Publications, Chronological

Journal articles

(* denotes joint first authorship)

New: Human memory strength is predicted by theta-frequency phase-locking of single neurons (original)
U. Rutishauser, I.B. Ross, A.N. Mamelak, E.M. Schuman
Nature, 903-907 (464), 2010.
Research highlight "Learning and memory: It's all in the timing" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

New: Time course of target recognition in visual search (pdf)
A. Kotowicz, U. Rutishauser, C. Koch
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4:31, 2010.

State dependent computation using coupled recurrent networks (abstract) (original pdf) (arxIv.org pdf)
U. Rutishauser, R.J. Douglas
Neural computation, 21(2):478-509, 2009.

Task-demands can immediately reverse the effects of sensory-driven saliency in complex visual stimuli (original, open access)
W. Einhäuser, U. Rutishauser, C. Koch
Journal of Vision, 8(2):2, 1–19, 2008.

Activity of human hippocampal and amygdala neurons during retrieval of declarative memories (original, open access) (pdf article) (pdf supplement)
U. Rutishauser, E.M. Schuman, A.N. Mamelak
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 105:329-34, 2008.

Probabilistic modeling of eye movement data during conjunction search via feature-based attention (pdf) (original, open access) (Video of a few visual search trials for oriented colored bars and eye saccades/fixations of a subject)
U. Rutishauser, C. Koch
Journal of Vision, 7(6):5, 1–20, 2007.

The Relation of Phase-Noise and Luminance-Contrast to Overt Attention in Complex Visual Stimuli (pdf) (original, open access)
W. Einhäuser, U. Rutishauser, E.P Frady, S. Nadler, P. König, C. Koch
Journal of Vision, 6:1148-1158, 2006.

Single-trial learning of novel stimuli by individual neurons of the human hippocampus-amygdala complex (pdf) (supplement) (original) (HHMI News article) (Caltech News article) (Faculty of 1000 evaluation)
U. Rutishauser, AN Mamelak, EM Schuman
Neuron, 49:805-813, 2006.

Online detection and sorting of extracellularly recorded action potentials in human medial temporal lobe recordings, in vivo (download software) (original) (pdf) arXiv
U. Rutishauser, EM Schuman, AN Mamelak
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 154:204-224, 2006.

Selective visual attention enables learning and recognition of multiple objects in cluttered scences (pdf)(Original from Elsevier)
D. Walther*, U. Rutishauser*, C. Koch and P. Perona
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 100:41-63, 2005..

Control and learning of ambience by an intelligent building (pdf)
U. Rutishauser, J. Joller, R. Douglas
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A: Systems and Humans, Special Issue on Ambient Intelligence, 35:121-132, 2005.

Design for a brain revisited: The neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space Ada (abstract)(download pdf)
Eng, K and Klein, D and Baebler, A and Bernadet, U and Blanchard, M and Costa, M and Delbruck, T and Douglas, R J and Hepp, K and Manzolli, J and Mintz, M and Roth, F and Rutishauser, U and Wassermann, K and Whatley, A M and Wittmann, A and Wyss, R and Verschure, P F M J.
Reviews in the Neurosciences, 14:(1-2) 145-180, 2003.

Conference proceedings

Is bottom-up attention useful for object recognition? (abstract, homepage, pdf,supplement,Poster,
Note: This paper won the best poster award in the track recognition and sensors)
U. Rutishauser*, D. Walther*, C. Koch, P. Perona
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2004), vol2, 37-44, IEEE press.

On the usefulness of attention for object recognition (homepage, pdf)
D. Walther*, U. Rutishauser*, C. Koch, P. Perona
2nd Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision (2004), at the European Computer Vision Confererence (ECCV04), 96-103.

Discovery of logical structures in a multisensor environment based on sparse events (abstract,download,more info)
J. Trindler, R. Zwiker, U. Rutishauser, J.Joller, R. Douglas
Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, 8th National Congress of Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Pisa, Italy, September 2003.

Ada: a playful interactive space (download paper) (download associated video)
A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, A. Briska, M. Costa, T. Delbrueck, R. Douglas, K. Eng, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, P. Verschure, K. Wassermann, A. Wittmann, A. M. Whatley, and R. Wyss.
INTERACT'03 : IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 1st-5th September 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. pp989-992, Rauterberg, M et al. (Eds.), IOS Press, 2003.

Ada - Intelligent Space: An artificial creature for the Swiss Expo.02. (pdf)
K. Eng, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. J. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. M. Whatley, A. Wittmann, R. Wyss, and P. F. M. J. Verschure
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2003), May, 3: 4154-4159,2003.

Ada: constructing a synthetic organism (download)
K. Eng, A. Baebler, U. Bernardet, M. Blanchard, A. Briska, J. Conradt, M. Costa, T. Delbruck, R. Douglas, K. Hepp, D. Klein, J. Manzolli, M. Mintz, T. Netter, F. Roth, U. Rutishauser, K. Wassermann, A. Whatley, A. Wittmann, R. Wyss, and P. Verschure
Intelligent Robots and System, 2002. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, 2:1808-1813, 2002.