Publications in Neurobiology [top]

2007 [top]

  • Wang X-J, Barbas H, Knight RT (2007) [PDF]
    Dynamic Landscape of the Frontal Lobe: A Tribute to Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
    Cerebral Cortex 17: i4 - i5
  • Goldman M, Compte A and Wang X-J [PDF]
    Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Neural integrators: recurrent mechanisms and models
    In New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Edited by L Squire, T Albright, F Bloom, F Gage and N Spitzer. MacMillan Reference Ltd. [in press]
  • Wang X-J [PDF]
    Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience: Attractor network models.
    In New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Edited by L Squire, T Albright, F Bloom, F Gage and N Spitzer. MacMillan Reference Ltd. [in press]
  • Wong K-F, Huk AC, Shadlen MN and Wang X-J (2007) [PDF]
    Neural circuit dynamics underlying accumulation of time-varying evidence during perceptual decision-making.
    Front. Comput. Neurosci., 1:6. doi: 10.3389/neuro.10/006.2007
  • Carter E, Wang X-J (2007) [PDF]
    Cannabinoid-Mediated Disinhibition and Working Memory: Dynamical Interplay of Multiple Feedback Mechanisms in a Continuous Attractor Model of Prefrontal Cortex.
    Cerebral Cortex 17: i16 - i26
  • Ardid S, Wang X-J, Compte A (2007) [PDF] [Supplementary]
    An Integrated Microcircuit Model of Attentional Processing in the Neocortex.
    J. Neurosci., 27(32): 8486-8495
  • Fusi S., Asaad WF, Miller EK, Wang X-J (2007) [PDF]
    A Neural Circuit Model of Flexible Sensorimotor Mapping: Learning and Forgetting on Multiple Timescales.
    Neuron, 54:319-333
  • Renart A, Moreno-Bote R, Wang X-J, Parga N (2007) [PDF]
    Mean-Driven and Fluctuation-Driven Persistent Activity in Recurrent Networks.
    Neural Computation, 19:1-46

2006 [top]

  • Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Introduction to Computational Neuroscience.
  • Soltani A, Lee D and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Neural Mechanism for Stochastic Behavior During a Competitive Game.
    Neural Networks, 19(8):1075-90

  • Miller P and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Stability of discrete memory states to stochastic fluctuations in neuronal systems
    Chaos, 16: 026109
  • Lo C-C and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF] [Supplementary]
    Cortico-basal ganglia circuit mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks.
    Nat. Neurosci., 9: 956-963
    News and Views by Kiani R, Hanks TD and Shadlen MN (2006) [PDF]
    When is enough enough? Nat. Neurosci., 9: 861-863

  • Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Toward a Prefrontal Microcircuit Model for Cognitive Deficits in Schizophrenia.
    Pharmacopsychiatry, 39 Suppl 1:S80-S87

  • Soltani A and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF] [Supplementary]
    A Biophysically-based Neural Model of Matching Law Behavior: Melioration by Stochastic Synapses.
    J. Neurosci., 26:3731-3744

  • Miller P and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Power-law Neuronal Fluctuations in a Recurrent Network Model of Parametric Working Memory.
    J. Neurophysiol., 95(2):1099-1114

  • Wong K-F and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF] [Supplementary]
    A Recurrent Network Mechanism of Time Integration in Perceptual Decisions.
    J. Neurosci., 26:1314-1328

  • Miller P and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF] [Supporting Information]
    Inhibitory Control by an Integral Feedback Signal in Prefrontal Cortex: a Model of Discrimination between Sequential Stimuli.
    PNAS, 103:201-206

  • Compte A and Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    Tuning Curve Shift by Attention Modulation in Cortical Neurons: a Computational Study of its Mechanisms.
    Cerebral Cortex, 16: 761-778

  • Wang X-J (2006) [PDF]
    A Microcircuit Model of Prefrontal Functions: Ying and Yang of Reverberatory Neurodynamics in Cognition.
    In The Prefrontal Lobes: Development, Function and Pathology, Edited by J Risberg, J Grafman and F Boller, Cambridge University Press.

2005 [top]

  • Geisler C, Brunel N, Wang X-J (2005) [PDF]
    Contributions of intrinsic membrane dynamics to fast network oscillations with irregular neuronal discharges.
    J. Neurophysiol., 94:4344-4361

  • Wang X-J (2005) [PDF]
    Discovering spatial working memory fields in prefrontal cortex.
    J. Neurophysiol., 93:3027-3028

  • Miller P, Zhabotinsky AM, Lisman JE, Wang X-J (2005) [PDF]
    The Stability of a Stochastic CaMKII Switch: Dependence on the Number of Enzyme Molecules and Protein Turnover.
    PLoS Biol. 3:e107

  • Song P, Wang X-J (2005) [PDF] [QuickTime Movie] [C++ Code]
    Angular Path Integration by Moving "Hill of Activity": A Spiking Neuron Model without Recurrent Excitation of the Head-Direction System.
    J. Neurosci., 25:1002-1014

2004 [top]

  • Constantinidis C, Wang X-J (2004) [PDF]
    A neural circuit basis for spatial working memory.
    Neuroscientist 10, 553-565

  • Buzsaki G, Geisler C, Henze DA, Wang X-J (2004) [PDF]
    Interneuron Diversity series: Circuit complexity and axon wiring economy of cortical interneurons.
    Trends in Neurosci., 27, 186-93

  • Wang X-J, Tegner J, Constantinidis C, Goldman-Rakic PS (2004) [PDF] [Supporting Text]
    Division of labor among distinct subtypes of inhibitory neurons in a cortical microcircuit of working memory.
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), 101, 1368-1373

2003 [top]

  • Wang X-J (2003) [PDF]
    Neural Oscillations.
    in Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, MacMillan Reference Ltd, 2003

  • Compte A, Constantinidis C, Tegner J, Raghavachari S, Chafee MV, Goldman-Rakic PS and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF]
    Temporally irregular mnemonic persistent activity in prefrontal neurons of monkeys during a delayed response task.
    J. Neurophysiol., 90, 3441-3454

  • Renart A, Brunel N and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF] [Book Cover]
    Mean-field theory of recurrent cortical networks: from irregularly spiking neurons to working memory.
    in Computational Neuroscience: A Comprehensive Approach., J. Feng Ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton.

  • Renart A, Song P and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF]
    Robust spatial working memory through homeostatic synaptic scaling in heterogeneous cortical networks.
    Neuron, 38, 473-485

  • Brunel N and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF]
    What determines the frequency of fast network oscillations with irregular neural discharges? I. Synaptic dynamics and excitation-inhibition balance.
    J. Neurophysiol., 90, 415-430

  • Wang X-J, Liu Y, Sanchez-Vives MV and McCormick DA (2003) [PDF]
    Adaptation and temporal decorrelation by single neurons in the primary visual cortex.
    J. Neurophysiol., 89, 3279-3293

  • Compte A, Sanchez-Vives MV, McCormick DA and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF]
    Cellular and network mechanisms of slow oscillatory activity (< 1 Hz) in a cortical network model.
    J. Neurophysiol., 89, 2707-2725

  • Miller P, Brody CD, Romo R and Wang X-J (2003) [PDF] [ERRATUM]
    A recurrent network model of somatosensory parametric working memory in the prefrontal cortex.
    Cerebral Cortex, 13, 1208-1218

2002 [top]

  • Wang X-J (2002) [PDF]
    Probabilistic decision making by slow reverberation in cortical circuits.
    Neuron, 36, 955-968

  • Kepecs A, Wang X-J and Lisman J (2002) [PDF]
    Slope detection by bursts: a dendritic computation.
    J. Neurosci., 22, 9053-9062

  • Tegner J, Compte A and Wang X-J (2002) [PDF]
    The dynamical stability of reverberatory neural circuits.
    Biol. Cybern., 87, 471-481

  • Wang X-J (2002) [PDF]
    Pacemaker neurons for the theta rhythm and their synchronization in the septohippocampal reciprocal loop.
    J Neurophysiol., 87, 889-900.

2001 [top]

  • Wang X-J (2001a) [PDF]
    Synaptic reverberation underlying mnemonic persistent activity.
    Trends in Neurosci. 24, 455-463

  • Brunel N and Wang X-J (2001) [PDF] [PS]
    Effects of neuromodulation in a cortical network model of object working memory dominated by recurrent inhibition.
    J. Comput. Neurosci. 11, 63-85.

  • Liu YH and Wang X-J (2001) [PDF] [PS]
    Spike-frequency adaptation of a generalized integrate-and fire model neuron.
    J. Comput. Neurosci., 10, 25-45

2000 [top]

  • Kepecs A and Wang X-J (2000) [PDF]
    Analysis of complex bursting in cortical pyramidal neuron models.Neurocomputing. 32-33, 181-187.

  • Compte A, Brunel N, Goldman-Rakic PS and Wang X-J (2000) [PDF]
    Synaptic mechanisms and network dynamics underlying visuospatial working memory in a cortical network model.
    Cerebral Cortex 10, 910-923

  • Hempel CM, Hartman KH, Wang X-J, Turrigiano GG and Nelson SB (2000) [PDF]
    Multiple forms of short-term plasticity at excitatory synapses in rat medial prefrontal cortex.
    J. Neurophysiol. 83, 3031-3041.

  • Matveev V and Wang X-J (2000a) [PDF]
    Implications of all-or-none synaptic transmission and short-term depression beyond vesicle depletion: a computational study.
    J. Neurosci. 20, 1575-1588.

  • Matveev V and Wang X-J (2000b) [PDF]
    Differential short-term synaptic plasticity and transmission of complex spike trains: to depress or to facilitate?
    Cerebral Cortex. 10, 1143-1153.

1999 [top]

  • Wang X-J (1999a) [PDF]
    Fast burst firing and short-term synaptic plasticity: a model of neocortical chattering neurons.
    Neuroscience 89:347-362.

  • Wang X-J (1999b) [PDF]
    Synaptic basis of cortical persistent activity: the importance of NMDA receptors to working memory.
    J. Neurosci. 19, 9587-9603.

1998 [top]

  • Chen Z, Ermentrout GB and Wang X-J (1998) [PDF]
    Wave propagation mediated by GABAB synapse and rebound excitation in an inhibitory network: a reduced model approach.
    J. Comput. Neurosci. 5, 53-69.

  • Rinzel J, Terman D, Wang X-J and Ermentrout GB (1998) [PDF]
    Propagating activity patterns in large-scale inhibitory neuronal networks.
    Science 279, 1351-1355.

  • Kamondi A., Acsady L., Wang X-J, Buzsaki G (1998) [PDF]
    Theta oscillations in somata and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal cells in vivo: activity-dependent phase-precession of action potentials. Hippocampus8:244-261.

  • Lisman JE, Fellous J-M, Wang X-J (1998) [PDF]
    A role for NMDA-receptor channels in working memory.
    Nat. Neurosci. 1:273-275.

  • Camperi M, Wang X-J (1998) [PDF] [PS]
    A model of visuospatial working memory in prefrontal cortex: recurrent network and cellular bistability.
    J. Comput. Neurosci. 5:383-405.

  • Wang X-J (1998) [PDF]
    Calcium coding and adaptive temporal computation in cortical pyramidal neurons.
    J. Neurophysiol. 79: 1549-1566.

1997 [top]

  • Camperi M and Wang X-J (1997)
    Modeling delay-period activity in the prefrontal cortex during working memory tasks.
    in Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1997 J. Bower ed., Plenum Press, pp. 273-279.

1996 [top]

  • Golomb D, Wang X-J, Rinzel J (1996) [PDF]
    Propagation of spindle waves in a thalamic slice model.
    J. Neurophysiol. 75:750-769.

  • Wang, X-J and Buzsáki G (1996) [PDF]
    Gamma oscillations by synaptic inhibition in a hippocampal interneuronal network.
    J. Neurosci. 16, 6402-6413.

1995 [top]

  • Golomb D, Wang X-J, and Rinzel J (1995)
    Partial and full synchrony of thalamic spindle oscillations,
    In Computation in Neurons and Neural Systems, edited by J. Bower. Boston, MA: Kluwer, 1995, p. 215-220.

  • Wang X-J and Rinzel J (1995) [PDF]
    Oscillatory and Bursting Properties of Neurons.
    in Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, edited by M. Arbib, MIT press, 686-691.

  • Wang, X-J, Golomb, D. and Rinzel, J. (1995) [PDF]
    Emergent spindle oscillations and intermittent burst firing in a thalamic model: specific neuronal mechanisms.
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.(USA) 92, 5577-5581.

1994 [top]

  • Llinás RR, Ribary U, Joliot M and Wang X-J(1994)
    Content and context in temporal thalamocortical binding.
    in Temporal Coding in the Brain, G. Buzsáki, R.R. Llinás, W. Singer et al. eds., Springer-Verlag, 251-272.

  • Golomb D, Wang X-J and Rinzel J (1994) [PDF]
    Synchronization properties of spindle oscillations in a thalamic reticular nucleus model.
    J. Neurophysiol. 72, 1109-1126.

  • Wang X-J (1994)
    Multiple dynamical modes of thalamic relay neurons: rhythmic bursting and intermittent phase-locking.
    Neuroscience 59, 21-31.

1993 [top]

  • Wang X-J and Rinzel J (1993) [PDF Scan]
    Spindle rhythmicity in the reticularis thalami nucleus: synchronization among mutually inhibitory neurons.
    Neuroscience 53, 899-904.

  • Wang X-J (1993) [PDF]
    Genesis of bursting oscillations in the Hindmarsh-Rose model and homoclinicity to a chaotic saddle.
    Physica D, Special Issue on Homoclinic Chaos, 62, 263-274.

  • Wang X-J (1993) [PDF Scan]
    Ionic basis for intrinsic 40 Hz neuronal oscillations.
    NeuroReport 5, 221-224.

1992 [top]

  • Wang X-J and Rinzel J (1992) [PDF Scan]
    Alternating and synchronous rhythms in reciprocally inhibitory model neurons.
    Neural Computat. 4, 84-97.

1991 [top]

  • Wang X-J. (1991)
    Spontaneous activity in a large neural net: between chaos and noise. in Self-Organization, Emergent Properties and Learning edited by A. Babloyantz, Plenum Press , 155-160.

  • Wang X-J, Rinzel J and Rogawski MA. (1991)
    Low threshold spikes and rhythmic oscillations in thalamic neurons. in Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems edited by F. H. Eeckman et al , 85-91.

  • Wang X-J, Rinzel J and Rogawski MA. (1991) [PDF]
    A model of the T-type calcium current and the low-threshold spike in thalamic neurons.
    J. Neurophysiol 66, 839-850.

Publications in Physics [top]

  • Wang X-J (1995)
    Sporadic chaos in spacetime dynamical processes.
    Phys. Rev. E 52, 1318-1324.

  • Wang X-J and Hu C-K (1993)
    Anomalous diffusion in dynamical systems: transport coefficients of all order.
    Phys. Rev. E 48, 728-733.

  • Gaspard P and Wang X-J (1993) [PDF]
    Noise, chaos, and $(\tau, \epsilon)$-entropy per unit time.
    Phys. Rep. 235, issue 6, 321-373.

  • Wang X-J and Gaspard P (1992)
    Epsilon-entropy analysis for a time series of thermal turbulence.
    Phys. Rev. A Rapid Communications 46, R3000-3003.

  • Wang X-J (1992)
    Dynamical sporadicity and anomalous diffusion the Levy motion.
    Phys. Rev. A 45, 8407-8417.

  • Wang X-J and Gaspard P(1990)
    Homoclinicity and multi-modal periodic or chaotic oscillations in chemical kinetics.
    in Spatial Inhomogeneity and Transient Behaviours in Chemical Kinetics , edited by P. Gray et al, Manchester University Press, 687-690.

  • Wang X-J (1990)
    Intermittent fluctuations and complexity.
    in Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, vol. VIII , edited by W. H. Zurek, Addison-Wesley (1990), p. 319-329.

  • Wang X-J (1990)
    The Newhouse set has a positive Hausdorff dimension.
    Commun. Math. Phys. 131, 317-332.

  • Wang X-J (1989)
    Statistical physics of temporal intermittency.
    Phys. Rev. A 40, 6647-6661.

  • Wang X-J (1989)
    Abnormal fluctuations and thermodynamic phase transition in dynamical systems.
    Phys. Rev. A. Rapid Communications 39, 3214-3217.

  • Wang X-J (1989)
    Chaotic oscillations of cool flames.
    Combustion and Flame 75, 107-109.

  • Gaspard P and Wang X-J (1988) [PDF]
    Sporadicity: between periodic and chaotic dynamical systems.
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 85, 4591-4595

  • Gaspard P and Wang X-J (1987)
    Homoclinic orbits and mixed-mode oscillations in far from equilibrium systems.
    J. Stat. Phys. 48, 151-199.

  • Wang X-J and Nicolis G (1987)
    Bifurcation phenomena in coupled chemical oscillators: normal form analysis and numerical simulations.
    Physica D 26, 140-155.

  • Wang X-J and Mou CY (1985) [PDF]
    A thermokinetic model of complex oscillations in gaseous hydrocarbon oxidation.
    J. Chem. Phys. 83, 4554-4561.

  • Wang X-J (1985)
    Chaotic phenomena in dissipative systems.
    Physics (Beijing) 14, 199-205 (in Chinese).


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