Journal Publications

• Monaco JD and Hwang GM. (2024). Neurodynamical computing at the information boundaries of intelligent systems}. Cognitive Computation, 16, 1–13. Advance online publication, December 27, 2022. doi: 10.1007/s12559-022-10081-9
• Hwang GM, Kulwatno J, Cruz TH, Chen D, Ajisafe T, Monaco JD, Nitkin R, George SM, Lucas C, Zehnder SM, and Zhang L. (2024). NSF DARE — Transforming Modeling in Neurorehabilitation: Perspectives and Opportunities from US Funding Agencies. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitiation, 21(17). doi: 10.1186/s12984-024-01308-x
• Levenstein D, Alvarez VA, Amarasingham A, Azab H, Zhe S. Chen, Gerkin RC, Hasenstaub A, Iyer R, Jolivet RB, Marzen~S, Monaco JD, Prinz AA, Quraishi SA, Santamaria F, Shivkumar S, Singh MF, Traub R, Rotstein HG, Nadim F, and Redish AD. (2023). On the role of theory and modeling in neuroscience. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(7), 1074–88. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1179-22.2022
• Hadzic A, Hwang GM, Zhang K, Schultz KM, and Monaco JD. (2022). Bayesian optimization of distributed neurodynamical controller models for spatial navigation. Array, 15, 100218. doi: 10.1016/j.array.2022.100218
• Monaco JD, Hwang GM, Schultz KM, and Zhang K. (2020). Cognitive swarming in complex environments with attractor dynamics and oscillatory computing. Biological Cybernetics, 114, 269–284. doi: 10.1007/s00422-020-00823-z [code]
• Wang CH, Monaco JD, and Knierim JJ. (2020). Hippocampal place cells encode local surface texture boundaries. Current Biology, 30, 1–13. [code]
• Monaco JD, De Guzman RM, Blair HT, and Zhang K. (2019). Spatial synchronization codes from coupled rate-phase neurons. PLOS Computational Biology, 15(1), e1006741. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006741 [code] [data]
• Tabuchi M, Monaco JD, Duan G, Bell BJ, Liu S, Zhang K, and Wu MN. (2018). Clock-generated temporal codes determine synaptic plasticity to control sleep. Cell, 175(5), 1213–27. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.09.016
• Monaco JD, Rao G, Roth ED, and Knierim JJ. (2014). Attentive scanning behavior drives one-trial potentiation of hippocampal place fields. Nature Neuroscience, 17(5), 725–731. doi: 10.1038/nn.3687 [pdf] [suppinfo] [code]
• Monaco JD, Knierim JJ, and Zhang K. (2011). Sensory feedback, error correction, and remapping in a multiple oscillator model of place cell activity. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 5:39. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00039 [code]
• Monaco JD and Abbott LF. (2011). Modular realignment of entorhinal grid cell activity as a basis for hippocampal remapping. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(25), 9414–25. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1433-11.2011 [code]
• Muzzio IA, Levita L, Kulkarni J, Monaco J, Kentros CG, Stead M, Abbott LF, and Kandel ER. (2009). Attention enhances the retrieval and stability of visuospatial and olfactory representations in the dorsal hippocampus. PLOS Biology, 7(6), e1000140. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000140
• Monaco JD, Abbott LF, and Kahana MJ. (2007). Lexico-semantic structure and the recognition word-frequency effect. Learning & Memory, 14(3), 204–213. doi: 10.1101/lm.363207

Conference Papers

• Buckley E, Monaco JD, Schultz KM, Chalmers R, Hadzic A, Zhang K, Hwang GM, and Carr MD. (2022). An interdisciplinary approach to high school curriculum development: Swarming Powered by Neuroscience. Proceedings 2022 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC’22). [pdf] [webdemo]
• Hwang GM, Schultz KM, Monaco JD, and Zhang K. (2021). Neuro-Inspired Dynamic Replanning in Swarms—Theoretical Neuroscience Extends Swarming in Complex Environments. Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 35, 443–447.
• Monaco JD, Hwang GM, Schultz KM, and Zhang K. (2019). Cognitive swarming: An approach from the theoretical neuroscience of hippocampal function. Proceedings SPIE (International society for optics and photonics) Defense & Commercial Sensing. Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications XI, 109822D, 1–10. doi: 10.1117/12.2518966 [pdf]
• Monaco JD and Levy WB. (2003). T-maze training of a recurrent CA3 model reveals the necessity of novelty-based modulation of LTP in hippocampal region CA3. Proceedings 2003 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN’03), 1655–1660. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2003.1223655 [pdf]

Preprints

• Hadzic A, Hwang GM, Zhang K, Schultz KM, and Monaco JD. (2021). Bayesian optimization of distributed neurodynamical controller models for spatial navigation. ArXiv Preprint. arxiv:2111.00599
• Buckley E, Monaco JD, Schultz KM, Chalmers R, Hadzic A, Zhang K, Hwang GM, and Carr MD. (2021). An interdisciplinary approach to high school curriculum development: Swarming Powered by Neuroscience. ArXiv Preprint. arxiv:2109.05545
• Monaco JD, Rajan K, and Hwang GM. (2021). A brain basis of dynamical intelligence for AI and computational neuroscience. ArXiv Preprint. arxiv:2105.07284
• Levenstein D, Alvarez VA, Amarasingham A, Azab H, Gerkin RC, Hasenstaub A, Iyer R, Jolivet RB, Marzen S, Monaco JD, Prinz AA, Quraishi S, Santamaria F, Shivkumar S, Singh MF, Stockton DB, Traub R, Rotstein HG, Nadim F, and Redish AD. (2020). On the role of theory and modeling in neuroscience. ArXiv Preprint. arxiv:2003.13825
• Monaco JD, Hwang GM, Schultz KM, and Zhang K. (2019). Cognitive swarming in complex environments with attractor dynamics and oscillatory computing. ArXiv Preprint. arxiv:1909.06711
• Wang CH, Monaco JD, and Knierim JJ. (2019). Hippocampal place cells encode local surface texture boundaries. BioRxiv Preprint. doi: 10.1101/764282
• Monaco JD, Blair HT, and Zhang K. (2017). Spatial theta cells in competitive burst synchronization networks: Reference frames from phase codes. BioRxiv Preprint. doi: 10.1101/211458

Thesis

• Monaco JD. (2009). Models and mechanisms for integrating cortical feature spaces. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University. ProQuest Publication No. AAT 3393609 [original]