Reflexes and preflexes: on the role of sensory feedback on rhythmic patterns in insect locomotion.

abstract：:A powerful technique for the analysis of nonlinear oscillators is the rigorous reduction to phase models, with a single variable describing the phase of the oscillation with respect to some reference state. An analog to phase reduction has recently been proposed for systems with a stable fixed point, and phase reducti...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Monga B,Wilson D,Matchen T,Moehlis J

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of non-linear forecasting of time series was applied to different simulated signals and EEG in order to check its ability of distinguishing chaotic from noisy time series. The goodness of prediction was estimated, in terms of the correlation coefficient between forecasted and real time series, for non-linea...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Blinowska KJ,Malinowski M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some interesting properties on pattern separation have been shown through researches by neural models of cerebellar cortex. It seems to us that those results are a part of the properties of pattern separation. A two layer random nerve net with inhibitory connections is given as a model of the cerebellar cortex. The mo...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Torioka T

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:David Marr and others have hypothesized that the visual system processes complex scene information in stages, the first of which involves the detection of light intensity edges or "zero-crossings" (Marr, 1982). Ideal zero-crossing detector mechanisms have been described and modeled in terms of their possible physiolog...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Hochstein S,Spitzer H

更新日期：1984-01-01 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 ability to locomote is a defining characteristic of all animals. Yet, all but the most trivial forms of navigation are poorly understood. Here we report and discuss the analytical results of an in-depth study of a simple navigation problem. In principle, there are two strategies for navigating a straight course. O...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cheung A,Zhang S,Stricker C,Srinivasan MV

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insects can remember and return to a place of interest using the surrounding visual cues. In previous experiments, we showed that crickets could home to an invisible cool spot in a hot environment. They did so most effectively with a natural scene surround, though they were also able to home with distinct landmarks or...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mangan M,Webb B

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Taste buds endure extreme changes in temperature, pH, osmolarity, so on. Even though taste bud cells are replaced in a short span, they contribute to consistent taste reception. Each taste bud consists of about 50 cells whose networks are assumed to process taste information, at least preliminarily. In this article, w...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Tateno K,Igarashi J,Ohtubo Y,Nakada K,Miki T,Yoshii K

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:The superior colliculus (SC) integrates relevant sensory information (visual, auditory, somatosensory) from several cortical and subcortical structures, to program orientation responses to external events. However, this capacity is not present at birth, and it is acquired only through interactions with cross-modal eve...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Cuppini C,Magosso E,Rowland B,Stein B,Ursino M

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:This paper introduces a theoretical frame-work for characterizing and classifying simple parallel algorithms and systems with many inputs, for example an array of photoreceptors. The polynomial representation (Taylor series development) of a large class of operators is introduced and its range of validity discussed. T...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poggio T,Reichardt W

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-growth response of the Phycomyces sporangiophore is a transient change of elongation rate in response to changes in ambient blue-light intensity. The white-noise method of nonlinear system identification (Wiener-Lee-Schetzen theory) has been applied to this response, and the results have been interpreted by ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Poe RC,Lipson ED

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In neuronal networks, the changes of synaptic strength (or weight) performed by spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) are hypothesized to give rise to functional network structure. This article investigates how this phenomenon occurs for the excitatory recurrent connections of a network with fixed input weights tha...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gilson M,Burkitt AN,Grayden DB,Thomas DA,van Hemmen JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamics of a system of coupled nonlinear oscillators that has been used to model coordinated human movement behavior. In contrast to earlier work we examine the case where the two component oscillators have different eigenfrequencies. Problems related to the decomposition of a time series (from an experi...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Fuchs A,Jirsa VK,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proved that a detection process may be accounted for by a simple two-state model consisting of a collection of linear analysers followed by a maximum-output decision rule provided that a set of all threshold stimuli is convex. A non-parametrical method to identify the analysers constituting such a model is...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Logvinenko AD

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：: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：:The aim of this paper is to summarize and to compare some known mathematical models of orientation perception in random dot patterns and to propose new solutions of this question. The model adequacy is judged from the previously obtained experimental results. Apart from the models based on some simple function of the ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mates J,Lánský P,Yakimoff N

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：:The aim of this study was to obtain information on the axonal diameters of cortico-cortical fibres in the human brain, connecting distant regions of the same hemisphere via the white matter. Samples for electron microscopy were taken from the region of the superior longitudinal fascicle and from the transitional white...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Liewald D,Miller R,Logothetis N,Wagner HJ,Schüz A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most common motor acts involve highly redundant effector systems. Understanding how such systems are controlled by the nervous system is a long-standing scientific challenge. Most proposals for solving this problem are based on the assumption that a particular solution, which optimizes additional constraints, is selec...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Scholz JP,Danion F,Latash ML,Schöner G

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:This study is carried out on single (not averaged) recordings combining the spontaneous activity preceding the stimulus onset and the EP recorded upon acoustical stimulation. These recordings, which we call EEG-EPograms, are measured simultaneously from different subdural structures, such as the auditory cortex, media...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Başar E,Durusan R,Gönder A,Ungan P

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a function-oriented model of the visual cortex. The model addresses an essential task of the visual system: to detect and represent objects. These are defined as sets, which reappear in the input with invariant inner relations. A network, incorporating an idealized description of anatomical and physiologica...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Neven H,Aertsen A

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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 the current research, the muscle equivalent linear damping coefficient which is introduced as the force-velocity relation in a muscle model and the corresponding time constant are investigated. In order to reach this goal, a 1D skeletal muscle model was used. Two characterizations of this model using a linear force...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Ovesy M,Nazari MA,Mahdavian M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00