Fusimotor control of spindle sensitivity regulates central and peripheral coding of joint angles.

abstract：:In this paper we investigate the active inference framework as a means to enable autonomous behavior in artificial agents. Active inference is a theoretical framework underpinning the way organisms act and observe in the real world. In active inference, agents act in order to minimize their so called free energy, or p...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Çatal O,Wauthier S,De Boom C,Verbelen T,Dhoedt B

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo and in vitro experimental studies have found that blocking electrical interactions connecting GABAergic interneurons reduces oscillatory activity in the gamma range in cortex. However, recent theoretical works have shown that the ability of electrical synapses to promote or impede synchrony, when alone, depend...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Pfeuty B,Golomb D,Mato G,Hansel D

更新日期：2007-11-02 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：:We present a phenomenological model of electrically stimulated auditory nerve fibers (ANFs). The model reproduces the probabilistic and temporal properties of the ANF response to both monophasic and biphasic stimuli, in isolation. The main contribution of the model lies in its ability to reproduce statistics of the AN...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Horne CD,Sumner CJ,Seeber BU

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Head direction cells fire to signal the direction in which an animal's head is pointing. They are able to track head direction using only internally-derived information (path integration)In this simulation study we investigate the factors that affect path integration accuracy. Specifically, two major limiting factors ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Page HJ,Walters D,Stringer SM

更新日期：2015-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent activity observed during delayed-response tasks for spatial working memory (Funahashi et al., 1989) has commonly been modeled by recurrent networks whose dynamics is described as a bump attractor (Compte et al., 2000). We examine the effects of interareal architecture on the dynamics of bump attractors in s...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kilpatrick ZP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many brain regions communicate information through synchronized network activity. Electrical coupling among the dendrites of interneurons in the cortex has been implicated in forming and sustaining such activity in the cortex. Evidence for the existence of electrical coupling among cortical pyramidal cells, however, h...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Crodelle J,Zhou D,Kovačič G,Cai D

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is an important subcortical structure with extensive connections to other regions of the brain. These connections are believed to play important roles in behaviors such as reward-related processes and impulse control, which show significant sex differences. However, little is known about sex differences i...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Lei X,Han Z,Chen C,Bai L,Xue G,Dong Q

更新日期：2016-09-23 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：:This paper proposed a new method to determine the neuronal tuning curves for maximum information efficiency by computing the optimum firing rate distribution. Firstly, we proposed a general definition for the information efficiency, which is relevant to mutual information and neuronal energy consumption. The energy co...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Han F,Wang Z,Fan H

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Image registration and segmentation are the two most studied problems in medical image analysis. Deep learning algorithms have recently gained a lot of attention due to their success and state-of-the-art results in variety of problems and communities. In this paper, we propose a novel, efficient, and multi-task algori...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Estienne T,Lerousseau M,Vakalopoulou M,Alvarez Andres E,Battistella E,Carré A,Chandra S,Christodoulidis S,Sahasrabudhe M,Sun R,Robert C,Talbot H,Paragios N,Deutsch E

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Scientific research produces new knowledge, technologies, and clinical treatments that can lead to enormous returns. Often, the path from basic research to new paradigms and direct impact on society takes time. Precise quantification of scientific output in the short-term is not an easy task but is critical for evalua...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kreiman G,Maunsell JH

更新日期：2011-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of blind source separation methods have been used in motor control research for the extraction of movement primitives from EMG and kinematic data. Popular examples are principal component analysis (PCA), independent component analysis (ICA), anechoic demixing, and the time-varying synergy model (d'Avella ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Endres DM,Chiovetto E,Giese MA

更新日期：2013-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral studies have shown spatial working memory impairment with aging in several animal species, including humans. Persistent activity of layer 3 pyramidal dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) neurons during delay periods of working memory tasks is important for encoding memory of the stimulus. In vitro studies...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ibañez S,Luebke JI,Chang W,Draguljić D,Weaver CM

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Burst spike patterns are common in regions of the hippocampal formation such as the subiculum and medial entorhinal cortex (MEC). Neurons in these areas are immersed in extracellular electrical potential fluctuations often recorded as the local field potential (LFP). LFP rhythms within different frequency bands are li...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Constantinou M,Gonzalo Cogno S,Elijah DH,Kropff E,Gigg J,Samengo I,Montemurro MA

更新日期：2016-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of pain signals from primary afferent neurons is explained by a labeled-line code. However, this notion cannot apply in a simple way to cutaneous C-fibers, which carry signals from a variety of receptors that respond to various stimuli including agonist chemicals. To represent the discharge patterns of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Cho K,Jang JH,Kim SP,Lee SH,Chung SC,Kim IY,Jang DP,Jung SJ

更新日期：2016-11-18 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：: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：:Scaffolds and patterned substrates are among the most successful strategies to dictate the connectivity between neurons in culture. Here, we used numerical simulations to investigate the capacity of physical obstacles placed on a flat substrate to shape structural connectivity, and in turn collective dynamics and effe...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ludl AA,Soriano J

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:For large-scale network simulations, it is often desirable to have computationally tractable, yet in a defined sense still physiologically valid neuron models. In particular, these models should be able to reproduce physiological measurements, ideally in a predictive sense, and under different input regimes in which n...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Hertäg L,Hass J,Golovko T,Durstewitz D

更新日期：2012-09-06 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：:Statistical models for describing the probability distribution over the states of biological systems are commonly used for dimensional reduction. Among these models, pairwise models are very attractive in part because they can be fit using a reasonable amount of data: knowledge of the mean values and correlations betw...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Roudi Y,Aurell E,Hertz JA

更新日期：2009-11-17 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：: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：:Deep brain stimulation (DBS) leads with radially distributed electrodes have potential to improve clinical outcomes through more selective targeting of pathways and networks within the brain. However, increasing the number of electrodes on clinical DBS leads by replacing conventional cylindrical shell electrodes with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Teplitzky BA,Zitella LM,Xiao Y,Johnson MD

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining good quality image features is of remarkable importance for most computer vision tasks. It has been demonstrated that the first layers of the human visual cortex are devoted to feature detection. The need for these features has made line, segment, and corner detection one of the most studied topics in comput...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Bachiller-Burgos P,Manso LJ,Bustos P

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:The phase-reset model of oscillatory EEG activity has received a lot of attention in the last decades for decoding different cognitive processes. Based on this model, the ERPs are assumed to be generated as a result of phase reorganization in ongoing EEG. Alignment of the phase of neuronal activities can be observed w...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Mortezapouraghdam Z,Corona-Strauss FI,Takahashi K,Strauss DJ

更新日期：2018-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of dendritic spiking mechanisms in neural processing is so far poorly understood. To investigate the role of calcium spikes in the functional properties of the single neuron and recurrent networks, we investigated a three compartment neuron model of the layer 5 pyramidal neuron with calcium dynamics in the di...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Chua Y,Morrison A

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern machine learning is based on powerful algorithms running on digital computing platforms and there is great interest in accelerating the learning process and making it more energy efficient. In this paper we present a fully autonomous probabilistic circuit for fast and efficient learning that makes no use of dig...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Kaiser J,Faria R,Camsari KY,Datta S

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00