Letting the daylight in: Reviewing the reviewers and other ways to maximize transparency in science.

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

abstract：:Neuronal networks in rodent barrel cortex are characterized by stable low baseline firing rates. However, they are sensitive to the action potentials of single neurons as suggested by recent single-cell stimulation experiments that reported quantifiable behavioral responses in response to short spike trains elicited i...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Vasquez JC,Houweling AR,Tiesinga P

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive coding hypothesizes that the brain explicitly infers upcoming sensory input to establish a coherent representation of the world. Although it is becoming generally accepted, it is not clear on which level spiking neural networks may implement predictive coding and what function their connectivity may have. W...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kaplan BA,Lansner A,Masson GS,Perrinet LU

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The correlation structure of neural activity is believed to play a major role in the encoding and possibly the decoding of information in neural populations. Recently, several methods were developed for exactly controlling the correlation structure of multi-channel synthetic spike trains (Brette, 2009; Krumin and Shoh...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Krumin M,Reutsky I,Shoham S

更新日期：2010-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary objective for cognitive neuroscience is to identify how features of the sensory environment are encoded in neural activity. Current auditory models of loudness perception can be used to make detailed predictions about the neural activity of the cortex as an individual listens to speech. We used two such mode...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Thwaites A,Nimmo-Smith I,Fonteneau E,Patterson RD,Buttery P,Marslen-Wilson WD

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of sensory signaling in the visual cortex has been greatly advanced by the recording of neural activity simultaneously with the performance of a specific psychophysical task. Individual nerve cells may also increase their firing leading up to the particular choice or decision made on a single psychophysical ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Parker AJ

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of presynaptic specializations can vary greatly ranging from classical single-release-site boutons in the central nervous system to boutons of various sizes harboring multiple vesicle release sites. Multi-release-site boutons can be found in several neural contexts, for example at the neuromuscular junc...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Knodel MM,Geiger R,Ge L,Bucher D,Grillo A,Wittum G,Schuster CM,Queisser G

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The output of primary visual cortex (V1) is a piecemeal representation of the visual scene and the response of any one cell cannot unambiguously guide sensorimotor behavior. It remains unsolved how subsequent stages of cortical processing combine ("pool") these early visual signals into a coherent representation. We (...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Rocchi F,Ledgeway T,Webb BS

更新日期：2013-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain computer interfaces allow users to preform various tasks using only the electrical activity of the brain. BCI applications often present the user a set of stimuli and record the corresponding electrical response. The BCI algorithm will then have to decode the acquired brain response and perform the desired task....

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Manor R,Mishali L,Geva AB

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A classic problem in neuroscience is how temporal sequences (TSs) can be recognized. This problem is exemplified in the olfactory system, where an odor is defined by the TS of olfactory bulb (OB) output that occurs during a sniff. This sequence is discrete because the output is subdivided by gamma frequency oscillatio...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Sanders H,Kolterman BE,Shusterman R,Rinberg D,Koulakov A,Lisman J

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively recent advances in patch clamp recordings and iontophoresis have enabled unprecedented study of neuronal post-synaptic integration ("dendritic integration"). Findings support a separate layer of integration in the dendritic branches before potentials reach the cell's soma. While integration between branches...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Singh MF,Zald DH

更新日期：2015-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying electrophysiologically observed two-way transitions between absence and tonic-clonic epileptic seizures in cerebral cortex remain unknown. The interplay within thalamocortical network is believed to give rise to these epileptic multiple modes of activity and transitions between them. In parti...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Fan D,Duan L,Wang Q,Luan G

更新日期：2017-07-07 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：: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：:Abnormal neuronal synchrony plays an important role in a number of brain diseases. To specifically counteract abnormal neuronal synchrony by desynchronization, Coordinated Reset (CR) stimulation, a spatiotemporally patterned stimulation technique, was designed with computational means. In neuronal networks with spike ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Zeitler M,Tass PA

更新日期：2016-05-17 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：:Although the representation of space is as fundamental to visual processing as the representation of shape, it has received relatively little attention from neurophysiological investigations. In this study we characterize representations of space within visual cortex, and examine how they differ in a first direct comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Sereno AB,Lehky SR

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：: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：:Cortical neurons are typically driven by several thousand synapses. The precise spatiotemporal pattern formed by these inputs can modulate the response of a post-synaptic cell. In this work, we explore how the temporal structure of pre-synaptic inhibitory and excitatory inputs impact the post-synaptic firing of a cond...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Scheller B,Castellano M,Vicente R,Pipa G

更新日期：2011-12-16 00:00:00

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：:This paper investigates how a neural network model of the ventral visual pathway, VisNet, can form separate view invariant representations of a number of objects seen rotating together. In particular, in the current work one of the rotating objects is always partially occluded by the other objects present during train...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Tromans JM,Higgins I,Stringer SM

更新日期：2012-07-25 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：:A neural code based on sequences of spikes can consume a significant portion of the brain's energy budget. Thus, energy considerations would dictate that spiking activity be kept as low as possible. However, a high spike-rate improves the coding and representation of signals in spike trains, particularly in sensory sy...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Jones DL,Johnson EC,Ratnam R

更新日期：2015-06-02 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：:Statistical learning is a learning mechanism based on transition probability in sequences such as music and language. Recent computational and neurophysiological studies suggest that the statistical learning contributes to production, action, and musical creativity as well as prediction and perception. The present stu...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Daikoku T

更新日期：2019-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a model for cortical development that resolves long-standing difficulties of earlier models. It is proposed that, during embryonic development, synchronous firing of neurons and their competition for limited metabolic resources leads to selection of an array of neurons with ultra-small-world characteristic...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Wright JJ,Bourke PD

更新日期：2013-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons innervate space by extending axonal and dendritic arborizations. When axons and dendrites come in close proximity of each other, synapses between neurons can be formed. Neurons vary greatly in their morphologies and synaptic connections with other neurons. The size and shape of the arborizations determine the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： van Pelt J,van Ooyen A

更新日期：2013-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Conscious awareness plays a major role in human cognition and adaptive behavior, though its function in multisensory integration is not yet fully understood, hence, questions remain: How does the brain integrate the incoming multisensory signals with respect to different external environments? How are the roles of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Adeel A

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission is both history-dependent and stochastic, resulting in varying responses to presentations of the same presynaptic stimulus. This complicates attempts to infer synaptic parameters and has led to the proposal of a number of different strategies for their quantification. Recently Bayesian approaches...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Bird AD,Wall MJ,Richardson MJ

更新日期：2016-11-25 00:00:00