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  1. Next-Generation Neural Mass Models Reproduce Features of Speech Processing

    Article • eNeuro, August 2026, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  2. Non-random brain connectome wiring enables robust and efficient neural network function under high sparsity

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  3. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multiregion brain cell count data

    Article • eLife, November 2025, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  4. Next-Generation Neural Mass Models Reproduce Features of Speech Processing

    Article • October 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  5. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multi-region brain cell count data

    Article • September 2025, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  6. Modeling nonlinear oscillator networks using physics-informed hybrid reservoir computing

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  7. Can LLMs be used to Quantify the Emotional Salience of Text Statements using an Elo Rating System?

    Article • April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  8. An iterated learning model of language change that mixes supervised and unsupervised learning

    Article • PLOS Complex Systems, March 2025, PLOS

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  9. Can LLMs be used to Quantify the Emotional Salience of Text Statements using an Elo Rating System?

    Article • March 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  10. The impossible heap? A review of Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism by Cedric Boeckx

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  11. The impossible heap? A review of Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism by Cedric Boeckx

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  12. The impossible heap? A review of Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism by Cedric Boeckx

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  13. The impossible heap? A review of Reflections on language evolution: From minimalism to pluralism by Cedric Boeckx

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  14. Cooperation Guides Evolution in a Minimal Model of Biological Evolution

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  15. GlyT2-positive interneurons regulate timing and variability of information transfer in a cerebellar-behavioural loop

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2024, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  16. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multi-region brain cell count data

    Article • November 2024, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  17. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multi-region brain cell count data

    Article • November 2024, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  18. Signatures of Bayesian inference emerge from energy-efficient synapses

    Article • eLife, August 2024, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  19. Signatures of Bayesian inference emerge from energy-efficient synapses

    Article • eLife, August 2024, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  20. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of multi-region brain cell count data

    Article • July 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  21. Golgi cells regulate timing and variability of information transfer in a cerebellar-behavioural loop

    Article • July 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  22. Cerebellar state estimation enables resilient coupling across behavioural domains

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton, Professor Karl John Friston

  23. Modeling language contact with the Iterated Learning Model

    Article • January 2024, The MIT Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  24. Reward conditioning may not have an effect on category-specific memory

    Article • December 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  25. Estimating Mutual Information for Spike Trains: A Bird Song Example

    Article • Entropy, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  26. Bayesian analysis of phase data in EEG and MEG

    Article • eLife, September 2023, eLife

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  27. A robust and compact population code for competing sounds in auditory cortex

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, September 2023, American Physiological Society

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  28. Beyond the limitations of any imaginable mechanism: Large language models and psycholinguistics

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  29. Social Value Orientation and Integral Emotions in Multi-Agent Systems

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  30. Spatial community structure impedes language amalgamation in a population-based iterated learning model

    Article • January 2023, The MIT Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  31. Bayesian analysis of phase data in EEG and MEG

    Article • October 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  32. Neuronal activity patterns in microcircuits of the cerebellar cortical C3 zone during reaching

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, October 2022, Wiley

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  33. Syllable-Initial Phonemes Affect Neural Entrainment to Consonant-Vowel Syllables

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  34. A Scalar Poincaré Map for Anti-phase Bursting in Coupled Inhibitory Neurons With Synaptic Depression

    Article • Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  35. Objective measures of reward sensitivity and motivation in people with high v. low anhedonia

    Article • Psychological Medicine, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  36. Bayesian Modeling of Language-Evoked Event-Related Potentials

    Article • January 2022, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  37. Objective measures of reward sensitivity and motivation in people with high vs low anhedonia

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton, Professor Marcus R Munafo

  38. Editorial: Information Processing in the Cerebellum

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, September 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  39. Accounting for uncertainty: inhibition for neural inference in the cerebellum

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  40. Grammatical category and the neural processing of phrases

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  41. Grammatical category and the neural processing of phrases

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  42. A Purkinje cell model that simulates complex spikes

    Article • May 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  43. Action-based organization and function of cerebellar cortical microcircuits

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  44. Different methods for assessing cognitive affective biases in rats using the judgement bias task

    Article • Pharmacological Reports, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  45. Model-Based Inference of Synaptic Transmission

    Article • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience, August 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  46. A scalar Poincaré map for struggling in Xenopus tadpoles

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  47. Calculating the Mutual Information between Two Spike Trains

    Article • Neural Computation, February 2019, The MIT Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  48. Calculating the Mutual Information Between Two Spike Trains

    Article • September 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  49. Behavioural and computational methods reveal differential effects for how delayed and rapid onset antidepressants effect decision making in rats

    Article • European Neuropsychopharmacology, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  50. The dynamic relationship between cerebellar Purkinje cell simple spikes and the spikelet number of complex spikes

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, July 2016, Wiley

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  51. Diffusion Modelling Reveals the Decision Making Processes Underlying Negative Judgement Bias in Rats

    Article • PLOS One, March 2016, PLOS

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  52. Dentate gyrus and hilar region revisited

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  53. Mutual information on metric spaces

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  54. Parameter estimation of neuron models using in-vitro and in-vivo electrophysiological data

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, April 2015, Frontiers

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  55. Metric Space Analysis of Neural Information Flow

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  56. Supervised learning with STDP

    Article • PLOS One, June 2014, PLOS

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  57. Metric Space Analysis of Neural Information Flow

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  58. Dreams, mnemonics, and tuning for criticality

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  59. A Kernel-Based Calculation of Information on a Metric Space

    Article • Entropy, October 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  60. Simulation of electromagnetic descriptor models using projectors

    Article • Journal of Mathematics in Industry, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  61. Population measures of spike train synchrony

    Article • Scholarpedia, January 2013, Scholarpedia

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  62. Monitoring spike train synchrony

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2012, American Physiological Society

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  63. On the efficient calculation of van Rossum distances

    Article • Network Computation in Neural Systems, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  64. A metric space approach to the information channel capacity of spike trains

    Article • Journal of Computational Neuroscience, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  65. A New Hypothesis for Sleep: Tuning for Criticality

    Article • Neural Computation, June 2009, The MIT Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  66. Sparse coding of birdsong and receptive field structure in songbirds

    Article • Network Computation in Neural Systems, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  67. Studying spike trains using a van Rossum metric with a synapse-like filter

    Article • Journal of Computational Neuroscience, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  68. A New Multineuron Spike Train Metric

    Article • Neural Computation, June 2008, The MIT Press

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  69. The effect of pion mass on Skyrme configurations

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), January 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  70. A zero-mode quantization of the skyrmion

    Article • Physics Letters B, January 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  71. Pulsation and precession of the resonant swinging spring

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, March 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  72. Icosahedral Skyrmions

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Physics, August 2003, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  73. Multicloud solutions with massless and massive monopoles

    Article • Physical Review D, December 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  74. Folding in the Skyrme model

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Physics, September 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  75. On the Constraints Defining BPS Monopoles

    Article • Communications in Mathematical Physics, June 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  76. Nahm data and the mass of 1/4-BPS states

    Article • Physical Review D, April 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  77. On the generalized Legendre transform and monopole metrics

    Article • Journal of High Energy Physics, February 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  78. Instanton vibrations of the 3-Skyrmion

    Article • Physical Review D, October 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  79. Two monopoles of one type and one of another

    Article • Journal of High Energy Physics, April 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  80. Rational maps, monopoles and skyrmions

    Article • Nuclear Physics B, January 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  81. SU(N) monopoles and Platonic symmetry

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Physics, November 1997, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  82. New hyper-Kähler manifolds by fixing monopoles

    Article • Physical Review D, July 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  83. Inversion symmetric 3-monopoles and the Atiyah - Hitchin manifold

    Article • Nonlinearity, November 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  84. Tetrahedral and cubic monopoles

    Article • Communications in Mathematical Physics, October 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  85. Monopole scattering with a twist

    Article • Nuclear Physics B, April 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Conor J Houghton

  86. Octahedral and dodecahedral monopoles

    Article • Nonlinearity, March 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Conor J Houghton