Publications


Journal papers

Vavrečka, M., Farkaš, I., (2014). A multimodal connectionist architecture for unsupervised grounding of spatial language, Cognitive computation,6(1),101-112(draft)

Vavrečka, M., Gerla, V.,Lhotská, L., Brunovský, M., (2012). Frames of reference and their neural correlates within navigation in a 3D environment, Visual Neuroscience 29 (03), 183-191 (draft)

Vavrečka, M.,Lhotská, L. (2012) Odlišnosti užívání referenčních rámců během orientace v 3D prostoru. Linguistica ONLINE [online]. 2012, roč. 2012, č. 14, s. 95-100. ISSN 1801-5336.

Vavrečka, M., Lhotská, L., (2012) The alteration of reference frames in a vertical navigation, (abstract) Cognitive processing, Springer Berlin

Vavrečka, M., Rosset, B., Lhotská, L., (2012). The inter-individual differences and the test–retest reliability of a EEG signal (abstract), Clinical Neurophysiology Vol. 123, Issue 3, Pages e10-e11

Vavrečka, M., Lhotská, L., (2011). Event related spectral perturbations within 3D navigation task.(abstract), Activitas Nervosa Superior Rediviva, vol.53, 2011

Vavrečka, M., (2009). The neural correlates of spatial reference frames processing, Cognitive processing, 10:2, Springer Berlin, p. 342-345.(pdf)


Book chapters

Vavrečka, M. (2009). (in Czech) Model for spatial relations grounding. In M. Petrů et al. (eds.) Struny mysli : Kognice 2007. Ostrava: Montanex, 2009, p. 139-148. ISBN 978-80-7225-302-9.(pdf)


Conference papers

Vavrečka, M.Kužílek, J. Lhotská, L.(2013) Vliv kontextu na orientaci v prostoru. In Kognícia a umely život XIII. Opava: Slezská univerzita, s. 279-285.

Vavrečka, M. Lhotská, L.(2013) EEG Feature Selection Based on Time Series Classification. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, vol. 7988, p. 520-527. ISSN 0302-9743.ISBN 978-3-642-39711-0.

Vavrečka, M.,Farkaš, I. (2012) Unsupervised Visual and Lexical Binding. In Proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Systems. Wien: Technische Universität, 2012,

Vavrečka, M., Farkaš, I., Lhotská, L., (2011). Bio-inspired Model of Spatial Cognition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7062 LNCS (PART 1), pp. 443-450 (pdf)

Vavrečka, M., Lhotská, L., (2011). EEG analysis of the navigation strategies in a 3D tunnel task. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7062 LNCS (PART 1), pp. 388-395 (pdf)

Vavrečka, M., (2011). (in Czech) Visually driven homonyms disambiguation. In: Kelemen, J. , Kvasnička, V., Pospíchal, J.,(eds.), Kognice a umělý život XI. Opava 2011, p. 293-299.(pdf)

Vavrečka, M., Farkaš, I., (2011). Unsupervised Grounding of Spatial Relations. In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, N. J. Nersessian & (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Cognitive Science, paper 194. Sofia, Bulgaria: New Bulgarian University Press(pdf)

Vavrečka, M., Farkaš, I., (2010). Unsupervised model for grounding multimodal representations. Third EuCogII Members Conference, Mallorca (pdf)

Vavrečka, M., Kužílek J., Lhotská, L., (2010). Classification of the EEG feature components , In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine [CD-ROM],.Piscataway: IEEE, 2010 (pdf)

Vavrečka, M., (2010). (in Czech) Representation of objects in space based on two visual pathways. In: Kelemen, J. , Kvasnička, V., (eds.), Kognice a umělý život X. Opava 2010, p. 403-409.(pdf) (read online)

Macaš, M., Vavrečka, M., Gerla V., Lhotská, L., (2009). Classification of the emotional states based on the EEG signal processing , In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications in Biomedicine [CD-ROM],.Piscataway: IEEE, 2009(pdf)

Vavrečka, M., (2009). The EEG Correlates of the Allocentric and the Egocentric Spatial Reference Frames Processing, In: O. Dossel and W. Schlegel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2009, IFBME Proceedings,. Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, vol. 25/IV, p. 2295-2299.(pdf)

Vavrečka, M., (2009). (in Czech) The EEG activity within the spatial navigation. In: Kelemen, J. , Kvasnička, V., Rybár, J. (eds.), Kognice a umělý život IX. Opava 2009, p. 341-350.(pdf)

Vavrečka, M., (2008). (in Czech) Spatial frames of reference processing and its EEG correlates. In 55. společný sjezd české a slovenské společnosti klinické neurofyziologie. MSD Brno, p. 49

Vavrečka, M. (2008). (in Czech) Multimodal representations for symbol grounding. In: V. Kvasnička, P. Trebatický (Eds.), Kognice a umělý život VIII Praha : VŠE Praha, 2008 (pdf)

Vavrečka, M. (2007). (in Czech) Grounding of spatial terms. In: J. Kelemen, V. Kvasnička (eds.). Kognice a umělý život VII. 1. vyd. Opava : Slezská univerzita, p. 365-377. (pdf)

Vavrečka, M. (2006). (in Czech) Symbol grounding in context of zero semantic commitment. In: J. Kelemen, V. Kvasnička (eds.), Kognice a umělý život VI. Opava : Slezská univerzita, p. 401-411 (pdf)

Vavrečka, M. (2006). How long-term presentation of text stimuli affects production and perception of visual mental images. In: Šikl, R., Lukavský, J. (eds.), Kognice 2006. 1. vyd. Praha : Psychologický ústav AVČR, (2006). p. 150-158(pdf)


Doctoral thesis

Vavrečka, M. (2008). (in Czech) Application of the cognitive semantics in the model for the spatial terms representation. Unpublished PhD thesis, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.(pdf)

michal vavrecka

Briefly about me

I am a researcher interested in the cognitive science. My research combines theories and methods of cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computational modeling. I focus on the knowledge representation in the area of spatial cognition.

Contact

Michal Vavrečka
BioDat research Group
Gerstner Laboratory
Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Czech Technical University
Karlovo namesti 13
Prague
Office: E209
email:vavrecka@fel.cvut.cz
phone: +420224357609
cell: +420608661977