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abstract：:Motor system uses muscle synergies as a modular organization to simplify the control of movements. Motor cortical impairments, such as stroke and spinal cord injuries, disrupt the orchestration of the muscle synergies and result in abnormal movements. In this paper, the alterations of muscle synergies in subacute stro...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Pan B,Sun Y,Xie B,Huang Z,Wu J,Hou J,Liu Y,Huang Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual appearance of natural objects is profoundly affected by viewing conditions such as viewpoint and illumination. Human subjects can nevertheless compensate well for variations in these viewing conditions. The strategies that the visual system uses to accomplish this are largely unclear. Previous computational stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Bart E,Hegdé J

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:VISUAL RECEPTIVE FIELD (RF) ATTRIBUTES IN VISUAL CORTEX OF PRIMATES HAVE BEEN EXPLAINED MAINLY FROM CORTICAL CONNECTIONS: visual RFs progress from simple to complex through cortico-cortical pathways from lower to higher levels in the visual hierarchy. This feedforward flow of information is paired with top-down proces...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Cortes N,van Vreeswijk C

更新日期：2012-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A vast amount of information about the external world continuously flows into the brain, whereas its capacity to process such information is limited. Attention enables the brain to allocate its resources of information processing to selected sensory inputs for reducing its computational load, and effects of attention ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Wagatsuma N,Potjans TC,Diesmann M,Fukai T

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor system generates time-varying commands to move our limbs and body. Conventional descriptions of motor control and learning rely on dynamical representations of our body's state (forward and inverse models), and control policies that must be integrated forward to generate feedforward time-varying commands; th...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Berniker M,Kording KP

更新日期：2015-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two important stimulus features represented within the rodent barrel cortex are velocity and angular direction of whisker deflection. Each cortical barrel receives information from thalamocortical (TC) cells that relay information from a single whisker, and TC input is decoded by barrel regular-spiking (RS) cells thro...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Patel MJ

更新日期：2018-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of conditioning via reward learning is highly relevant to the study of food choice and obesity. Learning is itself shaped by environmental exposure, with the potential for such exposures to vary substantially across individuals and across place and time. In this paper, we use computational techniques to ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Hammond RA,Ornstein JT,Fellows LK,Dubé L,Levitan R,Dagher A

更新日期：2012-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In synapses, calcium is required for modulating synaptic transmission, plasticity, synaptogenesis, and synaptic pruning. The regulation of calcium dynamics within neurons involves cellular mechanisms such as synaptically activated channels and pumps, calcium buffers, and calcium sequestrating organelles. Many experime...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Hu E,Mergenthal A,Bingham CS,Song D,Bouteiller JM,Berger TW

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite an abundance of computational models for learning of synaptic weights, there has been relatively little research on structural plasticity, i.e., the creation and elimination of synapses. Especially, it is not clear how structural plasticity works in concert with spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) and wha...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Spiess R,George R,Cook M,Diehl PU

更新日期：2016-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron classification is an important component in analyzing network structure and quantifying the effect of neuron topology on signal processing. Current quantification and classification approaches rely on morphology projection onto lower-dimensional spaces. In this paper a 3D visualization and quantification tool i...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Grein S,Qi G,Queisser G

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium concentrations as well as time courses have been used to model the signaling cascades leading to changes in the strength of synaptic connections. Previous models consider the dendritic spines as uniform compartments regarding calcium signaling. However, calcium concentrations can vary drastically on distances ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Mihalas S

更新日期：2011-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit measurements have reported many different effects of attention on contrast-response (e.g., contrast-gain, response-gain, additive-offset dependent on visibility), while functional imaging measurements have more uniformly reported increases in response across all contrasts (additive-offset). The normalizati...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Hara Y,Pestilli F,Gardner JL

更新日期：2014-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a modified neural field network model composed of cortex and thalamus, we here propose a computational framework to investigate the onset control of absence seizure, which is characterized by the spike-wave discharges. Firstly, we briefly demonstrate the existence of various transition types in Taylor's model...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Liu S,Wang Q,Fan D

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A promising idea for scaling robot learning to more complex tasks is to use elemental behaviors as building blocks to compose more complex behavior. Ideally, such building blocks are used in combination with a learning algorithm that is able to learn to select, adapt, sequence and co-activate the building blocks. Whil...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Neumann G,Daniel C,Paraschos A,Kupcsik A,Peters J

更新日期：2014-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which groups of neurons exhibit higher-order correlations in their spiking activity is a controversial issue in current brain research. A major difficulty is that currently available tools for the analysis of massively parallel spike trains (N >10) for higher-order correlations typically require vast sam...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Staude B,Grün S,Rotter S

更新日期：2010-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term synaptic plasticity is highly diverse across brain area, cortical layer, cell type, and developmental stage. Since short-term plasticity (STP) strongly shapes neural dynamics, this diversity suggests a specific and essential role in neural information processing. Therefore, a correct characterization of sho...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Costa RP,Sjöström PJ,van Rossum MC

更新日期：2013-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive coding appears to be one of the fundamental working principles of brain processing. Amongst other aspects, brains often predict the sensory consequences of their own actions. Predictive coding resembles Kalman filtering, where incoming sensory information is filtered to produce prediction errors for subsequ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kneissler J,Drugowitsch J,Friston K,Butz MV

更新日期：2015-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Feature extraction is an important step in the process of electroencephalogram (EEG) signal classification. The authors propose a "pattern recognition" approach that discriminates EEG signals recorded during different cognitive conditions. Wavelet based feature extraction such as, multi-resolution decompositions into ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Amin HU,Mumtaz W,Subhani AR,Saad MNM,Malik AS

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is known to play a critical role in learning relevant patterns of activity for adaptive motor control, but the underlying network mechanisms are only partly understood. The classical long-term synaptic plasticity between parallel fibers (PFs) and Purkinje cells (PCs), which is driven by the inferior oli...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Luque NR,Garrido JA,Carrillo RR,D'Angelo E,Ros E

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade robotics has attracted a great deal of interest from teachers and researchers as a valuable educational tool from preschool to highschool levels. The implementation of social-support behaviors in robot tutors, in particular in the emotional dimension, can make a significant contribution to learnin...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Imbernón Cuadrado LE,Manjarrés Riesco Á,De La Paz López F

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Common computational principles underlie processing of various visual features in the cortex. They are considered to create similar patterns of contextual modulations in behavioral studies for different features as orientation and direction of motion. Here, I studied the possibility that a single theoretical framework...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Tzvetanov T

更新日期：2012-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A major puzzle in the field of computational neuroscience is how to relate system-level learning in higher organisms to synaptic plasticity. Recently, plasticity rules depending not only on pre- and post-synaptic activity but also on a third, non-local neuromodulatory signal have emerged as key candidates to bridge th...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Potjans W,Morrison A,Diesmann M

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a new model-based method to define muscle synergies. Unlike the conventional factorization approach, which extracts synergies from electromyographic data, the proposed method employs a biomechanical model and formally defines the synergies as the solution of an optimal control problem. As a result,...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Sharif Razavian R,Mehrabi N,McPhee J

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamics of a homogeneous neural population interacting with active extracellular medium were considered. The corresponding mathematical model was tuned specifically to describe the behavior of interneurons with tonic GABA conductance under the action of non-stationary ambient GABA. The feedback provided by the GABA m...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Adamchik DA,Matrosov VV,Kazantsev VB

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulatory inputs from brainstem systems modulate the normal function of spinal motoneurons by altering the activation properties of persistent inward currents (PICs) in their dendrites. However, the effect of the PIC on firing outputs also depends on its location in the dendritic tree. To investigate the interac...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kim H,Heckman CJ

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging in combination with graph theory has been successful in analyzing the functional connectome. However almost all analysis are performed based on static graph theory. The derived quantitative graph measures can only describe a snap shot of the disease over time. Neurodegenerative disease evolution is poorly...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Meyer-Bäse A,Roberts RG,Illan IA,Meyer-Bäse U,Lobbes M,Stadlbauer A,Pinker-Domenig K

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To study the effect of directional deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrode configuration and vertical electrode spacing on the volume of tissue activated (VTA) in the globus pallidus, pars interna (GPi). Background: Directional DBS leads may allow clinicians to precisely direct current fields to different fu...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Zhang S,Tagliati M,Pouratian N,Cheeran B,Ross E,Pereira E

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We often encounter pairs of variables in the world whose mutual relationship can be described by a function. After training, human responses closely correspond to these functional relationships. Here we study how humans predict unobserved segments of a function that they have been trained on and we compare how human p...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Narain D,Smeets JB,Mamassian P,Brenner E,van Beers RJ

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Walking, catching a ball and reaching are all tasks in which humans and animals exhibit advanced motor skills. Findings in biological research concerning motor control suggest a modular control hierarchy which combines movement/motor primitives into complex and natural movements. Engineers inspire their research on th...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Waegeman T,Hermans M,Schrauwen B

更新日期：2013-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes actively shape the dynamics of neurons and neuronal ensembles by affecting several aspects critical to neuronal function, such as regulating synaptic plasticity, modulating neuronal excitability, and maintaining extracellular ion balance. These pathways for astrocyte-neuron interaction can also enhance the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Volman V,Bazhenov M,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2012-08-13 00:00:00