Thomas Wennekers

University of Plymouth — United Kingdom

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

29h-index2.6kcitations144works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Neural dynamics and brain function(106), Neural Networks and Applications(37), Advanced Memory and Neural Computing(34), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation(21), Visual perception and processing mechanisms(16)

Publications144 total

Grounding Word Meaning through Perception: Toward Compositional Language Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository·2025Open Access
Breakdown of category-specific word representations in a brain-constrained neurocomputational model of semantic dementia
Scientific Reports·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Data-driven emotional body language generation for social robotics
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Simulating semantic dementia in a brain-constrained model of action and object words learning
2022· 1 citedOpen Access
On the Importance of the Newborn Stage When Learning Patterns with the Spatial Pooler
SN Computer Science·2022· 2 cited
Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function
Nature reviews. Neuroscience·2021· 151 citedOpen Access
Improved HTM Spatial Pooler with Homeostatic Plasticity Control
2021· 4 citedOpen Access
On the Relationship Between Input Sparsity and Noise Robustness in Hierarchical Temporal Memory Spatial Pooler
2020Open Access
Scaling the HTM Spatial Pooler
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
The Parallel HTM Spatial Pooler with Actor Model
2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Is the Letter Cancellation Task a Suitable Index of Ego Depletion?
Social Psychology·2019· 11 citedOpen Access
Visual cortex recruitment during language processing in blind individuals is explained by Hebbian learning
Scientific Reports·2019· 41 citedOpen Access
Dataset: Language and semantic processing in blind and sighted individuals. A simulation study
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2019Open Access
Dataset: Language and semantic processing in blind and sighted individuals. A simulation study
Figshare·2019Open Access
Ego-depletion letter cancellation task
Figshare·2019Open Access
A Neurobiologically Constrained Cortex Model of Semantic Grounding With Spiking Neurons and Brain-Like Connectivity
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience·2018· 58 citedOpen Access
Recruitment of visual cortex for language processing in blind individuals: A neurobiological model
Goldsmiths (University of London)·2018Open Access
Behavioral Learning in a Cognitive Neuromorphic Robot: An Integrative Approach
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems·2018· 24 citedOpen Access
Visual attention and object naming in humanoid robots using a bio-inspired spiking neural network
Robotics and Autonomous Systems·2018· 18 citedOpen Access
ConversationPiece II: Displaced and Rehacked
Avant·2017Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Susan L. Denham(12), Friedemann Pulvermüller(10), Max Garagnani(9), Rosario Tomasello(5), Martin Coath(5), Salvador Durá-Bernal(5), Robert Mill(4), Günther Palm(4), Andreas G. Andreou(4), Friedrich T. Sommer(3), Nihat Ay(3), Guillaume Garreau(3), Julius Georgiou(3), Axel Hutt(2), Michael Bestehorn(2), Vassilis Cutsuridis(2), Timothy Rumbell(2), Samantha V. Adams(2), Steve Furber(2), Angelo Cangelosi(2)