Under review/preprints
Journals and peer-reviewed proceedings
Peer-reviewed conference/workshop posters
Conference posters
We have reviewed for: Science, eLife, Neuron, PNAS, JNeurosci., NIPS (2015-), ICLR (2017-), ICML (2018-), PLoS Comp. Bio., CONB, JPhysio, Front. Comput. Neurosci., JComputational Neurosci. and PLoS One.
- Sacramento J, Costa RP, Bengio Y and Senn W - Dendritic error backpropagation in deep cortical microcircuits (preprint on arXiv)
- Mizusaki BEP, Li SSY, Costa RP, Sjöström PJ - Pre- and postsynaptically expressed spiking-timing-dependent plasticity contribute differentially to neuronal learning (bioRxiv, 450825)
- Jia DW, Costa RP* and Vogels TP* - Developmental control of excitation-inhibition balance (in prep.) [*equal contrib.]
Journals and peer-reviewed proceedings
- Richards BA *, Lillicrap TP*, (...) Costa RP, (...) Therien D*, Kording KP* - A deep learning framework for neuroscience [paper] - Nature Neuroscience, 22, pages 1761–1770 (2019) [*equal contrib.]
- >>Bykowska O, Gontier C, Sax AL, Jia DW, Llera-Montero M, Bird A, Houghton C, Pfister JP and Costa RP - Model-based inference of synaptic transmission (paper) - Front. Synaptic Neurosci. [Special Issue on Methods for Synaptic Interrogation] 11:21. doi: 10.3389/fnsyn.2019.00021
- >>Llera-Montero M, Sacramento J and Costa RP - Computational roles of plastic probabilistic synapses (paper) - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 54, Feb 2019
- >>Sacramento J, Costa RP, Bengio Y and Senn W - Dendritic cortical microcircuits approximate the backpropagation algorithm (in press) - 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), Montreal, Canada. [1/30 orals out 4800 submissions] (preprint on arXiv)
- >>Costa RP*, Assael YM*, Shillingford B*, Freitas N and Vogels TP - Cortical microcircuits as gated-recurrent neural networks (paper) - 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA. [*equal contribution] [Highlighted by MIT Tech Review; 3rd party code available here]
- Abrahamsson T, Chou CYC, Li Sally, Mancino A, Costa RP, Nuro E, Brock JA, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Tudor-Jones AA, Oyrer J, Farmer WT, Murai KK and Sjöström PJ - Differential regulation of evoked and spontaneous release by presynaptic NMDA receptors (paper) - Neuron, Volume 96, Issue 10, 15 Nov 2017, Pages 1-17
- >>Costa RP, Padamsey Z, D’Amour JA, Emptage NJ, Froemke RC and Vogels TP - Synaptic transmission optimization predicts expression loci of long-term plasticity (paper, data/model, movie, press release, preview by Poirazi and Kastellakis) - Neuron, Volume 96, Issue 7, 27 Sept 2017, Pages 177-189
- Costa RP, Mizusaki BEP, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Functional consequences of pre- and postsynaptic expression of synaptic plasticity (paper) - Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372, 2017
- >>Costa RP, Froemke RC, Sjöström PJ* and van Rossum MCW* - Unified pre- and postsynaptic long-term plasticity enables reliable and flexible learning (paper, data, code) - eLife 2015; 10.7554/eLife.09457 [*co-senior authors]
- >>Costa RP, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Probabilistic inference of short-term synaptic plasticity in neocortical microcircuits (paper, code/data) - Frontiers in Computational Neurosci. 7:75, 2013.
- Costa RP, Watt AJ, and Sjöström PJ - How to train a neuron (paper) - eLife 2013; 2e00491 (Insight on Pawlak et al. eLife (2013))
- Blackman AV, Abrahamsson T, Costa RP, Lalanne T and Sjöström PJ - Target-cell-specific short-term plasticity in local circuits (paper) - Front. in Synaptic Neurosci. 5:11, 2013.
- Buchanan KA*, Blackman AV*, Moreau AW*, Elgar D*, Costa RP, Lalanne T, Tudor Jones AA, Oyrer J, Sjöström PJ - Target-specific expression of presynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical microcircuits (paper) - Neuron, Volume 75, Issue 3, 9 August 2012, Pages 451-466. [*equal contribution]
- Costa RP and Sjöström PJ - One cell to rule them all, and in the dendrites bind them (paper) - Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience 3:5, 2011. (commentary on Legenstein and Maass (2011). J. Neurosci. 31)
- Teixeira CA, Direito B, Feldwisch H, Valderrama M, Costa RP, Alvarado-Rojas C, Nikolopoulos S, Le Van Quyen M, Timmer J, Schelter B and Dourado A - EPILAB: A software package for studies on the prediction of epileptic seizures (paper, toolbox) - Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Volume 200, Issue 2, 15 September 2011, Pages 257-271. (Shortlisted for 2012 Brain Computer Interface Research Award)
- Teixeira CA, Direito B, Costa RP, Valderrama M, Feldwisch H, Nikolopoulos S, Le Van Quyen M, Schelter B and Dourado A - A Computational Environment for Long-Term Multi-Feature and Multi-Algorithm Seizure Prediction (paper) - 32nd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, 2010.
- Costa RP and Seco N - Hyponymy Extraction and Web Search Behavior Analysis Based On Query Reformulation (paper, data) - 11th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008 October.
- Costa RP, Oliveira P, Rodrigues G, Direito B and Dourado A – Epileptic Seizure Classification Using Neural Networks With 14 Features (paper, code/data) - 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, 2008 September.
- Hervás R, Costa RP, Costa H, Gervás P and Pereira FC - Enrichment of Automatically Generated Texts using Metaphor (paper, code) - 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2007 November.
Peer-reviewed conference/workshop posters
- Mohinta S, Ciocchi S* and Costa RP* - Hippocampal population representations in reinforced continual learning - Workshop on Biological and Artificial Reinforcement Learning, NeurIPS, Montreal, Dec 2019. [* co-senior author]
- Llera-Montero M, Malhotra G, Bowers J* and Costa RP* - Does subtractive gating improves generalization in working memory tasks? - Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, UK, Sept 2019. [* co-senior author]
- Llera-Montero M, Malhotra G, Bowers J* and Costa RP* - Robust learning with subtractive recurrent neural networks - UK Neural Computation meeting, Nottingham, UK, July 2019. [* co-senior author]
- MacMillan C, Chua R, Jia DW and Costa RP - Efficient replay memory through sensory adaptation - UK Neural Computation meeting, Nottingham, UK, July 2019.
- Chua R, David Jia and Costa RP - Efficient replay memory through sensory adaptation - Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (CoSyNe), Lisbon, Portugal, Mar 2019.
- Chua R and Costa RP - Towards dynamic filtering in deep reinforcement learning - European Workshop in Reinforcement Learning 2018, Lille, France
- Costa RP, Padamsey Z, D'Amour J, Emptage N, Froemke RC and Vogels TP - Statistical long-term synaptic plasticity predicts optimal excitation-inhibition balance - Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (CoSyNe), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Feb 2017. [Presenter Travel Award]
- Costa RP, Padamsey Z, D'Amour J, Froemke RC, Emptage N and Vogels TP - Long-term synaptic statistical learning: aiming for a postsynaptic target response (abstract) - Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (CoSyNe), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Feb 2016. [shortlisted for Travel Award]
- Costa RP, Froemke RC, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Memory savings through unified pre- and postsynaptic STDP (abstract) - Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (CoSyNe), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March 2015.
- Costa RP, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Probabilistic inference reveals synapse-specific synaptic dynamics in neocortical microcircuits (abstract) - Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (CoSyNe), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March 2013.
Conference posters
- Mizusaki BEP, Li SSY, Costa RP, and Sjöström PJ: Pre- and postsynaptically expressed spike-timing-dependent plasticity contribute differentially to neural learning. SfN 2016, 12-16 November, San Diego CA USA.
- Chou YCC, Abrahamsson T, Li SSY, Mancino A, Nuro E, Costa RP, Buchanan K, Elgar D, Blackman A, Tudor-Jones A, Murai K, and Sjöström PJ: Presynaptic NMDA receptors rely on RIM1αβ to control the readily-releasable pool at synapses onto layer-5 pyramidal neurons. SfN 2016, 12-16 November, San Diego CA USA.
- Costa RP, Padamsey Z, D'Amour J, Emptage N, Froemke RC and Vogels TP - Optimization of synaptic transmission during long-term plasticity explains expression loci - Neuroinformatics, Reading, UK, Sept 2016.
- Costa RP, Padamsey Z, D'Amour J, Emptage N, Froemke RC and Vogels TP - Long-term synaptic statistical learning: aiming for a postsynaptic target response - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2016. [FENS-IBRO Travel Award]
- Abrahamsson T, Li Sally, Chou CYC, Mancino A, Nuro E, Farmer WT, Costa RP, Buchanan KA , Elgar D, Blackman AV, Oyrer J, Tudor-Jones AA, Murai KK and Sjöström PJ - Presynaptic NMDA receptors act via RIM1αβ to control the readily-releasable pool in layer-5 pyramidal neurons. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2016.
- Abrahamsson T, Costa RP, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Oyrer J, Tudor-Jones AA, van Rossum MCW, Sjöström PJ - Presynaptic NMDA receptors act via RIM1αβ to control the readily-releasable pool in layer-5 pyramidal neurons. Society for Neuroscience, October 2015, Chicago, USA.
- Costa RP, Froemke RC, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Reliable and flexible receptive field development through unified pre- and postsynaptic STDP. Integrated Systems Neuroscience Workshop, Manchester, UK, March 2015. [Top poster award]
- Abrahamsson T, Costa RP, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Oyrer J, Tudor-Jones AA, van Rossum MCW, Sjöström PJ - Control of vesicle release by cortical presynaptic NMDA receptors. Society for Neuroscience, November 2014, Washington, USA.
- Lalanne T, Oyrer J, Costa RP, Chung AJ, Farrant M, Sjöström PJ - Synapse-specific plasticity and calcium-permeable AMPA receptors expression in the neocortical layer-5 microcircuit. Society for Neuroscience, November 2014, Washington, USA.
- Costa RP, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - A unified model of pre and postsynaptic STDP. Bernstein Conference On Computational Neuroscience 2014, Gottingen, Germany, Sep 2014.
- Lalanne T, Oyrer J, Costa RP, Chung AJ, Farrant M, Sjöström PJ - Calcium-permeable AMPA receptors and synapse-specific plasticity in the neocortical layer-5 microcircuit. Physiology 2014, 30 June-2 July, London, UK.
- Abrahamsson T, Costa RP, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Oyrer J, Tudor-Jones AA, van Rossum MCW, Sjöström PJ - Control of vesicle release by cortical presynaptic NMDA receptors. Canadian Neuroscience Meeting 2014, May 25-28, Montreal QC.
- Lalanne T, Oyrer J, Costa RP, Chung AJ, Farrant M, Sjöström PJ - Synapse-specific plasticity in the neocortical layer-5 microcircuit. Canadian Neuroscience Meeting 2014, May 25-28, Montreal QC.
- Costa RP, Sjostrom PJ and van Rossum MCW - Probabilistic Inference Reveals Connection-specific Synaptic Dynamics in Local Circuits of Mouse Visual Cortex. 4th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium: 50th anniversary of Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley Nobel Prize, University of Cambridge, UK, September 2013.
- Kozloski J, Wagner J, Costa RP, Memelli H, and Gurev V - Modelling Synaptic Plasticity in Large-Scale Neural Tissue Simulations of Chronic Pain and Drug Treatments. Biomedical Research Current Challenges in Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Labs and IBM sponsors. Napa, CA, USA, 2013.
- Costa RP, Sjöström PJ and van Rossum MCW - Probabilistic Inference of Synaptic Dynamics in Neocortical Microcircuits. Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS), Paris, France, July 2013.
- Blackman AV, Buchanan KA, Moreau AW, Elgar D, Costa RP, Lalanne T, Tudor Jones AA, Oyrer J, Sjöström PJ - Target-specific expression of presynaptic NMDA receptors in neocortical microcircuits. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA, 2012.
- Costa RP, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Blackman AV, Oyrer J, van Rossum MCW, Sjöström PJ - Presynaptic NMDA receptors differentially regulate release probability at neocortical excitatory synapses. Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, USA, 2012.
- Costa RP, van Rossum M, Sjöström PJ - The Impact of Synaptic Dynamics on the Structure of Plastic Networks. Workshop on Learning and Plasticity, Marseille, France, November 2011.
- Costa RP, Buchanan KA, Elgar D, Oyrer J, Blackman AV, Sjöström PJ - Presynaptic NMDA Receptors Differentially Regulate Release Probability at Neocortical Excitatory Synapses. UCL Neuroscience Symposium:32, London, UK, 2011.
- Blackman AV, Buchanan KA, Moreau AW, Elgar D, Costa RP, Oyrer J, Tudor Jones AA, Sjöström PJ - Target-Specific Expression of Presynaptic NMDA Receptors in Local Neocortical Circuits. UCL Neuroscience Symposium:39, London, UK, 2011.
- B. M. Direito, Rui P. Costa, H. Feldwisch, M. Valderrama, S. Nikolopoulos, B. Schelter, M. Jachan, C. A. Teixeira, L. Aires, J. Timmer, M. Le Van Quyen, A. Dourado - EPILAB: A Matlab® platform for multi-feature and multi-algorithm seizure prediction studies, In 4th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (ISPW4), Kansas City, USA, June 4-7 2009. [Top 5 Award]
- C. A. Teixeira, Rui P. Costa, B. M. Direito, F. Sales and A. Dourado - Low-complex TD-RBF and TD-SVM seizures predictors based on EEG energy and ECG entropy, In 4th International Workshop on Seizure Prediction (ISPW4), Kansas City, USA, June 4-7 2009.
- Rui P. Costa, Luís Macedo, João Malva, Ernesto Costa and Carlos Duarte – Towards An Emergent Computational Model Of Axon Guidance (link) – Bernstein Conference On Computational Neuroscience 2009, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2009.
- Bruno Direito, Rui P. Costa, Ricardo Martins, António Dourado, Francisco Sales and Marco Vieira - Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Seizure Prediction, In Proceedings of the 8th European Congress of Epileptology, 8th ECE: 228, ILAE-CEA, Berlin, Germany, Sept 21-25 2008.
- Rui P. Costa and Luís Macedo – Axon Guidance Simulation: A Multi-Agent Approach (link) – Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS, 2008 July. Published in BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P95.
We have reviewed for: Science, eLife, Neuron, PNAS, JNeurosci., NIPS (2015-), ICLR (2017-), ICML (2018-), PLoS Comp. Bio., CONB, JPhysio, Front. Comput. Neurosci., JComputational Neurosci. and PLoS One.