Research Projects (selected)
Cognitive Maps in Neuro-Robotics and AI
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Uysal, A.K.; Ji, Daoyun (2022) Place cells dynamically refine grid cell activities to reduce error accumulation during path integration in a continuous attractor model. Scientific Reports-Nature 12(1), 21443. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25863-2
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G. (2022) Uncovering the Secrets of the Concept of Place in Cognitive Maps Aided by Artificial Intelligence. Cognitive Computation. doi: 10.1007/s12559-022-10064-w
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G. (2021) Challenges for neuroscience-based computational intelligence. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies 10(4), pp.232-238. doi: 10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2021.1004448
Fernandez-Leon, J. A. & Sarramone, L. Grid cell modules coordination overcomes self-localization deviations. Cognit. Comput. Submitted (2022)
Fernandez-Leon, J. A., Sarramone, L. & Todorovich, E. Intrinsic Coordination of Grid Cell Modules for Position Estimation. Submitted ALIFE 2023 (2023).
Sarramone, L., Todorovich, E. & Fernandez-Leon, J. A. Control neuro-inspirado para navegación espacial entre neurociencia e inteligencia computacional. in 2021 CONAIISI (ed. Mendoza, U. T. N.-F. R.) (2021).
Robust yet Adaptable Behaviours in Cognitive Neuro-Robotics
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G; Rozenfeld, A. (2014) How simple autonomous decisions evolve into robust behaviours?: A review from neurorobotics, cognitive, self-organized and artificial immune system fields. BioSystems 124: 7–20. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.08.003
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G.; Mayosky, M.; Calvo Ibáñez, O. (2009). A Biologically Inspired Control based on Behavioural Coordination in Evolutionary Robotics, Chapter VII in Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Biological Process Applications, pp. 107-129, IGI-Global (Idea Group Inc.), USA-UK. Editors: Dr. A. B. Porto, Dr. A. Pazos, and Dr. W. Buño, 2009. (ISBN: 978-1- 59904-996-0).
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G.; Mayosky, M. (2009). Behavioral control through evolutionary neurocontrollers for autonomous mobile robot navigation. Robotics & Autonomous Systems 57(4): 411-419. doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.06.012
Principles of Neural Coding in Computational Neuroscience
Fernandez-Leon, J.A. (2022) Does the free energy principle sleep on it?: Comment on "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?" by Miguel Aguilera et al. Phys Life Rev. 43:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2022.07.004.
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Acosta, G. (2021) A heuristic perspective on non-variational free energy modulation at the sleep-like edge. BioSystems 208, 104466. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104466
Fernandez-Leon, J.A. (2014) Robustness as a non-localizable relational phenomenon. Biological Reviews 89(3): 552–567. doi: 10.1111/brv.12067
Algorithms of the Brain in Systems Neuroscience
Ash, RT; Palagina, G.*; Fernandez-Leon, J.A.*; Park, J*; Seilheimer, R; Lee, S; Sabharwal, J; Reyes, F; Wang, J; Lu, D; Sarfraz, M; Froudarakis, E; Tolias, AS; Wu, SM; Smirnakis, SM. (2022) Increased Reliability of Visually-Evoked Activity in Area V1 of the MECP2-Duplication Mouse Model of Autism. J Neurosci. 42 (33) 6469-6482. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0654-22.2022. *denotes equal contribution.
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.*; Engelke, DS.*; Aquino-Miranda, G*; Goodson, A; Do Monte, FH. (2021) Neural correlates and determinants of approach-avoidance conflict in the prelimbic prefrontal cortex. eLife 10. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74950 (available in bioRxivs 2021.05.27.445881). *denotes equal contribution.
Engelke, D.; Zhang, X.; O’Malley, J.; Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Li, S.; Kirouac, G.; Beierlein, M.; Do-Monte, F. (2021) A Hypothalamic-thalamostriatal circuit that controls approach-avoidance conflict in rats. Nature Communications-Nature. 12(1):2517. doi: 0.1038/s41467-021-22730-y
Fernandez-Leon, J.A.; Hansen, B.; Dragoi, V. (2018) Representation of Rapid Image Sequences in V4 Networks. Cerebral Cortex, 28(8): 2675–2684. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx146