On the performance of single-layered neural networks.

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：: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：:This article presents the use of continuous dynamic models in the form of differential equations to describe and predict temporal changes in biological processes and discusses several of its important advantages over discontinuous bistable ones, exemplified on the stick insect walking system. In this system, coordinat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Daun-Gruhn S,Büschges A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation scheme is employed to identify the synaptic connectivity in neural networks. This new approach can substantially reduce the amount of data and the computational cost involved in the conventional correlation methods, and is suitable for both nonstationary and stationary neu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yang X,Shamma SA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed two algorithms that construct a simultaneous functional order in a collection of neural elements using purely functional relations. The input of the first algorithm is a matrix describing the total of covariances of signals carried by the members of the neural collection. The second algorithm proceed...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Toet A,Blom J,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic averaging is the phenomenon that two simultaneously presented retinal inputs result in a saccade with an endpoint located on an intermediate position between the two stimuli. Recordings from neurons in the deeper layers of the superior colliculus have revealed neural correlates of saccade averaging, indicatin...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Krommenhoek KP,Wiegerinck WA

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:The vestibuloocular reflex and other oculomotor functions are subserved by populations of neurons operating in parallel. This distributed aspect of the system's organization has been largely ignored in previous block diagram models. Neurons that transmit oculomotor signals, such as those in the vestibular nucleus (VN)...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Anastasio TJ,Robinson DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We offer a hypothesis on the organization of multi-effector motor synergies and illustrate it with the task of force production with a set of fingers. A physical metaphor, a leaking bucket, is analyzed to demonstrate that an inanimate structure can show apparent error compensation among its elements. A neural model is...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Latash ML,Shim JK,Smilga AV,Zatsiorsky VM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report demonstrates the effectiveness of two processes in constructing simple feedforward networks which perform good transformations on their inputs. Good transformations are characterized by the minimization of two information measures: the information loss incurred with the transformation and the statistical d...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Adelsberger-Mangan DM,Levy WB

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evoked potential waveforms are generally of a dynamic, transient character. Consequently, their spectral energy distribution cannot be adequately described by time-invariant representations, such as the power density spectrum. Obviously, a spectro-temporal description is needed. Appropriate means for obtaining such de...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： de Weerd JP,Kap JI

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a wide class of multichannel models of the visual system it is suggested that spatial distributions of luminance are processed by the independent activation of grating detectors, or spatial frequency channels. Probability summation is often described in terms of Quick's nonlinear pooling model [Quick RF (1974) ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of spatial frequency discrimination learning on spatial frequency detection tuning curves, obtained by a summation to threshold paradigm, has been investigated. Three human observers were exposed to a grating discrimination task for longer than two weeks, and their detection thresholds for compound Gabor gr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Meinhardt G

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:Learning to make reaching movements in force fields was used as a paradigm to explore the system architecture of the biological adaptive controller. We compared the performance of a number of candidate control systems that acted on a model of the neuromuscular system of the human arm and asked how well the dynamics of...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bhushan N,Shadmehr R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A functional model of target selection in the saccadic system is presented, incorporating elements of visual processing, motor planning, and motor control. We address the integration of visual information with pre-information, which is provided by manipulating the probability that a target appears at a certain locatio...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kopecz K,Schöner G

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop neurobiologically plausible models to account for the response properties of several types of cochlear nucleus neurons. Three cell types--the bushy cells, stellate cells, and fusiform cells--were selected because useful data from intracellular recordings were available for thes...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Arle JE,Kim DO

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously tried to explain perceptual inference and learning under a free-energy principle that pursues Helmholtz's agenda to understand the brain in terms of energy minimization. It is fairly easy to show that making inferences about the causes of sensory data can be cast as the minimization of a free-energy...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Friston KJ,Daunizeau J,Kilner J,Kiebel SJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a simple measure of neural sensitivity for characterizing stimulus coding. Sensitivity is defined as the fraction of neurons that show positive responses to n stimuli out of a total of N. To determine a positive response, we propose two methods: Fisherian statistical testing and a data-driven Bayesian appro...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rodríguez FB,Huerta R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a mathematical model for the learning of accurate human arm movements. Its main features are that the movement is the superposition of smooth submovements, the intrinsic deviation of arm movements is considered, visual and kinesthetic feed-back are integrated in the motion control, and the movement...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burdet E,Milner TE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problems related to kinematic redundancy in both task and joint space were investigated for arm prehension movements in this paper. After a detailed analysis of kinematic redundancy of the arm, it is shown that the redundancy problem is ill posed only for the control of hand orientation. An experiment was then des...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wang X

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directional and orientational components usually coexist and are mixed in the cell's overall responses when moving optical stimuli are used to study the response characteristics of visual neurons. While these two properties were quantified with all the previous methods for data analysis, their effects could not be eff...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Li B,Wang Y,Diao Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method that enables measurement of the degree of coupling between two signals is presented. The method is based on the definition of an uncoupling function calculating, by means of entropy rates, the minimum amount of independent information (i.e. the information carried by one signal which cannot be derived from th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Porta A,Baselli G,Lombardi F,Montano N,Malliani A,Cerutti S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend a quantitative model for low-voltage, slow-wave excitability based on the T-type calcium current (Wang et al. 1991) by juxtaposing it with a Hodgkin-Huxley-like model for fast sodium spiking in the high voltage regime to account for the distinct firing modes of thalamic neurons. We employ bifurcation analysi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Rush ME,Rinzel J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The information transmission properties of single, de-efferented primary muscle-spindle afferents from the hind limb of the cat were investigated. The gastrocnemius medialis muscle was stretched randomly while recording spike trains from several muscle-spindle afferents in the dorsal root. Two classes of input stimuli...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tock Y,Ljubisavljevic M,Thunberg J,Windhorst U,Inbar GF,Johansson H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper examines human hand impedance characteristics, including inertia and viscosity as well as stiffness, in multi-joint arm movements. While a subject maintains a given hand location, small external disturbances are applied to his hand by a manipulandum. The corresponding force-displacement vectors are m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tsuji T,Morasso PG,Goto K,Ito K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromuscular systems are stabilized and controlled by both feedforward and feedback signals. Feedforward pathways driven by central pattern generators (CPGs), in conjunction with preflexive mechanical reaction forces and nonlinear muscle properties, can produce stable stereotypical gaits. Feedback is nonetheless pres...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Proctor J,Holmes P

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding closed loop behavioral systems is a non-trivial problem, especially when they change during learning. Descriptions of closed loop systems in terms of information theory date back to the 1950s, however, there have been only a few attempts which take into account learning, mostly measuring information of i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kulvicius T,Kolodziejski C,Tamosiunaite M,Porr B,Wörgötter F

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a model for the first stage of the cortical transformation of the visual image based on the principle that the cortex encodes the information with the minimum number of channels mathematically needed. We restrict our model to be consistent with the data on size adaptations, the known relationships of acuity...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sakitt B,Barlow HB

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of dendritic geometry on somatopetal transfer of the current generated by steady uniform activation of excitatory synaptic conductance distributed over passive, or active (Hodgkin-Huxley type), dendrites was studied in simulated neurons. Such tonic activation was delivered to the uniform dendrite and to the...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Korogod SM,Kulagina IB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00