How do patterns of connectivity refine in response to neural activity, both during normal development and following brain injury? This problem is being addressed by building computational models of topographic map formation in the visual system, comparing their output with biological data, and thus refining our understanding of the biological rules that control connectional patterning.

Recent Publications

Hunt, J.J., Giacomantonio, C.E., Tang, H., Mortimer, D., Jaffer, S.,Vorobyov, V., Ericksson, G., Sengpiel, F. & Goodhill, G.J. (2009). Natural scene statistics and the structure of orientation maps in the visual cortex. Neuroimage, 47, 157-172. PDF

Goodhill, G.J. (2007). Contributions of theoretical modelling to the understanding of neural map development. Neuron, 56, 301-311. PDF

Giacomantonio, C.E. & Goodhill, G.J. (2007). The effect of angioscotomas on map structure in primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 4935-4946. PDF

Carreira-Perpinan, M.A., Lister, R. & Goodhill, G.J. (2005). A computational model for the development of multiple maps in primary visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1222-1233. PDF

Carreira-Perpinan, M.A. & Goodhill, G.J. (2004). The influence of lateral connections on the structure of cortical maps. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92, 2947-2959. PDF

Carreira-Perpinan, M.A. & Goodhill, G.J. (2002). Are visual cortex maps optimized for coverage? Neural Computation, 14, 1545-1560. PDF

Goodhill, G.J. & Carreira-Perpinan, M.A. (2002). Cortical columns. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 1, 845-851. PDF


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Joint development of orientation and ocular dominance columns in the elastic net model.