BCBL. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Julien Mayor

Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
j.mayor@bcbl.eu

language acquisition, early word learning, spoken word recognition, phonological priming, categorisation, language impairment, computational modelling, corpus analysis, eye-tracking

Publications

• Mayor, J. & Plunkett, K. (2010). A neuro-computational account of taxonomic responding and fast mapping in early word learning. Psychological Review 117 (1) 1-31.
• Gliozzi, V., Mayor, J., Hu, J.-F. & Plunkett, K. (2009). Labels as Features (not Names) for Infant Categorisation: A Neuro-computational approach. 
Cognitive Science 33 (3) 709-738.
• Mayor, J., Ruh, N. & Plunkett, K. (2009). 
Book: CONNECTIONIST MODELS OF BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITION II.
 Singapore: World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-283-422-5.
• Parker-Jones, O. & Mayor, J. (2009)
. The Hawaiian Passive: A Neural Network Simulation. Oxford Working Papers in Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics 12, 80-98.
• Mayor, J. & Plunkett, K. (2009) 
How many words do infants know, really? 
In: J. Mayor, N. Ruh & K. Plunkett (Eds.), Progress in Neural Processing 18 (pp. 325-336). Singapore: World Scientific.
• Mayor, J. & Gerstner, W. (2005) Noise-enhanced computation in a model of a cortical column. Neuroreport 16(11) 1237-1240.
• Mayor, J. & Gerstner, W. (2005) Signal buffering in random networks of spiking neurons: microscopic vs. macroscopic phenomena. Physical Review E 72, 051906.
• Mayor, J. & Gerstner, W. (2004) Transient information flow in a network of excitatory and inhibitory model neurons: role of noise and signal autocorrelation. Journal of Physiology - Paris 98: 417-428.
• Mayor, J. & Gerstner, W. (2003) Online processing of multiple inputs in a sparsely-connected recurrent neural network. In O. Kaynak et al.: Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Information Processing - ICANN/ICONIP 2003. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 839-845.