Contributions

Academic Research

I appear (in general) as the first author when I have done the work prior to writing (design, modeling, implementation and/or analysis) and as the last author (or penultimate for some collaborations) when I have directly supervised or initiated the work (student, doctoral student, post-doctoral fellow). On the whole of my bibliography, I have about 275 co-authors and my scientific spectrum is mainly included in neurosciences and machine learning with however notable contributions in computer graphics, open and reproducible science and scientific visualization. I’m also an adept of slow science.

J. Abramatic, C. Acharian, M. Alarcon, K. Albert, G. Alberts, F. Alexandre, P. Alliez, T. Arildsen, M. Arotcarena, I. Astic, P. Aubert, A. Aussel, S. Ballesta, L. Barba, F. Benureau, D. Le Berre, G. Berry, E. Bezard, I. Blanc, S. Bohic, S. Boldo, Y. Boniface, T. Boraud, M. Bourdenx, S. Bourgeois-Gironde, P. Bourne, M. Bover, K. Bradley, T. Braver, C. Brown, C. Brun, R. Buckley, C. Burns, P. de Buyl, O. Caglayan, L. Calderan, L. Campagnola, S. Camus, N. Carrillo, F. Carré, A. Chabreuil, A. Chaillet, N. Chaix-Eichel, V. Chakravarthy, A. Chauve, I. Chraibi-Kaadoud, R. Cimrman, D. Clipsham, E. Cochrane, J. Cohen, M. Collin, C. Combelles, M. Comte, M. Coris, R. Cornus, R. Di Cosmo, S. Dagar, I. Damas, A. Darnaud, E. Darquie, A. Davison, M. Deffains, B. Dehay, M. Delsuc, P. Derkinderen, L. Desquilbet, G. Detorakis, A. Diem, P. Dominey, M. Dorémus, E. Doudnikoff, S. Dovero, G. Dowek, D. Drix, M. Droettboom, M. Droin, F. Dufour, J. Dumont, L. Duplouy, S. Edgar, Editors, J. Ehrel, O. El-Agnaf, M. Enard, P. Enel, B. Esfahbod, A. Espaze, C. Estrada, M. Ezquerro, C. Farge, A. Favrot, A. Fischer, J. Fix, H. Frezza-Buet, A. Frédéric, L. Féjoz, B. Garcia, P. Gaussier, M. Gharsallah, B. Girard, B. Girau, M. Giraud, A. Girault, I. Gnaedig, C. Godin, L. Goffart, B. Goglin, M. Goillandeau, R. Gommers, E. Gouillart, S. Granger, J. Greenberg, B. Guedj, B. Guerry, O. Guest, L. Guilhemsang, L. Guion, P. Guitton, M. Hacid, V. Haenel, M. Hall, B. Hejblum, R. Henriques, X. Hinaut, M. Hinchey, K. Hinsen, C. Holik, N. Hong, N. Howe, M. Hutson, A. Hutt, F. Hyseni, I. Illina, P. Inverardi, V. Issarny, K. Jaron, Z. Jedrzejewski-Szmek, J. Jongwane, N. Jullien, D. Kase, E. Kerrien, L. Khacef, M. Khamassi, C. Kirchner, A. Klein, L. Kovacic, N. Kruse, N. Lacaux, F. Laferriere, Q. Lanneau, S. Laurent, A. Leblois, G. Lefebvre, S. Lefebvre, A. Legrand, C. Leininger, V. Leroy, T. Leste-Lasserre, V. Louvet, V. Lucchese, O. Ly, P. Madhavan, S. Maheo, N. Mallet, T. Manninen, P. Marchesi, F. Marzano, F. Masseglia, C. Maumet, C. Maurice, D. McGlinn, C. Metzner, B. Miramond, G. Miura, B. Mollenhauer, R. Monat, M. Morari, P. Moreau, B. Nallapu, E. Nardelli, F. Neyret, A. Nioche, D. Noelle, S. Novello, P. O’Donohue, R. O’Reilly, J. Obeso, M. Ogouchi, M. Olivi, J. Palm, P. Paradinas, F. Pedregosa, F. Pellegrini, T. Perelmuter, C. Perier, J. Perkel, P. Pernot, O. Petchey, P. Peterlongo, S. Phipps, C. Piana, D. Pinte, C. Piron, H. Plesser, V. Poirel, T. Poisot, G. Porras, A. Prigent, D. Pucheu, S. De Quatrebarbes, L. Queyssi, M. Quinson, Y. Ram, K. Ram, P. Rambert, Z. Ramdane-Cherif, A. Recasens, L. Redaud, D. Rives, H. Robak, E. Roesch, C. Rossant, V. Rostami, N. Rouger, A. Rousseau, N. Roussel, C. Sandt, R. Sankar, M. Sassi, D. Sch"uller, A. Seles, A. Shifman, S. Shivkumar, L. Shustek, A. Smith, K. Sobriel, J. Spector, J. Stachelek, T. Stafford, M. Stimberg, F. Stollmeier, A. Strock, B. Surampudi, W. Taouali, M. Thiolat, B. Thompson, N. Thou, J. Timmer, M. Topalidou, N. Trouvain, A. Upegui, C. Vadel, F. Vaggi, O. Vahtras, N. Vaikath, S. Vandermeersch, F. Vannel, N. Vardalakis, G. Varoquaux, N. Vas-Deyres, G. Venugopal, G. Viejo, L. Viennot, P. Virtanen, J. Vitay, T. Viéville, A. Vostinar, M. Vulliez, F. Wagner, M. Webb, P. Wheatley, C. Woolston, S. Wyber, H. Xypas, R. Yurchak, T. Zito

Preprints

Chaix-Eichel, N., Dagar, S., Alexandre, F., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2025. The systematic nature of splitter cells. #DOI #LINK.
Blanc, I., Di Cosmo, R., Giraud, M., Le Berre, D., Louvet, V., Rougier, N.P., Granger, S., and Pellegrini, F. 2024. Highlights of the ”Software Pillar of Open Science” workshop. #DOI #HAL.
Chaix-Eichel, N., Dagar, S., Lanneau, Q., Sobriel, K., Boraud, T., Alexandre, F., and Rougier, N.P. 2022. From implicit learning to explicit representations. arXiv. #ARXIV.
Rougier, N.P., Brun, C., and Boraud, T. 2021. A mathematical bias. HAL. #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. 2020. On the design of text editors. arXiv. #ARXIV.
Rougier, N.P. and Timmer, J. 2017. Ten simple rules for scientific fraud & misconduct. HAL. #HAL.
Shivkumar, S., Chakravarthy, V.S., and Rougier, N.P. 2017. Modeling the role of striatum in stochastic multi context tasks. BioRxiv. #DOI #LINK.
Rousseau, A., Darnaud, A., Goglin, B., Acharian, C., Leininger, C., Godin, C., Holik, C., Kirchner, C., Rives, D., Darquie, E., Kerrien, E., Neyret, F., Masseglia, F., Dufour, F., Berry, G., Dowek, G., Robak, H., Xypas, H., Illina, I., Gnaedig, I., Jongwane, J., Ehrel, J., Viennot, L., Guion, L., Calderan, L., Kovacic, L., Collin, M., Enard, M.-A., Comte, M.-H., Quinson, M., Olivi, M., Giraud, M., Dorémus, M., Ogouchi, M., Droin, M., Lacaux, N., Rougier, N.P., Roussel, N., Guitton, P., Peterlongo, P., Cornus, R.-M., Vandermeersch, S., Maheo, S., Lefebvre, S., Boldo, S., Viéville, T., Poirel, V., Chabreuil, A., Fischer, A., Farge, C., Vadel, C., Astic, I., Dumont, J.-P., Féjoz, L., Rambert, P., Paradinas, P., De Quatrebarbes, S., and Laurent, S. 2013. Médiation scientifique : Une facette de nos métiers de la recherche. #HAL.

Articles

Chaix-Eichel, N., Guerillon, A., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Rougier, N.P., Boraud, T., and Ballesta, S. 2026. Social hierarchy influences monkeys’ risky decisions. Communications Biology (in press).
Cosmo, R.D., Granger, S., Hinsen, K., Jullien, N., Le Berre, D., Louvet, V., Maumet, C., Maurice, C., Monat, R., and Rougier, N.P. 2026. CODE beyond FAIR: A roadmap for reusable research software. Scientific Data (in press). #HAL.
Di Cosmo, R., Granger, S., Hinsen, K., Jullien, N., Le Berre, D., Louvet, V., Maumet, C., Maurice, C., Monat, R., and Rougier, N.P. 2025. Stop treating code like an afterthought: Record, share and value it. Nature 646, 8084. #DOI #HAL.
Vardalakis, N., Aussel, A., Rougier, N.P., and Wagner, F.B. 2024. A dynamical computational model of theta generation in hippocampal circuits to study theta-gamma oscillations during neurostimulation. eLife. #DOI.
Sankar, R., Rougier, N.P., and Leblois, A. 2022. Computational benefits of structural plasticity, illustrated in songbirds. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 132, 1183–1196. #DOI #HAL.
Chraibi-Kaadoud, I., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2022. Knowledge extraction from the learning of sequences in a long short term memory (LSTM) architecture. Knowledge-Based Systems 235, 107657. #DOI #HAL.
Sankar, R., Thou, N., Rougier, N.P., and Leblois, A. 2021. [Re] A Reservoir Computing Model of Reward-Modulated Motor Learning and Automaticity. ReScience C 7, 1. #DOI.
Nioche, A., Rougier, N.P., Deffains, M., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Ballesta, S., and Boraud, T. 2021. The adaptive value of probability distortion and risk-seeking in macaques’ decision-making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376, 1819. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.Is. 2021. Randomized Self Organizing Map. Neural Computation 33, 8, 2241–2273. #DOI #ARXIV.
Bourdenx, M., Nioche, A., Dovero, S., Arotcarena, M.-L., Camus, S., Porras, G., Thiolat, M.-L., Rougier, N.P., Prigent, A., Aubert, P., Bohic, S., Sandt, C., Laferriere, F., Doudnikoff, E., Kruse, N., Mollenhauer, B., Novello, S., Morari, M., Leste-Lasserre, T., Damas, I.T., Goillandeau, M., Perier, C., Estrada, C., Carrillo, N.G., Recasens, A., Vaikath, N.N., El-Agnaf, O.M.A., Ezquerro, M.T.H., Derkinderen, P., Bover, M.V., Obeso, J.A., Dehay, B., and Bezard, E. 2020. Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in non-human primates. Science Advances 6, 20, eaaz9165. #DOI #HAL.
Strock, A., Hinaut, X., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. A robust model of gated working memory. Neural computation 32, 1. #DOI #HAL.
Detorakis, G., Chaillet, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. Stability analysis of a neural field self-organizing map. Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience 10, 1. #DOI #HAL.
Strock, A., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2020. Latent space exploration and functionalization of a gated working memory model using conceptors. Cognitive Computation 15, 5, 1485–1496. #DOI #HAL.
Abramatic, J.-F., Albert, K., Alberts, G., Bradley, K., Buckley, R., Hong, N.C., Clipsham, D., Cochrane, E., Cosmo, R.D., Duplouy, L., Gharsallah, M., Greenberg, J.M., Guerry, B., Hinchey, M., Inverardi, P., Issarny, V., Madhavan, P., Marzano, F., Miura, G., Moreau, P., Nardelli, E., O’Donohue, P., Alarcón, M.R.O., Palm, J., Perelmuter, T., Phipps, S., Piana, C., Rougier, N.P., Sassi, M., Schüller, D., Seles, A., Shustek, L., Smith, A., Webb, M., Wheatley, P., and Wyber, S. 2019. Paris Call - Software Source Code as Heritage. #LINK.
Nioche, A., Garcia, B., Boraud, T., Rougier, N.P., and Bourgeois-Gironde, S. 2019. Interaction effects between consumer information and firms’ decision rules in a duopoly: How cognitive features can impact market dynamics. Humanities and social sciences communications (Nature) 5. #DOI.
Nioche, A., Garcia, B., Lefebvre, G., Boraud, T., Rougier, N.P., and Bourgeois-Gironde, S. 2019. Coordination over a unique medium of exchange under information scarcity. Humanities and social sciences communications (Nature) 5, 1. #DOI.
Alliez, P., Guedj, B., Cosmo, R.D., Girault, A., Hacid, M.-S., Legrand, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Attributing and referencing (research) software: Best practices and outlook from inria. Computing in Science & Engineering (IEEE). #DOI #HAL.
Boraud, T., Leblois, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2018. A natural history of skills. Progress in Neurobiology 171. #DOI.
Benureau, F.C.Y. and Rougier, N.P. 2018. Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 11. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2018. A density-driven method for the placement of biological cells over two-dimensional manifolds. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 12. #DOI.
Topalidou, M., Kase, D., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2018. A Computational Model of Dual Competition between the Basal Ganglia and the Cortex. eNeuro 5. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. [Re] weighted voronoi stippling. ReScience 3, 1. #DOI #HAL.
Rougier, N.P., Hinsen, K., Alexandre, F., Arildsen, T., Barba, L., Benureau, F.C.Y., Brown, C.T., Buyl, P. de, Caglayan, O., Davison, A.P., Delsuc, M.A., Detorakis, G., Diem, A.K., Drix, D., Enel, P., Girard, B., Guest, O., Hall, M.G., Henriques, R.N., Hinaut, X., Jaron, K.S., Khamassi, M., Klein, A., Manninen, T., Marchesi, P., McGlinn, D., Metzner, C., Petchey, O.L., Plesser, H.E., Poisot, T., Ram, K., Ram, Y., Roesch, E., Rossant, C., Rostami, V., Shifman, A., Stachelek, J., Stimberg, M., Stollmeier, F., Vaggi, F., Viejo, G., Vitay, J., Vostinar, A., Yurchak, R., and Zito, T. 2017. Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative. PeerJ Computer Science 3, e142. #DOI.
Guest, O. and Rougier, N.P. 2017. Diversity in reproducibility. IEEE CDS Newsletter 13, 2. #PDF.
Piron, C., Kase, D., Topalidou, M., Goillandeau, M., Rougier, N.P., and Boraud, T. 2016. The globus pallidus pars interna in goal-oriented and routine behaviors: Resolving a long-standing paradox. Movement Disorders. #DOI.
Guest, O. and Rougier, N.P. 2016. What is computational reproducibility? IEEE CDS Newsletter 13, 1. #PDF.
Topalidou, M. and Rougier, N.P. 2015. [Re] interaction between cognitive and motor cortico-basal ganglia loops during decision making: A computational study. ReScience 1, 1. #DOI #HAL.
Taouali, W., Goffart, L., Alexandre, F., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. A parsimonious computational model of visual target position encoding in the superior colliculus. Biological Cybernetics 109, 4-5. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P., Droettboom, M., and Bourne, P.E. 2014. Ten simple rules for better figures. PLoS Computational Biology 10, 9. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Antialiased 2D grid, marker, and arrow shaders. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 3, 4, 1–52. #LINK.
Detorakis, G. and Rougier, N.P. 2014. Structure of receptive fields in a computational model of area 3b of primary sensory cortex. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Higher quality 2D text rendering. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 2, 1, 50–64. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Shader-based antialiased dashed stroke poylines. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 2, 2, 105–121. #LINK.
Detorakis, G.I. and Rougier, N.P. 2012. A neural field model of the somatosensory cortex: Formation, maintenance and reorganization of ordered topographic maps. PLoS ONE 7, 7, e40257. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. and Fix, J. 2012. DANA: Distributed numerical and adaptive modelling framework. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 23, 4, 237–253. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. and Boniface, Y. 2011. Dynamic self-organising map. Neurocomputing 74, 11, 1840–1847. #DOI #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. and Hutt, A. 2011. Synchronous and asynchronous evaluation of dynamic neural fields. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 17, 8. #DOI.
Taouali, W., Viéville, T., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2011. No clock to rule them all. Journal Of Neurophysiology, Paris 105, 1–3. #DOI.
Fix, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2011. A dynamic neural field approach to the covert and overt deployment of spatial attention. Cognitive Computation 3, 1, 279–293. #DOI.
Hutt, A. and Rougier, N.P. 2010. Activity spread and breathers induced by finite transmission speeds in two-dimensional neural fields. Physical Review E 82, 5. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2009. Implicit and explicit representations. Neural Networks 22, 2, 155–160. #DOI.
Fix, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2007. From physiological principles to computational models of the cortex. Journal of Physiology, Paris, 32–39. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. and Vitay, J. 2006. Emergence of attention within a neural population. Neural Networks 19, 5, 573–581. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2006. Dynamic neural field with local inhibition. Biological Cybernetics 94, 3, 169–179. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P., Noelle, D.C., Braver, T.D., Cohen, J.D., and O’Reilly, R.C. 2005. Prefrontal cortex and flexible cognitive control: Rules without symbols. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 102, 20, 7338–7343. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. and O’Reilly, R.C. 2002. A gated prefrontal cortex model of dynamic task switching. Cognitive Science 26, 4, 503–520. #LINK.

Conferences

Rougier, N.P. 2025. L’IA à marche forcée. Technologies et autoritarismes : XIXe - XXIe siècles, Pau, France. #PDF.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. The Art of Text (rendering). 39th Chaos Communication Congress, Hamburg, Germany.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. Les corps oubliés. Cerveau-machine : Modèles et fictions, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France. #LINK.
Chaix-Eichel, N., Venugopal, G., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2024. Exploring the role of structure in a time constrained decision task. 2024 IEEE international conference on development and learning (ICDL), IEEE. #ARXIV.
Leblois, Arthur, Hyseni, F., and Rougier, N.P. 2023. Attractor dynamics drive flexible timing in birdsong. ICANN, Leipzig, Germany.
Rougier, N.P. and Rossant, C. 2023. The graphic server protocol (GSP). EuroScipy.
Hyseni, F., Rougier, N.P., and Leblois, A. 2023. Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus. CNS, Leipzig, Germany.
Dagar, S., Alexandre, F., and Rougier, N. 2022. From concrete to abstract rules : A computational sketch. The 15th International Conference on Brain Informatics, Padova, Italy. #HAL.
Hyseni, F., Leblois, A., and Rougier, N. 2022. Temporal dynamics in an attractor model of the songbird’s premotor nucleus. Cosyne.
Sankar, R., Leblois, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2022. Dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds. 2022 IEEE international conference on development and learning (ICDL), IEEE, Best paper. #DOI #HAL.
Trouvain, N., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2022. Create Efficient and Complex Reservoir Computing Architectures with ReservoirPy. 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022), Cergy-Pontoise, France. #HAL.
Dagar, S., Alexandre, F., and Rougier, N.P. 2021. Deciphering the contributions of episodic and working memories in increasingly complex decision tasks. IJCNN 2021 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, Shenzhen, China, 1–6. #DOI #HAL.
Benureau, F.C.Y. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions. SciPy japan.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. The eye of the modeler. International society for the history philosophy and social studies of biology biennial meeting, Oslo (Norway).
Khacef, L., Girau, B., Rougier, N.P., Upegui, A., and Miramond, B. 2018. Neuromorphic hardware as a self-organizing computing system. Neuromorphic Hardware In Practice and Use (NHPU) workshop 2018 in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI): International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #HAL.
Upegui, A., Girau, B., Rougier, N.P., Vannel, F., and Miramond, B. 2018. Pruning self-organizing maps for cellular hardware architectures. NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, Edinburgh, UK.
Strock, A., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2018. A Simple Reservoir Model of Working Memory with Real Values. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. and Esfahbod, B. 2018. Digital Typography Rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH, Vancouver, Canada.
Nallapu, B.T., Surampudi, B.R., and Rougier, N.P. 2017. The art of scaling up : A computational account on action selection in the basal ganglia. International joint conference in neural networks (IJCNN).
Rougier, N.P. and Boniface, Y. 2017. Motivated Self-Organization. 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization (WSOM), Nancy, France.
Nallapu, B.T. and Rougier, N.P. 2016. Dynamics of reward based decision making a computational study. International conference on artificial neural networks (ICANN).
Campagnola, L., Klein, A., Rossant, C., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. VisPy: Harnessing the GPU for fast, high-level visualization. Scipy, USA.
Topalidou, M., Piron, C., Kase, D., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. The formation of habits: Implicit supervision of the basal ganglia. RLDM, canada.
Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2015. The ReScience initiative. Euroscipy.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Modern scientific visualization. X developer’s conference.
Campagnola, L., Klein, A., Rossant, C., and Rougier, N.P. 2013. Vispy: A modern and interactive visualization framework. Euroscipy.
Detorakis, G.Is. and Rougier, N.P. 2012. Skin topographic maps in SI. Progress in neural field theory.
Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.Is. 2011. Self-organizing dynamic neural fields. Third international conference on cognitive neurodynamics.
Rougier, N.P. and Fix, J. 2011. Distributed, numerical, asynchronous and adaptive computing framework. Python in neuroscience, EurosScipy satellite.
Taouali, W., Rougier, N.P., and Frédéric, A. 2010. Saccades generation : From the visual input to the superior colliculus. International conference on neural computation ICNC.
Rougier, N.P. 2010. From computational neurosience to cellular automata. Automata.
Taouali, W., Frédéric, A., Hutt, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2009. Asynchronous evaluation as an efficient and natural way to compute neural networks. 7th international conference of numerical analysis and applied mathematics - ICNAAM.
Fix, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2007. A top-down attentional system scanning multiple targets with saccades. From computational cognitive neuroscience to computer vision.
Alexandre, F., Rougier, N.P., and Viéville, T. 2006. A regularization process to implement self-organizing neuronal networks. International conference on engineering and mathematics.
Fix, J., Vitay, J., and Rougier, N.P. 2006. A computational model of spatial memory anticipation during visual search. Anticipatory behavior in adaptive learning systems.
Vitay, J. and Rougier, N.P. 2005. Using neural dynamics to switch attention. International joint conference on neural networtks (IJCNN).
Vitay, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2004. Reducing connectivity by using cortical modular bands. European symposium on artificial neural networks (ESANN).
Rougier, N.P. 2001. Hippocampal auto-associative memory. International Joint Conference on Neural Networtks (IJCNN).
Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 2001. A cerebral framework for integrating biologically plausible mechanisms in large connectionist models. International conference on systems in biology.
Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 2000. A model of hippocampal-cortical interaction using a synaptic triad mechanism. The nature of hippocampal-cortical interaction: Theoretical and experimental perspectives.
Rougier, N.P., Frezza-Buet, H., and Alexandre, F. 1999. Neuronal mechanisms for sequence learning in behavioral modeling. Neural, symbolic, and reinforcement methods for sequence learning workshop, international joint conference on artificial intelligence (IJCAI). #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 1999. Spatial knowledge transfer between models of hippocampus and associative cortex. International joint conference on neural networtks (IJCNN). #LINK.

Thesis

Rougier, N.P. 2011. Fondements biologiques pour le calcul distribué, numérique et adaptatif. Habilitation, Université Nancy II. #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. 2000. Modèles de mémoires pour la navigation autonome. Doctorat, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy I. #HAL.

Books

Psyphine, ed. 2020. Que prêtons-nous aux machines ? Approches interdisciplinaires des interactions homme-robot. Presses Universitaires Paris Nanterres.
Rougier, N.P. 2020. Scientific visualization: Python & matplotlib. GitHub. #HAL.
Desquilbet, L., Granger, S., Hejblum, B., Legrand, A., Pernot, P., and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Vers une recherche reproductible. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2018. Python & OpenGL for scientific visualization. Zenodo. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. From python to numpy. Zenodo. #DOI #LINK.
Varoquaux, G., Gouillart, E., Vahtras, O., Haenel, V., Rougier, N.P., Gommers, R., Pedregosa, F., Jedrzejewski-Szmek, Z., Virtanen, P., Combelles, C., Pinte, D., Cimrman, R., Espaze, A., Chauve, A., and Burns, C. 2015. Scipy lecture notes. Zenodo. #DOI #GITHUB.

Chapters

Rougier, N.P. and Hinsen, K. 2019. ReScience C: A Journal for Reproducible Replications in Computational Science. In: B. Kerautret, M. Colom, D. Lopresti, P. Monasse and H. Talbot, eds., Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition. Springer, Cham. #DOI #HAL.
Strock, A., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2019. Using conceptors to transfer between long-term and short-term memory. In: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning. Springer International Publishing, 19–23. #DOI #HAL.
Alexandre, F., Dominey, P.F., Gaussier, P., Girard, B., Khamassi, M., and Rougier, N.P. 2019. When artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience meet. In: A guided tour of artificial intelligence research, vol. 3 interfaces and applications of artificial intelligence. Springer-Verlag. #DOI #HAL.
Chraibi-Kaadoud, I., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2017. Implicit knowledge extraction and structuration from electrical diagrams. In: Advances in artificial intelligence: From theory to practice. Springer International Publishing, 235–241. #DOI #HAL.
Hutt, A. and Rougier, N.P. 2014. Numerical simulation scheme of one-and two-dimensional neural fields involving space-dependent delays. In: P. beim Graben, S. Coombes, R. Potthast and J.J. Wright, eds., Neural field theory. Springer. #DOI #HAL.
Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.Is. 2013. Self-organizing dynamic neural fields. In: Y. Yamaguchi, ed., Advances in cognitive neurodynamics (III). Springer. #DOI #HAL.
Taouali, W., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2012. Visual target selection emerges from a bio-inspired network topology. In: K. Kurosh Madani, A.D. Correia, A. Rosa and J. Filipe, eds., Computational intelligence. Springer-Verlag. #DOI #HAL.
Fix, J., Vitay, J., and Rougier, N.P. 2007. A computational model of spatial memory anticipation during visual search. In: M.V. Butz, O. Sigaud, G. Pezzulo and G. Baldassarre, eds., Anticipatory behavior in adaptive learning systems: From brains to individual and social behavior. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 1999. Mémoires déclarative et procédurale pour la navigation autonome d’un animat. In: A. Drogoul and J.A. Meyer, eds., Intelligence artificielle située. Cerveau, corps et environnement. Hermès.

Tutorials

Rougier, N.P. 2015. 100 numpy exercises. #GITHUB.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Numpy tutorial. Zenodo. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Matplotlib tutorial. Zenodo. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. 2011. C++ crash course. #GITHUB.

Scientific Communication

Media Coverage

Stafford, T. 2026. The 1,000 neuron challenge. The Transmitter. #DOI #LINK.
Perkel, J.M. 2020. Challenge to scientists: Does your ten-year-old code still run? Nature 584, 7822, 656–658. #DOI.
Thompson, B. and Howe, N. 2020. The challenge of reproducing results from ten-year-old code. Nature 584, 7822. #LINK.
Hutson, M. 2018. Artificial intelligence faces a replication crisis. Science 359, 6377. #LINK.
Editors. 2014. How to draw perfect figures. Nature 513, 7519, 463–463. #DOI.
Woolston, C. 2014. How to dodge the pitfalls of bad illustrations. Nature. #DOI.

Correspondences

Girau, B., Miramond, B., Rougier, N.P., and Upegui, A. 2021. Self organizing machine architecture. ERCIM News 125. #HAL.
Alexandre, F., Hinaut, X., Rougier, N.P., and Viéville, T. 2021. Higher cognitive functions in bio-inspired artificial intelligence. ERCIM News 125. #LINK.
Rossant, C. and Rougier, N.P. 2021. High-performance interactive scientific visualization with DatoViz via the vulkan low-level GPU API. Computing in Science & Engineering (IEEE) 23, 4. #DOI #LINK.
Roesch, E.B. and Rougier, N.P. 2020. New journal for reproduction and replication results. Nature 581, 7806, 30–30. #DOI.
Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. ReScience (R)evolution. ReScience 5. #PDF.
Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Challenge to test reproducibility of old computer code. Nature 574, 7780. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. and Hinsen, K. 2018. Code reviewing puts extra demands on referees. Nature 556, 7701. #DOI.
Topalidou, M., Leblois, A., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. A long journey into reproducible computational neuroscience. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 9, 28. #DOI.
Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 2003. Emergence of representations through interactions of a robot with the real world. ERCIM News 53. #LINK.

Keynotes & Talks

Rougier, N.P. 2025. The Art of Braincrafting. Cognitive Science Colloquium, Tübingen, Germany. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. On data visualization for sport. 28th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Paris, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. Digital typography. Huawei future device technology summit, Helsinki, Finland. #PDF.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. On the design of scientific visualization. Colloquium of the institute of mathematics, potsdam university, Postdam, Germany. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Modern Data Visualization. Janelia research campus, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2021. The Art of Braincrafting. European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS), Glascow, Scottland. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Bootstrapping cognition. CY advanced studies: Robotics, development and neurosciences, Cergy-Pontoise, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2018. ReScience. Enabling reproducibility in machine learning MLTrain@RML (ICML 2018), Stockholm, Sweden. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2018. We ReDo science. Bernstein PhD symposium, Berlin, Germany. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Reproducible science. University of reading (UK), Reading, United Kingdom. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Noise and Decision. Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Scientific Publishing on GitHub. Emerging Models in Scientific Communication, Antwerps, Belgium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. From single neuron to population. EBEA International School of Bioelectromagnetics "Alessandro Chiabrera", Electromagnetic Fields and the Nervous System, Erice, Sicily, Italy. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. From neuron to behavior. Neuropsychology through the lenses of computational modelling, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical plasticity, a computational approach. International conference on neural field theory, Reading, United Kingdom. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical plasticity. Bernstein conference, Göttingen, Germany. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2012. Dynamic neural fields. Brain & signals, Nancy, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2008. Visual attention. Computational vision, Marseille, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2007. Visual attention. Models of language evolution, acquisition and processing, Leuven, Belgium.
Rougier, N.P. 2007. Some questions around consciousness. Conceptual Neuroscience (European Institute Para Limes), Wageningen, Nehterlands. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2006. Computational neurocience for humanoïd robotics. 1st Japanese-French Frontiers of Science, Kanagawa, Japan. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2003. Rules without symbols. Computational models of active maintenance in prefrontal cortex, Alicante, Spain.

Invited Lectures

Rougier, N.P. 2025. Principles of Scientific Visualization. LUT University, Lappeenranta-Lahti, Finland. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. Introduction to Open Science. Hacking cognition, Paris (France). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. How to write better code? 1st Open Science Workshop, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. How to explain your job to your grandma? 1st Open Science Workshop, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Data visualization for space. Open planetary lunch, Online. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Modern Scientific Visualization. 9th Advanced Scientific Programming in Python (ASPP) Summer School, Reading, United Kingdom. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. An Introduction to Matplotlib. 15th Annual Scientific Computing with Python conference (SciPy), Austin, Texas, USA. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Advanced Neural Fields. Computational Neuroscience Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. An Introduction to Matplotlib. 9th European Conference on Python in Science (EuroSciPy), Cambridge, United Kingdom. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Introducton to reinforcement learning. Latin-America Summer School in Computational Neuroscience (LACONEU), Valparaiso, Chile. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Principles of Scientific visualization. Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) Winter School, Dublin, Ireland. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. An Introduction to Matplotlib. 7th European Conference on Python in Science (EuroSciPy), Brussels, Belgium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2010. Models of visual attention. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2010. Introduction to neural fields. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2010. Visual attention. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2010. Embodied cognition. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. #LINK.

Invited talks (national)

Rougier, N.P. 2026. CODE beyond FAIR. Polaris colloquium, Lille, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Art and science. Journée Robotique et ImaginaireS, Toulouse, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. OSINT & IA Enquêtes augmentées. Institut de Journalisme Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Promesses et Limites de l’IA en neurosciences. Inria IES seminar, Bordeaux, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. On AI and embodiment. IDHN winter school, Cergy-Pontoise, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. Une histoire naturelle de la décision. Rhodia, Laboratoire du Futur, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. CODE beyond FAIR. Aterlier de la données ARDOiSE, Rennes, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib. Service d’expérimentation et de développement, Inria, Nancy, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2023. The French Reproducibility National Network. All trained in Open Science (SOFT), Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Reproducible Research: one bit a a time. Centre de recherche en informatique, signal et automatique de lille), Lille, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures. Café python et visualisation, Bordeaux, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Reproducible Research: one bit a a time. Inria rennes (comité des projets), Rennes, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2021. Long-term reproducibility. Société informatique de france, Online. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2021. Méthodes numériques et pratiques scientifiques : Quelles influences des technologies numériques sur la recherche scientifique ? 8ème journées du réseau des URFIST, Lyon, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2020. Data visualization for AI. AI for industry, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. The dark side of science. Ecole doctorale Mathématiques et Informatique, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Less is more. Université de la rochelle, La Rochelle, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. ReScience, one year after. Science ouverte, transparence et évaluation, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Decision Making: who’s in charge? Lex Robotica, Paris, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Two actors, one critic. Robotique & Neurosciences, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. ReScience. Loi numérique, et après ?, Meudon, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Distributed, asynchronous, numerical & adaptive computing. Premier colloque du GDR BioComp, Saint Paul de Vence, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. ReScience, refaire la science. Institut for advanced studies: Retour d’expériences sur la recherche reproductible, Orléans, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Scientific visualization with python. Atelier prospectom, Grenoble, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical plasticity. Computational neuroscience network, Marseille, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2014. Where is my mind? 13eme forum des sciences cognitives, Réfectoire des Cordeliers, Paris, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Scientific visualisation. Journées Nationales du dévelopement Logiciel, Massy-Palaiseau, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. We see only what we look at. Santé et technologies innovantes connectées: Cerveau et informatique, Toulouse, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Where is my mind? La robotique et le vivant, Cergy-Pontoise, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2011. Models of visual attention. Intelligence artificielle embarquée, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Rougier, N.P. 2009. Architecture cérébrale et robotique autonome. Souterrain Porte V: Robots, Hybrides et Corps, Nancy, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2000. Mémoire déclarative. Xèmes Journées Neurosciences et Sciences de l’Ingénieur, Munster, France.

Podcasts

Rougier, N.P. 2025. Neural neworks and Dataviz. The Python Show. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. NANO Emacs. Synopticon. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2022. Automates & Robotrons. C’était demain . #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Visual Attention, Neural Networks and Computational Neuroscience. Verge of Discovery. #LINK.

Software

Academic

Vispy is VisPy is a high-performance interactive 2D/3D data visualization library leveraging the computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) through the OpenGL library to display very large datasets.

Glumpy is a python library for scientific visualization that is both fast, scalable and beautiful. Glumpy offers an intuitive interface between numpy and modern OpenGL.

Freetype-GL is a C library for displaying text in OpenGL using one vertex buffer, one texture and the Freetype librart with flawless rendering quality in orthographic mode.

Machine learning recipes is a collection of stand-alone examples of machine learning algorithms in Python covering multi-armed bandits, artificial neural networks and Markod decision Processes.

DANA is a Python library for distributed asynchronous numerical and adaptive computing. The computational paradigm supporting the dana framework is grounded on the notion of a unit that is a set of arbitrary values that can vary along time under the influence of other units and learning.

Open Source

See my GitHub page for more open source software, including Emacs, Freetype, Matplotlib, Numpy & Dataviz.

Science Outreach

I’m doint a lot of Science Outreach but this is only recently I tried to keep track of my interventions. These lists are thus far from complete.

Books & Articles

Rougier, N.P. and Edgar, S. 2024. IA logs. Hypermondes.
Rougier, N.P. 2021. Intelligence Artificielle et Singularité. In: F. Carré and A. Marcinkowski, eds., Hypermondes, Anthologie #1. Moutons Électriques.
Coris, M., Vas-Deyres, N., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. Intelligence artificielle : Entre science et fiction. The Conversation (FR). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Et le cerveau dans tout ça ? U magazine. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Autonome, Dialogues (1). Medium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Connecté, Dialogues (2). Medium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Immortel, Dialogues (3). Medium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Révolution, Dialogues (4). Medium. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Pourquoi votre chat est nul aux échecs et pourtant plus intelligent qu’une IA. The Conversation (FR). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2019. Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI. The Conversation (US). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Silicon soul: The vain dream of electronic immortality. The Conversation (US). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Why you’ll never be able to upload your brain to the cloud. The Conversation (US). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Faut-il avoir peur de l’intelligence artificielle ? Thinkovery #3.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Esprit in silico : Les vains espoirs de l’immortalité. The Conversation (FR). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Pourquoi l’idée de télécharger son cerveau n’a pas de sens. The Conversation (FR). #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. L’intelligence artificielle n’aura pas lieu. Scilogs. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. L’intelligence artificielle, mythes et réalités. Interstices. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. 3615 EULA. Binaires. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Petite histoire de la cybercriminalité. Journée pédagogique pour l’ISN. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Percer les mystères du cerveau. Interstices. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2013. Outils et bibliothèques de visualisation. High Performance Computing.
Rougier, N.P. 2011. Mémoire vive. Universcité #4. #PDF.

Conferences and Panels

Rougier, N.P. 2026. Confiance, justice, médias. Bordeaux, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. From neurons to algorithms. Semaine du Cerveau, Bordeaux, France, Panel discussion.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Intelligence artificielle: Promesses et limites. Petite Université Libre et Populaire (PULP), Tence, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Emotions. Le Lab des écoles créatives, Toulouse, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. On the conservation of data and code. CIRSES annual seminar, La Rochelle, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. About Artificial Intelligence. 45th APLIUT conference, Colmar, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Ouvrir les codes et logiciels : Enjeux et bonnes pratiques pour la recherche. Open Science Week, Université de Bordeaux, Online. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Intelligence Artificielle au travail. Chambre Régionale des Comptes, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. and Pucheu, D. 2025. Les dessous de l’intelligence artificielle. Village des Sciences, Cap Sciences, Bordeaux, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. and Pucheu, D. 2025. Intelligence artificielle générale: Mythe et limites. Village des Sciences, Cap Sciences, Bordeaux, France, Panel discussion. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2025. Les Jeudis d’éthique publique. Etudes, Revue de Culture Comtemporaine, Bordeaux, France. #PDF.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. IA génératives: Promesses et limites. MOOC intelligence artificielle pour et par les enseignants, Online. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. IA : Et si on arrêtait de raconter n’importe quoi ? Happy Hour, Cap Sciences, Bordeaux, France, Public interview. #LINK.
Carré, F., Queyssi, L., Vas-Deyres, N., Ly, O., Vulliez, M., and Rougier, N.P. 2023. Citizen dialog: Les robots de la SF savent-ils marcher? Panel discussion. #LINK.
Carré, F., Queyssi, L., Vas-Deyres, N., Roussel, N., and Rougier, N.P. 2022. Mais pourquoi l’IA est-elle aussi méchante ? Panel discussion. #PDF.
Rougier, N.P. 2016. Open science. AdaWeek, Paris, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. Une brève histoire de l’intelligence artificielle. Pint of Science, Bordeaux, France. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2015. On ne voit que ce que l’on regarde. Unithé ou café, Bordeaux, France.

Interviews

Lucchese, V. 2025. Ruée sur l’intelligence artificielle. Reporterre. #LINK.
Favrot, A. 2025. J’ai fait un concours d’intelligence contre l’IA… Et j’ai gagné. Le Parisien. #LINK.
Spector, J. 2025. Chasse aux migrants : Comment trump et la silicon valley construisent le techno-fascisme (interview). Charlie Hebdo. #LINK.
Spector, J. 2025. IA : Les géants de la tech orchestrent le pillage d’internet. Charlie Hebdo. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2024. Transférer son esprit dans l’ordinateur. Usbek & Rica.
Redaud, L. 2024. Tescreal, l’idéologie futuriste qui se répand chez les élites de la silicon valley (interview). Charlie Hebdo. #LINK.
Redaud, L. 2024. L’intelligence artificielle, l’arnaque de la décennie ? Charlie Hebdo. #LINK.
Redaud, L. 2024. Il faut se méfier des discours colportés par les géants de l’IA. Charlie Hebdo. #LINK.
Rougier, N.P. 2017. Une vie numérique éternelle en 2067 ? Usbek & Rica. #LINK.

Shows

Rougier, N.P. 2023. L’expérience sensible du monde. TEDx Quartier Latin (Paris), Paris, France. #LINK.
Coris, M., Wellens, A., and Simon, V. 2021. Scandale à la Macropole! Université Bordeaux Montaigne. #LINK.