Quantitative analysis of directional strengths in jointly stationary linear multivariate processes.

abstract：:The evolutionary transition from water to land required new locomotor modes and corresponding adjustments of the spinal "central pattern generators" for locomotion. Salamanders resemble the first terrestrial tetrapods and represent a key animal for the study of these changes. Based on recent physiological data from sa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bicanski A,Ryczko D,Cabelguen JM,Ijspeert AJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The order parameter equation for the relative phase of correlated hand movements, derived in a previous paper by Haken et al. (1985), is extended to a time-dependent stochastic differential equation. Its solutions are determined close to stationary points and for the transition region. Remarkably good agreement betwee...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Schöner G,Haken H,Kelso JA

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The size of a pair of cortical ocular dominance columns determines a basic anatomical module of V-1 which Hubel and Wiesel have termed the hypercolumn. Does this correspond to a basic functional, or psychophysically measurable, module as well? This is the basic question addressed in the present paper. Since the ocular...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yeshurun Y,Schwartz EL

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：:Cortical circuits have been proposed to encode information by forming stable spatially structured attractors. Experimentally in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey, temporally invariant stimuli lead to spatially structured activity patterns. The purpose of this work is to study a recurrent cortical neural n...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Gutkin BS,Smith CE

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：: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：: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：:A pacemaker cell pair model and the dynamic interaction between the two pacemaker cells is described in this paper. It is an extension of our single pacemaker cell model, in which we studied its response to repetitive external depolarization stimulations. This model is a simple model based on the two most important fu...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Abramovich-Sivan S,Akselrod S

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information about time-dependent sensory stimuli is encoded in the activity of neural populations; distinct aspects of the stimulus are read out by different types of neurons: while overall information is perceived by integrator cells, so-called coincidence detector cells are driven mainly by the synchronous activity ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bostner Ž,Knoll G,Lindner B

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplying memory span by mental speed, we obtain the information entropy of short-term memory capacity, which is rate-limiting for cognitive functions and corresponds with EEG power spectral density. The number of EEG harmonics (n = 1, 2,..., 9) is identical with memory span, and the eigenvalues of the EEG impulse r...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Weiss V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of a population of neurons to time-varying synaptic inputs can show a rich phenomenology, hardly predictable from the dynamical properties of the membrane's inherent time constants. For example, a network of neurons in a state of spontaneous activity can respond significantly more rapidly than each single...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Giugliano M,La Camera G,Fusi S,Senn W

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented for quantitative evaluation of single-sweep phase and amplitude electro-encephalogram (EEG) characteristics that is a more informative approach in comparison with conventional signal averaging. In the averaged potential, phase-locking and amplitude effects of the EEG response cannot be separa...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Kolev V,Yordanova J

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the neural superposition eye of a dipteran fly every ommatidium has eight photoreceptors, each associated with a rhabdomere, two central and six peripheral, which altogether result in seven functional light guides. Groups of eight rhabdomeres in neighboring ommatidia have largely overlapping fields of view. Based o...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Bitsakos K,Fermüller C

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach to solving nonlinear control problems is illustrated by means of a layered associative network composed of adaptive elements capable of reinforcement learning. The first layer adaptively develops a representation in terms of which the second layer can solve the problem linearly. The adaptive elements compr...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Barto AG,Anderson CW,Sutton RS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a brief description of the main anatomical structures subserving the oculomotor responses during combined vestibular and optokinetic stimulations, a mathematical model is presented. With respect to a previous model by Schmid et al. (1980), a more accurate definition of the roles of the neural mechanisms involved...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Buizza A,Schmid R

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:We consider a general integrate-and-fire (IF) neuron driven by asymmetric dichotomous noise. In contrast to the Gaussian white noise usually used in the so-called diffusion approximation, this noise is colored, i.e., it exhibits temporal correlations. We give an analytical expression for the stationary voltage distrib...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Droste F,Lindner B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyze the effect of weak-noise-induced transitions on the dynamics of the FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model in a bistable state consisting of a stable fixed point and a stable unforced limit cycle. Bifurcation and slow-fast analysis give conditions on the parameter space for the establishment of this bi-stability. In ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Yamakou ME,Jost J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article introduces several fundamental concepts in information theory from the perspective of their origins in engineering. Understanding such concepts is important in neuroscience for two reasons. Simply applying formulae from information theory without understanding the assumptions behind their definitions can ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： McDonnell MD,Ikeda S,Manton JH

更新日期：2011-07-01 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 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：:One possible strategy for the solution of the correspondence problem of stereo matching is the coarse-to-fine mechanism: The matching process starts with a lowpass-filtered version of the stereogram where only a few, high-contrast image features can be extracted and the probability of false matches is therefore low. I...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Mallot HA,Gillner S,Arndt PA

更新日期：1996-02-01 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 experimental identification of a non-linear biologic transducer is often approached via consideration of its response to a stochastic test ensemble, such as Gaussian white noise (Marmarelis and Marmarelis 1978). In this approach, the input-output relationship a deterministic transducer is described by an orthogona...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Victor JD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper continues the investigation of a three-loop representation of the segmental muscle stretch reflex system introduced in a preceding communication. Frequency response characteristics were computed for open-loop conditions, control and disturbance signal inputs under a variety of conditions: (i) "in parallel" ...

journal_title：Biological cybernetics

authors： Koehler W,Windhorst U

更新日期：1981-01-01 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