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2015

Tam, ND (2015)  Quantitative assessment of sad emotion. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 4(2), 36-43. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.20150402.11


2014

Tam, ND, & Smith, KM (2014)  Cognitive computation of jealous emotion. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 3(6-1), 1-7. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.s.2014030601.11


Tam, ND (2014)  A decision-making phase-space model for fairness assessment. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 3(6-1), 8-15. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.s.2014030601.12


Tam, ND (2014)  Rational decision-making process choosing fairness over monetary gain as decision criteria. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 3(6-1), 16-23. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.s.2014030601.13


Tam, ND & Zouridakis, G (2014)  Temporal decoupling of oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin hemodynamic responses detected by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Imaging. 1(2):18-28. doi: 10.14738/jbemi.12.146


Tam, ND (2014)  Hexagonal pixel-array for efficient spatial computation for motion-detection pre-processing of visual scenes. Advances in Image and VideoProcessing. 2(2):26-36. doi: 10.14738/aivp.22.153


Tam, ND (2014)  Quantification of happy emotion: Proportionality relationship to gain/loss. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 3(2):60-67. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.20140302.15


Tam, ND (2014)  Quantification of happy emotion: Dependence on decisions. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 3(2):68-74. doi: 10.11648/j.pbs.20140302.16


Tam, ND (2014) Quantification of fairness perception by including other-regarding concerns using a relativistic fairness-equity model. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal. 1(4):159-168. doi: 10.14738/assrj.14.291


Tam, ND (2014) Quantification of fairness bias in relation to decisions using a relativistic fairness-equity model. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal. 1(4):169-178. doi: 10.14738/assrj.14.292


Tam, ND (2014)  Reduction of student's exam grade performance when spending more time in an exam. British Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science. 4(8):1125-1139. doi: 10.9734/BJESBS/2014/9901


Tam, ND; Zouridakis, G (2014) Decoding Movement Direction from Motor Cortex Recordings Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Infrared Spectroscopy: Theory, Developments and Applications. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY. (in press)


Tam, ND (2014) Optical imaging of prefrontal cortex hemodynamic response in executive function induced by increased cardiovascular activity. BMC Neuroscience. 15(Suppl 1):P34. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-15-S1-P34


Tam, ND (2014) Computational optimization problems in social interaction and empathic social emotion. BMC Neuroscience. 15(Suppl 1):P35. doi:10.1186/1471-2202-15-S1-P35


2013

Tam, ND & Zouridakis, G (2013)  Optical imaging of motor cortical hemodynamic response to directional arm movements using near-infrared spectroscopy. International Journal of Biological Engineering 3(2): 11-17. DOI: 10.5923/j.ijbe.20130302.01


Tam, ND (2013) Improvement of processing speed in executive function immediately following an increase in cardiovascular activity. Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology. Vol. 2013, 21276 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/212767


Tam, ND (2013)  Digital equivalence of biological neural AND-gate, OR-gate and MIN-Gate.  International Journal of Computer and Information Technology. 2(5):822-827.


2012

Tam, ND & Zouridakis G (2012) Optical imaging of motor cortical activation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. BMC Neuroscience 13(Suppl 1):P27 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-13-S1-P27. [reprint.pdf]


Tam, ND (2012) Derivation of the evolution of empathic other-regarding social emotions as compared to non-social self-regarding emotions. BMC Neuroscience 13(Suppl 1):P28. [reprint.pdf]


2011

Tam, DN (2011) Computation in Emotional Processing: Quantitative Confirmation of Proportionality Hypothesis for Angry Unhappy Emotional Intensity to Perceived Loss. Cognitive Computation. 3(2): 394-415. [Author generated preprint.pdf]


Tam, DN (2011) Quantification of emotional bias by an Emotional-Gain Model. BMC Neuroscience 12(Suppl 1):P326 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P326. [reprint.pdf]


Tam, DN (2011) Quantification of fairness bias by a Fairness-Equity Model. BMC Neuroscience 12(Suppl 1):P327 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P327. [reprint.pdf]


Tam, DN (2011) Gender difference of emotional bias in sharing love. BMC Neuroscience 12(Suppl 1):P328 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P328. [reprint.pdf]


Tam, DN (2011) Contributing factors in judgment of fairness by monetary value. BMC Neuroscience, 12(Suppl 1):P329 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-12-S1-P329. [reprint.pdf]


2010

 

Tam, D. (2010) Variables governing emotion and decision-making: human objectivity underlying its subjective perception. BMC Neuroscience 11(Suppl 1):P96 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P96 [reprint.pdf]


 

Tam, D. (2010) Temporal associative memory (TAM) by spike-timing dependent plasticity.. BMC Neuroscience 11(Suppl 1):P105 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P105 [reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2010) Computational criteria for establishing reflex from plasticity to hardwiring. BMC Neuroscience 11(Suppl 1):P110 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-11-S1-P110. [reprint.pdf]

 


2009

Tam, D. (2009) A Theoretical Analysis of Cumulative Sum Slope (CUSUM-Slope) Statistic for Detecting Signal Onset (begin) and Offset (end) Trends from Background Noise Level. The Open Statistics & Probability Journal, 1: 43-51. DOI: 10.2174/1876527000901010043 [reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2009)  A theoretical model of emotion processing for optimizing the cost function of discrepancy errors between wants and gets.  BMC Neuroscience 10(Suppl 1):P11 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P11 [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2009)  A theoretical analysis of an alternative CUSUM statistic called CUSUM-slope for detecting signals from background noise in a low signal-to-noise environment.  BMC Neuroscience 10(Suppl 1):P83 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-10-S1-P83 [Reprint.pdf]


2008

Tam, D. (2008) Theoretical derivation of EMOTION-I model for emotional feel of sensation. BMC Neuroscience 9(Suppl 1):P79 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-S1-P79 [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2008) Theoretical derivation of EMOTION-II model for happy and unhappy emotions. BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9(Suppl 1):P80 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-S1-P80 [Reprint.pdf]


2007

Tam, D. (2007) Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Correlation of Time-Series Signals Computed by a Time-Delayed Hebbian Associative Learning Neural Network. The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, 1: 1-4. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X00701010001 [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2007) EMOTION-I Model: A Biologically-Based Theoretical Framework for Deriving Emotional Context of Sensation in Autonomous Control Systems. The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, 1: 28-46. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X00701010028 [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2007) EMOTION-II Model: A Theoretical Framework for Happy Emotion as a Self-Assessment Measure Indicating the Degree-of-Fit (Congruency) between the Expectancy in Subjective and Objective Realities in Autonomous Control Systems. The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal, 1: 47-60. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X00701010047 [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. (2007) A self-adaptive burst-detection algorithm. BMC Neuroscience 8(Suppl 2):P75 doi:10.1186/1471-2202-8-S2-P75. [Reprint.pdf]


2004

Tam, D. C. (2004) Computational Efficiency of Hexagonal Arrays in Compound Eyes. Neurocomputing, 58-60: 1073-1078. [Reprint.pdf]



2003

Tam, D. C. (2003) Real-Time Estimation of Predictive Firing Rate. Neurocomputing, 52-54: 637-641. [Reprint.pdf]



2002

Tam, D. C. (2002) A spike train analysis for quantifying inhibitory near synchrony in spike firings. Neurocomputing, 44-46: 1149-1153. [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. (2002) An alternate burst analysis for detecting intra-burst firings based on inter-burst periods. Neurocomputing, 44-46: 1155-1159. [Reprint.pdf]



2001

Tam, D. C. (2001) A multi-unit spike train analysis for quantifying phase-relationships of near-synchrony firings. Neurocomputing. 38-40: 945-949. [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. (2001) A spike train analysis for correlating burst firings in neurons. Neurocomputing. 38-40: 951-955. [Reprint.pdf]



2000

Zouridakis, G. and Tam, D. C. (2000) Identification of reliable spike templates in multi-unit extracellular recordings using fuzzy clustering. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 61: 91-98. [reprint.pdf]



1999

Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1999) A joint interspike interval difference stochastic spike train analysis: detecting local trends in the temporal firing patterns of single neurons. Biological Cybernetics. 80: 309-326. [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. (1999) A spike train analysis for detecting temporal integration in neurons. Neurocomputing. 26-27: 1055-1060. [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. (1999) Spike train analysis for detecting oscillations and synchronous firing among neurons in networks. In: Oscillations in Neural Systems. (D. S. Levin, V. R. Brown and V. T. Shirey, eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. Pub., Mahwah, NJ. pp. 31-49.



1998

Tam, D. C. (1998) A cross-interval spike train analysis: the correlation between spike generation and temporal integration of doublets. Biological Cybernetics. 78: 95-106. [Reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. (1998) Regularity in spike firing with random inputs detected by method extracting contribution of remporal integration of a pair of incoming spikes to the firing of a neuron. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Plenum Pub., San Diego, CA. pp. 633-638.



1997

Zouridakis, G. and Tam, D. C. (1997) Multi-unit spike discrimination using wavelet transforms. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 27: 9-18. [reprint.pdf]


Tam, D. C. and Fitzurka, M. A. (1997) Inter-arrival time spike train analyses for detecting spatial and temporal summation in neurons. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Plenum Pub., San Diego, CA. pp.189-195.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1997) A joint cross interval difference analysis for detecting coupling trends between neurons. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Plenum Pub., San Diego, CA. pp. 299-303.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1997) Hybrid analyses of neuronal spike train data for pre-and post-cross intervals in relation to interspike interval differences. In: Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Plenum Pub., San Diego, CA. pp. 81-86.



1996

Tam, D. C. (1996) A Time-scale invariant method for detection of changes and oscillations in neuronal firing intervals. In: Computational Neuroscience. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp. 465-470.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1996) First order interspike interval difference phase plane analysis of neuronal spike train data. In: Computational Neuroscience. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp. 429-434.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1996) Second order interspike interval difference phase plane analysis of neuronal spike train data. In: Computational Neuroscience. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp. 435-440.



1995

Tam, D. C. and Fitzurka, M. A. (1995) A stochastic time-series analysis for detecting excitation-inhibition couplings among neurons in a network. In: Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology: Building a Man in the Machine. (M. Witten and D. J. Vincent, eds.) Mathematical Biology and Medicine, Vol. 5, pp. 921-931.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1995) A new statistical measure for detecting trends in the firing patterns of neurons. In: Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology: Building a Man in the Machine. (M. Witten and D. J. Vincent, eds.) Mathematical Biology and Medicine, Vol. 5, pp. 990-1008.


Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1995) A new spike train analysis technique for detecting trends in the firing patterns of neurons. In: The Neurobiology of Computation. (J. M. Bower, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA. pp. 73-78.


Zouridakis, G. and Tam, D. C. (1995) Recognition and classification of multineuron activity using a fuzzy-clustering approach. In: Computational Medicine, Public Health and Biotechnology: Building a Man in the Machine. (M. Witten and D. J. Vincent, eds.) Mathematical Biology and Medicine, Vol. 5, pp. 932-947.



1994

Tam, D. C. (1994) A multi-conditional correlation statistics for detecting spatio-temporally correlated firing patterns. In: Computation in Neurons and Neural Systems. (F. H. Eeckman and J. M. Bower eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA. pp. 33-38.


Tam, D. C. (1994) A hybrid time-shifted neural network for analyzing biological neuronal spike trains. Progress in Neural Networks Vol. 2, pp. 129-146.


Tam, D. C. and Gross G. W. (1994) Dynamical changes in neuronal network circuitries using multi-unit spike train analysis. In: Enabling Technologies for Cultured Neural Networks. (T. McKenna & D. A. Stenger, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp. 319-345.


Tam, D. C. and Gross G. W. (1994) Post-conditional correlation between neurons in cultured neuronal networks Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks. San Diego, CA, June 5-9, 1994. Vol. 2, pp. 792-797.


Gross G. W. and Tam, D. C. (1994) Pre-conditional correlation between neurons in cultured networks. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks. San Diego, CA, June 5-9, 1994. Vol. 2, pp. 786-791.



1993

Tam, D. C. (1993) Computation of cross-correlation function by a time-delayed neural network. In: Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks. Vol. 3. pp. 51-55.


Tam, D. C. (1993) A new conditional correlation statistics for detecting spatio-temporally correlated firing patterns in a biological neuronal network. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks, July 1993. Vol. 2. pp. 606-609.


Tam, D. C. (1993) Novel cross-interval maps for identifying attractors from multi-unit neural firing patterns. In: Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG. (B. H. Jansen and M. E. Brandt, eds.) World Scientific Publishing Co., River Edge, NJ. pp. 65-77.


Tam, D. C. (1993) A multi-neuronal vectorial phase-space analysis for detecting dynamical interactions in firing patterns of biological neural networks. In: Computational Neural Systems. (F. H. Eeckman and J. M. Bower, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA. pp. 49-53.


Tam, D. C. and Hutson, R. K. (1993) An object-oriented paradigm for the design of realistic neural simulators. In: Computation Neural Systems. (F. H. Eeckman and J. M. Bower, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA. pp. 115-119.


Kenyon, G. T. and Tam, D. C. (1993) An entropy measure for revealing determinisitc structure in spike train data. In: Computation Neural Systems. (F. H. Eeckman and J. M. Bower, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA. pp. 44-47.


Kenyon, G. T. and Tam, D. C. (1993) Parallel algorithm for computing the time dependent Kolmogorov entropy form stationary EEG. In: Nonlinear Dynamical Analysis of the EEG. (B. H. Jansen and M. E. Brandt, eds.) World Scientific Publishing Co., River Edge, NJ. pp. 78-99.



1992

Tam, D. C. (1992) Vectorial phase-space analysis for detecting dynamical interactions in firing patterns of biological neural networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June 1992. Vol.3 pp. 97-102.


Tam, D. C. (1992) A novel vectorial phase-space analysis of spatio-temporal firing patterns in biological neural networks. Proceedings of the Simulation Technology Conference. Nov., 1992, pp. 556-564.


Tam, D. C. (1992) A generalizable object-oriented neural simulator for reconstructing functional properties of biological neuronal networks. Proceedings of the Simulation Technology Conference. Nov., 1992, pp. 551-555.

Tam, D. C. (1992) Object-oriented programming techniques for implementing generalizable models. Proceedings of the Simulation Technology Conference. Nov., 1992, pp. 300-303.



1991

Tam, D. C. (1991) Signal processing in multi-threshold neurons. In: Single Neuron Computation (T. McKenna, J. Davis, and S. F. Zornetzer, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego. pp. 481-501.


Tam, D. C. (1991) Signal processing by multiplexing and demultiplexing in neurons. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. (D. S. Touretzky, ed.), Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, California. pp. 282-288.


Alkon, D. L., Vogl, T. P, Blackwell, K. T. and Tam, D. C. (1991) Memory function in neural and artificial networks. In: Neural Network Models of Conditioning and Action. (M. L. Commons, S. Grossberg, J. E. R. Staddon, eds.) pp. 1-11. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: Hillsdale, New Jersey.



1990

Tam, D. C. (1990) Decoding of firing intervals in a temporal-coded spike train using a topographically mapped neural network. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, June, 1990. Vol. 3, pp. III-627-632.


Tam, D. C. (1990) Temporal-spatial coding transformation: Conversion of frequency-code to place-code via a time-delayed neural network. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (H. Caudill, eds.), Jan., 1990. Vol. 1, pp. I-130?-33.



1989

Tam, D. C. (1989) The physiological basis and implications of differential motor activation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences Vol. 12, pp. 669.


Tam, D. C. (1989) A positive/negative reinforcement learning model for associative search network. Proceedings of the First Annual IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1989, (B. Shirazi, ed.) pp. 300-307.


Tam, D. C. and Perkel, D. H. (1989) Quantitative modeling of synaptic plasticity. In: The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Computational Models of Learning in Simple Neural Systems, (R. D. Hawkins and G. H. Bower, eds.) Vol. 23, pp. 1 - 30. Academic Press: San Diego.


Tam, D. C. and Perkel, D. H. (1989) A model for temporal correlation of biological neuronal spike trains. Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 1989. Vol. 1, pp. I-781-786.



1988

Tam, D. C., Ebner, T. J., and Knox, C. K. (1988) Cross-interval histogram and cross-interspike interval histogram correlation analysis of simultaneously recorded multiple spike train data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 23: 23-33. [Reprint.pdf]


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