Primary Research Area:

Biomedical Engineering including Bioinformatics, Image Processing and Analysis, Neurobiology

Communications and Signal Processing including Digital Signal Processing / Multidimensional Signal Processing

Intelligent Systems and Bioengineering including Biomedical Systems, Neural Networks

Research Interests:

Functional organization of cortical networks and their contributions to sensory information processing, cerebral cortex as a computational system.

Education:

Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill

Recent Publications:

1. Kursun, O. and Favorov, O.V. (2004) SINBAD automation of scientific discovery: from factor analysis to theory synthesis. Natural Computing 3: 207-233.
2. Favorov, O.V. and Ryder D. (2004) SINBAD: a neocortical mechanism for discovering environmental variables and regularities hidden in sensory input. Biological Cybernetics 90: 191-202.
3. Favorov, O. V., Ryder, D., Hester, J. T., Kelly, D. G. and Tommerdahl, M. (2003) The cortical pyramidal cell as a set of interacting error backpropagating networks: a mechanism for discovering nature’s order. In: Theories of the Cerebral Cortex, R. Hecht-Nielsen and T. McKenna (eds.), Springer, London, pp.25-64.
4. Ryder, D. and Favorov, O.V. (2001) The new associationism: a neural explanation for the predictive powers of cerebral cortex. Brain and Mind 2: 161-194.
5. Tommerdahl M, Chiu J, Favorov OV and Whitsel BL (2005) Minicolumnar patterns in the global cortical response to sensory stimulation. In: Neocortical Modularity and the Cell Minicolumn, Manuel F. Casanova, M.D., ed., NOVA Science Publishers, New York, pp. 145-160.
6. Simons S, Tannan V, Chiu J, Favorov OV, Whitsel BL and Tommerdahl M (2005) Amplitude-dependency of response of SI cortex to flutter stimulation. BMC Neuroscience, 6:43.
7. Tommerdahl M, Favorov OV and Whitsel BL (2002) Optical imaging of intrinsic signals in somatosensory cortex. Behavioral Brain Research 135: 83-91.
8. Favorov OV, Hester JT, Lao R and Tommerdahl M (2002) Spurious dynamics in somatosensory cortex. Behavioral Brain Research 135: 75-82.
9. Favorov OV and Kelly DG (2002) Somatosensory system. In: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, Second edition, (M.A. Arbib, ed.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1053-1056.

Date of Last Modification: 8/8/2005

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