Rod outer segments are designed for optimum photon detection.

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：: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：: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：: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

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 the first part of lifting movements, the trunk movement is surprisingly resistant to perturbations. This study examined which factors contribute to this perturbation resistance of the trunk during lifting. Three possible mechanisms were studied: force-length-velocity characteristics of muscles, the momentum of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： van der Burg JC,Casius LJ,Kingma I,van Dieën JH,van Soest AJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neural network model of the mechanism of selective attention in visual pattern recognition is proposed and simulated on a digital computer. When a complex figure consisting of two patterns or more is presented to the model, it is segmented into individual patterns, and each pattern is recognized separately. Even if ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fukushima K

更新日期：1986-01-01 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 peripheral auditory system of lizards has been extensively studied, because of its remarkable directionality. In this paper, we review the research that has been performed on this system using a biorobotic approach. The various robotic implementations developed to date, both wheeled and legged, of the auditory mod...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Shaikh D,Hallam J,Christensen-Dalsgaard J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper develops a novel control system for functional electrical stimulation (FES) locomotion, which aims to generate normal locomotion for paraplegics via FES. It explores the possibility of applying ideas from biology to engineering. The neural control mechanism of the biological motor system, the central patter...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Zhang D,Zhu K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the models for the transduction process in photoreceptors which treat latency and amplification as integrated phenomena ("integrated models") yield time scales for single photon signals ("quantum bumps") which distinctly conflict with the experimentally observed ones for the ventral nerve photorecepto...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schnakenberg J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons transmit information as action potentials or spikes. Due to the inherent randomness of the inter-spike intervals (ISIs), probabilistic models are often used for their description. Cumulative damage (CD) distributions are a family of probabilistic models that has been widely considered for describing time-relat...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Leiva V,Tejo M,Guiraud P,Schmachtenberg O,Orio P,Marmolejo-Ramos F

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Synaptic release was simulated using a Simulink sequential storage model with three vesicular pools. Modeling was modular and easily extendable to the systems with greater number of vesicular pools, parallel input, or time-varying parameters. Given an input (short or long tetanic trains, patterned or random stimulatio...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Aristizabal F,Glavinovic MI

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical muscle model is presented that relates neural control signals linearly to muscle force without violating important known physiological constraints, such as the size-principle (Henneman and Mendell 1981) and non-linear twitch summation (Burke et al. 1976). This linearity implies that the neural control s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tax AA,Denier van der Gon JJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of a simple-to-use, automatic measurement system for noninvasive flow estimation is imperative, given the clinical demand for an acceptable noninvasive procedure rather than the standard invasive procedure of thermodilution. A method for calculating cardiac output from noninvasively derived pressure p...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Redling JD,Akay M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that a sparse representation is the computational principle of visual systems has been supported by Olshausen and Field [Nature (1996) 381: 607-609] and many other studies. On the other hand neurons in the inferotemporal cortex respond to moderately complex features called icon alphabets, and such neurons res...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hashimoto W,Kurata K

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic resonance is demonstrated in a simple energy detector model, as a non-monotonic relationship between signal-to-noise ratio and detection of a sinusoid signal in bandpass-limited Gaussian noise. The behaviour of the model detecting signals of various intensities and signal-to-noise ratios was investigated. S...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tougaard J

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:In studies of human balance, it is common to fit stimulus-response data by tuning the time-delay and gain parameters of a simple delayed feedback model. Many interpret this fitted model, a simple delayed feedback model, as evidence that predictive processes are not required to explain existing data on standing balance...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gawthrop P,Loram I,Lakie M

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：: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：:For over 75 years it has been clear that the number of spikes in a neural response is an important part of the neuronal code. Starting as early as the 1950's with MacKay and McCullough, there has been speculation over whether each spike and its exact time of occurrence carry information. Although it is obvious that th...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Richmond BJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model for the development of ocularity domains in the visual cortex of mammals during the embryonic stage. We model the thalamo-cortical pathway with a self-organising neural network with two source layers, each of them serving different retinae, and one target layer, where the connections end. The connec...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Andrade MA,Morán F

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonstationary signal analysis technique is introduced, which regards an oscillatory physiological signal as a sum of its fragments, presented in the form of a fragmentary decomposition (FD). The virtue of FD is that it is free of the necessity to choose a priori the basis functions intended for signal analysis or sy...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Melkonian D,Blumenthal T,Gordon E

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on a complexity analysis of mutual information transmission of EEG developed by us [Xu J, Liu Z, Liu R, Yang Q (1997) Physica D 106: 363-374], dynamic processes of the complexity of mutual information transmission in human brains were studied. To diminish possible problems due to coarse graining preprocessing, s...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Chen F,Xu J,Gu F,Yu X,Meng X,Qiu Z

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:In vision of everyday scenes, features requiring detection are frequently observed in the presence of suprathreshold background structures. Detection of such features is a contrast discrimination task and is often necessary for the subsequent process of recognition. In order to provide a description of this task, cont...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Burton GJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The local extraction of motion information from brightness patterns by individual movement detectors of the correlation-type is considered in the first part of the paper. A two-dimensional field theory of movement detection is developed by treating the distance between two adjacent photoreceptors as a differential. In...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Reichardt WE,Schlögl RW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An initial test for a theory of lateral hypothalamic regulation of electrocortical activity is undertaken. The theory supposes lateral hypothalamic input directly or indirectly damps telencephalic resonances involving linear wave phenomena, enabling this pathway to act as parametric control of information processing i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Wright JJ,Kydd RR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00