Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Science, Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002-present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Science, Center for Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1997-2002.
Ph.D., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug 13, 1996.
Thesis: ``The Leabra Model of Neural Interactions and Learning in
the Neocortex.''
James L. McClelland advisor.
M.S., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992.
A.B. Magna with Highest Honors in Psychology,
Harvard University, 1989.
Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science.
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996-1997.
Interdisciplinary program in Neural Processes in Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, 1990-1996.
Connectionist Models Summer School, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1993.
McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, 1992.
Specialization of function in and interactions between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and posterior neocortex in learning, memory, attention, and controlled processing.
Visual object recognition in biological systems.
Computational and formal models of the biological bases of cognition (computational cognitive neuroscience).
D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award, APA Division 6, 2007.
Provost Faculty Achievement Award, University of Colorado Boulder, 2007.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CMU/Pitt, Pittsburgh, USA) Distinguished Alumnus, 2002.
Excellence in Teaching award, CU Neuroscience Club, 1999.
Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis, Harvard College, 1989.
John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard College, 1987-1989.
Los Angeles Times National Merit Scholarship, 1985-1987.
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT, 1996-1997.
Office of Naval Research Graduate Fellowship, 1990-1993.
Determinants of Executive Function and Dysfunction, NIH IBSC center 1-P50-MH079485 (pending -- approved by council), Marie Banich, PI, $7,237,015 total costs, PI of Project 2 and Computational Core.
An Adaptive, Biologically-Based Cognitive Architecture for Simulated Robots: Active Vision, ONR N00014-07-1-0651, 2/22/07-9/30/09, $415,981 total costs.
Biologically-Inspired Cognitive Architecture, DARPA/ONR N00014-05-1-0880, 9/1/05-3/1/07, $294,532 direct costs.
Toward a Unified Model of Cognitive Control, NIH R01 MH069597-01, 1/1/2004-12/31/2008, $787,500 direct costs.
Developing an Adaptive, Biologically-Based Cognitive Architecture, ONR N00014-03-1-0428, 3/1/2003-2/28/2006, $433,800 direct costs.
Toward a Neurobiologically Constrained Framework for Modeling Human Cognition, NIH IBSC center 1 P50 MH 64445, James L. McClelland PI, 9/30/2002-6/30/2007, $9,340,596 total award, approx $1,000,000 for components associated with.
Conjunctive Representations: In Cortex and Hippocampus. NIH R01 MH61316-01, 2000-2004. Co-PI with Jerry W. Rudy. $600,000 direct costs.
Towards a Biological Basis of Systematic Controlled Processing: Activation- and Weight-Based Mechanisms. ONR N00014-00-1-0246, 2000-2003, $360,000 direct costs.
Discrete Representations in Working Memory: Developmental, Neuropsychological, and Computational Investigations. NSF KDI/LIS IBN-9873492. Awarded to M.C. Mozer, Y. Munakata, R.C. O'Reilly, and A. Miyake, 1998-2001, $800,000 direct costs.
Toward a Model of Normal and Disordered Cognition, NIH Program Project MH47566, James L. McClelland PI, 1997-2002, $3,050,828 direct costs ($600,000 for components associated with).
How the hippocampus operates in memory. Human Frontier Science Program Grant, Edmund Rolls PI, 1991-1994.
Huber, D.E., O'Reilly, R.C., Woroch, B., & Curran, T. (in press). The dynamics of integration and separation: Interpreting ERPs with a biologically-based neural network. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Bayley, P.J., O'Reilly, R.C., Curran, T. & Squire, L.R. (in press). New Semantic Learning in Patients with Large Medial Temporal Lobe Lesions. Hippocampus.
Atallah, H.E., Rudy, J.W., & O'Reilly, R.C. (in press). The Competitive Roles of the Dorsal Striatum and Dorsal Hippocampus in Odor Discrimination Tasks. Learning and Memory.
Pauli, W.M. & O'Reilly R.C. (in press). Attentional Control of Associative Learning -- a possible role of the central cholinergic system. Brain Research.
Frank, M.J., Santamaria, A., O'Reilly, R.C., & Willcutt, E. (2007). Testing Computational Models of Dopamine and Noradrenaline Dysfunction in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Neuropsychopharmacology, 32, 1583-99.
Hazy, T.E., Frank, M.J., and O'Reilly, R.C. (2007). Toward an executive without a homunculus: Computational models of the prefrontal cortex/basal ganglia system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 362, 1601-1613.
O'Reilly, R.C., Frank, M.J., Hazy, T.E., and Watz, B. (2007). PVLV: The Primary Value and Learned Value Pavlovian Learning Algorithm, Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 31-49.
Atallah, H.E., Lopez-Paniagua, D., Rudy, J.W., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2007). Separate Neural Substrates for Skill Learning and Performance in the Ventral and Dorsal Striatum: Evidence for an Actor-Director System. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 126-131.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). Biologically-Based Computational Models of High-Level Cognition. Science, 314, 91-94.
Frank, M.J. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). A Mechanistic Account of Striatal Dopamine Function in Human Cognition: Psychopharmacological Studies with Cabergoline and Haloperidol. Behavioral Neuroscience, 120, 497-517.
Frank, M.J., O'Reilly, R.C., & Curran, T. (2006). When memory fails, intuition reigns: Midazolam enhances implicit inference in humans. Psychological Science, 17, 700-707.
Hazy, T.E., Frank, M.J. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). Banishing the homunculus: making working memory work. Neuroscience, 139, 105-118.
Herd, S.A., Banich, M.T., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control: An Integrative Model of Stroop Task Performance and fMRI data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 22-32.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Frank, M.J. (2006). Making Working Memory Work: A Computational Model of Learning in the Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia. Neural Computation, 18, 283-328.
Frank, M.J., Rudy, J.W., Levy, W.B. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). When logic fails: Implicit transitive inference in humans. Memory & Cognition, 33, 742-750.
Herd, S.A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). Serial visual search from a parallel model. Vision Research, 45, 2987-2992.
Rudy, J.W., Biedenkapp, J.C. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). Prefrontal Cortex and the Organization of Recent and Remote Memories: An Alternative View. Learning and Memory, 12, 445-446.
Rougier, N.P., Noelle, D., Braver, T.S., Cohen, J.D., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). Prefrontal Cortex and the Flexibility of Cognitive Control: Rules Without Symbols. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 7338-7343.
Frank, M.J., Seeberger, L.C., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). By carrot or by stick: Cognitive reinforcement learning in Parkinsonism. Science, 306, 1940-1943.
Attalah, H., Frank, M.J. & O'Reilly, R.C (2004). Hippocampus, cortex and basal ganglia: Insights from computational models of complementary learning systems. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 82, 253-267.
Norman, K.A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Modeling Hippocampal and Neocortical Contributions to Recognition Memory: A Complementary Learning Systems Approach. Psychological Review, 110, 611-646.
Huber, D.E. and O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Persistence and accommodation in short-term priming and other perceptual paradigms: Temporal segregation through synaptic depression. Cognitive Science, 27, 403-430.
Munakata, Y. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Developmental and Computational Neuroscience Approaches to Cognition: The Case of Generalization. Cognitive Studies, 10, 76-92.
Van Elzakker, M., O'Reilly, R.C., & Rudy, J.W. (2003). Transitivity, flexibility, conjunctive representations and the hippocampus: I: An empirical analysis. Hippocampus, 13, 292-298.
Frank, M.J., Rudy, J.W., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Transitivity, flexibility, conjunctive representations and the hippocampus: II: A computational analysis. Hippocampus, 13, 299-312.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Norman, K.A. (2002). Hippocampal and Neocortical Contributions to Memory: Advances in the Complementary Learning Systems Framework. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 505-510.
Barrientos, R. M., O'Reilly, R. C., & Rudy, J. W. (2002). Memory for context is impaired by injecting anisomycin into dorsal hippocampus following context exploration. Behavioural Brain Research, 134, 299-306.
Rougier, N.P. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Learning Representations in a Gated Prefrontal Cortex Model of Dynamic Task Switching. Cognitive Science, 26, 503-520.
Rudy, J.W., Barrientos, R.M. and O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). The hippocampal formation supports conditioning to memory of a context. Behavioral Neuroscience, 116, 530-538.
Holdstock, J. S., Mayes, A. R., Roberts, N., Cezayirli, E., Isaac, C. L., O'Reilly, R. C., Norman, K. A. (2002). Under What Conditions is Recognition Spared Relative to Recall After Selective Hippocampal Damage in Humans?, Hippocampus, 12, 341-351.
O'Reilly, R.C., Noelle, D.C., Braver, T.S. and Cohen, J.D. (2002). Prefrontal cortex in dynamic categorization tasks: Representational organization and neuromodulatory control. Cerebral Cortex, 12, 246-257.
Frank, M., Loughry, B. and O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Interactions between the frontal cortex and basal ganglia in working memory: A computational model. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 137-160.
Rudy, J.W. and O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Conjunctive Representations, the Hippocampus and Contextual Fear Conditioning. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 66-82.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Generalization in interactive networks: The benefits of inhibitory competition and Hebbian learning. Neural Computation, 13, 1199-1242.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Rudy, J.W. (2001). Conjunctive representations in learning and memory: Principles of hippocampal and cortical function. Psychological Review, 108, 311-345.
Munakata, Y., Santos, L.R., Spelke, E.S., Hauser, M.D., and O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Object representation in the wild: How rhesus monkeys parse objects based on featural information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 44-58.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Rudy, J.W. (2000). Computational principles of learning in the neocortex and hippocampus. Hippocampus, 10, 389-397.
Vecera, S.V. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2000). Graded effects in hierarchical figure-ground organization: Reply to Peterson. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1221-1230.
Rudy, J. W. & O'Reilly, R.C. (1999). Contextual fear conditioning, conjunctive representations, pattern completion, and the hippocampus. Behavioral Neuroscience, 113, 867-880.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Farah, M.J. (1999). Simulation and explanation in neuropsychology and beyond. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 49-72.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1998). Six principles for biologically-based computational models of cortical cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 455-462.
Vecera, S.V. & O'Reilly, R.C. (1998). Figure-ground organization and object recognition processes: An interactive account. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 441-462.
Cohen, J. D., Braver, T. S., & O'Reilly, R. C. (1996). A computational approach to prefrontal cortex, cognitive control, and schizophrenia: Recent developments and current challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 351, 1515-1527. Reprinted in: The Prefrontal Cortex: Executive and Cognitive Functions, A.C. Roberts, T.W. Robbins, and L. Weiskrantz, Eds. (1998), Oxford University Press, pp 195-220.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1996). Biologically plausible error-driven learning using local activation differences: The generalized recirculation algorithm. Neural Computation, 8, 895-938.
McClelland, J.L., McNaughton, B.L., & O'Reilly, R.C. (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102, 419-457.
O'Reilly, R.C. & McClelland, J.L. (1994). Hippocampal conjunctive encoding, storage, and recall: Avoiding a tradeoff. Hippocampus, 6, 661-682.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Johnson, M.H. (1994). Object recognition and sensitive periods: A computational analysis of visual imprinting. Neural Computation, 6, 357-389.
Farah, M.J., O'Reilly, R.C., & Vecera, S.J. (1993). Dissociated overt and covert recognition as an emergent property of a lesioned neural network. Psychological Review, 100, 571-588.
O'Reilly, R.C., Kosslyn, S.M., Marsolek, C.J., & Chabris, C.F. (1990). Receptive field characteristics that allow parietal lobe neurons to encode spatial properties of visual input: a computational analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2, 141-155.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Busby, R.S. (2002). Generalizable Relational Binding from Coarse-coded Distributed Representations. Advances in Neural Information processing Systems (NIPS) 14, T. G. Dietterich, S. Becker, and Z. Ghahramani, Eds, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Soto, R. (2002). A Model of the Phonological Loop: Generalization and Binding. Advances in Neural Information processing Systems (NIPS) 14, T. G. Dietterich, S. Becker, and Z. Ghahramani, Eds, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
O'Reilly, R.C., Mozer, M., Munakata, Y. & Miyake, A. (1999). Discrete Representations in Working Memory: A Hypothesis and Computational Investigations. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cognitive Science (Tokyo, Japan), 183-188.
O'Reilly, R.C., Norman, K., & McClelland, J.L. (1998). A hippocampal model of recognition memory. In M.I. Jordan, M.J. Kearns, and S.A. Solla (Eds) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 10, 73-79. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Santamaria, A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (submitted). Interval timing: A search for evidence of two systems.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Munakata, Y. (2000). Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Munakata, Y., O'Reilly, R. C., & Morton, J. B. (2007). Developmental and computational approaches to variation in working memory. In A. Conway, C. Jarrold, M. Kane, A. Miyake, & J. Towse (Eds.) Variation in Working Memory, Oxford University Press.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). Modeling Integration and Dissociation in Brain and Cognitive Development. Y. Munakata & M.H. Johnson (Eds) Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development: Attention and Performance XXI..Oxford University Press.
Cer, D.M. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2006). Neural mechanisms of binding in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from computational models. In H.D. Zimmer & A. Mecklinger & U. Lindenberger (Eds) Binding in Memory, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). The Division of Labor Between the Neocortex and Hippocampus. In G. Houghton, (Ed) Connectionist Models in Cognitive Science, New York: Psychology Press.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Munakata, Y. (2003). Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Modeling. In L. Nadel (Ed) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, London: Macmillan.
O'Reilly, R.C., Busby, R. S. and Soto, R. (2003). Three Forms of Binding and their Neural Substrates: Alternatives to Temporal Synchrony. In A. Cleeremans (Ed) The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration, and Dissociation, 168-192, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Munakata, Y. (2002). Psychological Function in Computational Models of Neural Networks. In M. Gallagher & R. Nelson (Eds) Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 3, Biological Psychology. New York: Wiley.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory. In W.E. Craighead & C.B. Nemeroff (Eds) The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Third Edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons.
O'Reilly, R.C., Braver, T.S., & Cohen, J.D. (1999). A biologically-based computational model of working memory. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds) Models of Working Memory: Mechanisms of Active Maintenance and Executive Control, 375-411. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Farah, M.J., O'Reilly, R.C., & Vecera, S.J. (1997). The neural correlates of perceptual awareness: Evidence from covert recognition in prosopagnosia. In J.D. Cohen & J.W. Schooler (Eds) Scientific Approaches to the Question of Consciousness. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Cohen, J.D. & O'Reilly, R.C. (1996). A preliminary theory of the interactions between prefrontal cortex and hippocampus that contribute to planning and prospective memory. in M. Brandimonte, G. Epstein & M. McDaniel (Eds) Prospective Memory: Theory and Applications. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1994). Temporally local unsupervised learning: The MaxIn algorithm for maximizing input information. In M.C. Mozer, P. Smolensky, & A.S. Weigend (Eds) Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Summer School, Hove, England: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
O'Reilly, R.C. & McClelland, J.L. (1992). The self-organization of spatially invariant representations. Technical Report PDP.CNS.92.5, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology.
O'Reilly, R.C., Dawson, C.K., & McClelland, J.L. (1995--2002). The PDP++ Neural Network Simulation System. Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Version 2.2 released 1/2002; 2.1 9/2001, 2.0 8/2000;
O'Reilly, R.C. (2007): Abstract Representations and Embodied Agents: Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia Contributions. Invited talk at CoSy Meeting of the Minds Workshop, Paris, France.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2005): Interactions between the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia in the dopamine-based learning of cognitive control. Invited talk at Betty Behrens Symposium, Cambridge, UK.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2005): Toward an Executive without a Homunculus: Computational Models of the Prefrontal Cortex/Basal Ganglia System. Invited talk at Modelling Natural Action Selection Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2005): Primary Value and Learned Value: A computational model of dopamine-based learning in the amygdala and basal ganglia. Invited talk at Motivational Neuroscience Conference, New York, NY.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2005): Biologically-Based Cognitive Architecture: Posterior Cortex, Hippocampus, and Prefrontal Cortex/Basal Ganglia. Invited talk at Cortical Memory Storage Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). Modeling Integration and Dissociation in Brain and Cognitive Development. Invited talk for Processes of Change in Brain and Cognitive Development: Attention and Performance XXI, Winter Park, CO.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2003): Reinforcement Learning of Dynamic Gating Signals in the Prefrontal Cortex/Basal Ganglia Working Memory System. Invited talk at A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Frontal Cortex, Nancy, France.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2003): Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions: A Computational Perspective. Invited talk at Memory Disorders Research Society Conference, Chicago, IL.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2002): Learning and Memory in the Hippocampus and Neocortex: Principles and Models. Invited talk at Sixth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001): Models of Hippocampal and Neocortical Contributions to Memory, and Neural Network Modeling Tutorial. Invited talks at EPOS Workshop: Computational Models of Memory, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001): Interactions Between Frontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia in Working Memory: A Computational Model. Invited talk at International Society for Behavioural Neuroscience Conference, Marrakech, Morocco.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001): Recent developments of the rapid-incidental-conjunctive model of hippocampal function. Invited talk at 25th Annual Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Conference, Park City, Utah.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2000): How the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex can Contribute to the Unity of Consciousness: A Computational Perspective. Plenary talk presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference: The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration, and Dissociation, Brussels, Belgium.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2000). Computational Principles of Learning in the Neocortex and Hippocampus. Invited talk presented at: ``The Nature of Hippocampal-Cortical Interaction: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives,'' Dublin, Ireland.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1999). Conjunctive Representations in Learning and Memory: Principles of Cortical and Hippocampal Function. Invited talk at the American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Hazy, T.H., Frank, M.J., Watz, B. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). The PVLV model: A new biological theory of Pavlovian conditioning. Poster presented at the Annual Neuroscience Society Meeting, Washington, DC.
Atallah, H.E. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). Effects of basal ganglia lesions on instrumental and Pavlovian learning in rats. Poster presented at the Annual Neuroscience Society Meeting, Washington, DC.
Santamaria, A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2005). A Computational Model of Interval Timing in the Cerebellum and Prefrontal Cortex. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY.
Herd, S.A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). A Neural Feature Integration Theory of Visual Search. Poster presented at the Annual Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Atallah, H.A., Rudy, J.W. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). Rats with a hippocampal lesion are not impaired on the transitive inference task, but are they using logic? Poster presented at the Annual Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Frank, M.J. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). Dynamic dopamine modulation in the basal ganglia: A neurocomputational account of cognitive deficits in medicated and non-medicated Parkinsonism. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Santamaria, A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). Conditioned Interval Timing: A Computational Model and Experimental Tests. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2004). Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions: A Computational Perspective. Talk presented at the Winter Conference on Brain Research, Copper, CO.
Jilk, D.J., Cer, D. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Effectiveness of Neural Network Learning Rules Generated by a Biophysical Model of Synaptic Plasticity. Poster presented at the Computational Neuroscience Conference, Alicante, Spain.
Herd, S.A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2003). Parallel Neural Network Models of Visual Search. Poster presented at the Computational Neuroscience Conference, Alicante, Spain.
Huber, D.E., Curran, T., O'Reilly, R.C., & Woroch, B. (2003). Immediate Repetition Priming: Measuring Synaptic Depression with ERPs. Poster presented at the Computational Neuroscience Conference, Alicante, Spain.
Santamaria, A. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Interval Timing: A Cerebellar Model and Investigation of Temporal Production. Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO.
Huber, D.E., Curran, T. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Temporally segregating written words through synaptic depression: The electrophysiological correlates of neural persistence and neural accommodation. Poster presented at the Summer Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Squamish, BC, Canada.
Huber, D.E., Curran, T. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Discounting repeated words through synaptic depression: Using ERPs to measure the correlates of lingering and depressing neural activation. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Herd, S.A., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Attentional Control as Excitatory Bias -- Accounting for fMRI Data. Poster presented at the Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Huber, D.E., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). How is the brain able to identify items with minimal interference from prior presentations? Talk presented at the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson Hole, WY.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Computational Principles of Learning in the Neocortex and Hippocampus. Talk at the Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity, Moorea, French Polynesia.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2002). Neural Mechanisms of Learning in Frontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia. Talk at the Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowmass, Colorado.
Rudy, J.W. & O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Conditioning to A Memory: Episodic Recall Depends on the Hippocampus. Poster presented at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Huber, D.E., & O'Reilly, R. C. (2001). Unbiased benefits and deficits in short-term repetition priming. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001). Toward a biological basis of systematic controlled processing: Activation- and weight-based approaches. Talk presented at the ONR Cortex Workshop, Raleigh-Durham, NC.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2001): Interactions Between Prefrontal Cortex and Basal Ganglia in Working Memory. Talk at 34th Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research, Steamboat Springs, CO.
Stedron, J.M., Munakata, Y., & O'Reilly, R.C. (2000). Spatial reorientation in young children: A case of modularity? Poster presented at the 2000 meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England.
Norman, K. A., O'Reilly, R.C., & Huber, D. E. (2000). Modeling Neocortical Contributions to Recognition Memory. Poster presented at the Seventh Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
O'Reilly, R.C. (2000). Towards a biological basis of systematic controlled processing: Activation- and weight-based approaches. Talk presented at the ONR Cortex Workshop, Elkridge, MD.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1999). Interactions between working memory and long-term memory: Computational insights. Talk presented at the Memory Disorders Meeting, Tucson, AZ.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Munakata, Y. (1999). Cognitive modeling using the PDP++ neural network simulation system. Tutorial presented at the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Farah, M. J. (1999). Covert Face Recognition: Further Tests of a Computational Model. Poster presented at the Sixth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, DC.
Wager, T.D. & O'Reilly, R.C. (1999). Reconciling Biology and Function in the Thalamus: A Computational Simulation of the Role of the Thalamic Reticular Nucleus in Attention. Poster presented at the Sixth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, DC.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1998). The combination of supervised and unsupervised learning facilitates rerepresentation in deep networks. Talk presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems workshops, Breckenridge, CO.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1998). Principles for learning and processing in the cortex: Reconciling interactivity and generalization using competition and Hebbian learning. Talk presented at the Fifth Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Franciso, CA.
O'Reilly, R.C. & Norman, (1997). A hippocampal model of recognition memory. Talk presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems workshops, Breckenridge, CO.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1995). Combined error-driven and associative learning as a model of neocortical learning. Poster presented at the Second Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Goddard, N.H., McClelland, J.L., & O'Reilly, R.C. (1995). Correlation-based invertible encoding in a model of hippocampal memory. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. & Poster presented at the 1995 Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA.
McClelland, J.L, McNaughton, B.L, & O'Reilly, R.C. (1993). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D.C.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1992). Object recognition and sensitive periods: A computational analysis of visual imprinting. Paper presented at the Third Annual Midwest Connectfest, Pittsburgh, PA.
McClelland, J.L, McNaughton, B.L, O'Reilly, R.C, & Nadel, L. (1992). Complementary roles of hippocampus and neocortex in learning and memory. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. & Poster Presented at 1992 Society for Neuroscience Conference, Anaheim, CA.
Farah, M.J., O'Reilly, R.C., & Vecera, S.J. (1991). Dissociated overt and covert recognition as an emergent property of lesioned attractor networks. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, San Francisco, CA.
O'Reilly, R.C. (1991). The self-organization of spatially invariant representations. Paper presented at the 9th Annual Pitt-CMU Conference on Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA.
Excellence in Teaching award, CU Neuroscience Club, 1999.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (graduate and undergraduate).
Cognitive Neuroscience Proseminar (graduate).
Introduction to Cognition and Perception (undergraduate).
Introduction to Statistics and Research Methods (undergraduate).
Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Principles of Learning and Memory in the Hippocampus and Neocortex (graduate).
Analytical Methods in Psychological Modeling (graduate and undergraduate).
Hisham Atallah (Ph.D. & postdoc advisor, 8/00-present)
Phillip Branning (Ph.D. advisor, 8/05-present)
Daniel Cer (Ph.D. co-advisor, 8/00-present)
Thomas Hazy (Postdoctoral supervisor, 10/01-present)
Seth Herd (Ph.D. & postdoc advisor, 8/99-present)
David Jilk (research advisor, 9/02-present)
Wolfgang Pauli (Ph.D. advisor, 8/06-present)
Richard Busby (M.S. advisor, Applied Math, 8/99-01/01)
Michael Frank (Ph.D. advisor, 8/01-12/05, now Asst Prof, Univ. Arizona)
Randy Gobbel (Postdoctoral co-supervisor, 9/97-6/99)
David Huber (Postdoctoral supervisor, 8/99-9/03, now Asst Prof, UCSD)
Bryan Loughry (M.S. co-advisor, Computer Science, 1/99-12/03)
David Noelle (Postdoctoral co-supervisor, 9/97-8/01, now Asst Prof, UC Merced)
Kenneth Norman (Postdoctoral supervisor, 8/99-8/02, now Asst Prof, Princeton Univ.)
Alex Petrov (Postdoctoral supervisor, 9/05-8/06, now Asst Prov, Ohio State Univ.)
Nicolas Rougier (Postdoctoral supervisor, 11/00-8/02, now Research Faculty, LORIA, Nancy, France)
Amy Santamaria (Ph.D. advisor, 8/00-2/06, now Research Scientist, Alion Corp)
Rodolfo Soto (Ph.D. co-advisor, 8/99-4/01)
Michael Vanelzakker (B.A. co-advisor, 6/99-5/00, Magna honors thesis)
Tor Wager (post B.A. research advisor, 9/97-8/98, now Asst Prof, Columbia Univ.)
Associate Editor, Psychological Review, 2003-2006
Reviewing Editor, Hippocampus, 2003-2006.
Associate Editor, Cognitive Science, 2001-2004.
Faculty of 1000 Contributor, (www.facultyof1000.com), Theoretical Neuroscience, 2001-2005
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Society for Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Cognitive Science Society
International Society for Behavioral Neuroscience
Memory Disorders Research Society
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, 2005-
Cognitive Science Society Conference, 2002.
NSF grant proposal reviewing (CRCN panel, May 2002; ad hoc).
National Institutes of Health grant peer review panels, ad hoc member several times.
Journals, Conferences, Books: Biological Cybernetics, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science Society, Experimental Brain Research, Hippocampus, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Neuroscience, Memory, Memory and Cognition, MIT Press, Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Neural Computation, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Neural Networks, Oxford University Press, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences.
Chair of inaugural organizing committee for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Washington, DC, 2005.
Cognitive Program Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Boulder, 2002-3.
Member of organizing committee for fourth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, George Mason University, 2001.
Co-organized workshop on ``The hippocampus and episodic memory'' at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Breckenridge, CO, 1997.
Maintain email list for PDP++ software, and provide assistance to researchers using this software (1995-present).
Cognitive Neuroscience Section, NINDS, NIH, November 2005.
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, April 2005.
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, MIT, March 2005.
Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, March 2005.
University of Colorado Boulder, Neuroscience Center, February, 2004.
Neuroscience Research Group, University of Denver, February, 2004.
Cognitive Science Center, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, January 2004.
Developmental Brain Research Center Inaugural Symposium, Hokkaido University, December, 2003.
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University Newark, November 2003.
Brain Institute Student Invited Speaker, Vanderbilt University, May 2003.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Distinguished Alumni lecture, CMU, November 2002.
RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan, August 2002.
Department of Systems Science, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2002.
Department of Psychology, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, July 2002.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, May 2002.
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Denver, March 2002.
Computation and Neural Systems Seminar, California Institute of Technology, February 2002.
Cognitive Science Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2001.
Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, London, May 2001.
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, April 2001.
Department of Psychology, UCLA, March, 2001.
Cognitive Science, Indiana University, March 2001.
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at the University College, London, July 2000.
Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, April, 2000.
University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, April, 1999.
Departments of Computer Science, Psychology, and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Science of Learning Research Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, November, 1998.
Colorado School of Mines, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Golden, Colorado, April, 1998.
University of Denver, Department of Psychology Neuroscience Research Group, Denver, CO, October 1997.
Umea University, Psychology Department, Umea, Sweden, January 1997.
Harvard University Cognition, Brain, and Behavior, Cambridge, MA, November 1996.
University of the Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 1995.
Born: March 1, 1967 in Denver, CO
Citizenship: USA