A dynamic model of thoracic differentiation for the control of turning in the stick insect.

abstract：:Neurons in sensory cortices are often assumed to be "feature detectors", computing simple and then successively more complex features out of the incoming sensory stream. These features are somehow integrated into percepts. Despite many years of research, a convincing candidate for such a feature in primary auditory co...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Nelken I,Fishbach A,Las L,Ulanovsky N,Farkas D

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：:The human optokinetic response to a horizontally moving stripped pattern surrounding the subject was investigated under quasi-open and closed loop conditions. Open loop conditions were produced by the addition of an external signal from measured slow phase eye velocity to stripe velocity. A comparison of open and clos...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Böhmer A,Allum JH

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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：: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

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：: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：: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：:A multisegment, multijoint model of a falling animal is presented to examine the effectiveness of a two-stage control scheme in a zero-momentum self-righting maneuver. The model contains a much larger number of degrees of freedom than is required to execute a self-righting maneuver and is thus capable of providing mul...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Arabyan A,Tsai D

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most robot navigation systems perform place recognition using a single-sensor modality and one, or at most two heterogeneous map scales. In contrast, mammals perform navigation by combining sensing from a wide variety of modalities including vision, auditory, olfactory and tactile senses with a multi-scale, homogeneou...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Jacobson A,Chen Z,Milford M

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Motion control of musculoskeletal systems for functional electrical stimulation (FES) is a challenging problem due to the inherent complexity of the systems. These include being highly nonlinear, strongly coupled, time-varying, time-delayed, and redundant. The redundancy in particular makes it difficult to find an inv...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Park H,Durand DM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-unit recordings suggest that the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) acts as an optimal controller for saccadic gaze shifts. The SC is proposed to be the site within the visuomotor system where the nonlinear spatial-to-temporal transformation is carried out: the population encodes the intended saccade vector by i...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kasap B,van Opstal AJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of power in different frequency bands of the electroencephalogram (EEG) carries information about the behavioral state of a subject. Hence, neurologists treating epileptic patients monitor the temporal evolution of the different bands. We propose a covariance-based method to detect and characterize epilepti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Maidana Capitán M,Cámpora N,Sigvard CS,Kochen S,Samengo I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many tasks require the arm to move from its initial position to a specified target position, but leave us free to choose the trajectory between them. This paper presents and tests the hypothesis that trajectories are chosen to minimize metabolic energy costs. Costs are calculated for the range of possible trajectories...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Alexander RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical properties of spike trains as well as other neurophysiological data suggest a number of mathematical models of neurons. These models range from entirely descriptive ones to those deduced from the properties of the real neurons. One of them, the diffusion leaky integrate-and-fire neuronal model, which is ba...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Lansky P,Sacerdote L,Zucca C

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Responses from neurons of the vestibular nuclei were recorded in N2O-anaesthetized cats. Most neurons in the rostral parts of the nuclei responded to bimodal visual-vestibular stimulation, following a trapezoidal velocity profile. Both combinations of the two stimuli were tested: rotation of the animal with stationary...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bauer R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of paleological evidence, it has been suggested that biological evolution need not necessarily be characterized by gradual change. Rather, evolutionary history may display saltatory periods of rapid speciation alternating with periods of relative quiescence, the whole dynamic being called punctuated equil...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Zimmerman ID,Rapp PE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear oscillators are usually utilized by bionic scientists for establishing central pattern generator models for imitating rhythmic motions by bionic scientists. In the natural word, many rhythmic motions possess asymmetric time ratios, which means that the forward and the backward motions of an oscillating proce...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fu Q,Wang DH,Xu L,Yuan G

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：:Within the field of motor control, there is no consensus on which kinematic and kinetic aspects of movements are planned or controlled. Perturbing goal-directed movements is a frequently used tool to answer this question. To be able to draw conclusions about motor control from kinematic responses to perturbations, a m...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Pinter IJ,van Soest AJ,Bobbert MF,Smeets JB

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The visual system is constantly confronted with the problem of integrating local signals into more global arrangements. This arises from the nature of early cell responses, whether they signal localized measures of luminance, motion, retinal position differences, or discontinuities. Consequently, from sparse, local me...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neumann H,Pessoa L,Hansen T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Results from the companion paper were incorporated into a physiologically realistic computer model of the three principal cell types (PD/AB, LP, PY) of the pyloric network in the stomatogastric ganglion. Parameters for the model were mostly calculated (sometimes estimated) from experimental data rather than fitting...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hartline DK

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a linear field approach, an architectural model for simple cell direction selectivity in the visual cortex is proposed. The origin of direction selectivity is related to recurrent intracortical interactions with a spatially asymmetric character along the axis of stimulus motion. No explicit asymmetric temporal ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Sabatini SP,Solari F

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes how a synergy made up of a pair of agonist and antagonist systems involved in the production of a rapid movement can control movement time. A quadratic law is derived to predict the movement time as a function of the various parameters describing the neuromuscular synergy. Conditions for a simplif...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Plamondon R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histograms of fast-phase intervals in human optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus were generated, and fitted to statistical distributions used in previous studies. The distributions did not depend on stimulation type (optokinetic or vestibular). An inverse Gaussian or a gamma distribution fitted the data better than di...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Trillenberg P,Zee DS,Shelhamer M

更新日期：2002-07-01 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