MACOP modular architecture with control primitives.

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：:Often we need to perform tasks in an environment that changes stochastically. In these situations it is important to learn the statistics of sequences of events in order to predict the future and the outcome of our actions. The statistical description of many of these sequences can be reduced to the set of probabiliti...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ostojic S,Fusi S

更新日期：2013-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal coordination models hold that early nervous systems evolved in the first place to coordinate internal activity at a multicellular level, most notably the use of multicellular contractility as an effector for motility. A recent example of such a model, the skin brain thesis, suggests that excitable epithelia u...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： de Wiljes OO,van Elburg RA,Biehl M,Keijzer FA

更新日期：2015-09-15 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 inverse problem for estimating model parameters from brain spike data is an ill-posed problem because of a huge mismatch in the system complexity between the model and the brain as well as its non-stationary dynamics, and needs a stochastic approach that finds the most likely solution among many possible solutions...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Hoang H,Yamashita O,Tokuda IT,Sato MA,Kawato M,Toyama K

更新日期：2015-05-21 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：:Balanced states in large networks are a usual hypothesis for explaining the variability of neural activity in cortical systems. In this regime the statistics of the inputs is characterized by static and dynamic fluctuations. The dynamic fluctuations have a Gaussian distribution. Such statistics allows to use reverse c...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Pool RR,Mato G

更新日期：2011-10-12 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

abstract：:What are the functional neuroimaging measurements required for more fully characterizing the events and locations of neocortical activity? A prime assumption has been that modulation of cortical activity will inevitably be reflected in changes in energy utilization (for the most part) changes of glucose and oxygen con...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Robinson SE,Mandell AJ,Coppola R

更新日期：2013-01-24 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：: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：: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：: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：:Proprioceptive afferents from muscle spindles encode information about peripheral joint movements for the central nervous system (CNS). The sensitivity of muscle spindle is nonlinearly dependent on the activation of gamma (γ) motoneurons in the spinal cord that receives inputs from the motor cortex. How fusimotor cont...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Lan N,He X

更新日期：2012-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, biologically inspired models are gradually proposed to solve the problem in text analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are hierarchical artificial neural networks, which include a various of multilayer perceptrons. According to biological research, CNN can be improved by bringing in the attention mod...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Fu H,Niu Z,Zhang C,Ma J,Chen J

更新日期：2016-07-14 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：: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：:Spatio-temporal brain activities with variable delay detectable in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) give rise to highly reproducible structures, termed cortical lag threads, that propagate from one brain region to another. Using a computational topology of data approach, we found that pers...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Don APH,Peters JF,Ramanna S,Tozzi A

更新日期：2020-04-22 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Cooperation and competition, as two common and opposite examples of interpersonal dynamics, are thought to be reflected by different cognitive, neural, and behavioral patterns. According to the conventional approach, they have been explored by measuring subjects' reactions during individual performance or turn-based i...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Balconi M,Vanutelli ME

更新日期：2017-09-29 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：:In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the variation of chemical receptor expression underlies the basis of neural network activity shifts, resulting in neuronal hyperexcitability and epileptiform discharges. However, dynamical mechanisms involved in the transitions of TLE are not fully understood, because of the neuronal d...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Zhang L,Fan D,Wang Q

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We do not claim that the brain is completely deterministic, and we agree that noise may be beneficial in some cases. But we suggest that neuronal variability may be often overestimated, due to uncontrolled internal variables, and/or the use of inappropriate reference times. These ideas are not new, but should be re-ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Masquelier T

更新日期：2013-02-25 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

abstract：:The emergence of motion sensors as a tool that provides objective motor performance data on individuals afflicted with Parkinson's disease offers an opportunity to expand the horizon of clinical care for this neurodegenerative condition. Subjective clinical scales and patient based motor diaries have limited clinometr...

journal_title：Frontiers in computational neuroscience

authors： Ramdhani RA,Khojandi A,Shylo O,Kopell BH

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00