Publications
Journals
Johannes Luthman, Freek E. Hoebeek, Reinoud Maex, Neil Davey, Rod Adams, Chris I. De Zeeuw and Volker Steuber (2011). STD-dependent and independent encoding of input irregularity as spike rate in a computational model of a cerebellar nucleus neuron. Cerebellum, 10, 667-682, Epub 15 July 2011 [pubmed].
Weiliang Chen, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Volker Steuber, Lee Calcraft, Neil Davey (2011). Clustering predicts memory performance in networks of spiking and non-spiking neurons. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 5:14. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00014 [link].
Volker Steuber, Nathan Schultheiss, R Angus Silver, Erik De Schutter and Dieter Jaeger (2010). Determinants of synaptic integration and heterogeneity in rebound firing explored with data-driven models of deep cerebellar nucleus cells. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 30, 633-659, Epub 4 Nov 2010 [pubmed].
Reinoud Maex and Volker Steuber (2009). The first second: models of short-term memory traces in the brain. Neural Networks 22, 1105-1112 [pubmed].
Erik De Schutter and Volker Steuber (2009). Patterns and pauses in Purkinje cell simple spike trains: experiments, modeling and theory. Neuroscience 162, 816-26 [pubmed].
Jason Rothman, Laurence Cathala, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2009). Synaptic depression enables neuronal gain control. Nature 457, 1015-1018 [link].
Volker Steuber, Wolfgang Mittmann, Freek E. Hoebeek, R. Angus Silver, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Michael Hausser and Erik De Schutter (2007). Cerebellar LTD and pattern recognition by Purkinje cells. Neuron 54, 121-136. [pdf]
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2007). neuroConstruct: a tool for modeling networks of neurons in 3D space. Neuron 54, 219-235. [pdf]
Volker Steuber, David Willshaw and Arjen van Ooyen (2006). Generation of time delays: simplified models of intracellular signalling in cerebellar Purkinje cells. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 17, 173-191. [pdf]
Volker Steuber, Erik De Schutter and Dieter Jaeger (2004). Passive models of neurons in the deep cerebellar nuclei: the effect of reconstruction errors. Neurocomputing 58, 563-568. [pdf]
Volker Steuber and David Willshaw (2004). A biophysical model of synaptic delay learning and temporal pattern recognition in a cerebellar Purkinje cell. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 17, 149-164. [pdf]
Dion Theofilou, Volker Steuber and Erik De Schutter (2003). Novelty detection in a Kohonen like network with a long-term depression learning rule. Neurocomputing 52, 411-417. [pdf]
Volker Steuber and Erik De Schutter (2002). Rank order decoding of temporal parallel fibre input patterns in a complex Purkinje cell model. Neurocomputing 44, 183-188. [pdf]
Volker Steuber and Erik De Schutter (2001). Long-term depression and recognition of parallel fibre patterns in a multi-compartmental model of a cerebellar Purkinje cell. Neurocomputing 38, 383-388. [pdf]
Volker Steuber and David Willshaw (1999). Adaptive leaky integrator models of cerebellar Purkinje cells can learn the clustering of temporal patterns. Neurocomputing 26, 271-276. [pdf]
Juergen Holm, Rainer Hillenbrand, Volker Steuber, Udo Bartsch, Marion Moos, Hermann Luebbert, Dirk Montag and Melitta Schachner (1996). Structural features of a close homologue of L1 (CHL1) in the mouse: a new member of the L1 family of neural recognition molecules. European Journal of Neuroscience 8, 1613-1629.
Book Chapters
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber, R. Angus Silver and Sharon Crook (in press). NeuroML. In: Computational Systems Neurobiology, editor N. Le Novère, Springer.
Padraig Gleeson, R. Angus Silver and Volker Steuber (2010). Computer Simulation Environments. In: Hippocampal Microcircuits: A Computational Modeller's Resource Book, editors V. Cutsuridis, B. Graham, S. Cobb, I. Vida, Springer, 593-606 [link].
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2008). Using neuroConstruct to develop and modify biologically detailed neuronal network models in health and disease. In Computational Neuroscience in Epilepsy, editors I. Soltesz & K. Staley, Elsevier, 48 - 66.
Cengiz Günay, Tomasz G. Smolinski, William W. Lytton, Thomas M. Morse, Padraig Gleeson, Sharon Crook, Volker Steuber, Angus Silver, Horatiu Voicu, Peter Andrews, Hemant Bokil, Hiren Maniar, Catherine Loader, Samar Mehta, David Kleinfeld, David J. Thomson, Partha P. Mitra, Gloster Aaron, Jean-Marc Fellous (2008). Computational Intelligence in Electrophysiology: Trends and Open Problems. In: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 325-359.
Erik De Schutter and Volker Steuber (2000). Modeling of neurons with active dendrites. In Computational Neuroscience: Realistic Modeling for Experimentalists, editor E. De Schutter, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 233-257. [book] [movies]
Selected Conferences
Thiago Matos Pinto, Maria Schilstra and Volker Steuber (2012). Modelling the role of betaCaMKII in regulating bidirectional plasticity at parallel fibre–Purkinje cell synapses. Front. Comput. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Bernstein Conference 2012.
Parimala Alva, Giseli de Sousa, Ben Torben-Nielsen, Neil Davey, Rod Adams and Volker Steuber (2012). Comparing developmental approaches to generate neuronal morphologies for pattern recognition. Front. Comput. Neurosci. Conference Abstract: Bernstein Conference 2012.
Thiago Matos Pinto, Maria Schilstra and Volker Steuber (2012). The effective calcium / calmodulin concentration determines the sensitivity of CaMKII to the frequency of calcium oscillations. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues IPCAT 2012, Cambridge, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (in press).
Alex Metaxas, Reinoud Maex, Volker Steuber, Rod Adams, and Neil Davey (2012). The effect of different types of synaptic plasticity on the performance of associative memory networks with excitatory and inhibitory subpopulations. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues IPCAT 2012, Cambridge, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (in press).
Karen Safaryan, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2011). Non-specific LTD Improves the Recognition of Noisy Parallel Fibre Patterns by Cerebellar Purkinje Cells. Gordon Research Conference: The Cerebellum in Health and Disease, New London, NH, USA.
Giseli de Sousa, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2011). The Effect of Dendritic Morphology on Pattern Recognition in the Presence of Active Conductances. BMC Neuroscience 12, P315.
Lee Calcraft, Reinoud Maex, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2011). The Beneficial Effects of Non-specific Synaptic Plasticity for Pattern Recognition in Auto-associative Memory. BMC Neuroscience 12, P316.
Karen Safaryan, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2011). Non-specific LTD Provides Robustness against Spatial Noise During Pattern Recognition in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells. BMC Neuroscience 12, P314.
Giseli de Sousa, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2010). Optimization of Neuronal Morphologies for Pattern Recognition. BMC Neuroscience 11, P80.
Karen Safaryan, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Volker Steuber (2010). The Effect of Non-Specific LTD on Pattern Recognition in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells. BMC Neuroscience 11, P92.
Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Cañamero and Rod Adams (2010). Evolution of Bistability in Agents Performing Olfactory Attraction and Aversion. BMC Neuroscience 11, P118.
Giseli de Sousa, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, Reinoud Maex and Volker Steuber (2009). The effect of different forms of synaptic plasticity on pattern recognition in the cerebellar cortex. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of ICANNGA 2009.
Weiliang Chen, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Lee Calcraft, Volker Steuber and Neil Davey (2009). Connection strategies in associative memory models with spiking and non-spiking neurons. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of ICANNGA 2009.
Reinoud Maex and Volker Steuber (2009). The computational role of recurrent Purkinje cell axon collaterals in cerebellar cortex. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, USA.
Johannes Luthman, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, Reinoud Maex and Volker Steuber (2009). Decoding of Purkinje cell pauses by deep cerebellar nucleus neurons. BMC Neuroscience 10 (Suppl 1): P105.
Johannes Luthman, Reinoud Maex, Rod Adams, Neil Davey and Volker Steuber (2009). Decoding of regular Purkinje cell spiking based on synaptic depression in a model of a DCN neuron. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience: Computational and Systems Neuroscience COSYNE 2009. doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.06.2009.03.240
Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Canamero and Rod Adams (2009). Evolution of bilateral symmetry in agents controlled by spiking neural networks. IEEE Alife 2009.
Giseli de Sousa, Rod Adams, Neil Davey and Volker Steuber (2008). Determinants of pattern recognition in cerebellar Purkinje cells. BMC Neuroscience 9 (Suppl 1): P67.
Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Cañamero and Rod Adams (2008). Optimal receptor response functions for the detection of pheromones by agents driven by spiking neural networks. In R.Trappl (ed.): Cybernetics and Systems 2008. Proceedings of the 19th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna.
Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Cañamero and Rod Adams (2008). Adaptive Olfactory Encoding in Agents Controlled by Spiking Neural Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: From Animals to Animats 10, 148-158.
Nicolas Oros, Volker Steuber, Neil Davey, Lola Cañamero and Rod Adams (2008). Optimal noise in spiking neural networks for the detection of chemicals by simulated agents. In Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Weiliang Chen, Rod Adams, Lee Calcraft, Volker Steuber and Neil Davey (2008). The connectivity and performance of small-world and modular associative memory models. Progress in Neural Processing, Vol 17, From Associations to Rules: Connectionist Models of Behavior and Cognition, Proceedings of the Tenth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop, Dijon, France 12 - 14 April 2007, World Scientific Press.
Weiliang Chen, Rod Adams, Lee Calcraft, Volker Steuber and Neil Davey (2008). Connectivity graphs and performance of sparse associative memory models. To be published in the proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008).
David Bowes, Lola Cañamero, Rod Adams, Volker Steuber,and Neil Davey (2008). Analysis of soma leakiness and receptor response to stimulus in a simulated spiking neuron. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing (ANNIIP) 2008, edited by Kurosh Madani, pp100-106, May 2008, Madeira, Portugal.
Erik De Schutter and Volker Steuber (2007). A European collaboration on cerebellar LTD and pattern recognition. Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics ICCN 2007, Shanghai, China.
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2007). Parallel simulations of a 3D cerebellar network created with neuroConstruct. Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.
Padraig Gleeson, Sharon Crook, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2007). Using NeuroML and neuroConstruct to build neuronal network models for multiple simulators. BMC Neuroscience 8 (Suppl 2): P1.
Weiliang Chen, Rod Adams, Lee Calcraft, Volker Steuber and Neil Davey (2007). High Capacity Associative Memory with Bipolar and Binary, Biased Patterns. Proceedings of UKCI, London, UK.
Volker Steuber, Jason Rothman, Laurence Cathala and R. Angus Silver (2006). Short-term depression amplifies gain modulation by tonic inhibition in cerebellar granule cells. Proc. Physiol. Soc. 3, C107.
Dieter Jaeger and Volker Steuber (2006). Comparison of rebound firing of deep cerebellar nucleus neurons between in vivo and in vitro conditions: A modelling study. FENS Abstr., vol.3, A006.5
Volker Steuber, Laurence Cathala, Jason Rothman and R. Angus Silver (2005). Determinants of gain control by tonic inhibition in cerebellar granule cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.
Dieter Jaeger, Erik De Schutter and Volker Steuber (2005). A computational study of rebound responses in a conductance based model of a deep cerebellar nucleus cell. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2005). Simulation of synaptic integration in biologically realistic 3D neuronal networks using neuroConstruct: a new modelling tool. Soc. Neurosci. Abs.
Volker Steuber, Laurence Cathala and R. Angus Silver (2004). Multiplicative gain modulation for linear and non-linear inputs. 13th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS*04, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Padraig Gleeson, Volker Steuber and R. Angus Silver (2004). Automated development of large-scale realistic networks for NEURON using neuroConstruct. NEURON Simulator Meeting, Chicago, USA.
Soon-Lim Shin, Volker Steuber, Patriq Fagerstedt and Erik De Schutter (2001). Correlation of simple spike activity in cerebellar Purkinje cells. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr.
Volker Steuber and Erik De Schutter (2000). A computational study of parallel fibre LTD as learning mechanism in cerebellar Purkinje cells. Eur. J. Neurosci. 12 Suppl. 11, 198.03.
Volker Steuber, Antonia Volny-Luraghi, Reinoud Maex and Erik De Schutter (2000). PF noise improves the LTD based recognition of PF patterns in a detailed Purkinje cell model. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 26 (1), 687.
Volker Steuber and David Willshaw (1998). Modelling the control of calcium oscillations by phosphorylation of metabotropic glutamate receptors. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 98, J. Bower, ed., Plenum Press, 273-277.
Volker Steuber, Arjen van Ooyen and David Willshaw (1998). Computational models of synaptic delay learning by phoshorylation of metabotropic glutamate receptors. Eur. J. Neurosci. 10 Suppl. 10, 14.20.
Volker Steuber and David Willshaw (1997). How a single Purkinje cell could learn the adaptive timing of the classically conditioned eye-blink response. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1327, 115-120.
Samuel R. H. Joseph, Volker Steuber and David Willshaw (1997). The dual role of calcium in synaptic plasticity at the motor endplate. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 97, J. Bower, ed., Plenum Press, 7-12.
Theses
Volker Steuber: Computational Models of Intracellular Signalling in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells. PhD thesis, The University of Edinburgh (1999).
Volker Steuber: Theories of Memory in the Cerebellar Cortex. MSc thesis, The University of Edinburgh (1994).
Volker Steuber: Characterisierung von CHL1. Diplomarbeit, Eidgenössisch Technische Hochschule Zürich (1993).