Mark D. Humphries
Papers
8
Total Citations
295
H-Index
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About
Mark D. Humphries is a leading researcher in computational neuroscience and neurorobotics, whose work bridges the gap between biological brain function and artificial systems. His primary research areas include action selection mechanisms, basal ganglia modeling, and embodied neural architectures. Humphries’ most influential contribution is his pioneering robot model of the basal ganglia (2005, 178 citations), which demonstrated how these vertebrate brain structures resolve conflicts between competing motor programs—a foundational insight for understanding decision-making in both biological and artificial agents. He further advanced this work by embedding the basal ganglia model into physical robots, showing how dopamine modulation affects action selection (2024, 4 citations), and by evaluating the reticular formation’s role as an integrative brainstem substrate for distributed action selection (2005, 20 citations). Humphries also developed BRAHMS (2009, 21 citations), a novel middleware for integrating complex computational systems. His research has profoundly impacted the fields of neurorobotics and computational neuroscience, providing testable, embodied models that illuminate how the brain selects and executes actions.
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Top Papers
- 1A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing178 citations · 2005
- 2An embodied model of action selection mechanisms in the vertebrate brain40 citations · 2000
- 3BRAHMS: Novel middleware for integrated systems computation21 citations · 2009
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- 6The Robot Basal Ganglia:9 citations · 2002
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