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I’m a senior researcher (DR) in computational cognitive neuroscience at Inria and the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Bordeaux, France). I’m investigating decision making, learning and cognition using computational models of the brain and distributed, numerical and adaptive computing, a.k.a. artificial neural networks and machine learning. My research aims to irrigate the fields of philosophy with regard to the mind-body problem, medicine to account for the normal and pathological functioning of the brain and the digital sciences to offer alternative computing paradigms.

Direct access to bibliography (Calls, Highlights, Preprints, Books, Correspondences, Journals, Chapters, Conferences, Science outreach, Invited conferences, Invited lectures) and list of co-authors.

Contact

Main office	Alternative office
Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives	Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
Centre Broca Nouvelle-Aquitaine	200 Avenue de la Vieille Tour
146 rue Léo Saignat - CS 61292 - Case 28	33405 Talence
33076 Bordeaux cedex	Tel: +33 533 514 802

Professional history

2021 - …	Director of Research at (Inria)
2020 - …	Head of the Computational Neuroscience team (IMN)
	Vice‐head of the Mnemosyne team‐project (Inria BSO)
	Member of the DART team (LaBRI)
2013 - 2020	Researcher (tenured) at Inria Bordeaux Sud‐Ouest
	Vice‐head of the Mnemosyne team‐project
	Member of the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases
	Member of the LaBRI laboratory
2002 - 2013	Researcher (tenured) at Inria Nancy Grand‐Est
	Member of the Cortex team‐project
	Member of the Loria laboratory
2000 - 2002	Associate Researcher at the Colorado University, Boulder, USA
	Member of the O’Reilly Cognitive Psychology laboratory

Education

2011	Habilitation, Université Nancy 2
	Fondements biologiques pour le calcul distribué, numérique et adaptatif
1997-2000	Ph.D. in Computer Science, Université Henri Poincaré
	Modèles de mémoires pour la navigation autonome
(1996-1997	Military service in naval aviation)
1993-1996	Engineer Telecom Nancy (ex ESIAL)
	DEA (Master) in Computer Science , Université Nancy 1

Activities

Team leader of the computational neuroscience team at the institute of neurodegenerative diseases. Co‐founder and editor in chief of ReScience C and Rescience X, editor for PeerJ Computer Science, review editor for Frontiers in Neurobotics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, member of the COSO Logiciel (Software and Source Codes College), member of the COFIS (Ofis Advisory Board), member of the FRRN (French National Reproducibility Network).

Former elected member of the national Inria evaluation committee, vice‐head of the Mnemosyne project, member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. I have directed 14 Phd Students, 4 post‐docs, ≈30 master students, reviewed and examined ≈30 PhD thesis and participated in more than 20 hiring committees (tenured position). I’m regularly teaching cognitive science, computational neuroscience, numerical computation and scientific visualization at university, doctoral schools and summer schools. I’ve also published several resources about scientific computation, scientific visualization and machine learning.

PhD students

Maeva Andriantsoamberomanga 2022-2025
Naomi Chaix-Echel 2021-2024

Nikolaos Vardalakis (PhD) 2020-2024
Fjola Hyseni (PhD,MD) 2020-2023
Snighda Dagar (PhD) 2019-2023
Remya Sankar (PhD) 2018-2022
Anthony Strock (PhD) 2017-2020
Ikram Chraibi Kaadoud (PhD) 2015-1018
Aurélien Nioche (PhD) 2014-2018
Meropi Topalidou (PhD) 2013-2016
Georgios Detorakis (PhD) 2010-2013
Wahiba Taouali (PhD) 2009-2012
Jérémy Fix (PhD) 2005-2008
Julien Vitay (PhD) 2002-2006

Post-doc students

Fabien Benureau 2016-1017
Zhor Ramdane-Cherif 2005-2006
Rémi Coulom 2003-2004
Alistair Bray 1998-2000

Interns

Héloise Troublé (2024, ENS Rennes) Pierre Schmittbuhl (2024, ENS Lyon) Gautham Venugopal (2023, IIIT Hyderabad, India) Victor Leroy (2022, ENST, Bordeaux) Rebecca Lafont (2022, Bordeaux INP) Bhushan Rugbursing (2021, Médecine/Science, Bordeaux), Karen Sobriel (2021, Université de Nantes), Quentin Lanneau (2021, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux), Kepa Labescau (2020, Médecine/Science, Bordeaux), Dimitri Lerévérend (2020, ENS Rennes), Nicolas Thou (2020, ENSEIRB, Bordeaux), Adrien Tétar (2019, ESIEE, Paris), Gabriel Gouraud (2019, Polytechnique, Saclay), Théophile Boraud (2018, Univ. Warwick, UK), Edwige Cyffers (2018, ENS, Lyon), Basile Garcia (2018, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux), Remya Sankar (2017, IIIT Hyderabad, India), Anthony Strock (2017, ENS, Rennes), Sabyasachi Shivkumar (2016, IIIT Madras, India), Barghav teja Nallapu (2015, IIIT Hyderabad, Indoa), Aurélien Marie (2015, Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux), Hima Mehta (2014, IIIT Hyderabad, Inde), Meropi Topalidou (2013, Univ. Crete, Greece), Zoé Barbanneau (2011, Ecole Estienne, Paris), Wahiba Taouali (2009, Ecole des Mines, Nancy), Andrew Szabados (2008, Univ. Jussieu, Paris), Johnatan Gall (2006, Supélec, Metz), Jérémy Fix (2003, Supélec, Metz), Yoann Dieu (2003, Univ. Strasbourg, Strasbourg), Julien Vitay (2002, Supélec, Rennes).

Ongoing projects

Observatoire de la surveillance en démocratie (2024-2025) Au carrefour de différentes disciplines scientifiques, telles que le droit, l’informatique, les sciences de l’information et de la communication, la sociologie, l’histoire, l’économie et la science politique, l’OSD se veut porteur d’une recherche et d’une expertise multidisciplinaires sur les phénomènes de surveillance en démocratie. L’OSD vise, notamment, à dresser un état des lieux des techniques mises en œuvre par les acteurs privés et publics dont le but – ou dont l’effet – est la surveillance d’une partie ou de la totalité de la population.

Hyperhum@in (Inria / Université Bordeaux-Montaigne 2023-2024) The Hyperhum@in research program brings together a core group of researchers in HSS and life sciences committed to questioning exploratory engineering projects “at the frontiers of the human”. The second part, entitled “brain-machine: analogy, model, identity”, proposes to take a combined look at Artificial Intelligence and cognitive neuroscience which have today become inseparable in their mutual quest for intelligibility of the functioning of the human brain.

Psyphine (CNRS, 2011-2024) This multidisciplinary group (computer science, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, linguistic, ethnology) studies cognition from a theoretical and experimental perspective. We’ve designed a robotic lamp and study how people interact with it and interpret its behavior.

Software

Glumpy is 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.

→ See my GitHub page for more software and tutorials.

Artwork

Some artworks I designed for conferences and events I organized or co-organized over the years.

Bibliography

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.

Major journals where I published are PNAS (2005), Neural Networks (2006, 2009) Neurocomputing (2011), PLoS Computational Biology (2014), Movement Disorders (2016), Progress in Neurobiology (2018), Neural Computation (2020), Science Advances (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Socitety B (2021) but also Nature (2014, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020) and Science (2019) for correspondences, interviews and reports on my work.

I’ve also given a course at SIGGRAPH which is the major conference in computer graphics and gave a talk ISHPSSB in 2019 which is the major conference in philosophy of biology.

Calls

1. Inria, Software Heritage, and Unesco. 2019. Paris Call - Software Source Code as Heritage. https://en.unesco.org/foss/paris-call-software-source-code. Signatories: J-F. Abramatic, K. Albert, G. Alberts, K. Bradley, R. Buckley, N. Chue Hong, D. Clipsham, E. Cochrane, R. Di Cosmo, L. Duplouy, M. Gharsallah, J.M Greenberg, B. Guerry, M. Hinchey, P. Inverardi, V. Issarny, P. Madhavan, F. Marzano, G. Miura, P. Moreau, E. Nardelli, P. O’Donohue, M.R. Osuna Alarcón, J. Palm, T. Perelmuter, S. Phipps, C. Piana, N.P. Rougier, M. Sassi, D. Schüller, A. Seles, L. Shustek, A. Smith, M. Webb, P. Wheatley, S. Wyber URL

Highlights

1. Thompson, B. and Howe, N. 2020. The challenge of reproducing results from ten-year-old code. Nature 584, 7822. Podcast on the "Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge" URL
2. Perkel, J.M. 2020. Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? Nature 584, 7822, 656–658. Extended report on the "Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge" DOI URL
3. Hutson, M. 2018. Artificial intelligence faces a replication crisis. Science 359, 6377. Interview about the ReScience journal URL
4. Woolston, C. 2014. How to dodge the pitfalls of bad illustrations. Nature. Highlight on "Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures" DOI
5. Nature. 2014. How to draw perfect figures. Nature 513, 7519, 463–463. Social selection about "Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures" DOI

Preprints

1. Chaix-Eichel, N., Dagar, S., Alexandre, F., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2024. On the epistemic role of hippocampal cells: the case of splitter cells. . DOI URL
2. 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. DOI URL
3. Rougier, N.P., Brun, C., and Boraud, T. 2021. A Mathematical Bias. HAL. URL
4. Rougier, N.P. 2020. On the design of text editors. arXiv. URL
5. Shivkumar, S., Chakravarthy, V.S., and Rougier, N.P. 2017. Modeling the Role of Striatum in Stochastic Multi Context Tasks. BioRxiv. DOI URL
6. Rougier, N.P. and Timmer, J. 2017. Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct. HAL. URL PDF

Books

1. Rougier, N.P. 2020. Scientific Visualization: Python & Matplotlib. GitHub. URL
2. Psyphine, ed. 2020. Que prêtons-nous aux machines ? Approches interdisciplinaires des interactions homme-robot. Presses Universitaires Paris Nanterres.
3. Desquilbet Loı̈c, Granger, S., Hejblum, B., Legrand, A., Pernot, P., and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Vers une Recherche Reproductible. . URL
4. Rougier, N.P. 2018. Python & OpenGL for Scientific Visualization. Zenodo. URL CODE
5. Rougier, N.P. 2016. From Python to Numpy. Zenodo. DOI URL PDF CODE
6. 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 PDF CODE

Correspondences

1. 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 URL
2. Alexandre, F., Hinaut, X., Rougier, N.P., and Viéville, T. 2021. Higher Cognitive Functions in Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. ERCIM News 125. In press URL
3. Girau, B., Miramond, B., Rougier, N.P., and Upegui, A. 2021. Self Organizing Machine Architecture. ERCIM News 125. URL
4. Roesch, E.B. and Rougier, N.P. 2020. New journal for reproduction and replication results. Nature 581, 7806, 30–30. DOI URL
5. Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Challenge to test reproducibility of old computer code. Nature 574, 7780. DOI URL
6. Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. ReScience (R)evolution. ReScience 5. URL
7. Rougier, N.P. and Hinsen, K. 2018. Code reviewing puts extra demands on referees. Nature 556, 7701. DOI
8. Guest, O. and Rougier, N.P. 2017. Diversity in reproducibility. IEEE CDS Newsletter 13, 2. URL PDF CODE
9. Guest, O. and Rougier, N.P. 2016. What is computational reproducibility? IEEE CDS Newsletter 13, 1. URL PDF CODE
10. 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 PDF
11. Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 2003. Emergence of Representations Through Interactions of a Robot with the Real World. ERCIM News 53. URL PDF

Journals

1. 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 URL
2. 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 URL
3. Sankar, R., Rougier, N.P., and Leblois, A. 2022. Computational benefits of structural plasticity, illustrated in songbirds. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 132, 1183–1196. DOI URL
4. 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. In press DOI URL
5. 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, #11. DOI URL
6. Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.I. 2021. Randomized Self Organizing Map. Neural Computation. In press URL
7. Strock, A., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2020. Latent space exploration and functionalization of a gated working memory model using conceptors. Cognitive Computation. In press
8. Detorakis, G., Chaillet, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. Stability analysis of a neural field self-organizing map. Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. In press
9. Strock, A., Hinaut, X., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. A Robust Model of Gated Working Memory. Neural computation 32, 1. URL PDF
10. 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 URL
11. 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 PDF CODE
12. 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 URL
13. 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). URL
14. 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, 6. DOI
15. Boraud, T., Leblois, A., and Rougier, N.P. 2018. A Natural History of Skills. Progress in Neurobiology 171. DOI
16. Rougier, N.P. 2018. A Density-Driven Method for the Placement of Biological Cells Over Two-Dimensional Manifolds. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 12. DOI CODE
17. 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 URL CODE
18. 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 Benoı̂t, 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 CODE
19. Rougier, N.P. 2017. [Re] Weighted Voronoi Stippling. ReScience 3, 1. DOI PDF CODE
20. 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 CODE
21. 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 PDF CODE
22. 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 PDF CODE
23. Rougier, N.P., Droettboom, M., and Bourne, P.E. 2014. Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures. PLoS Computational Biology 10, 9. DOI PDF CODE
24. 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 PDF
25. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Antialiased 2D Grid, Marker, and Arrow Shaders. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 3, 4, 1–52. URL PDF
26. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Shader-based Antialiased Dashed Stroke Poylines. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 2, 2, 105–121. URL PDF
27. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering. Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT) 2, 1, 50–64. URL PDF
28. Rougier, N.P. and Fix, J. 2012. DANA: Distributed numerical and adaptive modelling framework. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 23, 4, 237–253. URL PDF CODE
29. 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 PDF
30. Rougier, N.P. and Hutt, A. 2011. Synchronous and Asynchronous Evaluation of Dynamic Neural Fields. Journal of Difference Equations and Applications 17, 8. DOI PDF
31. 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 PDF
32. Rougier, N.P. and Boniface, Y. 2011. Dynamic Self-Organising map. Neurocomputing 74, 11, 1840–1847. DOI PDF CODE
33. 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 PDF
34. 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 PDF CODE
35. Rougier, N.P. 2009. Implicit and Explicit Representations. Neural Networks 22, 2, 155–160. DOI PDF
36. 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 PDF
37. Rougier, N.P. and Vitay, J. 2006. Emergence of Attention within a Neural Population. Neural Networks 19, 5, 573–581. DOI PDF
38. Rougier, N.P. 2006. Dynamic Neural Field with Local Inhibition. Biological Cybernetics 94, 3, 169–179. DOI PDF
39. 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. URL PDF
40. Rougier, N.P. and O’Reilly, R.C. 2002. A Gated Prefrontal Cortex Model of Dynamic Task Switching. Cognitive Science 26, 4, 503–520. URL PDF

Chapters

1. 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. PDF
2. 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 URL
3. Alexandre, F., Dominey, P.F., Gaussier, P., Girard Benoı̂t, 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.
4. 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 PDF
5. 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 PDF CODE
6. Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.I. 2013. Self-Organizing Dynamic Neural Fields. In: Y. Yamaguchi, ed., Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (III). Springer. DOI PDF CODE
7. 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 PDF
8. 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 PDF
9. Vitay, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2005. A distributed model of visual spatial attention. In: S. Wermter, G. Palm and M. Elshaw, eds., Biomimetic Neural Learning for Intelligent Robotics. Springer-Verlag. DOI PDF
10. Frezza-Buet, H., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2000. A cerebral framework for the integration of biologically inspired temporal mechanisms for sequence processing. In: L. Giles and R. Sun, eds., Neural, symbolic and Reinforcement methods for sequence learning. Springer. PDF
11. 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. PDF

Conferences

1. Rougier, N.P. 2024. Les corps oubliés. Cerveau-machine : modèles et fictions, HyperHumains.
2. 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. URL
3. Hyseni, F., Rougier, N.P., and Leblois, A. 2023. Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus. CNS.
4. Leblois, A., Hyseni, F., and Rougier, N.P. 2023. Attractor dynamics drive flexible timing in birdsong. ICANN.
5. Leroy, V., Guilhemsang, L., Rougier, N.P., and Mallet, N. 2023. Automatic quantification of normal & pathological behavior in mice. IBAGS XIV.
6. Chaix-Eichel, N., Rougier, N.P., Boraud, T., and Ballesta, S. 2023. The influence of social rank on the attitude towards risk in non-human primates. Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making.
7. Dagar, S.D., Alexandre, F., and Rouger, N.P. 2023. Computational models to explore constituents of Cognitive Control. Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making.
8. Rougier, N.P. and Rossant, C. 2023. The Graphic Server Protocol (GSP). EuroScipy.
9. 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. DOI URL
10. Trouvain, N., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2022. Create Efficient and Complex Reservoir Computing Architectures with ReservoirPy. FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022). URL PDF
11. Dagar, S., Alexandre, F., and Rougier, N. 2022. From concrete to abstract rules : A computational sketch. The 15th International Conference on Brain Informatics. URL PDF
12. Sankar, R., Rougier, N., and Leblois, A. 2022. Dual pathway architecture in songbirds boosts sensorimotor learning. Cosyne.
13. Hyseni, F., Leblois, A., and Rougier, N. 2022. Temporal Dynamics in an Attractor Model of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus. Cosyne.
14. Benureau, F.C.Y. and Rougier, N.P. 2019. Re-run, Repeat, Reproduce, Reuse, Replicate: Transforming Code into Scientific Contributions. SciPy Japan.
15. Rougier, N.P. 2019. The Eye of the Modeler. International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology biennial meeting.
16. Rougier, N.P. and Hinsen, K. 2018. ReScience C: a journal for reproducible replications in computational science. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Springer. PDF
17. Rougier, N.P. and Esfahbod, B. 2018. Digital Typography Rendering. ACM SIGGRAPH. PDF
18. 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.
19. Khacef, L., Girau, B., Rougier, N.P., Upegui, A., and Miramond Benoı̂t. 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). PDF
20. 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). PDF
21. Strock, A., Rougier, N.P., and Hinaut, X. 2018. A Simple Reservoir Model of Working Memory with Real Values. Third workshop on advanced methods in theoretical neuroscience.
22. Benureau, F., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2017. Habits That Contradict Rewards. 7th Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, PDF
23. Rougier, N.P. and Boniface, Y. 2017. Motivated Self-Organization. 12th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization (WSOM). PDF
24. 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).
25. Nallapu, B.T. and Rougier, N.P. 2016. Dynamics of reward based decision making a computational study. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN). PDF
26. Nallapu, B.T., Rougier, N.P., and Surampudi, B.R. 2016. The art of scaling up : a computational account on action selection in basal ganglia. Conference of the Association for Cognitive Science, India. PDF
27. Campagnola, L., Klein, A., Rossant, C., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. VisPy: Harnessing The GPU For Fast, High-Level Visualization. Scipy, USA. CODE
28. 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.
29. Topalidou, M., Piron, C., Kase, D., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. The Formation of habits. SBDM, Paris.
30. Topalidou, M., Kase, D., Boraud, T., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. The Formation of habits. CNS, Prague.
31. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Glumpy. Euroscipy. CODE
32. Nallapu, B.T., Surampudi, B.R., and Rougier, N.P. 2015. Factors affecting reward based decision making : a computational study. International Conference on Cognition, Brain and Computation.
33. Hinsen, K. and Rougier, N.P. 2015. The ReScience initiative. Euroscipy.
34. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Modern Scientific Visualization. X Developer’s Conference.
35. Campagnola, L., Klein, A., Rossant, C., and Rougier, N.P. 2013. Vispy: A Modern and Interactive Visualization Framework. Euroscipy. CODE
36. Detorakis, G.I. and Rougier, N.P. 2012. Skin Topographic Maps in SI. Progress in Neural Field Theory.
37. Rougier, N.P. and Detorakis, G.I. 2011. Self-Organizing Dynamic Neural Fields. Third International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics.
38. Rougier, N.P. and Fix, J. 2011. Distributed, Numerical, Asynchronous and Adaptive computing framework. Python in Neuroscience, EurosScipy satellite.
39. Rougier, N.P. 2010. From Computational Neurosience to Cellular Automata. Automata.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. Ramdane-Cherif, Z.H. and Rougier, N.P. 2006. Etude des phénomènes d’occlusion dans l’attention visuelle spatiale. 1ère conférence francophone NEUROsciences COMPutationnelles - NeuroComp. PDF
44. 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.
45. Alexandre, F., Rougier, N.P., and Viéville, T. 2006. A regularization process to implement self-organizing neuronal networks. International Conference on Engineering and Mathematics.
46. Vitay, J. and Rougier, N.P. 2005. Using Neural Dynamics to Switch Attention. International Joint Conference on Neural Networtks (IJCNN).
47. Vitay, J., Rougier, N.P., and Alexandre, F. 2004. Reducing connectivity by using cortical modular bands. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN).
48. 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.
49. Rougier, N.P. 2001. Hippocampal Auto-Associative Memory. International Joint Conference on Neural Networtks (IJCNN).
50. 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.
51. 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).
52. Rougier, N.P. and Alexandre, F. 1999. Spatial Knowledge Transfer Between Models of Hippocampus and Associative Cortex. International Joint Conference on Neural Networtks (IJCNN).

Science outreach

1. Rougier, N.P. 2024. IA : et si on arrêtait de raconter n’importe quoi ? . URL
2. Carré, F., Queyssi, L., Vas-Deyres, N., Ly, O., and Rougier, N.P. 2023. Citizen Dialog: Les robots de la SF savent-ils marcher? . URL
3. Carré, F., Queyssi, L., Vas-Deyres, N., Roussel, N., and Rougier, N.P. 2022. Mais pourquoi l’IA est-elle aussi méchante ? . URL
4. Coris, M., Vas-Deyres, N., and Rougier, N.P. 2020. Intelligence artificielle : entre science et fiction . The Conversation (FR). URL
5. Rougier, N.P. 2019. Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI . The Conversation (US). URL
6. Rougier, N.P. 2019. Pourquoi votre chat est nul aux échecs et pourtant plus intelligent qu’une IA . The Conversation (FR). URL
7. Rougier, N.P. 2019. Et le cerveau dans tout ça ? U magazine. URL
8. Rougier, N.P. 2016. Why you’ll never be able to upload your brain to the cloud. The Conversation (US). URL
9. Rougier, N.P. 2016. Silicon soul: The vain dream of electronic immortality. The Conversation (US). URL
10. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Une brève histoire de l’intelligence artificielle. http://pintofscience.fr. Pint of Science, Bordeaux, France URL
11. Rougier, N.P. 2015. L’intelligence artificielle, mythes et réalités. Interstices. URL
12. Rougier, N.P. 2015. 3615 EULA. Binaires. URL
13. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Pourquoi l’idée de télécharger son cerveau n’a pas de sens. The Conversation (FR). URL
14. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Esprit in silico : les vains espoirs de l’immortalité. The Conversation (FR). URL
15. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Faut-il avoir peur de l’intelligence artificielle ? Thinkovery #3. URL
16. Rougier, N.P. 2015. L’intelligence artificielle n’aura pas lieu. Scilogs. URL
17. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Outils et bibliothèques de visualisation. High Performance Computing.
18. 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. . URL PDF
19. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Percer les mystères du cerveau. Interstices. URL
20. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Petite histoire de la cybercriminalité. Journée pédagogique pour l’ISN. URL
21. Rougier, N.P. 2011. Mémoire vive. Universcité #4. URL

Invited conferences

1. Rougier, N.P. 2024. On computational reproducibility. DKM Days (Rennes). URL
2. Rougier, N.P. 2024. Une histoire naturelle de la décision. Rhodia, Laboratoire du Futur .
3. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Reproducible Science. 1st Open Science Workshop (Bordeaux).
4. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Open Science. 1st Open Science Workshop (Bordeaux).
5. Rougier, N.P. 2023. On the Design of Scientific Visualization. Colloquium of the Institute of Mathematics, Potsdam University.
6. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Digital Typography. Huawei Technical Summit (Oslo).
7. Rougier, N.P. 2023. L’expérience sensible du monde. TEDx Quartier Latin (Paris). URL
8. Rougier, N.P. 2022. Reproducible Research, one bit a a time. Inria Rennes (CP).
9. Rougier, N.P. 2022. Modern data visualization. Janelia Research Campus.
10. Rougier, N.P. 2022. Data visualization. Open Planetary Lunch.
11. Rougier, N.P. 2021. The Art of Braincrafting. European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS). URL
12. Rougier, N.P. 2021. Long-term reproducibility. Société Informatique de France. URL
13. Rougier, N.P. 2021. Méthodes numériques et formation. 8ème journées du réseau des URFIST. URL
14. Rougier, N.P. 2019. Bootstrapping Cognition. Robotics, development and neurosciences. URL
15. Rougier, N.P. 2018. ReScience. Enabling Reproducibility in Machine Learning MLTrain@RML (ICML 2018). URL
16. Rougier, N.P. 2018. We ReDo Science. Bernstein PhD Symposium. URL
17. Rougier, N.P. 2017. ReScience, one year after. Openscience, transparence et évaluation. URL
18. Rougier, N.P. 2017. Noise and Decision. Symposium on the Biology of Decision Making. URL
19. Rougier, N.P. 2017. Reproducible Science. University of Reading (UK). URL
20. Rougier, N.P. 2017. Decision Making: who’s in charge? Lex Robotica. URL
21. Rougier, N.P. 2017. Scientific publishing on GitHub. Emerging models in scientific communication (CNS 2017). URL
22. Rougier, N.P. 2016. Two actors, one critic. Robotique & Neurosciences. URL
23. Rougier, N.P. 2016. Open Science. AdaWeek. URL
24. Rougier, N.P. 2016. ReScience. Loi Numérique, et après ? URL
25. Rougier, N.P. 2015. ReScience, refaire la science. Retour d’expériences sur la recherche reproductible. URL
26. Rougier, N.P. 2015. From Neuron to Behavior. Neuropsychology through the lenses of computational modelling.
27. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Distributed, Asynchronous, Numerical & Adaptive computing. BioComp. URL
28. Rougier, N.P. 2015. On ne voit que ce que l’on regarde. Unithé ou Café.
29. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Where is my mind? Forum des Sciences Cognitives. URL
30. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical Plasticity. Bernstein Conference workshop. URL
31. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical plasticity, a computational approach. International Conference on Neural Field Theory. URL
32. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Cortical plasticity. Computational Neuroscience Network. URL
33. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Where is my mind? La Robotique et le Vivant. URL
34. Rougier, N.P. 2013. We see only what we look at. Cerveau et Informatique.
35. Rougier, N.P. 2012. Dynamic Neural Fields. Brain & Signals.
36. Rougier, N.P. 2011. Models of Visual Attention. Intelligence Artificielle Embarquée.
37. Rougier, N.P. 2009. Architecture Cérébrale et Robotique Autonome. Robots, Hybrides et Corps. URL
38. Rougier, N.P. 2008. Visual Attention. Computational Vision.
39. Rougier, N.P. 2007. Some questions around consciousness. Conceptual Neuroscience (European Institute Para Limes). URL
40. Rougier, N.P. 2007. Visual Attention. Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing.
41. Rougier, N.P. 2006. Computational Neurocience for Humanoïd robotics. Japanese-French Frontiers of Science. URL
42. Rougier, N.P. 2003. Rules without symbols. Computational Models of Active Maintenance in Prefrontal Cortex.
43. Rougier, N.P. 2000. Mémoire Déclarative. Xèmes Journées Neurosciences et Sciences de l’Ingénieur.

Invited Lectures

1. Rougier, N.P. 2024. IA génératives: promesses et limites. MOOC AI4T. URL
2. Rougier, N.P. 2023. How to explain your job to your grandma? 1st Open Science Workshop (Bordeaux). URL
3. Rougier, N.P. 2023. How to write better code? 1st Open Science Workshop (Bordeaux). URL
4. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Data Visualization. European College of Sport Science (ECSS).
5. Rougier, N.P. 2023. French Reproducibility Network. SOFT days.
6. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Open Science. Hacking Cognition.
7. Rougier, N.P. 2023. Scientific Visualization. Service d’Expérimentation et de Développement (Nancy).
8. Rougier, N.P. 2022. Reproducible Research, one bit a a time. Ecole Centrale Lille.
9. Rougier, N.P. 2022. Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures. Café Python et Visualisation.
10. Rougier, N.P. 2020. Data Visualization. AI for Industry.
11. Rougier, N.P. 2019. The Dark Side of Science. Intégrité Scientifique.
12. Rougier, N.P. 2017. Less is more. Python Scientifique.
13. Rougier, N.P. 2016. An Introduction to Matplotlib. SciPy.
14. Rougier, N.P. 2016. Modern scientific visualization. Advanced Scientific Programming in Python.
15. Rougier, N.P. 2016. From Single Neuron to Population. Electromagnetic Fields and the Nervous System.
16. Rougier, N.P. 2015. Advanced Neural Fields. Computational Neuroscience Symposium.
17. Rougier, N.P. 2015. An Introduction to Matplotlib. EuroScipy.
18. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Scientific visualization challenge. Prospectom.
19. Rougier, N.P. 2014. Reinforcement Learning. Latin-America Summer School in Computational Neuroscience.
20. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Scientific visualization. PRACE Winter School.
21. Rougier, N.P. 2013. An introduction to Matplotlib. EuroScipy.
22. Rougier, N.P. 2013. Visualisation Scientifique. Journées du dévelopement.
23. Rougier, N.P. 2010. Embodied Cognition. National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan).
24. Rougier, N.P. 2010. Visual Attention. National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan).
25. Rougier, N.P. 2010. Introduction to Neural Fields. National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan).
26. Rougier, N.P. 2010. Models of Visual Attention. National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo, Japan).

List of co-authors