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Henning Sprekeler

Principal Investigator

Computational Neuroscience

TU Berlin

 

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Henning Sprekeler

Henning Sprekeler

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Henning Sprekeler is Bernstein Professor of Modeling of Cognitive Processes. For SCIoI, he represents the analytical discipline computational neuroscience. He has extensive expertise in computational modelling of synaptic plasticity and its consequences for behavioural learning and the formation of memories. He has also worked on the self-organised development of high-level sensory representations, an essential prerequisite for intelligent behaviour.


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Reiske, P., Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Traverso, S., Hohlbaum, K., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Hellwich, O., & Sprekeler, H. (2025). Mouse Lockbox Dataset: Behavior Recognition for Mice Solving Lockboxes. CV4Animals Workshop at IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR).
Hohlbaum, K., Andresen, N., Mieske, P., Kahnau, P., Lang, B., Diederich, K., Palme, R., Mundhenk, L., Sprekeler, H., Hellwich, O., Thöne-Reineke, C., & Lewejohann, L. (2024). Lockbox enrichment facilitates manipulative and cognitive activities for mice. Open Research Europe, 4, 108. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17624.2
Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Traverso, S., Meier, S., Schuessler, F., Hellwich, O., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Sprekeler, H., & Hohlbaum, K. (2024). Mechanical problem solving in mice. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.29.605658
Öksüz, H. Y., Molinari, F., Sprekeler, H., & Raisch, J. (2024). Boosting Fairness and Robustness in Over-the-Air Federated Learning. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 8, 682–687. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3402123
Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Traverso, S., Meier, S., Hellwich, O., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Sprekeler, H., & Hohlbaum, K. (2024). Mouse lockbox: A sequential mechanical decision-making task to investigate complex mouse behavior [Poster]. International Congress for Neuroethology (ICN).
Oksuz, H. Y., Molinari, F., Sprekeler, H., & Raisch, J. (2023). Federated Learning in Wireless Networks via Over-the-Air Computations. 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 4379–4386. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC49753.2023.10384001
Boon, M. N., Andresen, N., Meier, S., Hellwich, O., Lewejohann, L., Thöne-Reineke, C., Sprekeler, H., & Hohlbaum, K. (2023, September). Mouse lock box: a sequential mechanical decision-making task to investigate complex mouse behavior [Poster]. Bernstein Conference. https://doi.org/10.12751/NNCN.BC2023.056
Lukas, J., Krause, J., Träger, A. S., Piotrowski, J. M., Romanczuk, P., Sprekeler, H., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Krause, S., Schutz, C., & Bierbach, D. (2023). Multispecies collective waving behaviour in fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378(1874), 20220069. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0069
Gómez-Nava, L., Lange, R. T., Klamser, P. P., Lukas, J., Arias-Rodriguez, L., Bierbach, D., Krause, J., Sprekeler, H., & Romanczuk, P. (2023). Fish shoals resemble a stochastic excitable system driven by environmental perturbations. Nature Physics, 19(5), 663–669. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01916-1
Oksuz, H. Y., Molinari, F., Sprekeler, H., & Raisch, J. (2023). Boosting Fairness and Robustness in Over-the-Air Federated Learning. 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC).
Lange, R. T., & Sprekeler, H. (2022). Learning Not to Learn: Nature versus Nurture In Silico. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 36(7), 7290–7299. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v36i7.20691
Vischer, M., Lange, R. T., & Sprekeler, H. (2022). On Lottery Tickets and Minimal Task Representations in Deep Reinforcement Learning. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.01648

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