A model of food reward learning with dynamic reward exposure.

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：:This study proposes a computational model for attentional blink or "blink of the mind," a phenomenon where a human subject misses perception of a later expected visual pattern as two expected visual patterns are presented less than 500 ms apart. A neocortical patch modeled as an attractor network is stimulated with a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Silverstein DN,Lansner A

更新日期：2011-05-03 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：: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：:Experimental studies on the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) of mammals and rodents show that the inhibitory interneurons (IN) receive around 47.1% of their afferents from the retinal spiking neurons, and constitute around 20-25% of the LGN cell population. However, there is a definite gap in knowledge about the role ...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Bhattacharya BS,Bond TP,O'Hare L,Turner D,Durrant SJ

更新日期：2016-11-16 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：: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：: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：:Song production in songbirds is controlled by a network of nuclei distributed across several brain regions, which drives respiratory and vocal motor systems to generate sound. We built a model for birdsong production, whose variables are the average activities of different neural populations within these nuclei of the...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Alonso RG,Trevisan MA,Amador A,Goller F,Mindlin GB

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular switches, such as the protein kinase CaMKII, play a fundamental role in cell signaling by decoding inputs into either high or low states of activity; because the high activation state can be turned on and persist after the input ceases, these switches have earned a reputation as "digital." Although this on/o...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Clarke SE

更新日期：2018-11-22 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：:In this article, we describe and analyze the chaotic behavior of a conductance-based neuronal bursting model. This is a model with a reduced number of variables, yet it retains biophysical plausibility. Inspired by the activity of cold thermoreceptors, the model contains a persistent Sodium current, a Calcium-activate...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Xu K,Maidana JP,Caviedes M,Quero D,Aguirre P,Orio P

更新日期：2017-03-10 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：:Dopaminergic neurons in the mammalian substantia nigra display characteristic phasic responses to stimuli which reliably predict the receipt of primary rewards. These responses have been suggested to encode reward prediction-errors similar to those used in reinforcement learning. Here, we propose a model of dopaminerg...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Chorley P,Seth AK

更新日期：2011-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim is to propose an efficient algorithm for enhancing the contrast of dark images based on the principle of stochastic resonance in a global feedback spiking network of integrate-and-fire neurons. By linear approximation and direct simulation, we disclose the dependence of the peak signal-to-noise ratio on the sp...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Fu Y,Kang Y,Chen G

更新日期：2020-05-15 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：:Learning from limited exemplars (few-shot learning) is a fundamental, unsolved problem that has been laboriously explored in the machine learning community. However, current few-shot learners are mostly supervised and rely heavily on a large amount of labeled examples. Unsupervised learning is a more natural procedure...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ji Z,Zou X,Huang T,Wu S

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila larvae crawl by peristaltic waves of muscle contractions, which propagate along the animal body and involve the simultaneous contraction of the left and right side of each segment. Coordinated propagation of contraction does not require sensory input, suggesting that movement is generated by a central patte...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Gjorgjieva J,Berni J,Evers JF,Eglen SJ

更新日期：2013-04-04 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：: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：: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：:Automatic segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) images is essential for clinical assessment and treatment planning of MS. Recent years have seen an increasing use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for this task. Although these methods provide accurate segmentation,...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ackaouy A,Courty N,Vallée E,Commowick O,Barillot C,Galassi F

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the synapses in the basal ganglia display short-term plasticity. Still, computational models have not yet been used to investigate how this affects signaling. Here we use a model of the basal ganglia network, constrained by available data, to quantitatively investigate how synaptic short-term plasticity affect...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Lindahl M,Kamali Sarvestani I,Ekeberg O,Kotaleski JH

更新日期：2013-06-19 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：:Sensitivity analysis can provide useful information when one is interested in identifying the parameter θ of a system since it measures the variations of the output u when θ changes. In the literature two different sensitivity functions are frequently used: the traditional sensitivity functions (TSF) and the generaliz...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Troparevsky MI,Rubio D,Saintier N

更新日期：2010-09-30 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：: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：: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：:Pitch is a perceptual correlate of periodicity. Sounds with distinct spectra can elicit the same pitch. Despite the importance of pitch perception, understanding the cellular mechanism of pitch perception is still a major challenge and a mechanistic model of pitch is lacking. A multi-stage neuronal network model is de...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Huang C,Rinzel J

更新日期：2016-06-16 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