Information-theoretic analysis of de-efferented single muscle spindles.

abstract：:Computational and behavioral studies suggest that visual motion discrimination is based on quadratic nonlinearities. This raises the question of whether the behavior of motion sensitive neurons early in the visual system is actually quadratic. Theoretical studies show that mechanisms proposed for retinal directional s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Grzywacz NM,Amthor FR,Mistler LA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is considered to be the biological substrate of learning and memory. In this document we review phenomenological models of short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity, in particular spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). The aim of the document is to provide a framework for classifying and eval...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Morrison A,Diesmann M,Gerstner W

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary transition from water to land required new locomotor modes and corresponding adjustments of the spinal "central pattern generators" for locomotion. Salamanders resemble the first terrestrial tetrapods and represent a key animal for the study of these changes. Based on recent physiological data from sa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bicanski A,Ryczko D,Cabelguen JM,Ijspeert AJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the aspects involved in modelling a multi-robot system from a human motor control perspective. The human motor control system has a hierarchical and decentralised structure, and building a control system for a multi-robot system that attains human features would require a decomposable model. Decom...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kambhampati C,Rajasekharan S

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important step in visual processing is the segregation of objects in a visual scene from one another and from the embedding background. According to current theories of visual neuroscience, the different features of a particular object are represented by cells which are spatially distributed across multiple visual ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schillen TB,König P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Panoramic image differences can be used for view-based homing under natural outdoor conditions, because they increase smoothly with distance from a reference location (Zeil et al., J Opt Soc Am A 20(3):450-469, 2003). The particular shape, slope and depth of such image difference functions (IDFs) recorded at any one p...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Stürzl W,Zeil J

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:A central pattern generator (CPG) is built to control a mechanical device (plant) inspired by the pyloric chamber of the lobster. Conductance-based models are used to construct the neurons of the CPG. The plant has an associated function that measures the amount of food flowing through it per unit of time. We search f...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Huerta R,Sánchez-Montañés MA,Corbacho F,Sigüenza JA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable signal transmission is crucial for information processing by the brain. Synfire-chains, defined as feed-forward networks of spiking neurons, are a well-studied class of circuit structure that can propagate a packet of single spikes while maintaining a fixed packet profile. Here, we studied the stable propagatio...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Teramae JN,Fukai T

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Craik-O'Brien illusion was measured for patterns of negative and positive contrast by a compensation method. The illusion of negative contrast (black teeth on uniform field) was stronger than that of positive one (white teeth). The amount of compensation increased linearly with increasing tooth width, but was nonl...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hamada J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previous companion paper describes the initial (seed) schema architecture that gives rise to the observed prey-catching behavior. In this second paper in the series we describe the fundamental adaptive processes required during learning after lesioning. Following bilateral transections of the hypoglossal nerve, an...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Corbacho F,Nishikawa KC,Weerasuriya A,Liaw JS,Arbib MA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are transmembrane oligomeric proteins that mediate interconversions between open and closed channel states under the control of neurotransmitters. Fast in vitro chemical kinetics and in vivo electrophysiological recordings are consistent with the following multi-step scheme. Upon bind...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Edelstein SJ,Schaad O,Henry E,Bertrand D,Changeux JP

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we present a continuous attractor network model that we hypothesize will give some suggestion of the mechanisms underlying several neural processes such as velocity tuning to visual stimulus, sensory discrimination, sensorimotor transformations, motor control, motor imagery, and imitation. All of these ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sauser EL,Billard AG

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system of coupled bistable Hopf oscillators with an external periodic input source was used to model the ability of interacting neural populations to synchronize and desynchronize in response to variations of the input signal. We propose that, in biological systems, the settings of internal and external coupling str...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schwarz J,Sieck A,Dangelmayr G,Stevens A

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present a neurologically motivated computational architecture for visual information processing. The computational architecture's focus lies in multiple strategies: hierarchical processing, parallel and concurrent processing, and modularity. The architecture is modular and expandable in both hardwa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Holzbach A,Cheng G

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence suggests that the mammalian thalamus is not merely a set of nuclei relaying signals to the cerebral cortex, but is engaged in two-way interplay with it. Three important features constrain ideas about the nature of this interplay: (i) thalamic projection neurones lack local axon collaterals; (ii) most cor...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Miller R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental studies have shown that responses of ventral intraparietal area (VIP) neurons specialize in head movements and the environment near the head. VIP neurons respond to visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli, smooth pursuit eye movements, and passive and active movements of the head. This study demonstrates ma...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： McCollum G,Klam F,Graf W

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grating cells were discovered in the V1 and V2 areas of the monkey visual cortex by von der Heydt et al. (1992). These cells responded vigorously to grating patterns of appropriate orientation and periodicity. Computational models inspired by these findings were used as texture operator (Kruzinga and Petkov 1995, 1999...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lourens T,Barakova E,Okuno HG,Tsujino H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces several fundamental concepts in information theory from the perspective of their origins in engineering. Understanding such concepts is important in neuroscience for two reasons. Simply applying formulae from information theory without understanding the assumptions behind their definitions can ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： McDonnell MD,Ikeda S,Manton JH

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of the variability of neuronal spike timing is fundamental to gain understanding of latency coding. Based on recent mathematical results, we investigate theoretically the impact of channel noise on latency variability. For large numbers of ion channels, we derive the asymptotic distribution of latency, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wainrib G,Thieullen M,Pakdaman K

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Arthropods as well as mammals are able to return straight home after a random search excursion under conditions that are designed to exclude all external cues. After a brief clarification of the terminology, two principal systems of information processing that can achieve this performance are introduced and analysed: ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mittelstaedt H

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:This article provides an introductory overview of the state of research on Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling in cognitive development. First, a brief historical summary and a definition of hierarchies in Bayesian modeling are given. Subsequently, some model structures are described based on four examples in the literatur...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Glassen T,Nitsch V

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trajectories in human aimed movements are inherently variable. Using the concept of positional variance profiles, such trajectories are shown to be decomposable into two phases: In a first phase, the variance of the limb position over many trajectories increases rapidly; in a second phase, it then decreases steadily. ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gori J,Rioul O

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spinal neural networks of larval zebrafish (Danio rerio) generate a variety of movements such as escape, struggling, and swimming. Various mechanisms at the neural and network levels have been proposed to account for switches between these behaviors. However, there are currently no detailed demonstrations of such ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kuo PD,Eliasmith C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many applications of signal processing, especially in communications and biomedicine, preprocessing is necessary to remove noise from data recorded by multiple sensors. Typically, each sensor or electrode measures the noisy mixture of original source signals. In this paper a noise reduction technique using independ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vorobyov S,Cichocki A

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometric and kinetic details of transmitter-receptor interaction (the number of conformations and the rate constants of conformation changes( in synaptic transmission have been investigated analyzing postsynaptic membrane noises by the aid of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem of stochastic chemical kinetic...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Erdi P,Ropolyi L

更新日期：1979-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The question was investigated whether long-lasting transients of activity, observed to occur in the intact cerebral cortex (EEG slow (delta) waves and 'K' complexes) as well as in isolated tissues cultured in vitro, can also emerge in a model network of excitatory and inhibitory cells. We show that such transients can...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van Ooyen A,van Pelt J,Corner MA,da Silva FH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neural model is proposed for the spatiotemporal properties of simple cells in the visual cortex. In the model, several cortical cells are arranged on a ring, with mutual excitatory or inhibitory connections. The cells also receive excitatory inputs either from lagged and nonlagged cells of the lateral geniculate nuc...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hamada T,Yamashima M,Kato K

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00