I joined the lab in September 2011 as a masters student in Systems Design Engineering. My undergraduate degree is in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of Regina.

My main research interests are related to learning and reward representation in the brain.

Publications

Theses

• Carter Kolbeck (2013) A neurocomputational model of the mammalian fear conditioning circuit. Master's thesis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.  Abstract  PDF  External link

Journal Articles

• Chris Eliasmith, Carter Kolbeck (2015) Marr's Attacks: On Reductionism and Vagueness. Topics in Cognitive Science, pages 1-13.  Abstract  PDF  DOI

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Trevor Bekolay, Carter Kolbeck, Chris Eliasmith (2013) Simultaneous unsupervised and supervised learning of cognitive functions in biologically plausible spiking neural networks. In 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 169–174. Cognitive Science Society.  Abstract  PDF
• Carter Kolbeck, Trevor Bekolay, Chris Eliasmith (2013) A Biologically Plausible Spiking Neuron Model of Fear Conditioning. In ICCM, 53–58. ICCM.  Abstract  PDF