Neural network and neuroscience labs in America

Index

Brazil - Canada - Mexico - USA - Venezuela

Brazil

Universidade de São Paulo: Neural Networks at the Instituto de Física.

Canada

University of Alberta: Biological Computation Project. Info on the research of the project.
Psychology Dept.
University of British Columbia: Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering: research groups in pattern recognition, and robotics and control.
University of Calgary: Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences. Mostly information about faculty and students.
l'Université Laval: Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory (also in French). Lots of info on lab activities, staff, publications, and classes. Links to other vision sites.
McGill University: Centre for Intelligent Machines. Info on research.
McMaster University: Psychology Department. Program in Neural Computation; PhD in Experimental Psychology. Center for Neural Systems; Cognitive Psychology.
National Research Council - NRC (Canada): The NRC Artificial Intelligence Resources page links to a resources directory. There are links for many branches of AI, including neural networks. This is definitely worth a look.
University of New Brunswick: Home page of Lev Goldfarb.
Queen's University: http://pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca/: Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science programme; Visual and Auditory Neurosience; Speech Perception and Production; The Touch Laboratory.
Simon Fraser University: Computational Vision Lab.
University of Toronto: Neural Network Research Group.
Cognitive Robotics Group.
Department of Statistics.

Mexico

Laboratorio Nacional de Inform≪tica Avanzada (LANIA): Group of Neural Networks and Learning Theory.

USA

University of Arizona

Committee on Neuroscience: Biomathematics; Developmental Neurobiology; Insect Neurobiology; Motor Control; Neural Systems, Memory, and Aging; Speech and Hearing Sciences.
Neural Systems, Memory, and Aging: A Division of Arizona Research Labs at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

University of Arkansas

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: AI and robotics research.

Baylor College of Medicine

Biomedical Computation and Visualization Laboratory

Research in computational neurobiology.

Center for Theoretical Neuroscience

Division of Neuroscience

Boston University

Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems page has lots of information on the dept, on the Center for Adaptive Systems, graduate programs, publications, faculty, etc.
Department of Biology. Has info on staff, including neuroscientists and the Woods Hole marine biology program.
Neurobotics Lab: mobile robots for testing biological NNs.

Brandeis University

Center for Complex Systems. Interdisciplinary info on neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science.
Computational Neuroscience and The Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Medical Department: research in neuroscience imaging and drug abuse.

Brown University

Institute for Brain and Neural Systems. ANNs, biological basis of learning and memory.
Department of Clinical Neurosciences (Neurology).
Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at Brown. Overview.
Computer Science Department. AI, bayesian belief nets, robotics.
Dept of Neuroscience.
Department of Psychology
Brown Vision Page.

California Institute of Tecnology - Caltech

Computation & Neural Systems Program: Has info about the program, PhD theses, etc.
Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology: One of five centers.
Physics of Computation: Lots of information on the design of neuromorphic analog VLSI chips, plus good links to others doing similar work.
Beckman Biology Building WWW Server: Links to info on the GENESIS simulator, the Bower lab, and computational neuroscience meetings.
Mouse and Rat Research Home Page. Lots of specialised info.
Koch Lab: Laboratory of Professor Christof Koch.

University of California at Berkeley

Robotics & Intelligent Machines Lab: Features: People in the Robotics Laboratory, Areas of Research, Papers and Publications, Robotics Demos and Movies, Robotics Tools, UCB Robotics FTP server contains tools and several publications.
W.J. Freeman Neurophysiology lab
Molecular and Cell Biology
Department of Statistics: NN research (Jordan).

University of California at Davis

Center for Neuroscience. Info about the center.

University of California at Los Angeles

Division of Neurosurgery at UCLA Medical Center.: Includes Brain Monitoring and Modeling Laboratory, and HTML lecture notes for a computational neuroscience course.
UCLA Neuroscience Undergraduate Society: Neuroscience information and pointers.
UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging. Includes rat and monkey atlases.

University of California at San Diego

Cognitive Science
Vision Group
Graduate Program in Neurosciences
Institute for Neural Computation: Home of Neural Computation journal.

University of California at San Francisco

Home for neuroscience and physiological research. Page for Dept Physiology, Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Neuroscience Grad Program.

University of California at Santa Barbara

Neuroscience Research Institute. Also Center for the Study of Macular Degeneration.
Dept of Psychology.

University of California at Santa Cruz

Perceptual Science Laboratory: Perception and cognition.
Computational Biology Home Page: Dedicated to the discovery and implementation of algorithms that facilitate the understanding of biological processes.

Carnegie Mellon University

Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition: Joint program between CMU and University of Pittsburgh.
School of Computer Science: Includes Computer Science Department (AI research) and Robotics Institute.

University of Cincinnati

Artificial Neural Systems Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Research in neurobiology. here?

University of Colorado at Boulder

Boulder Connectionist Research Group (BCRG).: Info on researchers, classes and papers.
Research in Neural and Statistical Computation: Overview of interdisciplinary research.
Institute of Cognitive Science: Includes graduate training program. Also O'Reilly lab.

University of Colorado at Denver

Developmental cognitive neuroscience at Dept of Psychology.

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Neuroscience Program.

Colorado School of Mines

Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences home page has info on the work of faculty, NN research and courses, graduate program. Also the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS).

Columbia University

Robotics Group: Information and several MPEGs for the following projects: Visual Control for Robotics Tasks, Model-Based Sensor Planning, Dextrous Robotics Hands, 3D Scene Reconstruction and Object Recognition, 8-Degree of Freedom Robot, Interactive Tutorials for Machine Vision.
Dept of Statistics: Bayesian inference.
Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior: -

Cornell University

The Field Lab investigates psychophysical and computational approaches to vision.
Vision and Parallel Processing Group.
Cornell Robotics and Vision Laboratory.
Chaos and Complexity
Dept of Neurobiology and Behavior, includes grad program.
Basic Research Laboratory of the Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, Victor lab, temporal coding and spike train dynamics, visual information processing.

University of Denver

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience program. In depts of psychology and biology.

Emory University

Calabrese lab home page.: Staff, papers, references. Neurolab modeling tool.
Department of Neurology: In school of medicine.

Florida Atlantic University

Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences.

Florida State University

Neuroscience Program. Info on program.

George Mason University

Genetic Algorithms Group: Summaries of GA and EC research and lab members.
Krasnow Institute: Adaptive systems, comparative vertebrate neurobiology, invertebrate neurobiology, large scale neuro-cytoarchitechtures modeling, neural dynamics.
Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics: Includes comp neurosci studies and PhD program.

Georgetown University

Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences: Cognitive, computational, cellular, and molecular neuroscience.
Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience: Graduate program.
Medical Center Dept of Neurology.: At Medical Center.
Computational Linguistics: At Department of Linguistics.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mobile Robot Laboratory Home Page
Information on people and research projects involving learning in robots.
Neuromorphic Sensorimotor Systems Lab
Research group of Professor Stephen P. DeWeerth: modeling of neurobiological sensorimotor systems using analog VLSI.

Harvard University

Harvard Biological Laboratories

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Pacific Biomedical Research Center. Includes B�k�sy Laboratory of Neurobiology and Stomatogastric Nervous System web site.

University of Houston

Life Sciences. BRAIN: Basic Research and Academic Initiatives in Neuroscience.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Genetic Algorithms Laboratory: Information and archive on GA research.
Beckman Institute Neuronal Pattern Analysis Group: Neural Systems and Computation, Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology.
Neuroscience: Grad program.

Indiana University

Cognitive Science: Info on the department and local FTP site.
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition: Information on the research of the center, the Copycat program, and papers.

Iowa State University

Artificial Intelligence Research Group does research in AI, alife, ANNs, etc. Links to publications and AI courses.
Neuroscience Graduate Program.

Johns Hopkins University

Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute: Interdisciplinary research center.
Cognitive Science Department: Some neural network research. Info on faculty, students, PhD applications.
Dept of Biomedical Engineering: Includes auditory neurophysiology, human motor learning, neural encoding.
Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine.

University of Kentucky

Center for Biomedical Engineering. Incorporates Experimental and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory, which investigates neural systems underlying CPGs and sensorimotor integration in vertebrates, and Neural Control Laboratory, which studies functioning of neuromuscular control systems and NNs for physiological control.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

The list of all Gopher/WWW Servers at LANL is worth a browse. Of particular interest may be: the Simulation and Adaptive Computation Effort in the Applied Theoretical Physics Division, which discusses neural network theory and intelligent control; the Center for Nonlinear Studies; and the Nonlinear Science e-Print Archive, wherein reside many preprints.

Loyola University

Parmly Hearing Institute. Study of sensory systems including hearing, vision, speech perception, vestibular function, and the special senses of the lateral-line organ and electroreception in fish.

University of Maryland

Autonomous Mobile Robots Lab.: Descriptions of projects and people, the Airborne Imaging Robotic System (AIRS), the annual University of Maryland Robotics Competition.
Parallel Understanding Systems (PLUS) Group: Do research on hybrid symbolic/connectionist systems.
Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary program.
Cohen Lab: Biological systems research, lamprey spinal cord rhythmic pattern generator.
Neural Modeling Group: Neural network research.
Auditory NeuroethologyLab: At UMD.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience Lab.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Vision and Modeling Group of the MIT Media Laboratory. Study problems in computer vision and scene modeling.
Laboratory for Computer Science. Includes Clinical Decision Making Group, using Bayesian nets for diagnosing heart disease.

University of Massachusetts

Dept of COmputing: Labs in computer learning, computer vision and perceptual robotics.
Sutton's Reinforcement Learning Archive: Code, papers, abstracts.

University of Michigan

Center for Neural Communication Technology; multichannel silicon substrate microprobe technology.
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in Dept of Psychology: grad progs in Cognition and Perception, and Biopsychology.
Kresge Hearing Research Institute.

Michigan State University

Department of Computer Science: research groups in GAs, intelligent systems, pattern recognition.

Montana State University, Bozeman

Center for Computational Biology: cricket sensory system, input/output properties of a mapped sensory system.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Neurobiology: Neurobiology of aging.
Physiology & Biophysics: Neurophysiological mechanisms.

NASA Ames Research Center

Automated Learning Group, Bayesian data analysis.

Naval Research Laboratory

Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI). The Center consists of an Intelligent Systems Laboratory with research sections in Machine Learning, and Computational Reasoning, and a Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory with research sections in Intelligent M4 (Multimodal/Multimedia) Systems and Interface Design and Evaluation.

NEC Research Institute

Dr Lee Giles's homepage describes his research group, with interests in neural networks. Info on staff and papers.

Neurosciences Institute

Independent scientific research institution. Neurobiology.

Nevada University, School of Medicine

A page of neural network links, including search forms for Neuroprose and recent articles from comp.ai.neural-nets.

New York University

Center for Neural Science: Info on research facilities, faculty, and degree programs.
Network Robotics Laboratory: What is a robot?, Robotics Review, Microhumanoids, Laptop Active Vision, Robot Scaling Theory, Robotics Videos. Also info on faculty and students.

State University of New York at Buffalo

Center for Hearing and Deafness.
Center for Cognitive Science

State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn

Hippocampal Electrophysiology in the Dept of Physiology.

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Department of Neurobiology & Behavior.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Laboratory of Diagnostic Radiology Research: Includes MRI brain research, image processing.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: Basic and clinical neuroscience programs.
Center for Molecular Modeling: MM resources and techniques.
Computational Biophysics: (site up?)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dept of Computer Science has a PhD program in Neural Networks And Vision.

Northeastern University

Marine Science Center.

Ohio State University

Computer and Information Science: Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, INSIGHT (Intelligent Simulation Group), Perception and Neurodynamics Group.
Center for Cognitive Science: (Server problems?)

Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU): Uses an approach that combines expert knowledge of speech and human communication with neural network classification. Info on research and faculty. Also the OGI Speech Tools.
Neural Network Research Group: Info on personnel, publications, NN demos, courses, code.
Neural Speech Enhancement Lab: Enhancing speech in real-world noisy environments.
Computational Finance

Oregon Health Sciences University

Cell Biology and Anatomy -- info on research and faculty in neuroscience.

Oregon State University (USA)

Department of Computer Science includes info on research, including RL by Thomas Dietterich.

University of Oregon

Motor Control Lab: Department of Exercise and Movement Science.
Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences: Including Brain Development lab.
Institute of Neuroscience: Includes graduate program in neuroscience. Also FishNet zebrafish resources databases.

Pacific Northwest Laboratory

Neural Network homepage has quite a lot of useful links, including an introduction to ANNs and bibliographic information.

University of Pennsylvania

Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. Info on the institute and grad program, and on software used in research.
Neuroengineering Research Laboratory.

University of Pittsburg

Joint CMU/Pitt Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.
Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine.
Paul Munro has links to NN pages.
Medical Center Center for Biomedical Informatics.

Purdue University

Neuroscience Home Page.

Ricoh

California Research Center. Machine learning and perception, color image processing. Publications and info about personnel.

University of Rochester

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Vision and Robotics Lab. Particularly robot vision and mobile robots.

Rutgers University

Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.
Psychology Dept. Connectionists.
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

There is a Salk home page, and also pages for:

Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Molecular Neurobiology Labs

Santa Fe Institute

The institute home page links to information on research and faculty in complex and adaptive systems.

Scripps Research Institute

Human Brain Project server.

University of Southern California

USC Brain Project: Lots of information on project goals, research groups, demos, models, people, class projects.
Neuroscience: Includes Neuroscience Grad Program.
Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems: Information on the following laboratories: Computer Vision Lab, Modular Robotics Lab, Robotics Research Lab.
Language & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab: Interdisciplinary psychology, linguistics, computer science and neurosciences.
Robotics Research: Interaction dynamics at different scales.

Stanford University (USA)

Stanford Robotics Laboratory.: Information on people in the lab, plus the following research groups: Geometric Computation (Guibas), Vision and Image Science and Technology (Heeger), Advanced Manipulation Group(Khatib), Jean-Claude Latombe's Research Groups, 'Bots (Nilsson), Nobotics (Shoham). Also a tour of the various robots in the lab.
Vision and Imaging Science and Technology: Software and demos.

University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Laboratory for Artificial Neural Systems (LANS): Info on students, publications, software and some research demos.
Neural Nets research group in the Computer Science Dept: Info on research, personnel, and publications. Some nice demos and virtual posters. Software.
Neuro Engineering Research & Development Laboratory (yes, that makes NERDLab!): In the Dept of Mechanical Engineering. Research into the development of new neural network architectures and learning algorithms, and the application of neural networks. Info on staff and research.
Center for Vision and Image Sciences: Info on staff, projects, tech reports.
Computer and Vision Research Center: In the College of Engineering. Lab overview and research details, staff, publications.

University of Texas-Houston

Neuroscience Research Center.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server.

University of Utah

Robotics and Vision. Research in robot navigation, analysis of robot behavior specifications, and the analysis of visual motion. Info on faculty and projects.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Center for Molecular Neuroscience.

Virginia Tech

Philosophy of Mind pages of Valerie Gray Hardcastle. Includes mind/brain resources.

University of Washington

Home page of William H. Calvin: Lots of interesting stuff.
Digital Anatomist Program: Dept. Biological Structure.
Dept of Statistics: David Madigan has list of Bayesians worldwide, and list of software for manipulating belief networks.
Graduate Program in Neurobiology and Behavior
Psychology Dept: Info on grad and UG programs.

Washington State University

Neural Microelectronics Home Page has links to several publications.

Washington University in St Louis

Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology program.: Archive of technical reports, info on faculty and graduate program.
Program in Neuroscience: In depts of neurobiology, Neurology, and biology & biological sciences.
Paul Stein: Motor behavior and neuronal control.

Medical College of Wisconsin

MIDAS, the Medical Informatics and Decision Science Consortium. Bayesian networks.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG) has archives of papers and datasets, plus lots of AI links.
Neuroscience server: links to neuroscience at U Wisconsin.
Statistics Dept; Grace Wahba.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Decision Systems and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Research in Bayesian networks.

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

Home page -- lots of info about research and courses at Woods Hole.

Wright-Patterson AFB

Wright Laboratory Reinforcement Learning Page by Mance E. Harmon.

Yale University

Neuroengineering and Neuroscience Center (formerly CTAN): Has a directory of info on the NEURON simulation program, and a public ftp file archive for source code and papers.
Yale Vision and Robotics Group: Research in motion analysis, neural network-based recognition, geometric reasoning, human and computer object recognition, mobile robotics, sensor-based manipulation, control of highly dynamic nonlinear systems, and planning.
Dept of Cellular and Molecular Physiology: Includes Larry Cohen's lab: optical monitoring of brain activity: aplysia abdominal ganglion & turtle visual cortex.

Venezuela

Universidad Central de Venezuela: Preprint index page of Daniel Crespin, Mathematics Department. Preprints and Neurotix demo.

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