Dynamical synaptic plasticity: a model and connection to some experiments.

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：:The trace version of classical conditioning is used as a prototypical hippocampal-dependent task to study the recoding sequence prediction theory of hippocampal function. This theory conjectures that the hippocampus is a random recoder of sequences and that, once formed, the neuronal codes are suitable for prediction....

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Levy WB,Sanyal A,Rodriguez P,Sullivan DW,Wu XB

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical and experimental study on the detection of a square wave pattern of random dots is presented. Our theory applies to two-alternative forced choice experiments as well as to "seen"-"not seen" discrimination experiments. In our experiments we used the forced choice method. The theory provides a good descrip...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lelkens AM,Oppeneer PM

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small inhibitory neuronal circuits have long been identified as key neuronal motifs to generate and modulate the coexisting rhythms of various motor functions. Our paper highlights the role of a cellular switching mechanism to orchestrate such circuits. The cellular switch makes the circuits reconfigurable, robust, ad...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Drion G,Franci A,Sepulchre R

更新日期：2019-04-01 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 present paper considers the relation between the shape of a triangle and probability of its recognition. An effect of triangle size on perception of its shape is examined in the first experiment. In the second the loci of eye fixations during triangle recognition task are recorded and analysed. A simulation model ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pizlo Z

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposal that rod outer segment length is optimal with respect to photon absorption and noise control is extended and tested in a number of species. We find good agreement with our optimality criterion in duplex retinae where rods act as detectors of one or a few photons, but not in all rod retinae nor in those wh...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Leibovic KN,Moreno-Diaz R Jr

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With regular trains of stimuli at a high frequency, the contribution of each stimulus to the force generated over time declines from the second to about the tenth stimulus, but then begins to increase again. This late increase is referred to as tetanic potentiation in analogy with the post-tetanic potentiation of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Parmiggiani F,Stein RB,Rolf R

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion that biological systems come to embody optimal solutions seems consistent with the competitive drive of evolution. It has been used to interpret many examples of sensorimotor behavior. It is attractive from the viewpoint of control engineers because it solves the redundancy problem by identifying the one op...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Loeb GE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of estimating an unknown transient signal, given an ensemble of waveforms, in which this signal appears as a nonrandom component in the presence of additive noise is considered. This problem is solved by generalizing the method of "a posteriori 'Wiener' filtering". In the new method, the ensemble average i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： de Weerd JP,Kap JI

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Neurons receive a continual stream of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs. A conductance-based neuron model is used to investigate how the balanced component of this input modulates the amplitude of neuronal responses. The output spiking rate is well described by a formula involving three parameters: the mean mu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burkitt AN,Meffin H,Grayden DB

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In internally coupled ears (ICE), the displacement of one eardrum creates pressure waves that propagate through air-filled passages in the skull, causing a displacement of the opposing eardrum and vice versa. In this review, a thorough mathematical analysis of the membranes, passages, and propagating pressure waves re...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Vedurmudi AP,Young BA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:This paper proposes multiport parallel and multidirectional intraconnected associative memories of outer product type with reduced interconnections. Some new reduced order memory architectures such as k-directional and k-port parallel memories are suggested. These architectures are, also, very suitable for implementat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhatti AA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:Color vision in humans is independent over a wide range of the spectral composition of the illuminating light (Young 1807; Hering 1879). The retinex theory accounts for this color constancy by assuming that for each of the three waveband channels determined by the retinal cones a global lightness record of the scene i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wehrhahn C

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:The mechanisms that control the limbs position during rhythmic voluntary oscillations were investigated in ten subjects, who were asked to synchronise the lower peak of their hand or foot rhythmic oscillations to a metronome beat. The efficacy of the "position control" was estimated by measuring the degree of synchron...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Esposti R,Cavallari P,Baldissera F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronization of the oscillatory discharge of cortical neurons could be a part of the mechanism that is involved in cortical information processing. On the assumption that the basic functional unit is the column composed of local excitatory and inhibitory cells and generating oscillatory neural activity, a network m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fukai T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of the models of structure from motion visual processing, we propose that the optic-flow field is a source of information for the perception of the curvature of a smooth surface in motion. In particular, it is shown how the spin variation (SV), a second spatial derivative of the retinal velocity field, ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droulez J,Cornilleau-Pérès V

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:Temporal information processing was studied in humans attempting to tap a key in synchrony with a metronome whose base period was subjected to subliminal random changes. Statistical measures of the sequential timing of metronome and key-tap events were compared with similar time series generated by computer-simulated ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hary D,Moore GP

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of small radially symmetric targets was studied using a subthreshold summation paradigm. Small disc and disc-like patterns with diameters up to 0.60 were used for superposition on Bessel functions of zero order, subthreshold contrast and various spatial frequencies. Contrast interrelation functions prove...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mortensen U,Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to all other hearing animals, insects are the smallest ones, both in absolute terms and in relation to the wavelength of most biologically relevant sounds. The ears of insects can be located at almost any possible body part, such as wings, legs, mouthparts, thorax or abdomen. The interaural distances are gene...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Römer H,Schmidt AK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a mathematical model of the human hypothalamus-anterior pituitary-thyroid system regulating basal metabolism, and practice computer simulation concerning primary thyropathy such as Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, T4-toxicosis and T3-toxicosis by use of this model. In order to throw light on properties of t...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hatakeyama T,Yagi H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper concerns the use of tracking studies to test a theoretical account of the information processing performed by the human CNS during control of movement. The theory provides a bridge between studies of reaction time and continuous tracking. It is proposed that the human CNS includes neuronal circuitry to comp...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neilson PD,Neilson MD,O'Dwyer NJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:Simulations of neural activity are commonly based on differential equations. We address the question what can be achieved with a simplified discrete model. The proposed model resembles artificial neural networks enriched with additional biologically inspired features. A neuron has several states, and the state transit...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bazenkov NI,Boldyshev BA,Dyakonova V,Kuznetsov OP

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of an electronic real time emulator for biology-inspired pulse processing neural networks (BPN) to recognition and temporal tracking of discrete impulse patterns via delay adaptation is demonstrated. The electronic emulation includes biologically plausible features, such as asynchronous impulses, membr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Napp-Zinn H,Jansen M,Eckmiller R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00