David Aaron Nicholson

Research software engineer with expertise in artificial intelligence and computational cognitive neuroscience

Publications

For a complete list of articles, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Could simplified stimuli change how the brain performs visual search tasks? A deep neural network study

Visual search is a complex behavior influenced by many factors. To control for these factors, many studies use highly simplified stimuli. However, the statis...

Automated annotation of birdsong with a neural network that segments spectrograms

Here, we present TweetyNet: a single neural network model that learns how to segment spectrograms of birdsong into annotated syllables.

Thalamostriatal and cerebellothalamic pathways in a songbird, the Bengalese finch

Our results suggest the basal ganglia in the song system, like the mammalian basal ganglia, integrate feedback from the thalamic region to which they project...