Publications - Peter Cariani

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Lin PS, Cariani P, Jones M, Kahn MC. The effect of heat on bleomycin cytotoxicity in vitro and on the accumulation of 57Co-bleomycin in heat-treated rat tumors. Radiology 1983; 146(1):213-217.

Cariani P, Goel NS. On the computation of the tertiary structure of globular proteins-IV. Use of secondary structure information. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 1985;47(3):367-407.

Cariani P. On the design of devices with emergent semantic functions. Ph.D. Thesis, Binghamton, New York: State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989; 234 pp. (pdf file, 7 Mb)

Cariani P. Adaptivity, emergence, and machine-environment dependencies. In: Ledington PWJ. ed. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for System Sciences (ISSS), Edinburgh: ISSS, 1989: vol. III:31-37.

Cariani P. Implications from structural evolution: semantic adaptation. In: Caudill M ed. Proceedings, international joint conference on neural networks, January, 1990, Washington, D.C. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1990; I:47-51.

Cariani P. Adaptive coupling to the world through self-organizing sensors and effectors. In: Meystel A, Herath J, Gray S eds. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Conference on Intelligent Control, Philadelphia, IEEE. 1990;I: 73-78.

Cariani P. Emergence and artificial life. In: Artificial life II. Langton CG, Taylor C, Farmer JD, Rasmussen S. eds. Sante Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity, vol X, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 1991; 775-798. (pdf file, 9 Mb)

Cariani P. Some epistemological implications of devices which construct their own sensors and effectors. In: Varela F, Bourgine P eds. Towards a practice of autonomous systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991;484-493. 9pp. (pdf file, 67k)

Cariani P. Adaptivity and emergence in organisms and devices. World Futures: Journal of General Evolution 1992; 32: 111-132.

Cariani, P. Adaptabilidad estructural y emergencia de relaciones de modelizacion en organismos, aparatos y redes neuronales. Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, de Madrid, Tomo LXXXVI, Cuaderno Cuarto, 1992, 441-486.

Delgutte B, Cariani P. Coding of the pitch of harmonic and inharmonic complex tones in the interspike intervals of auditory nerve fibers. In: MEH Schouten, ed. The processing of speech. Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyer, 1992: 37-45.

Cariani P. To evolve an ear: epistemological implications of Gordon Pask's electrochemical devices. Systems Research 1993;10 (3):19-33. (pdf, 68k)

Cariani P. As if time really mattered: Temporal strategies for neural coding of sensory information. Communication and Cognition - AI, Special issue on Self-Reference in Biological and Cognitive Systems, L. Rocha, ed., 1995; 12 (2-3): 157-219. Reprinted in: K Pribram, ed. Origins: Brain and Self-Organization, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994; 208-252. (pdf file, 272k)

Kelly, Owen E., Johnson, DH, Delgutte, B, and Cariani, P. Fractal noise strength in auditory nerve fiber recordings. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1996; 99(4): 2210-2220.

Cariani, P. and Delgutte, B. Neural correlates of the pitch of complex tones. I. Pitch and pitch salience. J. Neurophysiology 1996; 76(3): 1698-1716. (PDF, 2 Mb)

Cariani, P. and Delgutte, B. Neural correlates of the pitch of complex tones. II. Pitch shift, pitch ambiguity, pitch circularity and pitch dominance. J. Neurophysiology 1996; 76(3): 1717-1734. . (PDF, 3 Mb)

Hirahara, T., Cariani, P. and Delgutte, B. Representation of low-frequency vowel formants in the auditory nerve. Proceedings, ESCA Research Workshop on The Auditory Basis of Speech Perception, Keele University, United Kingdom, July 15 - 19, 1996, 4 pp.

Delgutte, B. Hammon, B. M., Kalluri, S. Litvak, L. M. and Cariani, P. Neural encoding of temporal envelope and temporal interactions in speech. Proceedings, ESCA Research Workshop on The Auditory Basis of Speech Perception, Keele University, United Kingdom, July 15 - 19, 1996, 11 pp.

Delgutte, B. Hammon, R. M., and Cariani, P. Neural coding of the temporal envelope of speech: relation to modulation transfer functions. In: Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing, Palmer, A.R., Rees, A. Summerfield, A. Q., and R. Meddis, eds. Whurr Publishers, London, 521-527 (in press).

Cariani, P. Temporal coding of musical form. Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC)], Montreal, August, 1996, pp. 425-430.

Cariani, P, B. Delgutte, and M. Tramo. 1997. Neural representation of pitch through autocorrelation. Proceedings, Audio Engineering Society Meeting (AES), New York, September, 1997, Preprint #4583 (L-3). (pdf, 272k)

Cariani, P. Consciousness and the organization of neural processes: comments on John et al. Consciousness and Cognition 6 (1) : 56-64. 1997.

Cariani, P. 1997. Cybernetic and connectionist conception of the mind. Invited commentary on Barry Smith, "The Connectionist Mind: A Study of Hayekian Psychology", Electronic-symposium, archive: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A1=ind9711&L=hayek-l

Cariani, P. 1997. Broadcast networks, temporal codes, and global integration. Invited commentary on Bernard Baars, Metaphors of consciousness and attention in the brain. Electronic-symposium, archive: http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/baars/cariani1.html

Cariani, P. Temporal coding of sensory information. In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research, 1997. Edited by J. M. Bower. 591-598. New York: Plenum.Cariani, P Life's journey through the semiosphere (review). Semiotica. 1998; 120 : 13-27.

Cariani, P. Towards an evolutionary semiotics: the emergence of new sign-functions in organisms and devices. In Evolutionary Systems. Edited by G. Van de Vijver, S. Salthe and M. Delpos. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer. 359-377, 1998. (pdf, 68k)

Cariani, P Epistemic autonomy through adaptive sensing. Joint proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC), IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics (CIRA) and Automation and the Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS), Sept. 14-17, 1998, Nat. Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. 1998; 718-723. (pdf, 68k)

Cariani, P Emergence of new signal-primitives in neural networks. Intellectica. 1997/2:95-143. (pdf, 204k)

Cariani, P. 1999. Temporal coding of periodicity pitch in the auditory system: an overview. Neural Plasticity, 6(4): 173-189. (pdf, 272k)

Cariani, P. Neural timing nets for auditory computation. In Computational Models of Auditory Function. Edited by S. Greenberg and M. Slaney, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 16 pp., in press. (pdf, 204k)

Cariani, Peter. Regenerative process in life and mind. In Closure in Complex Systems. Edited by G. Van de Vijver and J. Chandler. 8 pp. New York Academy of Sciences, in press.

Cariani, Peter. Anesthesia, neural information processing, and conscious awareness. Cognition & Consciousness, 9 pp., in press.

P. Cariani. (2001a). Neural timing nets. Neural Networks, in press. (Uncorrected proofs, pdf)

P. Cariani. (2001b). Neural timing nets for auditory computation. In S. Greenberg & M. Slaney (Eds.), Computational Models of Auditory Function (pp. 235-249). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

P. Cariani. (2001). Temporal codes, timing nets, and music perception. J. New Music Research (in press).
 

Abstracts and working papers

Tramo MJ, Cariani PA, Delgutte B. Representation of tonal consonance and dissonance in the temporal firing patterns of auditory nerve fibers: responses to musical intervals composed of pure tones vs. harmonic complexes [Abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr 1992;18(1):382.

Cariani P, Delgutte B. Interspike interval distributions of auditory nerve fibers in response to concurrent vowels with same and different fundamental frequencies [Abstract]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting 1993.

Cariani P, Delgutte B. Transient changes in neural discharge patterns may enhance the separation of concurrent vowels with different fundamental frequencies [Abstract]. J Acoust Soc Am 1994; 95(No. 5 Pt.2): 2842.

Cariani P. Strategies for sensory evolution in artificial devices [Abstract]. Artificial Life IV, Cambridge, MA, July 6-8, 1994.

Cariani P. Physiological correlates of periodicity pitch in the cochlear nucleus. [Abstract]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting 1995.

Hirahara, T., Cariani, P., and Delgutte, B. Representation of low-frequency vowel formants in the auditory nerve. [Abstract]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting 1996.

Cariani, P. Population-interval models for binaurally-created pitches. [Abstract] Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., Washington D.C., November, 1996.

Cariani, P. 1997. Population-interval representations of pitch in the auditory brainstem. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn. Abstr.

Cariani P. 1998. Neural computations in the time domain. [Abstract]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting, February, 1998

Tramo, M. & Cariani, P. Spectrotemporal response properties of auditory cortex neurons in the alert macaque. Assoc. Res. Otolaryng. Abstr., 1999.

Litvak, Leonid, Bertrand Delgutte, Donald K. Eddington, and Peter A. Cariani. 1999. Auditory nerve fiber responses to electric stimulation: modulated and unmodulated pulse trains. 1999 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Asilomar, CA, August 29-Sept. 3, 1999

Cariani, Peter. 1999. Timing nets for rhythm perception. Working paper. In: Music and Timing Networks, Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of the FWO Research Society on Foundations of Music Research, University of Ghent, October, 1999, M. Leman, ed.

Cariani P. 2000. Auditory object formation through temporal coherence. [Abstract]. Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting, February, 2000.


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