Publications

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Hagoort, P., Duarte, R. (2025) Nonlinear dendritic integration supports Up-Down states in single neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience 45 (26) e1701242025 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1701-24.2025

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P.,& Petersson, K. M. (2023). Dendrites support the formation and reactivation of sequential memories through Hebbian plasticity. bioRxiv 2023.09.26.559322

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Van den Broek, D., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2022). The Tripod neuron: A minimal structural reduction of the dendritic tree. The Journal of Physiology, 601(15), 3007-3437. doi:10.1113/JP283399.

Quaresima, A.. (2024). A Bridge Not Too Far: Neurobiological causal models of word recognition. Radboud University, Nijmegen ISBN: 978-94-92910-61-5.

Software developed

Julia Spiking Neuronal Networks is library for simulation of biophysical network models.

Development of Neurons in Spatial Environments - DeNSE DeNSE provides a generic platform to investigate growth and network formations in 2D ensembles of neurons.

Workshops

Simulating neural physiology & networks in Julia. Phillips, W., Quaresima, A., & Chauhan, T., (2022). JuliaCon2022,

The neurobiological mechanisms of sequence processing. Quaresima, A., Vlachos, P. & Fitz, H., (2024). Bernstein Conference 2024, Frankfurt, Germany

Presentations

Quaresima, A. Dendritic computations support word recognition: insights from a biologically constrained neural network model. Seminar at the Semantic, Pragmatic and Neurolinguistic Department, Freie Universitat, Berlin, May 2024

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2023). Dendritic non-linearity supports the formation and reactivation of word memories as cell assemblies. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023).

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2023). Dendrites support the formation and reactivation of sequential memories through Hebbian plasticity. Talk presented at the Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators conference (SNUFA 2023).

Posters

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., & Hagoort, P.,(2024). A Neurobiological Model of Word Form Recognition. Highlights in Language Science conference (HILS 2024), Nijmegen, Netherlands

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2023). Dendritic non-linearity supports the formation and reactivation of word memories as cell assemblies. 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2023), Marseille, France.

Quaresima, A. (2022). Temporal order is made easy with heterogeneous timescales. IMPRS Conference 2022, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Quaresima, A., Van den Broek, D., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2022). The Tripod neuron: a minimal model of dendric computation. Dendrites 2022: Dendritic anatomy, molecules and function, Heraklion, Greece.

Quaresima, A., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., Van den Broek, D., Hagoort, P., & Petersson, K. M. (2022). Dendritic NMDARs facilitate Up and Down states. Bernstein Conference 2022, Berlin, Germany.

Vlachos, P.-E., Quaresima, A., & Fitz, H. (2022). Sequence learning and replay through excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity in recurrent spiking neural networks. Bernstein Conference 2022, Berlin, Germany.

Quaresima, A., Van den Broek, D., Fitz, H., Duarte, R., & Petersson, K. M. (2020). A minimal reduction of dendritic structure and its functional implication for sequence processing in biological neurons. Twelfth Annual (Virtual) Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL 2020)

Quaresima, A., Duarte, R., & Fitz, H. (2019). Review of computational models of cortical microcircuits. Poster presented at the Max Planck Neuro Symposium. Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany.