An interspike interval method for computing phase locking from neural firing.

abstract：:A receptive field constitutes a region in the visual field where a visual cell or a visual operator responds to visual stimuli. This paper presents a theory for what types of receptive field profiles can be regarded as natural for an idealized vision system, given a set of structural requirements on the first stages o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lindeberg T

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do biological agents plan and organise a smooth accurate path to shift from one smooth mode of behaviour to another as part of graceful movement that is both plastic and controlled? This paper addresses the question in conducting a novel shape analysis of approach and adjustment phases in rapid voluntary target ai...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weir MK,Wale AP

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waves are common in cortical networks and may be important for carrying information about a stimulus from one local circuit to another. In a recent study of visually evoked waves in rat cortex, compression and reflection of waves are observed as the activation passes from visual areas V1 to V2. The authors of this stu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Goulet J,Ermentrout GB

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of a healthy lateral eye of Limulus to constant, uniform and sufficiently intense light stimulation, consists of a sustained oscillatory discharge, all ommatidia firing synchronously in bursts, at intervals of about 0.2s (Barlow and Fraioli, 1978). This response has been analysed by a computer simulation,...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Barbi M,Ferdeghini EM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed cyclic enzyme systems, one of the best candidates for biochemical switching devices, especially focusing on their control mode against external perturbations. Since these systems have the reliability of ON-OFF types of operation (McCulloch-Pitts' neuronic equation), we shall present here the mechanical dif...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Okamoto M,Sakai T,Hayashi K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier experimental studies by one of us (Kelso, 1981a, 1984) have shown that abrupt phase transitions occur in human hand movements under the influence of scalar changes in cycling frequency. Beyond a critical frequency the originally prepared out-of-phase, antisymmetric mode is replaced by a symmetrical, in-phase m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Haken H,Kelso JA,Bunz H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief description of the main anatomical structures subserving the oculomotor responses during combined vestibular and optokinetic stimulations, a mathematical model is presented. With respect to a previous model by Schmid et al. (1980), a more accurate definition of the roles of the neural mechanisms involved...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Buizza A,Schmid R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical control of respiration provides for the maintenance of energy and substance equilibrium primarily and for the homoeostatic stability of the chemical blood parameters secondarily. Based on results having been obtained from an appropriate state space model some findings on respiration can be reproduced. In ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Balla K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two issues in balancing a stick pivoting on a finger tip (or mechanically on a moving cart): maintaining the stick angle near to vertical and maintaining the horizontal position within the bounds of reach or cart track. The (linearised) dynamics of the angle are second order (although driven by pivot acceler...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gawthrop P,Lee KY,Halaki M,O'Dwyer N

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the dynamic effects of external forces on the displacement of the otolith membrane and subsequent neuronal responses of otoliths, we performed numerical analyses of otolith membrane displacements. In these studies we included the full geometry of the human otolith maculae, including their 3D curvature. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jaeger R,Haslwanter T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In motion-processing areas of the visual cortex in cats and monkeys, an anisotropic distribution of direction selectivities displays a preference for movements away from the fovea. This 'centrifugal bias' has been hypothetically linked to the processing of optic flow fields generated during forward locomotion. In this...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lappe M,Rauschecker JP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Akinematical model for excitable wave propagation is analyzed to describe the dynamics of a typical neurological symptom of migraine. The kinematical model equation is solved analytically for a linear dependency between front curvature and velocity. The resulting wave starts from an initial excitation and moves in the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Dahlem MA,Müller SC

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model of the central neural mechanisms of respiratory rhythm generation is developed. This model assumes that the respiratory cycle consists of three phases: inspiration, post-inspiration, and expiration. Five respiratory neuronal groups are included: inspiratory, late-inspiratory, post-inspiratory, exp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Botros SM,Bruce EN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation patterns underlying the electrical activity of the heart during atrial fibrillation (AF) are not entirely random. The aim of this study was to assess the local organization of the activation processes during AF by estimating the non-linear coupling between activation sequences (ASs) in two atrial sites....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Censi F,Barbaro V,Bartolini P,Calcagnini G,Michelucci A,Cerutti S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurons at the sensory periphery receive periodic input, and their activity exhibits entrainment to this input in the form of a preferred phase for firing. This article describes a modeling study of neurons which skip a random number of cycles of the stimulus between firings over a large range of input intensitie...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Longtin A,Bulsara A,Pierson D,Moss F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider the description of a nonlinear stochastic transduction in terms of its input/output distribution. We construct a sequence of approximating maximum-entropy estimates from a finite set of input/output observations. This procedure extends the Wiener theory to the analysis of nonlinear stochastic transducers a...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Victor JD,Johannesma P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that the right and left middle ears of mammals are acoustically isolated from each other, such that mammals must rely on neural computation to derive sound localisation cues. There are, however, some unusual species in which the middle ear cavities intercommunicate, in which case each ear might be...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mason MJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper is to summarize and to compare some known mathematical models of orientation perception in random dot patterns and to propose new solutions of this question. The model adequacy is judged from the previously obtained experimental results. Apart from the models based on some simple function of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mates J,Lánský P,Yakimoff N

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamics of a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators that has been used to model coordinated human movement behavior. In contrast to earlier work we examine the case where the two component oscillators have different eigenfrequencies. Problems related to the decomposition of a time series (from an experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fuchs A,Jirsa VK,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with the problem of representing and generating unconstrained aiming movements of a limb by means of a neural network architecture. The network produced time trajectories of a limb from a starting posture toward targets specified by sensory stimuli. Thus the network performed a sensory-motor transform...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Massone L,Bizzi E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of a pair of cortical ocular dominance columns determines a basic anatomical module of V-1 which Hubel and Wiesel have termed the hypercolumn. Does this correspond to a basic functional, or psychophysically measurable, module as well? This is the basic question addressed in the present paper. Since the ocular...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yeshurun Y,Schwartz EL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work a linear model for a pair of antagonistic muscles is analysed. Each constituent muscle in this model is identical to ones considered previously (Stein and Oğuztöreli, 1976). Analytical properties of the antagonistic muscles and dynamics of the system are described and some numerical results are dis...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Oğuztöreli MN,Stein RB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the neural superposition eye of a dipteran fly every ommatidium has eight photoreceptors, each associated with a rhabdomere, two central and six peripheral, which altogether result in seven functional light guides. Groups of eight rhabdomeres in neighboring ommatidia have largely overlapping fields of view. Based o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bitsakos K,Fermüller C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pacemaker cell pair model and the dynamic interaction between the two pacemaker cells is described in this paper. It is an extension of our single pacemaker cell model, in which we studied its response to repetitive external depolarization stimulations. This model is a simple model based on the two most important fu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Abramovich-Sivan S,Akselrod S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss natural limitations on motor performance caused by the time delay required for feedback signals to propagate within the human body or mechanical control systems. By considering a very simple delayed linear servomechanism model, we show there exists a best possible speed-accuracy trade-off similar to Fitts' ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Beamish D,Bhatti S,Wu J,Jing Z

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to reconcile the different patterns of distribution of interspike intervals that are found in motoneurones made to discharge by intracellular injection of constant current in reduced animal preparations and by voluntary control in human subjects. We recorded long spike trains from single motor units ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poliakov AV,Miles TS,Nordstrom MA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work proposes a model of visual bottom-up attention for dynamic scene analysis. Our work adds motion saliency calculations to a neural network model with realistic temporal dynamics [(e.g., building motion salience on top of De Brecht and Saiki Neural Networks 19:1467-1474, (2006)]. The resulting network elicits ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ramirez-Moreno DF,Schwartz O,Ramirez-Villegas JF

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameters in diffusion neuronal models are divided into two groups; intrinsic and input parameters. Intrinsic parameters are related to the properties of the neuronal membrane and are assumed to be known throughout the paper. Input parameters characterize processes generated outside the neuron and methods for their e...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lansky P,Ditlevsen S

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental problem in neuroscience, to which Prof. Segundo has made seminal contributions, is to understand how action potentials represent events in the external world. The aim of this paper is to review the issue of neural coding in the context of the rodent whiskers, an increasingly popular model system. Key iss...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Petersen RS,Panzeri S,Maravall M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast as possible (time optimal) single joint movements throughout the body are characterized by the triphasic (3 pulse) pattern of activation in the agonist and antagonist muscles. Simulation studies using a sixth order, non-linear model were undertaken to determine the relationship between time optimal movement and t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hannaford B,Stark L

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00