Mitja Peruš

Mitja Peruš has developed the ideas presented in this book since the time of his PhD studies of physics and cognitive (neuro)science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and research work at the National Institute of Chemistry and Institute BION, both in Ljubljana, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College of the University of London, Eastern Illinois University at Charleston, and during post-doc (EU’s Marie Curie project) at the Institute for Computer Vision and Graphics of the Graz University of Technology, Austria. He has also been a consultant to the director of the IT company Stroka Ltd., among others. He is affiliated with the Laboratory for Cognitive Modelling of the Faculty for Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, among others, and lectures also at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna.

This book emerged out of Peruš’s PhD dissertation “Conscious Image Processing – A Holonomic Model” under supervision of the world-renowned pioneer brain scientist Professor Karl H. Pribram, Stanford and Georgetown Universities, USA.

It is acknowledged in the literature that Peruš pioneered (since 1992-5), together with researchers like Professors Subhash Kak, Walter Schempp and Dan Ventura, the field of quantum neural networks and organized the first conferences on the topics. This had a huge echo in the nineties, leading to many publications even before, and independently to, the quantum computing boom.

Collaboration with Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Loo Chu Kiong and his team brought further simulational and applicational development of this model.

Dr. Peruš published three books and about 60 papers on topics related to this book; he lectured at about 40 scientific conferences, received two awards for these topics, which are also widely cited. He worked and lectured on the model during visits at several scientific institutions all over the world. He established the Slovene Society for Cognitive Sciences.

Peruš’s research experience includes neural networks, cognitive, information and vision sciences (object recognition, especially), biophysical foundations of brain and cognitive sciences, statistical physics of spin systems and other complex (bio)systems, foundations of quantum theory, quantum information theory.

Publications

Biological and Quantum Computing for Human Vision: Holonomic Models and Applications
Biological and Quantum Computing for Human Vision: Holonomic Models and Applications
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 314 pages.
Many-body interactions have been successfully described through models based on classical or quantum physics. More recently, some of the models have been related to cognitive...
Introduction to Holonomic-Compatible Models for Vision
Introduction to Holonomic-Compatible Models for Vision
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 18 pages.
Holonomic Brain Processes
Holonomic Brain Processes
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 27 pages.
Computational Information-Maximization Models
Computational Information-Maximization Models
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 27 pages.
Images, Associations and Conscious Experience
Images, Associations and Conscious Experience
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 39 pages.
Computer Simulations and Applications of Quantum Associative Network
Computer Simulations and Applications of Quantum Associative Network
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 15 pages.
Visual Processing As Described By Contemporary Main-Stream Neuroscience
Visual Processing As Described By Contemporary Main-Stream Neuroscience
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 48 pages.
Comparison of the Mathematical Formalism of Associative ANN and Quantum Theory
Comparison of the Mathematical Formalism of Associative ANN and Quantum Theory
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 20 pages.
Derivation of Quantum Associative Network from Hopfield-Like ANN and HNeT
Derivation of Quantum Associative Network from Hopfield-Like ANN and HNeT
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 18 pages.
Quantum Neural Information Processing
Quantum Neural Information Processing
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 5 pages.
Quantum Phase-Hebbian Image Processing
Quantum Phase-Hebbian Image Processing
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 7 pages.
Computational Models Relevant For Visual Cortex
Computational Models Relevant For Visual Cortex
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 6 pages.
Appendix A: Principal Component Analysis
Appendix A: Principal Component Analysis
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 4 pages.
Appendix B: Kohonen’s Model of Retinotopic Mapping
Appendix B: Kohonen’s Model of Retinotopic Mapping
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 12 pages.
Appendix C: Important Mathematical Definitions
Appendix C: Important Mathematical Definitions
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 2 pages.
Appendix D: Abbreviations and Neurological Adjectives
Appendix D: Abbreviations and Neurological Adjectives
Mitja Peruš, Chu Kiong Loo. © 2011. 2 pages.