Research interests: Pattern matching and reconstruction, classification, representation.

Email: rebotier (a) hotmail (.) com

McDonnell-Pew Fellow (1996-1998), McDonnell-Pew Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience

Winner of the 2004 UCSD/Fair Isaac Data Mining Contest

Ingénieur Civil des Mines, Ecole des Mines de Paris (1983),

PhD in Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (1998)

Thomas Rebotier, Jacques Droulez and Alain Berthoz, 1994, “Multiplicatory spiking Neurons in a Dynamic Memory Net: a two-level Model”, presented at the symposium Dynamics of Neural Processing (Washington DC, 1994).

Thomas Rebotier and Jacques Droulez, 1993, “Sigma vs Pi Properties of Spiking Neurons”, in the Connectionnist Modeling Summer School proceedings.

Thomas Rebotier and Jeffrey Elman, 1995, “Explorations with the Dynamics Wave Model” , in Advances in Neural Information and Processing Systems, eds. Touretzky, Mozer and Hasselmo, 1995, pp. 549-555,

Thomas Rebotier, 1998, “Vision and Imagery: the role of Cortical Attractor Dynamics” PhD dissertation, Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD, 1998.

Thomas Rebotier, Larayne McDonough and David Kirsh, 2003, “Image-Dependant Interaction of Imagery and Vision”, in American Journal of Psychology, 2003 vol.116:3, pp. 343-366

Mike Bailey, Thomas Rebotier and David Kirsh , 2003, “Quantifying The Relative Roles of Shadows, Steropsis, and Focal Accomodation In 3D Visualization” , Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference, pp 992-996.

Thomas Rebotier, 2003, "Spatially Expending Hierarchical Trees for Compliant Multidimensional Scaling", submitted

Thomas Rebotier and David Kirsh, “Local Pattern Reconstruction in Mental Imagery”, submitted.

Thomas Rebotier, Mike Bailey and David Kirsh, “The Role of Accomodation in relative Depth Perception”, submitted.