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Ioana Goga (ex Marian)

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Research interests:

Effective Teaching, Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement, Collaborative Learning, Modeling of the Dynamics of the teaching-learning process, Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Research projects and experience:

Software:

SpikeNNS - a pulsed neural networks simulator

Corpus:

CHILDES

SeriatedCups - a Romanian corpus with infant directed speech

Publications:

Computational neuroscience

• Goga, I., Connolly, C. G, and Reilly, R. G. (2005) Concepts of efficient simulation with spiking neural networks . Submitted.
• Connolly, C. G., Marian, I. and Reilly, R. G. (2004) Approaches to efficient simulation with spiking neural networks. In H. Bowman & C Labiouse (Eds.), Connectionist models of cognition and perception II , Vol. 15, pp.231-240. London, UK: World Scientific
• Marian, I. (2003), A biologically inspired computational model of motor control development. MSc Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.
• Marian, I. (2002), Self-organization of synaptic clusters for pattern discrimination. Presentation at EU Advanced Computational Neuroscience School, Obidos, Portugal, 2002.
• Marian, I., Reilly, R.G. and Mackey, D. (2002), Efficient event-driven simulation for spiking neural networks. Proceedings of 3rd WSES International Conference on: Neural Networks and Applications. Interlaken, Switzerland, February 2002.
• Marian, I. and Reilly, R.G. (2001), Self-organization of neurons coding directional selectivity in motor cortex. Proceedings of 12th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS), D. O'Donoghue (Ed.). NUI Maynooth, Ireland, September 2001.
• Marian, I. and Reilly, R.G. (2001), SpikeSNNS - a simulator for spike processing networks. Proceedings of 12th DAAAM International Symposium on Intelligent Manufacturing & Automation: Focus on Precision Engineering, B. Katalinic (Ed.). DAAAM International, Jena, Germany, October 2001.
• Reilly, R.G. and Marian, I. (2001), A spiking neural model for visuomotor imitation. Presentation at the International Symposium on Neural control of space coding and action production. Lyon, France, March 2001.

Epigenetic robotics

• Goga, I. and Billard, A. (2006a), Development of goal-directed imitation, object manipulation and language in humans and robots. In M. A. Arbib (ed.), Action to Language via the Mirror Neuron System, Cambridge University Press.
• Goga, I. and Billard, A. (2006b), Visual attention modeling as constraint satisfaction. Accepted at the 6th International Conference in Epigenetic Robotics, Paris, France.
• Goga, I. and Billard, A. (2006c), Attention mechanisms for goal-directed action in cognitive agents. Accepted at the Second Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2006, Guildford, UK.
• Marian, I. and Billard, A. (2004), A computational framework for the study of parallel development of manipulatory and linguistic skills. Technical report, Autonomous Systems Laboratory, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
• Sas, C., O' Hare, G.M.P., Marian, I., Reilly, R., Mangina, E. E., (2003), Modelling User Navigation, Proceedings of the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Vouliagmeni, Athems, May 29-31st, 2003. Editors (Nedjah N., Ekel P., Mourelle L. M., Mastorakis N.).
• Reilly, R.G. and Marian, I. (2002), Cortical Software Re-Use: A Computational Principle for Cognitive Development in Robots . Proceedings of Second International Conference on Developement and Learning, ICDL 2002. Boston, MIT Press.

Language acquisition

• Goga, I. (2006), Educarea atentiei in dezvoltarea timpurie a limbajului si a abilitatilor de manipulare a obiectelor la copiii intre 1 si 3 ani. [Educating attention in early development of imitation, language and object manipulation abilities in human infants]. Degree Thesis, University Babes-Bolyai, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Cluj-Napoca.
• Goga, I., Avram, L., and Bolos, A (2006), Metodologii de cercetare a achizitiei limbajului utilizand baze de date electronice. Corpusuri romanesti cu vorbire adresata copiilor [The study of the acquisition of Romanian as L1 on the basis of electronic corpora]. Second National Psychology Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Mai 2006.

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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Ioana Marian's former homepage at University College Dublin