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Kevin Gurney is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and specializes in neuroscience, with a focus on neural dynamics and brain function. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Their work extensively addresses topics such as neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, receptor mechanisms and signaling, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, neurological disorders and treatments, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and functional brain connectivity studies.

Kevin Gurney has published research in several scientific venues, including:

  • Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham)
  • Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • IEEE Access
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Neural Computation

Recent papers associated with Kevin Gurney include:

  • Agent Architecture for Adaptive Behaviors in Autonomous Driving, 2020, IEEE Access
  • Making decisions in the dark basement of the brain: A look back at the GPR model of action selection and the basal ganglia, 2021, Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham)
  • Role of the basal ganglia in innate and learned behavioural sequences, 2023, Reviews in the Neurosciences
  • The NK1 antagonist L-733,060 facilitates sequence learning, 2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Differential Dopamine Receptor-Dependent Sensitivity Improves the Switch Between Hard and Soft Selection in a Model of the Basal Ganglia, 2022, Neural Computation

Frequent collaborators include Mark D. Humphries, Natalia Favila, Paul G. Overton, Olivier Codol, and Paul L. Gribble. These collaborators have coauthored multiple publications with Gurney, reflecting ongoing research partnerships in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • An introduction to neural networks

    Kevin Gurney

  • Network 'small-world-ness': a quantitative method for determining canonical network equivalence.

    Mark D. Humphries;Kevin Gurney

  • The basal ganglia: a vertebrate solution to the selection problem?

    P. Redgrave;T.J. Prescott;K. Gurney

  • The short-latency dopamine signal: a role in discovering novel actions?

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. I. A new functional anatomy.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network

    M.D Humphries;K Gurney;T.J Prescott

  • Is the short-latency dopamine response too short to signal reward error?

    Peter Redgrave;Tony J. Prescott;Kevin Gurney

  • The Basal Ganglia and Cortex Implement Optimal Decision Making Between Alternative Actions

    Rafal Bogacz;Kevin Gurney

  • A physiologically plausible model of action selection and oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia.

    Mark D. Humphries;Robert D. Stewart;Kevin N. Gurney

  • A computational model of action selection in the basal ganglia. II. Analysis and simulation of behaviour.

    Kevin N. Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave

  • What is reinforced by phasic dopamine signals

    Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney;John Reynolds

  • Layered control architectures in robots and vertebrates

    Tony J. Prescott;Peter Redgrave;Kevin Gurney

  • A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing

    Tony J. Prescott;Fernando M. Montes González;Kevin Gurney;Mark D. Humphries

  • Computational models of the basal ganglia: from robots to membranes.

    Kevin Gurney;Tony J. Prescott;Jeffery R. Wickens;Peter Redgrave

  • Dopaminergic Control of the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off via the Basal Ganglia.

    Mark D Humphries;Mark D Humphries;Mehdi Khamassi;Mehdi Khamassi;Kevin Gurney

  • The nucleus accumbens as a nexus between values and goals in goal-directed behavior: a review and a new hypothesis.

    Francesco Mannella;Kevin Gurney;Gianluca Baldassarre

  • 2009 Special Issue: Dopamine-modulated dynamic cell assemblies generated by the GABAergic striatal microcircuit

    Mark D. Humphries;Ric Wood;Kevin Gurney

  • Implementing Spiking Neural Networks for Real-Time Signal-Processing and Control Applications: A Model-Validated FPGA Approach

    M.J. Pearson;A.G. Pipe;B. Mitchinson;K. Gurney

  • A New Framework for Cortico-Striatal Plasticity: Behavioural Theory Meets In Vitro Data at the Reinforcement-Action Interface

    Kevin N. Gurney;Mark D. Humphries;Peter Redgrave

  • The role of intra-thalamic and thalamocortical circuits in action selection.

    M.D. Humphries;K.N. Gurney

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Redgrave
Peter Redgrave University of Sheffield
Chris Melhuish
Chris Melhuish University of the West of England
Paul G. Overton
Paul G. Overton University of Sheffield
Mathew E. Diamond
Mathew E. Diamond International School for Advanced Studies
Rafal Bogacz
Rafal Bogacz University of Oxford
Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner Karolinska Institute
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Steve Furber
Steve Furber University of Manchester
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

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