Dr Conor Houghton
BSc(Galway), PhD(Cantab.)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Computer Science
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
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Research interests
Conor Houghton is a reader in mathematical neuroscience. His research interest is in understanding information processing and coding in the brain and, generally, in mathematical and computational approaches to neuroscience.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Data sharing platform for international collaboration
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/12/2022 to 31/03/2023
Data sharing platform for international collaboration
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/12/2022 to 31/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
Excitatory and Inhibitory Transmission in Prefrontal Cortex
Supervisors
Contribution of cerebellar sensorimotor representations to behaviour
Supervisors
Bayesian Analysis for Neural Data
Supervisors
Neural entrainment to acoustic edges in speech
Supervisors
Reward Processing and Anhedonia
Supervisors
Inferring affective state through biased actions in rats
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
08/03/2024A Latent Variable Modeling Approach for Cognitive EEG Data: An Example From Neurolinguistics
Fostering Multi-Agent Cooperation through Implicit Responsibility
Cerebellar state estimation enables resilient coupling across behavioural domains
Scientific Reports
Social Value Orientation and Integral Emotions in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms, and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems XVI
Spatial community structure impedes language amalgamation in a population-based iterated learning model
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2023 (ALIFE 2023)