazin, N., Llofriu, M., Harland, B., Fellous, J., Dominey, P., & Weitzenfeld, A. (2017, 6). An Integrated Hippocampus-Prefrontal Cortex Model for Spatial Sequence Learning by Concatenating Replayed Place-Cell Snippets. CRCNS. Providence RI.
Presentations
- Greene, P., Lin, K., & Fellous, J. (2015, 11). A Bayesian Approach to Source Localization with Applications to Spike Sorting. Statistical Analysis of Neural Data workshop. Pittsburgh, PA.