Martin Coath

I am a post doctoral research fellow on the SCANDLE project based at the University of Plymouth.

My first degree was in Chemistry.  For 20 years I was a programmer, musician, teacher, and craftsman before taking the time to do an M.Sc. in computational intelligence.  As a result I was offered a research post at the University of Plymouth on a project investigating hearing and learning (ALAVLSI) and later on a project more focussed on music perception (EmCAP).

My current work involves developing software models of plasticity (learning) in recurrently connected populations of spiking neurons.  These models represent the thalamus and cortex and the connections both within and between these areas of the brain, this is called "Work Package 1" inside the SCANDLE project.  The aim is to move these software models, which require lots of processing power in a PC or a bank of PCs, to neuromorphic hardware which will be able to do the same things in real time and be embedded in portable devices.

Links to recent papers (click on the numbers):

1    Stimulus Classification

2    Perceptual Segregation and Time Series

3    Beat and Onset Extraction in Vocal Music

4    Pitch perception

5    Cortical Modelling, Learning, and Receptive Fields

Work:

For my University web presence click here.

Recent public engagement work links: 

STEM awards, Pub busking, NCCPE profile

More in the real world:

To find out more about my other work in public engagement (that is getting science out of universities in to schools, festivals, and the public arena) check out the following links.

Sciencelive

Famelab

A2B2A (sorry temporarily locked for development)

Cheltenham 2009

Cheltenham 2008

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