Publications

Iliescu, B. & Dragoi, V. Learning by exposure in the visual system (in preparation)

 

Iliescu, B., Gutnisky, D., & Dragoi, V. Perceived orientation depends on temporal order (in preparation)

 

Dragoi V. and M. Sur (2005). Image structure at the center of gaze during free viewing. (submitted).

 

Jin, D., Dragoi, V., Sur, M., and S. Seung (2005). The tilt aftereffect and adaptation-induced changes in orientation tuning in visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology (revised).

 

Sharma, J., Dragoi, V., Tenenbaum, J., Miller, E. K., and Sur M (2003). V1 neurons signal acquisition of an internal representation of stimulus location. Science, 300, 1758-1763.

 

Dragoi, V., Sharma, J., and M. Sur (2003). Response plasticity in primary visual cortex and its role in vision and visuomotor behaviour: Bottom-up and top-down influences. IETE Journal of Research, 49, 1-9.

 

Dragoi, V., Staddon, JER, Palmer, R., and Buhusi, C (2003). Interval timing as an emergent learning property. Psychological Review, 110, 126-144.

 

Dragoi, V., Sharma, J., Miller, E. K., and Sur M (2002). Dynamics of neuronal sensitivity in visual cortex and local feature discrimination. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 883-891.

 

Dragoi, V. (2002). A feedforward model of suppressive and facilitatory habituation effects. Biological Cybernetics, 86, 419-426.

 

Sur, M., Schummers, J., and V. Dragoi (2002). Cortical plasticity: Time for a change. CurrentBiology, 12, 168-170

 

Dragoi, V., Turcu, C. M. and M. Sur (2001). Stability of cortical responses and the statistics of natural scenes. Neuron, 32, 1181-1192.

 

Dragoi, V., Rivadulla, C. and M. Sur (2001). Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex. Nature, 411: 80-86.

 

Dragoi, V., Sharma, J. and M. Sur (2000). Adaptation-induced plasticity of orientation tuning in adult visual cortex. Neuron, 28, 287-298.

 

Dragoi, V. and M. Sur (2000). Dynamic properties of recurrent inhibition in primary visual cortex: Contrast and orientation dependence of contextual effects. Journal ofNeurophysiology, 83, 1019-1030.

 

Dragoi, V. and J.E.R. Staddon (1999). The dynamics of operant conditioning. Psychological Review, 106, 20-61.

 

Dragoi, V. and G. Lockhead (1999). Context-dependent changes in visual sensitivity induced by Muller-Lyer stimuli. Vision Research, 39, 1657 – 1670.

 

Dragoi, V. and I. Grosu. (1998). Synchronization of locally coupled neural oscillators. Neural Processing Letters, 7: 199-210.

 

Dragoi, V. (1997). A dynamic theory of acquisition and extinction in operant learning. Neural Networks, 10: 201-229.

 

Dragoi, V. (1997). A review of origins: Brain and self organization. Behavior and Philosophy, 25,81-82.

 

Book Chapters and Proceedings

Dragoi, V. and M. Sur (2003). Orientation plasticity in visual cortex and its significance for vision. In L. Chalupa and J. S. Werner, The Visual Neurosciences, MIT Press, Cambridge.

 

Dragoi, V., Rivadulla, C., and M. Sur (2002). Contributions of ascending thalamic and local intracortical connections to visual cortical function. In S. G. Lomber & R. A. Galuske, Virtual lesion: Selective blockade and deactivation studies, Academic Press, San Diego.

 

Somers, D. C., Dragoi, V. and M. Sur (2001) Orientation selectivity and its modulation by local and long-range connections in visual cortex. In A. Peters &B. Payne, Cerebral Cortex: The cat primary visual cortex, Academic Press, San Diego.

 

Dragoi, V., and J.E.R. Staddon (1998). The time scales of conditioning. Proceedings of the 10 th Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, 242-249.

 

Dragoi, V. (1997). A model of contextual interactions in primary visual cortex: Examining the influence of corticogeniculate feedback. In:Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. (Bower JM, ed.) Plenum Press, 617-622, 1997.

 

Dragoi, V. (1995). Neural dynamics of form perception: Geometrical illusions and after effects. Proceedings of World Congress on Neural Networks, 3: 275-278.

 

Dragoi, V. and J. E. R. Staddon (1993). A competitive neural network model for the process of recurrent choice. In M.C. Mozer, P. Smolensky, D.S. Touretzky, J.L. Elman, &A.S. Weigend (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School (pp. 65-73). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.

 

Dragoi, V. (1992). Structural organization of Boolean cellular automata. In D. Ruck (Ed.), Science of Artificial Neural Networks. Proceedings of the SPIE, 1710, 123-132.

 

Dragoi, V. and C. Buhusi (1991). A new learning algorithm based on neural relocation. In T. Yamakawa, H. Teodorescu, M. Rascanu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence IFSAI 1991, 183-189. Iasi University Publ. House, Romania.

 

Dragoi, V. (1991). Contextual organization of cellular automata. In T. Yamakawa, H. Teodorescu, M. Rascanu (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6 th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence IFSAI 1991, 173-182. Iasi University Publ. House, Romania.

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