Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:

Martina Billichová, Lauren Joyce Coan, Silvester Czanner, MonikaKováčová, Fariba Sharifian, Gabriela Czanner (2024). Comparing the performance of statistical, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms to predict time-to-event: A simulation study for conversion to mild cognitive impairment. PLOS ONE. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0297190

Stefan Arnau, Fariba Sharifian, Edmund Wascher, Mauro F. Larra (2023). Removing the cardiac field artefact from the EEG using neural network regression. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.14323

Edmund Wascher, Fariba Sharifian, Marie Gutberlet, Daniel Schneider, Stephan Getzmann, Stefan Arnau (2022). Mental chronometry in big noisy data. OSF Preprints. PLoS ONE 17(6)

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268916

Fariba Sharifian, Daniel Schneider, Stefan Arnau, Edmund Wascher (2021). Neural Decoding Cognitive Processes Involved in Continuous Performance Task. International Journal of Psychophysiology 167(3)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2021.06.012

Anne Schmidt, Franziska Geringswald, Fariba Sharifian, Stefan Pollmann (2020). Not scene learning, but attentional processing is superior in team sport athletes and action video game players. Psychological Research 84(4):1028-1038

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/353953

Claudia Preuschhof, Fariba Sharifian, Lisa Rosenblum, Tanja Pohl, Stefan Pollmann (2019). Contextual cueing in older adults: slow initial learning but flexible use of distractor configurations. Visual Cognition 27(5–8), 563–575

doi: 10.1080/13506285.2019.1668516

Lihui Wang, Fariba Sharifian, Jonathan Napp, Carola Nath, Stefan Pollmann (2019). Persistent and flexible perceptual training effect in simulated retinal implant vision. Journal of Vision 19 (27)a. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/19.10.27a

Lihui Wang, Fariba Sharifian, Jonathan Napp, Carola Nath, Stefan Pollmann (2018). Cross-task perceptual learning of object recognition in simulated retinal implant perception. Journal of Vision 18(13):22

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/360669

Fariba Sharifian, Oliver Contier, Claudia Preuschhof, Stefan Pollmann (2017). Reward modulation of contextual cueing: repeated context overshadows repeated target location. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 79(7)

doi: 10.3758/s13414-017-1397-3

Fariba Sharifian, Hanna Heikkinen, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2015). Contextual modulation is related to efficiency in a spiking network model of visual cortex. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 9

doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00155

Simo Vanni, Fariba Sharifian, Ricardo Vigário, Hanna Heikkinen (2015). Modeling fMRI signals can provide insights to neural processing in the cerebral cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 114(2)

doi: 10.1152/jn.00332.2014

Hanna Heikkinen, Fariba Sharifian, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2015). Feedback to distal dendrites links blood oxygenation level dependent signals to neural receptive fields in a spiking network model of the visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 114(1)

doi: 0.1152/jn.00169.2015

Fariba Sharifian, Lauri Nurminen, Simo Vanni (2013). Visual interactions conform to pattern decorrelation in multiple cortical areas. PLoS ONE 8(7)

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068046

Conference abstracts:

Stefan Arnau, Fariba Sharifian, Edmund Wascher, Mauro Larrá (2021). Removing the cardiac field artefact from the EEG using neural network non-linear regression. 46th joint annual meeting Psychology and the Brain (PuG), Germany.

Fariba Sharifian, Daniel Schneider, Stefan Arnau, Edmund Wascher (2021). Stages of Cognitive Processes in the Continues Performance Task Revealed by Multivariate Pattern Analysis. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Virtual in California, USA.

Fariba Sharifian, Christian Merz, Valerie Jentsch, Oliver Wolf (2019). Neural activation pattern similarity reflects fear learning and extinction dynamic. European Meeting of Human Fear Conditioning, Würzburg, Germany.

Carola Nath, Fariba Sharifian, Jonathan Napp, Lihui Wang, Stefan Pollmann (2017). Learning to recognize objects in simulated retinal implant perception. Low Vision and the Brain, Berlin, Germany.

Lihui Wang, Fariba Sharifian, Jonathan Napp, Carola Nath, Stefan Pollmann (2017). Task-independent perceptual learning of object recognition in simulated retinal implant perception. Low Vision and the Brain, Berlin, Germany.

Fariba Sharifian, Hanna Heikkinen, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2016). Biomimetic simulation of fMRI signal in visual cortex by means of a spiking neural network. Novel Statistical Methods in Neuroscience, Magdeburg, Germany.

Fariba Sharifian, Hanna Heikkinen, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2015). Area summation is related to efficient neural representation. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Prague, Czech Republic.

Simo Vanni, Fariba Sharifian, Hanna Heikkinen, Ricardo Vigário (2015). Nonlinear area summation in biomimetic V1 increases coding efficiency. Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting, Osnabrück, Germany.

Hanna Heikkinen, Fariba Sharifian, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2014). Bridging spatial spread of fMRI and neural responses in a recurrent network model of the primary visual cortex. Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen, Germany.

Fariba Sharifian, Lauri Nummenmaa, Simo Vanni (2014). Adaptation decorrelates neural activation patterns in visual cortex. European Conference on Visual Perception, Belgrade, Serbia.

Hanna Heikkinen, Fariba Sharifian, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2013). Dendritic filtering can bridge functional magnetic resonance imaging and neural responses in a recurrent network model of the primary visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA.

Fariba Sharifian, Hanna Heikkinen, Ricardo Vigário, Simo Vanni (2013). Bridging functional magnetic resonance imaging and neural responses with a recurrent network, Osnabrück Computational Cognition Alliance Meeting, Osnabrück, Germany.

Fariba Sharifian, Lauri Nurminen, Simo Vanni (2010). A global network of contextual facilitation and suppression in human visual cortex. European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ali kamandi, Jafar Habibi, Fariba Sharifian (2007), Project risk analysis by means of neural networks. International Conference of Data Mining, Tehran, Iran. [In Persian]

Fariba Sharifian, Saeedeh Momtazi (2006). An intelligent method for improving the performance of the partial order planning algorithm. Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran. [In Persian]

Fariba Sharifian (2005). E-Learning and performance, Bahman Management Conference. Tehran, Iran. [In Persian]

Thesis:

Fariba Sharifian (2015). Model-based exploration of interactions in visual cortex. School of Science, Aalto University. ISBN (printed) 978-952-60-6529-8, ISBN (pdf) 978-952-60-6530-4.

Fariba Sharifian (2007). Survey and improvement of robust text image watermarking methods. Sharif University of Technology.

Fariba Sharifian (2004). Label updating of a rectangular map to avoid a query point. Sharif University of Technology.